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JacquiG
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 Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 22:32 Post subject:
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Created swap file and confirmed it's presence in XP
Booted into Linux and typed at command
mkswap /mnt/home/pup.swp
Message returned:
mkswap: can't open '/mnt/home/pup.swp' : No such file or directory
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muggins
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Location: lisbon
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 23:21 Post subject:
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Yes,
sorry about that. puppy doesn't have a /mnt/home yet, as it hasn't got to the stage of saving your configuration in a pup_save.2fs file.
Instead try:
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mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
mkswap /mnt/data/pup.swp
swapon /mnt/data/pup.swp
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Then, if the above is successful, (which you can tell by running the command free), then try running xorgwizard, and see whether it gets past the black screen.
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 23:34 Post subject:
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No problem...
Ok, typed in
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/data
Returned
mkswapmount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt/data busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is mounted on /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2
Typed in
mkswap /mnt/data/pup.swp
Returned
mkswap: can't open '/mnt/data/pup.swp' : No such file or directory
Thinking these are not desirable results I stopped there and posted here... 
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muggins
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| Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 23:54 Post subject:
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JacquiG,
If you enter ls /pup.swp is it found?
Then, (assuming yes), try mkswap /pup.swp
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 00:09 Post subject:
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ls: cannot access /pup.swp: No such file or directory
Odd, it's there in Windows ?
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muggins
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 00:46 Post subject:
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Hmmm, it must be mounting c:\ somewhere, maybe it's /mnt/hda1 already? Does ls /mnt/hda1/pup.swp give a positive response?
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 00:49 Post subject:
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nope...
ls: cannot access /mnt/hda1/pup.swp: No such file or directory
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muggins
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 01:14 Post subject:
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JacquiG,
what response do you get if you just enter ls? (this is nix equivalent of dos dir).
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul 2008, 09:14 Post subject:
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# ls
Choices ftpd my-applications puppy-reference Startup
File-Sharing ghttpd my-documents spot
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Dougal
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 08:31 Post subject:
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Richard: read the first post again (and the follow up) -- it is a NeoMagic.
Muggins: I think this might be a case of the Windows ALL CAPS disease... but also, does Dingo have hd[a-z]? Doesn't it use the PATA drivers?
Jacqui: Since Windows is case-insensitive (and stupid, in general...), it tends to write filenames in caps, so you might have the file as PUPSWAP.SWP...
You should try something like and see if that's the case.
If it is, just rename the file: | Code: | | mv /mnt/hda1/PUPSWAP.SWP /mnt/hda1/pupswap.swp |
If the file isn't on /mnt/hda1, you could try /mnt/sda1 and if that doesn't exist, try looking at the output of | Code: | | mount | grep '^/dev' |
and see what the mountpoint is.
As for the shmfs, you could try Ctrl+b while in mp to search for "shmfs", but it might not be there. I'll have a look at Barry's scripts and see where he mounts it (this isn't critical, it's just that, as far as I can recall, Barry uses a quarter of your free memory for it... which is a waste).
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muggins
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 09:47 Post subject:
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Dougal,
I don't know about p4 & PATA, but this is certainly becoming an epic adventure. It occurred to me that, rather than trying to activate a swapfile on ntfs, Jacqui could, temporarily, have a swapfile on a usbkey.
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 17:32 Post subject:
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Hi Dougal...
Code:
ls /mnt/hda1/[Pp]*
Returned
ls: cannot access /mnt/hda1/[Pp]*: No such file or directory
I wish I could offer more help in my own defence, but I know nothing about Linux/Puppy. Thanks again guys, I really appreciate it and hope you'll be able to brag that you got me up and running 
I don't seem to be able to get very far... 
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JacquiG
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul 2008, 17:44 Post subject:
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Ok, got something to work  making progress....
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mount | grep '^/dev'
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/dev/hda1 on /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 type fuseblk (rw,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0
/dev/loop0 on /initrd/pup_ro2 type squashfs (ro,noatime)
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muggins
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| Posted: Tue 08 Jul 2008, 03:46 Post subject:
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Jacqui,
what about trying to create, temporarily, swapfile on a usbkey? Is it formatted as vfat? If so, you can try booting windows, copying the created pup.swp to the usbkey, then rebooting puppy, &:
| Code: | mount /dev/sda1 /mount/data -t vfat
mkswap /mnt/data/pup.swp
swapon /mnt/data/pup.swp
free (To see whether swap actually being recognised)
xorgwizard |
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Dougal
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| Posted: Tue 08 Jul 2008, 04:54 Post subject:
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| JacquiG wrote: | | /dev/hda1 on /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 type fuseblk (rw,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0 |
Ok, so it's mounted on /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 (normal with a frugal install, just usually you have /mnt/home as a link...)
Now try | Code: | | ls /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2/[Pp]* |
and you'll probably see it.
Then all you need to do is:
- if the name is in caps:
| Code: | | mv /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2/PUPSWAP.SWP /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2/pupswap.swp |
- run mkswap on it
| Code: | | mkswap /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2/pupswap.swp |
- add enabling it to rc.local:
| Code: | | echo 'swapon /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2/pupswap.swp' >>/etc/rc.d/rc.local |
Note that there's still a chance you'll have a problem after that, due to the NeoMagic card -- you'll need rerwin to help you with that.
NB- forget about the shmfs thing -- I checked and Barry has disabled it in Puppy4...
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