Lighthouse Pup 5.00 G 185M

[tazoc]

Hi Jim,
Thanks for testing 5.00 F. After the boot failed did you happen to run click-to-verify, or boot from the new CD? Do you recall if a specific error was displayed when the boot failed?

It would be nice if I could reproduce that and fix it. Of course upgrading a pupsave is not perfect but has worked OK here so far. Will keep testing and trying to improve...
-TazOC

[Jim1911]

Hi Jim,
Thanks for testing 5.00 F. After the boot failed did you happen to run click-to-verify, or boot from the new CD? Do you recall if a specific error was displayed when the boot failed? -TazOC

It went to a prompt after trying to execute xwin, xorgwizard would run, and I selected the nv driver, however it would just return to a prompt, same thing with choose option, so I gave up and rebooted. Apparently, the problem is with the driver that was in the 5.00 D save file. I have no problem creating a new save file since my important info is at mnt/home, nothing critical in the save file.

I always manually install to a new subdirectory and boot using grub, never bother with burning and booting from a CD. Since, everything appears to be working with a new save file, I have no reason to suspect a bad download, so I haven't run click-to-verify.

Cheers,
Jim

[Sage]

What version of LHP or Puppy are you in and is that the 5.00 F ISO? By access base .iso, do you mean mounting the ISO from within a file manager?

This is when trying to d/l 5.00F base .iso. I just get a screenful of code. The d/l is never there - it never triggers. It only happens with the .iso, the delta d/l starts up nicely.
I've had this before, quite often with very new uploads. I can usually choose another mirror and get the same d/l to start normally. Either something to do with server overload or local overload of my system?? There's probably a very simple explanation, but I don't know it.

[pudgypup]

I always manually install to a new subdirectory and boot using grub, never bother with burning and booting from a CD. Since, everything appears to be working with a new save file, I have no reason to suspect a bad download, so I haven't run click-to-verify.

Cheers,
Jim

Hi Jim. Can you point to a tutorial on this? Thanks
Rick

[Barburo]

Hi TazOC,
Moving the .sfs files from the sub-dir to /mnt/home fixed KDE not loading.
I will continue testing 5F.
B.

[Barburo]

@pudgypup
I don't burn a CD from the downloaded .iso file. To try a new Puppy or a new version of an existing Puppy, I create in /mnt/home a new folder for the Puppy I want to try.

I download the .iso in Puppy, or create a new .iso by downloading the xdelta3 and processing it against the previous .iso. Lighthouse makes this very simple and easy to do for for both .iso and .sfs files. Detailed instructions are on TazOC's web site.

I open the new .iso in a Puppy session by clicking on it, and I copy the vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and .sfs files to the new directory. All Lighthouse .iso's have a "check md5 sum" executable on the .iso. Click on it to verify the files on the .iso which is fast and easy.

I create an entry for the new Puppy in my menu.lst file by copying an existing entry and just changing the sub-dir name and title. Save and reboot, and the new puppy will be shown on the grub menu next time you boot.

On booting to the grub menu, press "e" to edit the grub entry and then "e" to edit the kernel line. For first time boot you specify pfix=ram and whatever you need for testing (like debug or acpi=off). Press enter to save the changes and press "b" to boot using your temporary changes.

On exit from first boot create the pup-save file in the new sub directory (It defaults to this) and your new Puppy will be self-contained.

I can post or PM you detailed instructions about how I setup and configure my computers hard disks using gparted and install-grub if you need them.
B.

[nickdobrinich]

Yes, I follow the same procedure.
I also copy over the click-to-verify-lhp file so I can check them later if there is a problem.

Also, if you copy a recent spupsave.2fs file to that new directory and tell Lighthouse where it is (eg, psubdir=lhp500), Lighthouse will update it as well on the first boot and you will have everything loaded and configured as in that recent version. Very convenient.

Here is what my menu.lst entry for Lighthouse looks like:
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Lighthouse Pup 5.0F frugal (on /dev/sda8/lhp500)
rootnoverify (hd0,7)
kernel /lhp500/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda8 psubdir=lhp500 xforcevesa nomodeset
initrd /lhp500/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

[neurino]

I'm trying this nice nice puplet,

I tried the 3D-demo and got a sloow 16FPS

After isntalling ATI Catalyst pet I notice a valuable graphic speed-up, for example when passing cursor above WBar, but the 3D-Demo does not start anymore!

Calling /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/3ddemo simply execute with no sign of life.

Any advice?

P.S.: too, too many icons, for example / folders... how do I reset them?

[tazoc]

Hi neurino,
Paste this into a terminal:

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/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/antinspect -fps

To reset the icons in ROX-Filer, rename /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons and restart X. Still too many? Rename /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons then restart X. Icon themes can be changed in ROX | Options | Types | Icon Theme.

