If you are looking for interesting ideas about a minimalist distribution take a look at tinycore


http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html

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OK, found libvga (part of the svgalib package). Once downloaded 1.5.4 comes up.

I have Dingo installed on a 2Gb flash drive that is formatted FAT32 and have booted on 2 different systems. The oldest is a Dell 700M laptop that is 3 years old.

I tried the latest VirtualBox on 3.01. I followed the directions, but libvga.so is missing. I did a "find -name \*vga\* -print from root and there is no libvga.so. There is a libvgahw.so under X11R7.

Any ideas?

I had an experience similar to what others described. I had one of the betas installed and then did a frugal install and rebooted. I got updating messages and started running and saved and rebooted. It was like no upgeade was done and I'd just done a clean install. I did a new mkfs to the partiion a...

I downloaded swaret and when I run swaret --faq I get a message that says I am not running Slackware 8.1 or higher

Thanks. I am using puppy 3. I untarred a package but when I run the doinst.sh it doesn't install bu rather installs in a sub dir of where I am. Is there a magic command to getthis to work?

I'll try the installer you reference.

I installed the Firefox 2.0.4 using petget. It installed by complained about 3 missing components.

I tried to install flash 9 and it fails because it says it can't find iconv. It also wants glibc 2.2, which doesn' seem to be part of 3.00

I have downloaded and untarred a Slackware package into a directory. In the destination directory there is an install directory. This contains a doinst.sh shell script. If I run this script it installs the package in that directory. I know this is a simple issue/solution, but I need help.

I am also seeing the crash using the 3.0 beta. I also tried the beta with the older kernel and saw crashes. It doesn't happen all the time. I copied the files to a USB stick that was booting 2.17.1 just fine and it crashed every time. Used the CD and it crashed 2 times and then booted. This is on a ...

I burned to CD and booted. It is crashing switching root. I did a boot with pfix=debug and the first time got a crash switching the root. Next time I get a "failed" on the line "Making the file system usable". The system is a 3Ghz P4 with hyperthreading. There is not previous pup...

I am seeing the same thing with 2.17.1 and Virtualbox. I did get it running once, but very strange hangs during booting and other issues. I have tried 2.17.1 under QEMU and see the same issues.

The 2.13 final won't boot on the Pentium 4 HT system with the ATI Radeon X1300. It panics and then there is a message about "Bummer, can't run /sbin/getty" that just keeps repeating. Can't ctl-alt-del. have to power off/on to reboot. Is there a way to force puppy to boot and only use vga o...

I've had problems with 2 systems with 2.13B2. - I have a 3GHz P4 HT system. It has the ATI Radeon X1300 and also the Intel shared memory graphics chip. If I st the BIOS to make the ATI the default adapter then th boot core dumps. Happened with 2.12 as well. Shouldn't things just use VGA or some fall...

I have a P4 3GHz hyper threaded system. It has the onboard shared memory graphics adapter and I also have an ATI Catalyst on the PCI bus. If I boot with the ATI selected as the primary graphics adapter 2.13 crashes. If I switch back and set the embedded controller as default it boots, but I get the ...

I installed the beta and tried to boot, same issue. I ran the probe utility and found that the USB flash drive was sdb and I could mount /dev/sdb1 and see the data. PMEDIA is set to usbflash in syslinux.cfg

Thanks for the fix.

I have an HP system that has 4 USB ports and also has slots to read sf, cf, etc. I cna boot from the CD and everything is fine. I then use the universal installer and create a puppy on a USB flash drive. When I boot from the flash, I have it plugged into one of the USB slots in the front and boot. I...

The folks working on NTFS support for Linux appear to have full read/write support working. Her eis the announcement:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru ... um_id=2697

Any thoughts about when we could get this in Puppy 2?

So, if for the CD, puppy can "rummage through the entire PC" to find the save file, why not have a boot option that tells any version (USB, etc) to do the same. You can then present a choice if multiple are found and one is up and running. Maybe a boor flag like "PSEARCHSAVE=true".