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[rrolsbe]

[capoverde]

Puppy_2.16_alpha first test:

- No bugs found for now, seems quite solid, browsing among videos & audio never gave problems; new firewall version seems faster, requires only two OK's by user;

- Nice icons, grey background doesn't stress eyes - though won't raise wows from graphics enthusiasts; new background faultlessly loaded;

- Sound works well, at least on my old test-PC; Zmixer had no mute buttons, the Puppy mixer has but mutes an input device by throwing its fader to zero. It would be best then if it could keep the fader setting when muted, giving the same volume as before when un-muted, as in hardware mixers;

- Pmount seems to work well, more intuitive GUI.

More to come as testing goes further.
Anyway fine job Barry, always wondering how you manage to do all this...

[Henry]

Hello, Barry and all,

Above I wrote negatively about Gxine. I have just edited that out. Please disregard. I was not comparing Gxine with other players, just complaining that I couldn't get it to work. Well, I have finally got my installation fixed and it works. As usual Barry has shown good judgment in this selection.

But I like to run a tight ship, and have already dumped realplayer and the neat xfreecd I had used as bandaids. Sorry for any confusion caused.

Henry

[vanchutr]

1.
216 alpha is good when I take a full installation on ext2/swap partitions and on usb stick. But i was failed to make it run with the frugal install.
Is this a bug?
2.
216 alpha was not automount the my .sfs file with full installation?. How to?

[Kal]

Just a reminder that rarsa's newest mini-volume.tcl has not been updated in Puppy 2.16a.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8293

Kal

[vern72023]

vanchutr
I run as a frugal install off of a cf card that presents as an ide drive formatted in fat and in fact thats what i am on writing this

one change in 216 is with how it loads sfs files and it is an enhancement not a bug

there is a new program called bootmanager under system i think and you have to use that the first time you boot to specify what sfs files you want to load - its a nice, simple program and allows for a lot of flexibility and granular control

George

[vanchutr]

To Vern72023,
Thank your fast reply.
I'd installed frugal installation with grub.exe and this menu.lst

[GuestToo]

Puppy 216 is not supposed to need a ramdisk parameter ... so root=/dev/ram0 and ramdisk_size=100000 should not be necessary

i think init=/etc/init should be init=/sbin/init ... i think the kernel uses /sbin/init by default, so that parameter also may not be necessary

the BOOT_IMAGE=pup_216.sfs parameter may also not be necessary

[vanchutr]

Thank Guesto for your fast reply (instructions)
I'd found some strange thing:
1. I must put the vmlinuz, initrd.gz and the pup_216 on the C: root (C:\)
2. And I edited the option.txt like that:

[Fishy]

Where in a full install do you place .sfs files? The boot manager shows the openoffice.sfs installed and the ignore box is not checked.

I placed openoffice.sfs in / just as the pup_save and zdrv.sfs were atomatically placed there.

The openoffice.sfs was downloafed from Barry's site and md5sum checked after download.

[fudgy]

i had alook at aufs wh-files, and it looks like a big step foreward to me ! Please have a look at the attached file if you like to.

## partview broken ? ##

[tronkel]

Flash wrote:

[BarryK]

[BarryK]

I'm back from the mini-holiday, and have made lots of notes on issues raised in this thread -- will get going on it!

The reports on GParted puzzles me.... it wouldn't be an upgrade problem by any chance?

[rerwin]

Glad to have you back. I enjoyed your trip report and pix.
When I encountered the show-stopper with Gparted, I had booted from CD with pfix=ram so I could operate on the entire drive. No update/upgrade involved.
Richard