EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020

[Billtoo]

I installed EasyPup 2.2.7 to my 12 year old Acer desktop a couple of days ago:

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8164MB (288MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Puppy Buster64

OpenGL
Vendor nouveau
Renderer NVC1
Version 4.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
Direct Rendering Y_es

I updated ppm again today and firefox has been updated to version 68.4.1esr.

I've been enjoying the audio/video applications, Audacious and mpv get used
the most.

Thanks.

[BarryK]

Forum member esmourguit has been maintaining the French translation for EasyOS, but ran into problems with EasyPup, as some of the scripts are different.

I have figured out a strategy to handle this:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/internat ... sypup.html

The way translating is being done with the WoofQ-built EasyOS and EasyPup, is a build is done for each translation. So in the case of EasyPup, there will be English, French and German ISOs.

In other words, it will already be translated, right from the first bootup menu, no need to install a langpack PET.

The 'init' script in the initrd is circa-2013, as are all the Puppy-specific scripts, and looking at it after many years, it is, well, a "dogs breakfast".
I have been working on it, don't yet know if it handles the non-English builds properly.

[BarryK]

Just something, while I remember it:

if you think that something has gone wrong in the initrd, there is now a lot of logging in this folder:

/root/.initrd-debug

...there is a file in there, /root/.initrd-debug/tmp/bootinit.log, where I saw the error message that 'e2fsck' had failed to resize the ext4 filesystem to fill the larger save-file (I have now upgraded e2fsck).

Looking around in there may reveal the cause of any issues at early bootup.

[BarryK]

@ Barry,

Hi Barry,

what about these error messages which use to pop up since some time?

kind regards

These days, all browsers default to popping up a warning if there are "http://" links on a "https://" web page.

My site is https://bkhome.org/news, but sometimes I post links to http:// URLs, such as this forum, which causes the popup warning.

As you showed in one of the snapshots, the popup warning can be disabled. I don't know how to pre-configure not to have the warning for my site -- presume it is inside an sqlite database file in /root/.mozilla

[BarryK]

Oh, and the universal installer requires some extra program to install to ext4 partition.

ext3 worked well though.

The only thing I know is wrong with ext4 was the 'e2fsck' utility in the initrd was broken for ext4. I have upgraded that utility.

[BarryK]

G'day BK,

Posting from Easy227 via OperaPortable. HP smallform desktop, vintage mid 2000's.

I had a number of start-up issues with deleted icons re-appearing and added desktop icons for some directories not re-loading.

I imagine this is because my desktop computer has about 28 partitions and I run most programs from a boot-mounted data partition to keep the savefile small. So a lot going on during start-up?

With repeated re-boots while adding more applications (as a collection of symlinks in a single sfs), start up is now more 'settled' with most changes being re-loaded.

I agree with poster Overdrive that a save directory is more convenient than the old-fashioned save-file - particularly if there is a re-size issue at the moment.

I also miss shinobar's excellent SFS-Load-on-the-Fly - easier than the BootManager and not restricted by the old '6 sfs or less' constraint.

And there's a pupsave-hotbackup application that I find very handy when tinkering/crashing new Puppies which I could not find in this Easy.

I also miss the JWM desktop manager that allows easy re-positioning of the drive icons during booting. Easy227's default spacing is too wide to put all my partitions on a single row across the screen bottom (attached image of present pinboard - icons of non-running (yet?) apps grouped in centre-bottom of image - all other icons run their apps).

Printing and scanning is working (Epson-WF2510 networked inkjet) and after some teething troubles (see above), WiFi connection seems to be starting reliably.

So I've added Easy227 to my partition of 64-bit Frugals on this computer, and might try on my Samsung laptop when time permits.

Thanks for all your 'doings'.

David S.

Some of these issues I will have to think about a bit more.

[BarryK]

Bootmanager not working for me to load a sfs at boot. I have many sfs's at root dir. Clicking the button to add an sfs does nothing. Installed sfs_load by shinobar and loaded chromium sfs from sfsget. This chromium is not supported by google and I can't login at my account. I tried Google_Chrome-portable by MikeWalsh. I found a way to start it: use run-as-spot from ScPup64-20.01 and add "--no-sandbox" at last line in chrome-pup inside the portable Chrome.

I have so far only tested the devx SFS, running the live-CD, with a save-file.

Downloaded the devx SFS using "sfsget" on the desktop.
Then ran 'bootmanager' and selected the devx.
Rebooted, and it was loaded, success.

