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[gerry]

I run Puppy live cd. As an experiment, I booted Puppy 431 with a Puppy 412 save file. It works!

The advantages are:
No set-up required.
Seamonkey has my favourites list.
The drivers and libraries for my printer are there.
The printer is connected to a Windows computer, and cups/smb configuration still works.
Abiword still has the links to recent documents.
And the seagull is still flying.

I've saved a lot of time and effort, as well as the headscratching.

Except for one thing: desktop ikons. They are all a sort of generic "link-to-a-script" ikon. Help! what do I do to get some pretty ikons?

EDIT: found where the icons live, and restored them. (Actually, I deleted the ones that I never/rarely use- I like a clean desktop.)

Notes: you need to make a copy of your 412 save file, and rename it without the underscore. And the applications are the 4.3.1 apps.

I'll update this if I find any real snags.

Gerry
Using Puppy 412431

[gerry]

gparted won't work. I expect there will be other things... oh for a rolling-upgrade Puppy......

Gerry

[mikeb]

[gerry]

Found the problem, I think, but no fix.

Puppy 412 has gparted 0.3.3, and looks for hda.

Puppy 431 has gparted 0.4.5 and looks for sda.

I've created a hybrid- gparted 0.4.5 that looks for hda. Or at least, won't recognise sda when it sees it.

I re-installed gparted 0.4.5 from the repo, but still the same.

I'll put this experiment down as a failure. But interesting...

Gerry

[mikeb]

Hmmm the retro 4.12 uses hda...anything with a newer kernel is sda.

launching from the terminal would be say
gparted /dev/sda

I'm not sure how gparted versions relate to the 128/256 inode difference on ext3 either which can affect booting with certain grub versions...don't yer just love linux

mike

[gerry]

@Mikeb- I tried launching from terminal and got:

could not stat /dev/sda - no such file or directory

Gerry

[mikeb]

I assume that device exists....eg run
fdisk -l
or
fdisk /dev/sda

mike

[rjbrewer]

mikeb

Not sure if it applies in this case; but here is one of a couple
posts I made regarding gparted problems in the new puppy.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=352549#352549

[mikeb]

Gparted is a mixed blessing.
Today the version on puppy 2 showed my hard drive as one large vfat partition ....it has 4...1 vfat, 2x ext2 and 1 swap.
It does not see the second partition on a flash stick. So in other words an older version is not to be relied on .
fdisk and cfdisk on the other hand...they do not lie

mike

oh and the windows 2000 installer says the mbr is corrupted after gparted set it up...its fun all the way

[rjbrewer]

[mikeb]

[rjbrewer]

This is how weird the situation is:

1. I have 411 on sda 3 and used its gparted to make a partition,
sda4, for 431. Installed 431 full from cd and it works fine.

2. Used gparted or cfdisk on the 431 cd to partition sdb1; tried
ext 2 and 3, four times. Always got "error 2 bad file or directory"
after installing and trying to boot.

3. Looking at sdb1 with gparted in 411, it only shows a red
warning triangle and info says invalid block.......no partition.

4. If I look at it from the good 431 install or 431 live cd, the
partition is there.

5. Not only is the partition there, it shows almost 1.3gb used.
That's the accumulated size of the four attempted installs,
even though those partitions had been deleted after each
failed attempt.

6. It is still possible to repartition that drive with 411 and
make it work; but the only way to have the drive show no
partitions or errors using 411 and 431 gparted is to nuke it
with "Dariks".

[rjbrewer]

Solution for the 4.3 gparted 256 inode problem.

Example:

I use 4.3.1 live cd gparted (or cfdisk) and create an ext 2
partition on sdb1.

Open console >type:

mke2fs -j -I 128 /dev/sdb1......( -I is capital i )

Converts ext 2 partition to ext 3 with 128 inode count.

Thanks to these fine folks:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html#mozTocId857236

Edit:

rcrsn51 had posted the solution months ago....I forgot where it was.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324#262324

[mikeb]

[rjbrewer]