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esmourguit · Posted: Wed 19 Aug 2009, 04:15 Post subject:

Bonjour à tous,

trio · Posted: Wed 19 Aug 2009, 04:21 Post subject:

Esmourguit,

U R welcome

Lobster · Posted: Sat 29 Aug 2009, 03:44 Post subject:

I am in 4.3 Beta 1 and tried to use the 3.1 compiled version SFS
recently announced
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=335749#335749

Put it through the upgrader

and it appeared in Bootmanager
so I was able to add and reboot
The icons appeared for Openoffice (but just blank script icons - not full colour ones)
Clicking on them - nothing
also right mouse click not working Crying or Very sad

no menu options working
OK so tried ctrl + alt + backspace
NO!
Had to turn off machine (reset button not connected)
So that is a complete freeze

On reboot my two save files (running from CD)
came up
but keyboard(USB) was not responding Crying or Very sad

Puppy up and running from new install in a few minutes incidentally . . . Laughing

YoN · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 76 Location: NIPPON

Hi Trio,

I use conveniently on 4.3.1 japanese version. I like your converter.

As hope in the future, if possible, I think that it only has visually to understand the progress report on message splash window "Please wait until this box is closed" screen under conversion.
For instance, it is "Percent display" or "Graph bar display".

disciple · Posted: Sat 05 Dec 2009, 20:20 Post subject:

I'm a bit too late, aren't I Smile

Bug #1: does not work if extension is .SFS instead of .sfs
Bug #2: does not work if paths have spaces.

This quick hack works for me:

Diamond · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 141

Please help!
Sfs converter don't work for me,i am using puppy 4.0. All I get is txt file.
How to use this hack ?
Thanx!

disciple · Posted: Mon 14 Dec 2009, 01:36 Post subject:

I imagine it is because you only have the squashfs tools from Puppy 4.0, so can't extract or create newer squashfiles... or have you got the newer tools from somewhere?

yerc1 · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 51

disciple · Posted: Thu 17 Dec 2009, 05:37 Post subject:

Probably the lzma... was there plenty of space on the drive you converted it on?
How did it fail?

BTW Diamond, you could try using the squashfs tools from 4.3, although I'm not certain that they will work in 4.0. Does anyone know? Or has anyone packaged them for 4.0?

Also, for information: I discovered that Puppy 4.3 can't use files with .SFS extensions (rather than .sfs), even though 4.1x can.

Q5sys · Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 843

This is great for people that are using 4.3 or newer, but is not much use for people on earlier systems. I'm running 4.1.2, so I cant use this; which sucks cause I really need to.
I guess my only choice is to install a 4.3 system somewhere for the sole purpose of converting newer SFS4 files to SFS so I can use them on my older system. Kinda an obtuse way to get around the problem, but apparently the only solution. While I dont mind doing it for my purpose (trying to install a newer kernel), Im sure there are a ton of people that once they hit this roadblock will just give up. Installing an entire OS no matter how small just to convert one or two files is a lot of effort.

But the general idea of this converter is great. I just wish there was a way that we all could benefit from it. Thanks to the OP who created this program! Smile

If it wasnt for you work I wouldnt be able to do what I want to do, even though it'll be work intensive.

disciple · Posted: Sat 19 Dec 2009, 04:06 Post subject:

Actually, it seems that you can install and use the new squashfs tools in an older puppy. Get them from here ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/squashfs-tools4-4.0-pup4.pet

yerc1 · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 51

trio · Posted: Sat 09 Jan 2010, 11:38 Post subject:

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