Adding SFS at startup?

[tasmod]

To quote Pizzagood to install a devxXXX.sfs :-


If it's a full-hd install, you download it wherever, then click it to mount it. Open a terminal inside and run cp -a * / to copy the contents into /. Then click it again to unmount it. Now you can delete it if you want.

You can also do the whole process from the commandline like this:
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mount -o loop /path/to/devx_412.sfs /mnt/data
cp -a /mnt/data/* /
umount /mnt/data


Also to quote KC1DI for other sfs (not devx) :-


"All that is really needed is to copy the .sfs file to the mnt/home directory once there click on the .sfs file you should get a message that it's being mounted or something like that and a new directory window will open. copy the opt folder out of this directory by draging it to the usr/local folder. now when you boot it will be mounted automatically and you can drag the exicute file (in the case of Openoffice I drag the Staroffice.bin file to the desktop.) from urs/local/opt to the desktop so you can start the program from there. this proceedure works well with OpenOffice 3.0 and Acrobat reader. I'm sure it will with others also. There may be easier way to do it so others may chime in on that. But it has worked here for me. "


Worked a charm for me with Songbird.sfs

Rob

[Cariboo]

I remember seeing instructions on installing SFS files to a Full Install before, but I cannot remember them.

This is what worked for me installing OpenOffice.sfs and Picasa.sfs:
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modprobe squashfs
mount -o loop filename.sfs /mnt/data
cd /mnt/data
cp -a * /
cd /
umount /mnt/data

[Evil20071]

basically what I did... only I just clicked it and manually dragged/merged the files...

[Mr. Maxwell]

Thanks 8-bit the script worked. I just can't figure out what I did wrong.

[aragon]

hi tasmod,

KC1DI advices might work for some but not for all sfs-files. Why?

Well, the apps you mention are (in my opinion) special cases. The songbird-app is bundled by it's creators with all needed libs and a starter that is specially designed for that structure.

A 'normal' sfs will have the 'normal' puppy filestructure. So you might have a subdir

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/usr/lib/

which contains needed libraries. if you copy everything to

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/usr/local/

your libraries will be at

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/usr/local/usr/lib/

unless you edit

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/etc/ld.so.conf

puppy won't find your libraries and will not run your app.

Cheers
aragon

[als123]

Excellent information! Just a little add on...

for puppy 412 the line used should be cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/home instead of cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/hda2

[sideburns]

I just downloaded your utility and used it to install OpenOffice 3. Alas, it doesn't show up in my menu, even after restarting JWM. What else do I have to do?