Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

BarryK · Posted: Thu 26 Apr 2007, 07:41 Post subject:

Flash, I haven't tested multisession yet -- that was something that missed out due to my time constraint, leaving for my holiday.
But, I'll give it a high priority, will work on it while on my "holiday"

Lobster

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 980 Location: Heart of Texas

on second boot same error as Flash noted above on CD+RW vs DVD with hard lockup, had to remove power to reboot.

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1317 Location: Maine, USA

Barry,
Thanks for your quick response.

I used gparted to delete all partitions (except the swap partition,which was locked) on my 4G HD and then to create a new ext2 partition. After deleting the swap part. with cfdisk, I also attempted to create a new swap partition. Both attempts failed as I described above.

To create the partitions, I used cfdisk, but needed gparted to format them, which failed. So I used mke2fs and mkswap for the formatting. Then I was able to install -- and find the other problems I reported.

I have been able to do this in previous puppys. It is the most basic way to set up a HD -- an ext2 and swap partition. I ran gparted from the command line, too, but did not see any revealing messages.

The PC is an Aptiva (400MHz, 160MB) that I have used for puppy testing for nearly two years.

PS: Thanks for the link to the Tom Price site! Through you, I am learning everything I know, so far, about Western Australia. Interesting place.

Richard

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

Henry · Joined: 29 Jul 2006 Posts: 811 Location: Oregon USA

Hello,

First, this is another positive comment on 2.16alpha. I continue to have no problems at all with it, at least on those things I use.

Oh, while I'm feeling humble enough to ask dumb questions, there's the mysterious subject of white out files, the accumulation of which 2.16 is expected to diminish. Pfind says I have about 50k of them. What does this mean?

Henry

Pizzasgood · Posted: Thu 26 Apr 2007, 18:24 Post subject:

I have little experience with video, but I've never liked Gxine. Mplayer has performed much better for me, and VLC looked nice (though it was glitched, but that was probably my own fault for using it in a Pizzapup pre-alpha...).

As for whiteout files, they are what makes things that come with Puppy by default disappear when you delete them, since they're actually read-only and can't truly be deleted. Like using whiteout on ink, a whiteout file hides the data from Puppy, so it thinks it's deleted even though it isn't.

There are glitches with them though, especially if a whiteout file tries to hide a directory, then you install a .sfs file that has that directory also. It get's unioned under the whiteout file with the original and never turns up. At least, that's what I think happens. I haven't been paying a large amount of attention to the situation (more concerned with angular momentum, vector fields, and MIPS at the moment, as finals are next week Rolling Eyes

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rrolsbe · Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 178

As per Barry: Should only get a Save button if boot from Flash drive (or multisession CD).

I am booting from a 2.16Alpha closed CDROM with a USB attached hard drive. With this configuration I am always getting the "Save Button". On first shutdown I created an encrypted pup_save file to the USB attached ext2 file system. After rebooting, I had a working pup_savexxxx.3fs encrypted file but still have the save button. Looks like Puppy thinks the external USB hard drive is a USB flash. Also, I get the saving RAM to the PUP_SAVE file message fairly often. This should not happen if puppy thought the PUP_SAVE file was on a hard drive, correct?

Not complaining just my observations.
Keep up the great work Barry!!!

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

BlackAdder · Joined: 22 May 2005 Posts: 382

2.16alpha running very sweetly on the whole.
Dell laptop Latitude C400 with Intel 82830 graphics. Xorg shows only 640x480 resolution possible; shows i810 as driver; xvesa starts with 640x480. Editing xorg.conf to include mode 1024x768 allows display to operate at native resolution.
The wireless wizard has lost its ability to save and load a profile for my wireless. Wireless works fine if "use this profile" is selected.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 27 Apr 2007, 02:37 Post subject:

3133 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Scotland

I found the same difficulty as rerwin. All attempts to create and format new partitions on a laptop hard drive failed when using Gparted in Puppy216-alpha. Pulled out of 216 without saving and booted from 215. Gparted performed perfectly.

Dougal · Posted: Fri 27 Apr 2007, 10:53 Post subject:

Has anyone verified that "pfix=ram" works now? I might get a chance to download it today, so I want to make sure it won't mess up my existing pup_save files...

Lobster · Posted: Fri 27 Apr 2007, 11:20 Post subject:

I used it Dougal and it seemed OK - did not interfere with any save file (which is as it should be)

When you close down make sure you DO NOT save to disk of course . . .

Smile