It seems like machines that are on the ragged edge of the SFS copy RAM threshold vary a great deal in how well the live system behaves once it's up and running. I remember Barry lowering the threshold down from 256 at my request for a Puppy 4 release. Now that it's back to 256, I suspect he either a...

I have an old laptop with broken cd drive and old no-bootable usb port. I'm wondering if I could boot Puppy Linux iso directly using the loopback option of Grub2, as described in this article: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/25/boot-an-iso-via-grub2/ Is it possible? From the hard drive? You m...

01micko wrote:HI Barry,

I'm having a problem with mini-icons displaying with Xorg in upup-476, ie- they don't show!

Here's a pic and my /tmp/xerrs.log

Had the same problem. The icons returned when I tried a lower color depth for Xorg.

In the lower left-hand corner of the desktop, the drive icons are clustered on top of one another. In the lower right-hand corner, the Lock and Trash icons are clustered on top of one another. The above happened using an 800x600 resolution, but did not occur in Puppy 4.1.2. In updated 4.21 again th...

I assume you're running Windows. If so, then use... UNETBOOTIN! This should save you some trouble. You don't even have to pick Puppy. It can download some other distros. Without knowing anything about your machine, I might suggest Linux Mint or Mandriva. I agree that instructions are not so easy to ...

If you don't have a pupsave (pfix=RAM, or first boot), AND you see the purple message that the puppy SFS file is copied to RAM, then Puppy isn't really using the boot media. You can just type "umount /dev/xxx" in the console and it will unmount. Just pulling it out? Not sure what will hap...

I've been posting on this forum and asking Barry and WhoDo about new boot options to allow an unattended bootup. So far, I have receive no feedback. In the newest Puppy alpha, I could see a "plocale" option to skip past the locale and time zone screens. It doesn't seem that hard to impleme...

If you don't have a pupsave (pfix=RAM, or first boot), AND you see the purple message that the puppy SFS file is copied to RAM, then Puppy isn't really using the boot media. You can just type "umount /dev/xxx" in the console and it will unmount. Just pulling it out? Not sure what will happ...

I've made some changes to the initrd.gz file and init script that will unmount the drive when copied to RAM (w/o pupsave file). A file within the puppy SFS must be modifed as well to get rid of the warning when the drive is unmounted. See this thread: LiveHD & LiveUSB Boot If all you want to do ...

The Isolinux bootup screen could use a font color with better contrast for the boot options line than dark blue. When F2 is pressed, the same line is now white and easier to read. Very interesting color choice for the desktop wallpaper as well! Otherwise, the JWM, GTK, and icon theme work well toget...

That is a feature of Puppy 4. I believe it is set through the bootup manager - wherever it is that you choose additional SFS files to load. Please explain more. Where exactly in the boot manager and in which boot manager ? Examples ? Many thanks. It's been a while since I've used Puppy on a regular...

I installed presto on an acer desktop Seemed to find all the hardware and the second boot was very quick, under 15 seconds. Could puppy's boot scripts make a note of hardware on first boot and skip all the scanning on subsequent boots unless directed to scan for new hardware. A stripped down system...

I think Grub4Dos works with CDs and I think it will boot an ISO image on a hard drive. And a boot manager called PLoP works with Non BIOS bootable Cds/DVD AND USB drives that are not BIOS bootable. In my limiting testing, I've found that Grub4DOS's map command to boot from an ISO will only get you ...

I think you need to have the devx SFS file installed prior to installing the guest additions. You might get errors with anything other than the Puppy 4 series.

Are you trying to get rid of SeaMonkey? I've read on these forums that it might not go without a fight.

For anyone with a small screen resolution => bling. Even with a large monitor, I don't see why you'd need TWO clocks. :? I thought Barry's old setup covered all the bases, was compact, and visible all the time. Only the xload graph was not really showing what you would expect. I don't know why we co...

The BIOS thinks it's a USB ZIP, huh? I had the same problem with a Cruzer Micro on my Dell. It wouldn't boot. I solved it - actually, the Ubuntu USB startup disk creator solved it - by assigning the LBA flag to the partition. It already had the boot flag, but that wasn't enough. Afterwards, the driv...

I really like that idea. One thing that would be nice to include in the GUI would also be test buttons. Play the dog barking to test sound, test eth0 or whatever its called for network, ping google.com to test internet, etc This is kind of off topic but not completely. Every other distro, or OS for...

An autorun.inf that brings up a pretty gui menu that will make windows users comfortable with options like: Boot Puppy From CD (ensure that your BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM first) Install Puppy >Inside Windows >To a Flash Drive >Full Install Uninstall Puppy About Puppy Like Puppy, How About Don...

I think the point everyone seems to be missing is the boot speed . Getting Puppy to boot on a Windows machine is not terribly difficult. I, however, don't think I've seen Puppy ever boot in 15s, and definitely not in a net-ready configuration. Woof is likely to slow this down even more with the new ...