Preparing for Puppy II
Puppy 2 name
Hi all,
What about "puppy Aurora"
or "fast-pup", "cyber-pup","Wild-pup2",
What about "puppy Aurora"
or "fast-pup", "cyber-pup","Wild-pup2",
I use puppylinux exclusively on usb drives and have since 1.05 but some drives just would not work because of their architcture like memorex.
So I decided to try the puppy II on that one and it worked first time which is good.
Couple of gotchas
- it seemed a lot slower to load the my current modified 1.07 - and it had issues seeing the usb ports on an emachine once it had loaded but I have seen that before with the 2.6 kernel
The other gotcha for me is the fact that the whole drive is configured as linux format vs FAT.
- I value the fact that I can use my 1GB USB on my Swiss Army knife to go between my office ( which is XP) ; my wifes machine again XP and my own which is linux and can also use any machine I find to run and access my data my way all from just one penknife drive that attaches to my keyring.
So I decided to try the puppy II on that one and it worked first time which is good.
Couple of gotchas
- it seemed a lot slower to load the my current modified 1.07 - and it had issues seeing the usb ports on an emachine once it had loaded but I have seen that before with the 2.6 kernel
The other gotcha for me is the fact that the whole drive is configured as linux format vs FAT.
- I value the fact that I can use my 1GB USB on my Swiss Army knife to go between my office ( which is XP) ; my wifes machine again XP and my own which is linux and can also use any machine I find to run and access my data my way all from just one penknife drive that attaches to my keyring.
george
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Me like this idea
Sounds real good to me, but it reminds me of something..... hemmmmm.drongo wrote:spell it NewtrIX to make it sound more UNIXy (is that a new word?)
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Trialing 4.20
Not bad. How aboutsoftgun wrote:PupTy "puppy to you" and "to" has the SOUND of "two"
PuppyTooU
We could even use something similar for Puupy 4, if Barry gets that carried away!!. (PuppyForeU) Gives the added meaning of being at the front.(right where Puppy is in my book)
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universal installer
Brilliant.I'm trying to get Puppy2 away from needing any menu (and subsequent pause) at bootup. Puppy2 tackles the problem the other way round, by booting up in ramdisk-only the first time you boot on a PC, then at shutdown you are asked if you want to create a personal storage file. If you anser yes, it will get created and automatically used next time you boot Puppy.
Yeah, simple, and it's working.
I was never 100% happy with the boot menu adding valuable seconds on the Puppy Boot time - so this is good news
Expect a pre-alpha of Puppy Pitto (P2) soon - next few days hopefully
(check 17 June News)
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/news.htm
Note, I'm writing a "universal installer", a sneak preview will be available with the next pre-alpha release.
I think this would be better for new users, but I might miss the old boot menue.I'm trying to get Puppy2 away from needing any menu (and subsequent pause) at bootup. Puppy2 tackles the problem the other way round, by booting up in ramdisk-only the first time you boot on a PC, then at shutdown you are asked if you want to create a personal storage file. If you anser yes, it will get created and automatically used next time you boot Puppy.
Yeah, simple, and it's working.
Somtimes its nice to boot to ram only or to choose the harddrive partition / pupxxx file so that you can test somthing with a clean pupxxx.
Can we have it both ways? Maybe 3 seconds to hit a key and bring up the old boot menue? Or hold down a key while booting to bring up a menue?
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You will still be able to have it both ways.kirk wrote:I think this would be better for new users, but I might miss the old boot menue.I'm trying to get Puppy2 away from needing any menu (and subsequent pause) at bootup. Puppy2 tackles the problem the other way round, by booting up in ramdisk-only the first time you boot on a PC, then at shutdown you are asked if you want to create a personal storage file. If you anser yes, it will get created and automatically used next time you boot Puppy.
Yeah, simple, and it's working.
Somtimes its nice to boot to ram only or to choose the harddrive partition / pupxxx file so that you can test somthing with a clean pupxxx.
Can we have it both ways? Maybe 3 seconds to hit a key and bring up the old boot menue? Or hold down a key while booting to bring up a menue?
By the way, we will have to get used not to calling it a "pupxxx" file, as pup2 names the personal storage file "pup_save.3fs" -- a fixed name, no numbers in it.
Anyway, if you just rename pup_save.3fs to something else, then reboot, Puppy won't be able to find it, so will think you are doing a first-boot and will come up in RAM only.
adding more loopbacks to kernel, Please
After some googling I found the default loopback number around 8 for 2.4 series and I think 256 for 2.6 series. I would like to experiment with more squashes could you upgrade to ~250 loopbacks in the new kernel for one of the next beta releases Puppy2.
Thanks
Thanks
Thanks Barry, I should have been able to figure that out!Anyway, if you just rename pup_save.3fs to something else, then reboot, Puppy won't be able to find it, so will think you are doing a first-boot and will come up in RAM only.
With a fully R/W file system that you can compile in, I would think that schools would like Puppy. If you're learning to program and you screw something up on the system, you can just delete the pup_save.3fs and reboot. It's been a great learning tool for me to learn some Bash. I haven't used unix since SCO in 88'. I took a class in C many years ago (and forgot most of it) and had to pay about $80 for a compiler/developer tools kit. Free seems like a better price.
Thanks again for the great distro!
Puppy2 name.....
As mentioned earlier, I also like Puppy2 - Greyhound. It suggests lean and fast. And it has a fun side but also sounds professional. Just my 2 cents.
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PupSafe for Pup2 announced (check 19 Jan 2006 News)
"Ah, but Puppy has PupSafe!"
http://www.puppylinux.com/news.htm
"Ah, but Puppy has PupSafe!"
http://www.puppylinux.com/news.htm