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[wuwei]

enhu your grub entry should read

# Other bootable partition config begins
title mediapup Frugal-ext3 (on /dev/sda3)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/media/vmlinuz PMEDIA=atahd PDEV1=sda3 psubdir=media
initrd (hd0,2)/media/initrd.gz
# Other bootable partition config ends

sda3 = hd0,2

And yes, it's just those 3 files you need to copy. The pupsave file will be generated by you upon shutdown or reboot once you are at the mediapup desktop for the first time.

[enhu]

thanks.

it now works when booting but after loading the kernel and accessing the drives..but it once again prompt an error saying pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console

i tried renaming pup_412rMedia10a.sfs to pup_412.sfs but still it didn't work.
is there something else i should do?

[wuwei]

This is getting complicated

Okay, let's try this. From 431 go to menu.lst and add to the kernel line behind psubdir=media

a space and then this

SFSFILE=ext3,sda3,/media/exactnameofyourpupinmedia.sfs

To explain:

ext3 stands for the file system on your sda3. If that is not ext3, then change it to the one you have.

exactnameofyourpupinmedia stands for the exact file name of the sfs file in the subdirectory media. Be it
pup_412rMedia10a.sfs
or be it
pup_412.sfs

It must be exactly the same at both places.

Hope this gets you rolling.
Remember, once you start mediapup for the first time, it requires you to go through the xorgwizard procedure. But just that once.

[CatDude]

Hi

Hope you don't mind me butting in.

[enhu]

i've tried your solution catdude and still the error

[CatDude]

Hello enhu

I just downloaded: MediaPup1-0a.iso
md5sum: 34584d1dc22c610db645e2a8139cc927

Clicked on the ISO to get the files: initrd.gz, pup_412rMedia10a.sfs and vmlinuz
which i copied into the directory: /media on partition hda7 ( see image files-in-media-directory.png )

I then add the following to my menu.lst

[enhu]

still no progress catdude.

i probably need acpi config as i'm receiving error such as : /bin/sh: Can’t access tty; job control turned off.

this is the whole error:

[CatDude]

Hello enhu

If you want to try with a copy of 412retro
you can get a copy here:
puppy-4.1.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso
puppy-4.1.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso.md5.txt

If you would be so kind, could you please give a bit more information about your hard drive, partitions (sizes and format)
we are dealing with an internal hard drive here, aren't we ?

I also noticed that in this post of yours further up this page
you are still using sda and not hda on the kernel line in your grub menu.lst entry
it has got to be hda

CatDude
.

EDIT:
To understand why it needs to be hda take a look at the attached image,
it is a screenshot of my drives as seen by pmount in Mediapup.

Also, if i change the hda7 on the kernel line of the menu.lst entry i posted 2 posts up
to sda7, then i get the exact same error you are getting.

[wuwei]

CatDude,

you are right about hda vs. sda. I just copied from my system, but enhu's is much older. And that seems to be the entire problem.

There is a post here to a similar problem...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22255

So if I take that and enhu's setup into consideration, you (enhu) need to move the three files out of the subdirectory media to root of partition hda3. There is nothing else on hda3 then the mediapup files, right? Your 431 is on hda2, correct?

Then change menu.lst to read...

[nooby]

I am not sure how to write this. My english fail to find the proper nice and friendly tone so don't get me wrong. This is no criticism at all.

Just what I did experience and not judgement at all.

I had hoped this to be an out of the box puppy.

But it fail to run the mp4 file. that other distros does play.

Streaming videos from svt.se that puppy startdust play this mediapup does not play.

it does not play this one either
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/trailersmall.html

Remember this is not criticism, just what did happen.

[walter90]

I just tried this puppy out and mine does play MP4's in Mplayer and Xine. They wouldn't import into several of the other programs though.

I like Mediapup so far.

If I wanted to add Icewm, which one should I use?

Also, I want to change the background of Rox filer windows but i can't seem to find the right place. I have easily changed it in other puppies. Is it even possible?

[enhu]

i tried every possible combination but still didn't work.

here's my cpuinfo

[wuwei]

enhu

at this point there are so many variables, that it is very hard to analyse them from here.

I found out myself that to install Puppy without CD one needs to be VERY precise.
These posts had been helpful to me:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324
http://pupweb.org/wikka/BootParms?show_comments=1
http://www.puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Manual-English05.txt
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46107

You need to play with a lot of variables. Your picture snap.png is probably from Puppy 431, hence the sda, sdb. It is most likely that mediapup with kernel 2.6.21 requires hda and hdb. But I am not sure. So try both, successively.
I don't have mediapup installed, but I have a grub entry for muppy008.4, which also has kernel 2.6.21.7. Here it is

[CatDude]

Hello enhu

Do not take this the wrong way, but i really do not know why you are having so much trouble.

Did you check the md5sum 34584d1dc22c610db645e2a8139cc927
of the ISO after downloading it ?

I have got a Toshiba Portege 7010CT sitting here, that is considerably lower spec than your machine

CPU = Pentium II 300 MHz
RAM = 160 MB

and i have successfully installed Mediapup onto it, without any trouble at all.

In fact both of the following menu.lst entries will successfully boot it up.

[enhu]

i got it correct this time after all the readings and etc..
thanks for all the help catdude and wuwie

this thread help me alot.