In the / (top level) folder of ROX you can delete the symlinks (small arrow in the icon) Help and wine-drive_c and maybe some of the others if you don't use them. Just don't delete the ones without an arrow on the icon or something will break.
-TazOC

[Barburo]

Ran tkhearts from a terminal and got this:

bash-4.1# tkhearts-0.80.sh
Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "BACKGROUND"
Error in startup script: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "BACKGROUND"
(database entry for "-background" in widget ".")
invoked from within
"load /usr/lib/tk8.5/../libtk8.5.so Tk"
("package ifneeded Tk 8.5" script)
invoked from within
"package require Tk"
(file "/usr/local/bin/tkhearts-0.80.sh" line 22)
<root> ~
bash-4.1#

B.

[Sage]

Still unable to d/l the base .iso, just get a page of code. What's up? Everybody else's .iso d/l normally.

[neurino]

Hi neurino,
Paste this into a terminal:

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/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/antinspect -fps

To reset the icons in ROX-Filer, rename /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/ROX-Filer/globicons and restart X. Still too many? Rename /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/globicons then restart X. Icon themes can be changed in ROX | Options | Types | Icon Theme.

In the / (top level) folder of ROX you can delete the symlinks (small arrow in the icon) Help and wine-drive_c and maybe some of the others if you don't use them. Just don't delete the ones without an arrow on the icon or something will break.
-TazOC

Thanks TazOC, I'll try.

And what about 3D-demo not working?
Is it normal after installing API Catalyst pet

[Sage]

Maybe there's another d/l site?

[Jim1911]

Maybe there's another d/l site?

Have you tried uget? Right click on Lighthouse-5.00F.iso link, copy link location, start uget, then Download/New, select download location.

[tazoc]

Maybe there's another d/l site?

I don't have any mirrors at this time. Have you tried right-clicking | 'Save As' in a browser or using wget (CL) or Axel/Uget in the Internet Menu? Preferably save it outside of the Puppy file system, such as /mnt/home where there is enough space, especially with the large Mariner ISO.

When updating with Xdelta, there must also be sufficient drive space for the original, delta and new files, preferably located somewhere in '/mnt/home' or on another partition.

Please let us know the name of the file you're trying to d/l and what Puppy / puplet version you're currently using. Sometimes booting with puppy pfix=ram is a good idea when something isn't working right.

Thanks,
TazOC

[tazoc]

[Edit:] LHP_sys_info-0.2 moved here
@neurino,
I've been running with the ATI Catalyst PET and 3D-Demo works fine.

@Barburo, neurino and Sage,
I haven't been able to reproduce the behavior you described. If I was at your computer there are several items I would take a look at. Today I wrote a system information script sys-info and made a small PET you can install to gather some clues. Maybe it will help you figure it out. If not, it archives the report with gzip in /tmp/root/ so you can attach it to your next post.

It should work on any Puppy-based system, but I've only tested it on LHP 5.00 F. Will try others later. [Edit:] new version, see link at top of this post--now tested on Lucid Puppy, Fatdog64, LHP and Puppy 4.3.1.

-TazOC

[Sage]

I am using Mint on the big machine for d/l s.
Finally got it using a combo of location (thanks Jim) and wget (thanks 't'). Don't usually use the CLI for d/l, not necessary!
Thanks folks!
But why?!

[Brown Mouse]

I've just done frugal install of Lighthouse 5.00F by extracting the files from the .iso to a folder.Everything went fine until I came to make a save file at first shutdown and all I see is a screen full of coloured bars/letters and figures.Tried several attempts without any luck.
Any ideas why?

[tazoc]

I've just done frugal install of Lighthouse 5.00F by extracting the files from the .iso to a folder.Everything went fine until I came to make a save file at first shutdown and all I see is a screen full of coloured bars/letters and figures.Tried several attempts without any luck.
Any ideas why?

Hi Brown Mouse,
I've not seen that happen, but it sounds like something related to display driver or KMS. If you're using GRUB, add xforcevesa nomodeset to your kernel line. You might try a different selection in xorgwizard or install the LHP_sys-info pet in my last post and use it to attach sys-info-__.tgz to a post so I can study it.
-TazOC

[alfa and omega]

Dear Tazoc,
I downloaded the ISO image of the Lighthouse 500 Mariner and ask for your help.
This ISO model I am not able to burn to CD using K3b, Nero, CDXburner they do not recognize this type of image (iso.ob!). Please help me to solve this problem, I love your system. He's beautiful and one of the best I know.
Thanks for your help!

God bless you.

Alfa and omega from brazil!