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Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

Puppy 2.17Beta,
Using Xvesa on clean hda1, I installed as co-exist. Returns error 15 will not boot.
On looking at menu1st strings it thinks its a full hd install and doesnt provide the correct strings for booting.
Tried connect for dial up, recognised my ttys0 modem and dialled ok. When Seamonkey was started wouldnt allow connection to websites when url typed in.

Cleaned drive, tried full hd install on hda1.Xvesa had problem with menu whiteout and locked out had to reboot. Used xorgwizard and xwin to take me to 640x480 screen and used wizard to set to 1024.
Tried modem connect, found my modem and dialled but fell over when seamonkey called.
The dial string was diferent to the frugal install in that in had = signs in it.
Used wvdial153 and gnome-ppp to connect.
Installed EZ pup and found a couple of files missing but seams ok.

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

Everything working here sofar Smile

installed seamonkey 1.1.2 gtk looking good again so far Smile

Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

As an aside to my previous post puppy doesnt cross partition boundaries and search directories and folders does it??.Because on my hd I have hda2 which containes loads of puppy files.

BarryK · Posted: Mon 16 Jul 2007, 08:10 Post subject:

Kernel source SFS file is now on ibiblio (kernel-src_217.sfs):
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/sfs_modules-2/

BarryK

Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

I deleted then reformated hda1 and wiped mbr. There was nothing on it except an empty lost& found file.

I just tried the connect icon and it works fine, using it now, Maybe a reboot was needed or maybe me pressing bittons to quick
Everything fine now.

Scoticus · Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Erskine, Scotland

Barry

There have been a number of posts on loading sfs files where things appear still be up in the air.

There are 3 posts :

OpenOffice, devx, -any sfs files not being merged or loaded

Placing sfs files in a frugal install

More problems merging sfs files.

where I and others are struggling. Therefore the question in relation to 2.17.

I was hoping that everything would fall into place easily as I have to get OO up and running after a HD crash and 2.16.1 was my main hope

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

* The rt73-rt2570 module problem seems fixed.

* The clock being an hour slow is fixed.

* Still have pup_save.2fs being created on a ext3 partition. When rc.shutdown is running the final sanity check shows that the name of the save file is pup_save.2fs and the file system inside the pup_save file will be ext3.

* Encrypted pup_saves are mounted as ext2 and not fscked. A comment in the init script says "#forum feedback this takes to long when encrypted..." That's a mis-understanding. When I posted that, some assumed I was talking about an encrypted pup_save, but it was non-encrypted with a lot of files.

* The bcm43xx problem I reported for 217a is a non-problem. I tried it again last night and it worked. I had tried it a few times before and couldn't get it going. Don't know why. Sorry for the spam.

The ext/fsck problems are not new to 2.17. Looking good though.

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

Hello, again (edit)

I think everything is mostly working now! Instead of trying to use the 2fs file from 2.17alpha with 2.17beta, I used the 2fs from the older NOP 2.16.1, thus doing a true version upgrade. Had to jiggle a few things, relocate icons, etc., but now Glipper works, and with the help of the upgrade moving some of the old cups dross out via /tmp/versioncleanup/ and removing the old ghostscripyt programs the new cups works too!

BTW I have stuck with Adobe Reader 5 in favor of epdfview!

Henry
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I had written (disregard, I guess):

Two things, so far, I have trouble with in 2.17beta are Glipper and CUPS. Yes, they work fine in a fresh install! But it seems very hard in an upgrade to overcome the effects of previous use of Glipper and and 0.3 cups, which seem to be "uninstallable," at least without skilled surgery.

As a result, in the menu Glipper icons appear both for the regular and the new autorun choice. Problem is Glipper never returns after a reboot, even though the "glipper_on" file toggles as expected in root.

Cups works but only with the old, bulky 0.3 version previously used. Long term one expects the problem of the package installer having very old and very new items, mostly inadequately described, will pass. In the meantime, maybe someone can suggest a way around this.

headfound · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 331 Location: England

Barry, i'll post this here as your blog gave a cgi error!
In the gamepup i just created, i put a small program in to pop a window up after the xorg/xvesa wizards saying ' welcome to puppy, Do you want to view a short introduction, yes or no'. 'Yes' opens dillo with the normal page, 'no' kills the script.
It might be worth considering as the majority of people trying the new releases are already users!
I used MU's wizardmaker, but i'm sure you could make something smaller and simpler.

Leon · Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 217 Location: Slovenia

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

BUGS

1# Modem that is autodetected when booting to RAM is not detected when booting from FULL HD install. When I open pupdial and hit "probe for modem" it is found.

scratch this one, it's a behaviour not a bug -> 2# Using Full HD install, I uncompressed OpenOffice Squash. Did fixmenus and restarted X all was well. When I rebooted, entire pinboard vanished except for the office icons.

Greatnessguru

Heads up:

mozilla . dev . planning
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/
Weekly Status Meeting: July 16
"WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-16
Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.5
* Due a critical security bug (cross browser scripting) Fx/Tb2005 has become a firedrill release.
* A regression was found in Fx2005rc1 builds which caused a respin.
* Fx2005rc2 testing is in progress. We will have updates ready to test this evening.
* At this point the tentative release date is next Thursday (7/19), but we might be able to accelerate the release, as Fx2005 buils are ready/tested. This is to be discussed.
* Tb2005 will either be released at the same time or shortly after Fx."

SeaMonkey RCs:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/candidates-1.1.3/

Note: no Sm 1.0.x.RCs since that branch is EOLed.

Thank you,
Eddie

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

Tried the kernel-src.sfs, when I tried building a driver (rt2570) it complained:

ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.

Also, not a Puppy problem, if geany is minimized and you right click to close it, X crashes.

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

scratch this one, it's a behaviour not a bug ->