Adding SFS at startup?

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Evil20071 · #1 Post by **Evil20071** » Sun 28 Dec 2008, 20:26

I give... I can't get it to allow me to add the .sfs for ... ANYTHING on the Boot Config in the full install. Screenshot is attached.

puppyluvr · #2 Post by **puppyluvr** » Mon 29 Dec 2008, 18:35

Hello,
Jon, is it a full or frugal install??
If a full, there is a whole process to go thru to mount an sfs.
If a frugal, the sfs goes outside your pup.xxx folder, not inside with your pupsave.
This normally is /mnt/home..but look and see..
From the pic, looks like a full install???

@EDIT...man am I blind...Full Install...I see it now..

Am looking for the Post concerning Full Install use of SFS`s....
BRB...hopefully....I know Dougal made a script... if I can locate it...

Evil20071 · #3 Post by **Evil20071** » Mon 29 Dec 2008, 22:36

Thanks. I tried just merging the contents of the .sfs into my existing install... didn't work out too well.

puppyluvr · #4 Post by **puppyluvr** » Mon 29 Dec 2008, 22:41

Hello,
If you`ve unpacked the SFS to a directory, you might try dir2pet and see if that works...
Prob not the most efficient way, but...

Evil20071 · #5 Post by **Evil20071** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 04:46

Hey, that's an idea.. >.>

Mr. Maxwell · #6 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 04:56

I have the same problem, I guess I'll just sit back and watch.

4.1.2 full install, if anyone is interested.

Mr. Maxwell · #7 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 15:19

If the .pet works would you post it?

I took this off http://www.puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm

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2. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs in a ROX-Filer window to mount it.
3. Open a terminal in the mounted directory.
6. # cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/hda2/
7. # sync
8. Close the terminal
9. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs file to unmount it

My very noob question is how do you open a terminal in the mounted directory?

Also my main hard drive partition is named sda1 and my swap partition is named sda2, would I have to change #6 to get it to work?

rjbrewer · #8 Post by **rjbrewer** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 16:11

MrMaxwell;

In directory or folder: R-clik>window>terminal here.

Quoted example is just example; You woudn't find it too easy to
change sda2 even if you wanted.

rjb

Mr. Maxwell · #9 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 16:14

So should I change it to sda1 and run it?

Mr. Maxwell · #10 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 17:54

I opend the terminal in the mounted directory and ran this:

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# cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/hda2/ 
cp: target '/mnt/hda2/' is not a directory
# cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/sda1/ 
cp: target '/mnt/sda1/' is not a directory

Any ideas?

Evil20071 · #11 Post by **Evil20071** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 21:24

Glad to see this is helpful.

Have you mounted that drive? Also, the .sfs will mount to something like (For DevX) /mnt/+mnt+sda3+devx_412.sfs

Also, I'll most definitely post up the .pet if i get it to working.

I'll just have to make sure to register it with the menu so it'll show up there...

Mr. Maxwell · #12 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 23:38

look at the attachment

8-bit · #13 Post by **8-bit** » Wed 31 Dec 2008, 00:35

Reverse your source and destination!
From your command line error, it looks likje you are trying to copy the files from / to the mnt/devx directory.
I think I still have the old SFS full install GUI script around.
It never did allow you to remove SFS files, but worked pretty good for installing.
If it was reposted with a disclaimer as an install only SFS utility for full hard drive installs, I cannot see any reason why that would not work.
Also, since it is a script, you might want to check it out in gleany.
Place it in /root/my-applications and then extract it.

Evil20071 · #14 Post by **Evil20071** » Wed 31 Dec 2008, 04:26

Thanks. I successfully added the contents of the devx_412.sfs to my full install by mounting it and copying the files over to / manually, just merging the contents as I went... took an hour, but it works.

I'm going to do something similar with the OOo sfs, only I'm making a .pet out of it... possibly a .pup since it was requested...

Mr. Maxwell · #15 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Fri 02 Jan 2009, 17:07

Thanks I got it to work.

Mr. Maxwell · #16 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Fri 02 Jan 2009, 19:49

The commands that worked for me:

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#cp -a --remove-destination ./mnt/+devx_412.sfs /mnt/sda1/
#sync

I finally figured out what the asterick was for!

Mr. Maxwell · #17 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Fri 02 Jan 2009, 20:03

It won't compile C++! When I attempt to compile in geany it says '/bin/sh: g++ command not found'.

8-bit · #18 Post by **8-bit** » Fri 02 Jan 2009, 23:11

Mr. Maxwell wrote:It won't compile C++! When I attempt to compile in geany it says '/bin/sh: g++ command not found'.

To see if you truly have devx installed, open a terminal and type "make" or "gcc" without the quotes.
It should give you enough feedback to know if devx was correctly installed.

Mr. Maxwell · #19 Post by **Mr. Maxwell** » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 00:15

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# gcc
bash: gcc: command not found
# make
bash: make command not found

any ideas?

8-bit · #20 Post by **8-bit** » Sat 03 Jan 2009, 23:09

It looks like the devx sfs package did not get installed.
Further back in this thread, I posted an old utility to install SFS files to a Full install of Puppy.
If you download it and try to install with it, it just might take.
Did for me.

Typing make in a terminal is a quick way to see if the installation succeeded.
I remember seeing instructions on installing SFS files to a Full Install before, but I cannot remember them.

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