Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

ravensrest · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 351 Location: Hood Canal, WA

Does anyone know of a pet to sfs converter -- or care to write one?

BS

MU · Posted: Fri 16 May 2008, 10:56 Post subject:

Install SFS-Combiner:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26097

And save the following code as /usr/local/SFS-Combiner/pet2sfs

Make it executable.
Drag it on your desktop.

Now you can drag a PET on that Icon, to create a SFS from it using SFS-Combiner.

prit1 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 538 Location: Los Angeles

Wow. MU you are the XXX2YYY man !!! Convert anything 2 anything - contact MU ... Smile

Is there a script to convert Windows 2 Linux ?? LOL

What about Sfs 2 pet ?

MU · Posted: Fri 16 May 2008, 12:28 Post subject:

hm, if I just could convert missing sleep to money or so Laughing

Sunburnt just had mentioned a more advanced, older sfs-combiner.
I wonder, why it never got as popular as mine.
Maybe it was just too early.

He will have a look again at one issue he had with it, then we might get a great new tool Smile

My small addon above is just a "quick-hack", there miss checks, if there is enough free space and such.
But for advanced users, it should be ok for the moment.

[url]What about Sfs 2 pet ?[/url]

No, please not, must sleep Wink

I'm testing and compiling stuff since 23 hours now...
But just click on a sfs to mount it, then run dir2pet with the mounted folder. Simple, too.

Mark

ravensrest · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 351 Location: Hood Canal, WA

Thanks, MU, I'll give it a shot.

BS

dinky · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 699

Great idea MU, but not quite there. Everything runs fine following your directions in the xmessage until:

MU · Posted: Sun 18 May 2008, 23:50 Post subject:

you were missing the dialog, to add additional files.
It had to be activated in a config-file.
I repackaged the dotpup now, you should get the dialog now by default.
Then you have the "okay"-button Smile

Please install again:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/System_Utilities/SFS-Combiner.pup

It also includes the "pet2sfs" script now, it just must be dragged on the desktop.

Mark

dinky · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 699

Almost there. Works fine, though the second file manager window, SFS-TEMP/tempfiles is only visible AFTER clicking ok, which means I need to manually navigate to that folder, then copy the files into it. Is this what you intended?

MU · Posted: Mon 19 May 2008, 00:54 Post subject:

no, not intended.
But the script was just a quick addon.
To open the folder automatically, I had to modify the program itself, I just had no time for that yet.

As sunburnt is working on an own, advanced version, I actually will not add modifications, as this program might get obsolete in some days.

Mark

MU · Posted: Mon 19 May 2008, 01:03 Post subject:

ok, updated the dotpup.
It now opens the folder with the tempfiles, so that you can drag files there immedeatly Smile

Mark

dinky · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 699

Fantastic MU, really great piece of work, now works perfectly. I'm looking forward to Sunburnt's code, it would also be great to be able to do this without a linux partition. THis is a major, major advancement of puppy, and I think will have very far reaching effects. Long love puppy!

~dinky

vtpup · Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 22:04 Post subject:

Tried this method out w/a 4.1.2 new kernel Puppy, but had problems:

I drag the .pet onto pets2fs, which is located on the desktop.

A small ROX window opens showing a pet folder and Empty.sfs, as well as another window with a text explanation of the procedure to follow.

However, before I can do anything, another message pops up saying the file has been deleted or moved. Closing that message also closes the ROX window with the Empty.sfs and I'm left with just the procedure message.

I also looked at the sunburnt thread, but did not see that a pet-to-sfs function had been written yet.

Is there some other way of creating an sfs from a pet that I've missed?

Apologies if I'm going over old ground. I see the last update here was in 2007. Seems likely there is some other method already. I just haven't found it in forum searches.

jrb · Posted: Sat 21 Feb 2009, 01:23 Post subject:

vtpup, here's one way,
Place the foo.pet on a ext2 or ext3 partition. Rename to foo.tgz. Click on it and extract. This will create folder /foo/. Now run dir2sfs foo and you will have your foo.sfs.

You should however check for a pinstall.sh in the /foo/ folder. Usually they build symlinks. You will have to duplicate these symlinks in the proper folder in /foo/. Say you need a symlink from /usr/bin/foo to /usr/local/bin/, open the /foo/ folder twice in ROX. In one window go to /usr/bin in the other go to /usr/local/bin (you may have to create it). Drag /usr/bin/foo to /usr/local/bin and "Link (relative)".

The other thing to check is icons. /foo/foo.xpm should be placed in /foo/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons before you build your .sfs

Whew, that's a lot of foo's. Hope I made myself clear?

reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

Hello!

I think there is a utility program to convert from package.pet to package.tar.gz. that is called pet2tgz

in the # (command prompt) type the following

1. pet2tgz package.pet

then it will give you a filename called package.tar.gz
click on that file called package.tar.gz and select all then extract all of them. Then it will show a directory called package
then type the next command which is dir2sfs

2. dir2sfs package

then that's it.

I tried this several times. I hope this would help.

vtpup · Posted: Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:28 Post subject:

Thanks jrb and reckrhodes. I remember reading about the manual methods once before. Thanks for the clear specifics.

I'm still interested in the simplicity of action in mu's app, seems like a cool way to do it, I was wondering if there was something wrong with my system, or method of using it. Maybe to clear that up I'll try it on a new pfix=ram session.