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raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila

The fstype is VFAT in USB, and the USB drives are working very reliably, and are being used to boot Puppy in other machines.

There must be some distinction here. MUT can mount these USB partitions even if probepart cant see them; please refer to the 2.13 info above. MUT has a lot of your own changes, too, so surely one or a few line/s in there could help solve this problem.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

BarryK · Posted: Sat 08 Dec 2007, 20:20 Post subject: Re: fstype

BarryK · Posted: Sat 08 Dec 2007, 20:45 Post subject:

Béèm · Posted: Sat 08 Dec 2007, 20:56 Post subject:

@HairyWill,
When I wrote that post you referenced the issue was about 3.90, which works ok with WEP.
When I tried 3.92 I had the problem with WEP, but can connect to unprotected access points.
Also when the issue is about 3.01 I say the my connection works with WEP.
So when I answer a post it's always considering the given context.

Well seeing the post of Barry, I'll wait the alpha 3 then.

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2307 Location: Wyoming, USA

Barry, I wonder why zdrv should be cut down at all? I thought the whole point of zdrv was to separate it from the part of Puppy that's loaded into memory, thus allowing it to fill up with all sorts of drivers and better support the hardware (while not consuming memory or affecting performance). In other words, it was supposed to balloon out.

The only drawback I can see is downloading time on a big file.

Perhaps you can have 2 zdrv files, one for more common hardware and an extra one for old ISA stuff, oddball drivers and whatnot. That way those stuck with old hardware still can get their drivers, or if too much is inadvertently cut out of the first zdrv, it's still available in the second. In fact it makes it easier for you to get aggressive cutting stuff out of the first because it's not a disaster if you go too far with that.

nic2109 · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 19:34 Post subject:

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila

BarryK · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 20:28 Post subject:

jonyo · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2725

BarryK · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 20:36 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 20:41 Post subject: Re: guess_fstype

BarryK · Posted: Sun 09 Dec 2007, 20:53 Post subject:

raffy, while you're at it, do this too:
# disktype /dev/sdg1

I'm reluctant to use 'disktype' as a fallback, as it does a complete probe which is slow. But, I guess if we only do it when guess_fstype returns 'unknown' then it's not too bad.