Puppies 4.2-v1 Deeper Thought :) UpDated Version

[dawnsboy]

well tomorrow I'll try again, if possible could you test my first release and make sure that it installs ok? That would save me a lot, because the way I have everything setup its a bit complicated for installs, one the swap file on my hard drive never works, maybe because its a sata2 etc.
Thanks for everything Smile
ttuuxxx

Your welcome ttuuxxx!

I downloaded the 4.2-v1 iso image from puppylinux.ca again just to make sure that I have a clean copy. I burned it to cd on on my daughters pc. I inserted the cd into an external drive and boot my Eeepc 701 with a live cd session. I then invoked the universal installer from the menu. I received an error message regarding sanity check file not found as shown in the first of the two attached screen shots.

Failing install from the 4.2-v1 CD I shutdown my system then rebooted with the standard release CD of Deep Thought 4.2 Final. Once the session loaded I removed the CD from the drive and replaced it with your 4.2-v1 CD. I then invoked the universal installer from the menu. When prompted to provide the location of the install files I selected CD. The installer proceeded with a Frugal Install per my selections during the process. The second attached screen shot shows that I have successfully booted into 4.2-v1 Frugal (hdd) desktop.

I hope that you find this to be of some help. I will be running it through its paces. If i note thing worth mentioning I will post it on this thread.

[dawnsboy]

@ttuuxxx

I have attached 3 screen shots of the 4.2-v1 desktop to this post. The first is simply of my desktop showing the theming changes that I implemented. The seconded shows that devx_420.sfs is located at /mnt/home. The third screen shot shows an error message that appears when attempting to use the Boot Manager to load devx_420.sfs.

I hope this helps identify the issue for you.

Regards,
dawnsboy

EDIT:

In this case renaming devx_420.sfs to devx_42.sfs does work. I have successfully used the Boot Manager to load devx_42.sfs.

[tunyawat]

ttuuxxx - the earlier version works well on the installation process.

[ttuuxxx]

ok guys I'll revert back to the first base and start the second over and add a few new updates/fixes:)
ttuuxxx

[shand]

Hey ttuuxxx
I found that mtpaint snapshot NOT Running in puppies4.2 v1(USB install)，but earlier version(puppies4.2) works well.

B Rgds
shand

[ttuuxxx]

Hi guys I've made a new blinky, I used the gnome images this time instead of my own like the icewm version, but I changed the monitor screens, I found that there wasn't enough contrast in shades of blue. Looks very nice now:) I used the sources for JWM that I finally found so it should be more sticky to the taskbar than the icewm version, below is a image of it off. ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Hey ttuuxxx
I found that mtpaint snapshot NOT Running in puppies4.2 v1(USB install)，but earlier version(puppies4.2) works well.

B Rgds
shand

also another way to do a snapshot is via the terminal just type the following and hit the 'Enter' key
mtpaint -s
ttuuxxx

[dawnsboy]

also another way to do a snapshot is via the terminal just type the following and hit the 'Enter' key
mtpaint -s
ttuuxxx

I changed the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications for the mtpaint screen shot to read:

exec=mtpaint -s

That worked just fine. It had pointed at a .sh script file initially.

[gabe]

"Abiword I downgraded due to issues with .doc"

Oh no, what do you mean? What's wrong with 4.2 working with .doc? I'm very worried now, since I used 4.2 to create and edit some .doc files...

[ttuuxxx]

"Abiword I downgraded due to issues with .doc"

Oh no, what do you mean? What's wrong with 4.2 working with .doc? I'm very worried now, since I used 4.2 to create and edit some .doc files...

In 4.2 we didn't have much time to test every part of it so some little things happened, Like abiword change the default font for .doc .rtf etc from 'times new roman' to 'Tymes' they didn't tell us that, So after 4.2 was released we found out that if you open a .doc or rtf the words are all mangled up, plus 2.6.6 wasn't really all that great to start with, we found about 3 bugs before that and fixed them, but this other bug we had no clue about until it was too late. So I quickly took 2.6.3 from the repo which was stable added the new docx plugin plus the templates from 2.6.6 and upgraded it to a better version then the latest, due to the fact it uses our fonts and has all the options as the latest model and is actually more stable:) Thats what I included in the above release, Which I'll be updating maybe tonight but probably tomorrow, its getting late now.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

updated
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 211#292211

[James C]

Thanks ttuuxxx, you do great work. I'll be downloading as soon as I log out here.By the way, on any Puppy install the first pet I install is Firepup....great,fast browser.

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks ttuuxxx, you do great work. I'll be downloading as soon as I log out here.By the way, on any Puppy install the first pet I install is Firepup....great,fast browser.

If you like that version of FirePup, uninstall it and try this one out, Its 2MB smaller compressed and has all the same plugins etc.
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 3-test.pet
ttuuxxx

[James C]

ttuuxxx,I'm posting from Firepup 0.04.3 test right now.In my opinion it is better than Seamonkey or Opera, much faster and more stable. Thanks..