Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[purplebelly]

[charlie6]

Hi,
on 4.3.1 small frugal
on 144MB MF-2HD floppies

Using menu/system/format floppy disk results systematically in a pink box telling:

[8-bit]

On formatting those floppies.
Just two questions.
(1) Is the floppy write protected?
(2) Is the floppy mounted?

I have a box of floppies myself that I consider junk.
They are new, but even give errors trying to format them in Windows.

[asatbluesboy]

Talking about floppy mounts, one has magically appeared in my flash installation this morning. It would be cool if I did have a floppy drive, which is not the case. Could it be the USB speakers I installed?

[bill]

Hi asatbluesboy,There for sure are applications that do not play well
with others.When things happen ,like has visited you,have you considered removing the suspected culprit,reboot and audit the results.
If after this,and nothing good happens,you will have an answer.It is always easy to reinstall.cheers

[nassausky]

During a basic live boot of Puppy 4.3.1 after connecting to the ethernet card and going online and downloading x11vnc-server PET file. The install goes fine but in order to see the GUI listing in the network menu I had to restart X-server. After doing so I lost the mouse pointer. It actually does work but it's invisible. I was able to start up the gui and attach to the machine remotely and on the remote control side, I can see the host mouse pointer but it doesn't show up in that host Puppy 4.3.1 machine.

Thanks

BTW a note off topic... If anyone builds an ISO with puppy 4.3.1 including a vnc server, samba & ssh give me a shout

[asatbluesboy]

[Whitesnow]

I have seen that bootmanager, like 4.3.0., boots not more than six sfs. Why? How to increase?

Thank you in advance.

Bye.

[ICPUG]

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I have seen that bootmanager, like 4.3.0., boots not more than six sfs. Why?

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Good question. That is what Barry used in Puppy 4.1.2 and carried forward to 4.3.x

Puppy 4.2.1 allows more.

How to increase? It needs a change to the init script in initrd.gz. If someone wants to address that problem then be my guest.

Other alternatives:

Use SFS Combiner to combine some sfs files so that you only have 6.

Use sfs linker
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47465

for a brand new way of using a large number of sfs.

[vtpup]

[ecomoney]

Hi, discovered facebook chat doesnt work. Seems to be a problem with Seamonkey 1.xx series (2.xx series does work).

Yes facebook chat is "an application for everyday use" Im afraid.

[Béèm]

I just discovered this as before I didn't have the need to connect 6 sfs files at boot.
Altho 6 advertised in reality only 5 are taken into account.

Why not raise the figure of 6 to 10.
And yes I know I could combine sfs files now.

[tempestuous]

It appears that PREFLIST (or pup_event) is not working properly to set priority of one module over another, as reported by jemimah here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=367201#367201

Several other forum members have reported similar problems involving conflicting modules, but jemimah is the first to accurately report which particular module loads after setting up the PREFLIST configuration.

[ICPUG]

vtpup

thanks for correcting me regarding the number of sfs allowed in 4.1.2. The thrust of my comment was the same however - 4.2.1 allowed more than 4.1.2 or 4.3.1.

As your link shows, modifying the initrd.gz was done for 4.1.2 and incorporated into 4.2.1 - however that task remains for 4.3.1 - so to help Whitesnow or Beem it would be necessary for someone to do this task. You cannot simply slot in a 4.1.2 (or 4.2.1) initrd.gz into a 4.3.1 system.

[diaeresis]

sfs issue now on bug tracker.
(as is a lot of this thread, Thanks, your welcome)