Thanks everyone-
Drunkjedi got it, just go to settings and turn off fastboot.
EDIT: on the windows machine, of course.

I want to show off Puppy, and show it can access Windows files, but Windows 10 drive is hibernating, and Puppy (Slacko 6.3) cannot access the hibernating drive. I,ve tried disconnecting mains supply for a while, but not effective.

Any ideas?

80, and still learning- Gerry

Thanks Bigpup. Should have read that first... I've only 2GB ram, whereas 4 are recommended. I'll put 64 bit on the back burner for a while- 32 bit seems plenty fast, and works fine, apart from printing (as usual).

IBM Thinkpad/ Lenovo T60p. Tried to boot CD, and things seemed to be going ok, until a few lines after "loading kernel modules" when the screen went black and nothing else happened. This laptop has ATI graphics- is that a problem? I would have thought it would fall back to VESA, but it did...

80 next birthday- only 79 now.


And how do I vote- can't instructions anywhere.

Thanks for your help Semme.

Final thought: where did your xkbset come from?

Thanks- that works, except there's this weirdness: as I mentioned above, the left windows key is keycode 115, and the right hand key is 117. But for MINT, on the same machine/keyboard, they are the standard 133 and 135. How can that be? I've put the script in ~/startup, and it runs OK at start. Gerry

I think I've attached two files- mousebind and mousebindMINT. mousebind is the original, mousebindMINT is what is working in mint. They are both .sh files, not .gz.

gerry

yes, of course I did as you suggested, and got the right answer. However, when I tried it with the native functions, I did not get anything in response to --help or -h. I'll post the script as soon as I find out how to do it- I tried to do it as an attachment, but .sh is not allowed, nor is .txt, an...

Thanks for the xkbset. However, I still can't get the script to work on Puppy. In fact, only the last two lines: xmodmap -e "keycode 133 =Pointer_Button1" xmodmap -e "keycode 135 =Pointer_Button3" are needed. I put in an echo statement so that it shows that it is running, and the...

Thanks... the one that is missing is xkbset. I tried lifting the file from Mint (without much hope), and true enough, it does not work- presumably needs to be compiled in Puppy? Out of my scope, I'm afraid.

gerry

I obtained a script to map two unused keys to act as mouse keys, because the mouse keys on my old original Acer Aspire One are difficult to use. The script is basicly the three commands: setxkbmap -layout gb xkbset -m xkbset exp = m xmodmap -e "keycode 133 = Pointer Button1" xmodmap -e &qu...

James C: thanks. As you have noticed, I'm an "As a last resort, read the instruction book" person.

...and, of course, I've been spoiled by Puppy Slacko, where the wireless drivers are included, and language selection is a menu item.

Tried Mepis MX14 today- grrr! It does not have the drivers for my wireless interface, and gives a long convoluted command line process to get and install them. Probably because it's based on Debian, where the hair-shirt brigade don't want anything like that included- but they (Debian) do make it eas...

I have an IBM Thinkpad T60, triple booted with Slacko 5.7, Mint 17.1, and just installed Debian Jessie. Because Grub2 does not see a Puppy Frugal Install when it is looking for installed systems to make the Grub config and menu, I use Slacko and Grub4dos to look after booting. When I had only Mint a...

You'll know when it's my birthday, 'cos I update my sig. Four weeks to go....

Gerry

Like it says in the title.... EDIT: my thinking is that eventually all the upstream app developers will assume that all Linuxes use systemd, so that NOT using systemd will involve some sort of compatibility layer or package modifications. Going with BSD would bypass that (potential) problem. For ins...

Been experimenting on another laptop: if the .debs have been installed by usual means, then a fresh save file is required before installing candi and using that to install the driver debs. (Or, if you have the foresight to make one, bring the pre-.deb backup save file into use.)

Gerry

Thanks Mikeb. You've crystallised the way I was thinking. No firewall at home, default config on holiday.

Gerry

Semme... You didn't grasp my problem: how can I set up a firewall without knowing what services I need, what port numbers I need open, and so on. SSL? what's that? And so on... All I know is that I want to connect to the internet through my router (which gets full marks from Shields Up) and to the p...