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ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 08 Nov 2010, 07:21 Post subject:

Hi guys, I went for a drive to the shop to pickup some milk and at the side of the road someone was shooting out 2 mac's G4, well I picked them up and drove home, first I plugged in a monitor, mouse, power-cord. And boom it started booting, It couldn't figure out the keyboard, but then it opened to a login screen and everything was password protected.
Hmmmm so off to google I went, lol with 5 minutes I found a how to and was logged in as a new administrator, man security on mac os X is terrible. Well the unit came with Microsoft Office 2008, some adobe products and a bunch of dvd/cd rippers plus many other apps. lol heck it runs fast, not as fast as puppy but faster than XP. pretty cool, Once I had the new account I was able to manually set the keyboard via the menu.
this is how you easily can make a new administrator ID on a mac.

To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:

1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime. (windows key + s)
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
* mount -uw /
* rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
* shutdown -h now
4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
ttuuxxx

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

So does this mean there's a chance of a 214X/other puppy port to PPC ??

Pretty please Very Happy

I think amigo has been threatening this,

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=256991#256991

....and PowerPup started a project ages ago, but it stalled

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39715

btw, thanks for the instructions, I have an old G4 needing just that!

I plugged it in and got stumped, then got sidetracked and it's got disconnectted/buried, as I needed the workspace

Aitch Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 11 Nov 2010, 09:48 Post subject:

Thanks Aitch also if your getting back into your G4 maybe join this thread, I wouldn't mind expanding on what it came with Smile

,
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61830
Its nice to learn a new system.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 11 Nov 2010, 09:55 Post subject:

Ok guys I've been working on Wary and messing around with the mac.
Now I'm switching back to 2.14X, I like spending a few days on one and switch back to 2.14X since its my main puppy Smile

the others are just hobbies, lol
Anyways before I posted the latest bash so that people could compile with Bacon, anyways this is a better smaller way until I get the bacon addons for geany Smile

This package contains a bacon bin file that will work without bash, plus I include a bacon ide editor for building bacon code, the only thing you have to set in the menu for compile is the location of bacon and that's usr/bin/bacon
enjoy ttuuxxx

ps you can even compile the bacon.bac source in it, that's what on display on the screenshot below.

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 931 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

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Cheers
Peter

taca0 · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 119

Can I change the Xorg version to a 7.4 or more higher version??

I thinks that Classic 2.14X need More option on multimedia players or a newer version of mplayer with full codecs support!

JonT · Posted: Tue 23 Nov 2010, 16:06 Post subject:

peebee, On p. 203 of this thread MinHundHettePerro said:

wdm · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 57 Location: Texas

Hi peebee

Running 214x from a subdirectory reguires different grub parameters than other versions of puppy. In addition to the pages suggested by jonT look at post by vg1 starting around page 5.

You can also try just moving the .sfs files out of the subdirectory to / level but if you have other installs in the same partition this could be a problem.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4768 Location: Kentucky

I was bored last night and got one of my old computers off the shelf....a dualboot with XP and Puppy 3.01.Anyway, did a full install of 2.14x top5 to replace 3.01 and everything is working fine.

-Computer-
Processor : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Memory : 385MB (114MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.00
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 24 Nov 2010 01:33:30 PM PUP
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : (null)
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : CMI8738-SWIEC - C-Media PCI CMI8738-SWIEC

-Processor-
Name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
Family, model, stepping : 5, 8, 12 (AMD K6-2)
Vendor : AuthenticAMD
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 64kb
Frequency : 501.15MHz
BogoMIPS : 1003.16
Byte Order : Little Endian
-Features-
FDIV Bug : no
HLT Bug : no
F00F Bug : no
Coma Bug : no
Has FPU : yes
-Cache-
Cache information not available
-Capabilities-
fpu : Floating Point Unit
vme : Virtual 86 Mode Extension
de : Debug Extensions - I/O breakpoints
pse : Page Size Extensions (4MB pages)
tsc : Time Stamp Counter and RDTSC instruction
msr : Model Specific Registers
mce : Machine Check Architeture
cx8 : CMPXCHG8 instruction
pge : Page Global Enable
mmx : MMX technology
syscall : SYSCALL and SYSEXIT instructions
3dnow : 3DNow! Technology
k6_mtrr : AMD K6 nonstandard MTRRs

gabe · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 85 Location: Minnesota, USA

Oh my gosh, this looks AMAZING! How does this compare to the latest Nov 20 238 5.2 build?

Goal: Reviving a desktop with 256MB RAM for my mom. It has a 2.6Ghz celeron (wow!) and an older ATI graphics card. She wants it easy to use with updated software.

- Can OpenOffice 3.2 or greater be installed?
- Will videos work full screen?
- Most importantly, is it easy to use?

This is the first time I'll be visiting her for ages, and she's been begging me to make her computer work for ages -- I don't have a huge amount of time to tweak once I'm there. That's why I want to make sure of everything in advance. Smile

By the way, ttuuuxxxx, I agree with your "lean but updated" philosophy. And your GUI (look and feel) is MUCH better than the standard Puppy. Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 25 Nov 2010, 05:01 Post subject:

wdm · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 57 Location: Texas

@ gabe

Cur Dog · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 60

ttuuxxx,

I seen in another post that you are using 2.14 for the next Living Water. I thought that I would go ahead and setup your latest 2.14 and see how it worked with my setup. I am having problems with the wireless, (rt61, PCI) is the driver that is being loaded which is correct. I noticed that it is using a beta version in 2.14, and found other pups to be using what I assume to be later revisions. You may have already addressed this issue and if so I guess I overlooked it and please accept my apologies.

Cur Dog

Cur Dog · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 60

hmmm.....duplicate. Sorry

Fishy · Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 195

I tried loading 2.14X-Top5 and am stymied at:

error cannot find puppy on 'idecd' boot media
PUPMODE =1 PDEV=
exited to initial ram disk

/bin/sh:cannot access TTY; job control turned off

I have checked md5sum and booted with pfix-ram.

ps. it was loaded on a dvd if that helps.