[BarryK]

I updated ppm again today and firefox has been updated to version 68.4.1esr.

I had better update the database for the next build.

[rockedge]

is there a fix for the save file resize function?

[watchdog]

is there a fix for the save file resize function?

BarryK has already posted about this bug:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 14#1049914

[BarryK]

is there a fix for the save file resize function?

BarryK has already posted about this bug:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 14#1049914

Yeah, but you will have to wait for the next release of EasyPup. Hopefully by end of this week.

[Leon]

is there a fix for the save file resize function?

I followed the method that jamesbond recommended here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 519#733519

Example

1. Boot Easypup without save file with kernel parameter pfix=ram, for example:

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kernel /easypup/vmlinuz pfix=ram

2. Copy your save file to /tmp directory, for example:

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cp /mnt/sda1/easypup/buster64save.2fs /tmp

3. Resize the save file to the new size, for example to 256 MB:

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cd /tmp
e2fsck -f buster64save.2fs
resize2fs buster64save.2fs 256M
e2fsck -f buster64save.2fs

4. Rename the old save file, for example:

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cd /mnt/sda1/easypup
mv buster64save.2fs buster64save2fs.bkp

5. Move the resized save file to the location of the old save file, for example:

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mv /tmp/buster64save.2fs /mnt/sda1/easypup

[rockedge]

Thank you for the info. I under estimated the size I would need to install the LAMP with the Zoneminder network camera security system AND the python3 with the modules needed for the event notification server with real time object / face recognition using the python opencv libraries and all these components that make that work.

For now the work around is to remaster EasyPup with what I have...boot into that (which worked) and start with another new save file to make the room available to finish the project.

So far so good.......a save folder would have been easier in Easy but I am really impressed on how well this set up is working overall.

hello Leon!

excellent instructions.....I am going to proceed with this method.

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[rockedge]

here is EasyPup running on an Dell Optiplex 990 8gigs RAM, 4 core INTEL i5-2400 CPU frugally installed on a hard drive salvaged from a broken machine on a USB adapter, going through a hard test.

Running Apache2, mariadb, PHP 7 with Zoneminder 1.34.2 using real time object detection camera stream supplied by Darknet-YOLO running parallel which has been complied for 64 bit BionicPup using the tiny-yolo weights file.

[OverDrive]

BarryK wrote:

The only thing I know is wrong with ext4 was the 'e2fsck' utility in the initrd was broken for ext4. I have upgraded that utility.

Here is the error message I got when I tried to install to ext4 in easypup 2.2.7.



How do I get the upgrade?

Thanks for all you do Barry! Much Respect!

[BarryK]

There are some errors reported above, not yet fixed. That ext4 error will need attention.

Version 2.2.10 is released:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/easypup- ... eased.html

I have done some limited testing, booting from a CD on my old Compac Presario -- runs great.

It is a hybrid-iso so you can also write the ISO to a usb-stick. And it (CD or usb-stick) will boot on traditional-BIOS Pcs as well as modern UEFI Pcs.

[BarryK]

Thank you for the info. I under estimated the size I would need to install the LAMP with the Zoneminder network camera security system AND the python3 with the modules needed for the event notification server with real time object / face recognition using the python opencv libraries and all these components that make that work.

For now the work around is to remaster EasyPup with what I have...boot into that (which worked) and start with another new save file to make the room available to finish the project.

So far so good.......a save folder would have been easier in Easy but I am really impressed on how well this set up is working overall.

hello Leon!

excellent instructions.....I am going to proceed with this method.

**

Note that EasyOS and EasyPup has both python2 and python3. I was forced to do this unfortunately, despite the bloat.

So in your case it would just be some python3 modules that are missing.

[BarryK]

BarryK wrote:

The only thing I know is wrong with ext4 was the 'e2fsck' utility in the initrd was broken for ext4. I have upgraded that utility.

Here is the error message I got when I tried to install to ext4 in easypup 2.2.7.



How do I get the upgrade?

Thanks for all you do Barry! Much Respect!

Thanks very much for posting that window snapshot. That has told me exactly what the problem is.

/usr/sbin/puppyinstaller is an old script, last updated in 2014, and one small update by me in 2020.

It is wanting extlinux 4.x, however EasyPup has 6.03.

What you can try is edit line 1317, change the "4" to "6", see if that fixes it.

[BarryK]

If anyone feels moved to get into developing EasyPup, you will find this blog post helpful:

https://bkhome.org/news/202002/files-th ... sypup.html

[scsijon]

sorry wrong thread