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[willem1940NLD]

Found out my problems were/are due to Hardware, think I need a new computer.

Have 525 kind of working for the time being, after low level format of harddisk.

Do not see IRC helpchat .... is it no more standard?

[MinHundHettePerro]

Hello !

Took your latest offering, 525, for a spin ....

I lost internet connection quite a few times, something which never occured before . Had to re-configure, both with network wizard and sns. And, I'm on wired broadband internet through my router, here - just never happened before in any other puppy.

Hope you'll find a solution, just wanted to report.

Fwiw/hth /
MHHP

[James C]

[bigpup]

[James C]

[PaulBx1]

[James C]

[James C]

Other than the Grub difficulty, everything working ootb.Internet,sound and display all good on initial boot.

VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Multimedia audio controller : Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Communication controller : Agere Systems LT WinModem
Ethernet controller : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

[karm2865]

had the same problem.

just because i was out of things to try I decided to give up on GRUB boot-loader, and tried Grub4Dos instead no ideal why a DOS loader would work but had nothing to lose by trying.

I managed to get Grub4Dos to work first try no problem why?
No ideal why
see
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66573

[Luluc]

Just a small, but annoying glitch for me.

I upgraded it this way:

- Backed up my /root directory in a tar ball.
- Created a new FAT32 partition.
- Created a brand new Puppy 525 frugal installation.
- Booted the new Puppy.
- Renamed /root to something else.
- Restored my old root from the tar ball.
- Rebooted.

It works. I have a very new and clean Puppy, and most of my configuration choices were preserved. I just have to install programs all over again. Fine, because I went overboard the last time and installed too much, the save file got too big etc.

But when I open the package manager, the installed programs pane indicates the presence of all my old programs, from the old installation. They are not there, they are not installed. If I reinstall them, the corresponding entry is duplicated. So I am "uninstalling" them before reinstalling them, but that's really annoying. I can only uninstall one package at a time, and each time takes considerably long.

I don't think those ghost packages should be there. I don't think they should be carried across two different systems as a stowaway in the /root directory.

[Sage]

[bigpup]

[01micko]

Luluc

2 questions

Why FAT? (ok, that's your choice, puppy is about choice)

Why shouldn't certain system config files be stored in /root?

There are many of them there, all your browser bookmarks in ~/.mozilla (or whatever), all package information is stored in ~/.packages, lots of app configurations are in ~/.config, you will also find jwm settings, mtpaint, the list can go on.... and this is not unique to lucid puppy. All distros use $HOME or /etc (depending on how compiled) for config files, which in Puppy's case is root. BTW, configs in $HOME usually override configs in /etc.

You probably did other unforeseen damage to /root/.packages. I would suggest going in there and replacing the folder /root/.packages/builtin_files with the original off the CD, also all the Packages_puppy-[whatever] files will be old versions, need to be replaced with originals OR update PPM (I would use the originals), also you can delete the "ghost" packages which you introduced, and also edit the user-installed-packages file eliminating the ghost entries.

You realise you may have other problems with this method you used.

HTH

[Luluc]

[Terryphi]