gschl wrote:just a brief note that, using the information and script provided by erikson, I could install Puppy 411 to and boot from a partition of my usb-harddrive (Trekstor) - thank you!!

So, that makes at least three of us (you, Béèm and myself)...

See thread Cleaning up needless cache data in pup_save

Summary: configure your browser to place its cache in /tmp

I thought the memory free indicator at the bottom of the desktop represented the total ram free. If you want a good indication of the memory that your program can use, type cat /proc/meminfo in a console and add MemFree, Buffers, Cached, and SwapFree if any (in your case none). The quantities Buffe...

Maybe the best way to convince yourself is to write a little C program that tests how much memory you can allocate from the program, using the alloc() function ;-) So, I wrote that little program myself (first C code I've written since 10+ years, so I had to get used to the syntax again)... #includ...

This thread talks about how much ram is allocated to the tmp folders. This memory is not available for my application. Yes it is. See my post earlier in this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/posting.php?p=249986&mode=topicreview&postorder=DESC#249986 tmpfs is a temporary filesystem i...

It's not difficult to find the initialization scripts manipulating the pinboard. Open a console and type: cd /etc LIST=$(find . -type f) for FILE in $LIST; do if grep -i puppypin $FILE >/dev/null; then echo $FILE; fi; done For pcPuppyOS (a 3.01 derivative) this returns ./rc.d/rc.local0 ./rc.d/rc.upd...

gerry wrote:I've hunted through several Bash manuals (...)

For info: the very best bash guide I found so far is the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper.

Puppy takes up more than half of the system's ram. You should not worry that Puppy uses RAM "at the expense" of applications, because that is not the case. Puppy (like any other OS) uses and manages RAM for itself *and* for the applications it is running. In order to make sure that your a...

DaveS wrote:not sure one can do a full install on a usb?

It's possible but not easy, and not with standard pups.

Cfr my method

Okay, so spacereplace is buggy (I'm willing not to talk about tabs, it's even buggy on spaces). I'm not surprised ;-) Creating directories and files... Creating dir: '/mnt/sda10/test/dir_1/' Creating dir: '/mnt/sda10/test/dir 1/' Creating dir: '/mnt/sda10/test/dir 1/dir 1.1/' Creating file: '/mnt/sd...

Below are the results of: (1) my e-whtree (2) spacereplace without 'recursive' option (3) spacereplace with 'recursive' option after processing the whitespace-testtree generated with my e-mktree . Note that my e-whtree does not replace all whitespace because of its sanity checks: I put a few files i...

Here is my 'spacereplace' package. It contains three scripts: * e-mktree makes a test dirtree with whitespace in dir/filenames * e-shtree lists all dir/filenames with whitespace * e-whtree replaces whitespace in dir/filenames with underscores The scripts are hard-coded to work on a directory tree in...

You can check throughput of your storage devices using hdparm. Here's the report for my internal ide hdd (/dev/hda) and for my external usb hdd (/dev/sda). 1# hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.02 seconds = 21.17 MB/sec 1# 1# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffe...

One thing sometimes overlooked: Whatever happens, make sure you can at least access the internet (browser + email). That's the ideal place to find help when you need it most. For this purpose, Puppy on live-CD is an excellent fall-back. Find out how to get to the internet when booting off live-CD wi...

Free is so poorly written, it creates riddles. free just reports a very small subset of what it finds in /proc/meminfo The info there requires a good deal of insight in Linux memory management (and, frankly, I only scratched the surface of that topic). How about we start a new discussion soon and w...

Erikson, you sorta helped my understanding of where Puppy buries memory. Now could you explain what tmpfs is? :lol: tmpfs is a temporary filesystem in RAM. That's for instance where Puppy stores the read-write top layer of the filesystem union for frugal installs. You could liken it somewhat to a R...

Not sure what that means? A google search reported that many people have the same problem. For some changing the kernel version seems to fix it. For me it reports something else: 1# modprobe speedstep-centrino FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino (/lib/modules/2.6.21.7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/...

Okay vootie, thanks for the alternative. 1# LIST='"test 1" "test 2" "test 3"' 1# eval md5sum "$LIST" ae43680c0cdf74d9452d8b6aebb2d1a0 test 1 17e9677aa5fb45afbca2db01018ddc49 test 2 9f1dbd03393dabb90ea41ffddc00c762 test 3 1# 1# LIST=("test 1" "te...

Aitch, I already experimented quite a bit with attempts to "restore" from backup superblocks, cfr my post earlier in this thread Insofar I found, the backup superblocks on the (cloned and clean) Puppy ext3 partitions that I tested are no good. There are plenty of instructions and howto's o...

Welcome to the wondrous world of Puppy's RAM usage and reporting. A couple of interesting console commands to sharpen your skills in solving riddles: - free - df -m You don't need to specify RAM on the boot line. Puppy grabs and uses everything it can find, unless it is *restricted* by a RAM bootpar...