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#141 Post by CatDude »

Hello mike
mikeb wrote:For my demo I added a line in help saying that ESC allows access to the advanced grub features...ie the original menu....might be a good idea
Yes, i think that probably would be a good idea.
I will make a new message file then repack and upload both packages in the first post.

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#142 Post by mikeb »

Do you think I should add spooky green glowing eyes to my elephant?

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#143 Post by CatDude »

Hi
mikeb wrote:Do you think I should add spooky green glowing eyes to my elephant?
I think a nice electric blue would work well :lol:

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#144 Post by mikeb »

Actually I think it needs a sexy wink......

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#145 Post by jason.b.c »

mikeb wrote:Actually I think it needs a sexy wink......

mike
or a sexy girl...

:wink:



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#146 Post by mikeb »

This is one horny thread....

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#147 Post by vellowax »

the thread just started

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#148 Post by Aitch »

Catdude, if this is the effect of your suggestion to start a new thread in the Eye Candy section, .....go for it :wink:

Oh, .....just for GRUB message files,....darn....just when it was getting interesting....

I wouldn't know how to compile an Asian Babe anyways..... :lol: :lol:

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#149 Post by mikeb »

Just for you Aitch.....
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#150 Post by CatDude »

Hi

@ mikeb tut tut :roll: :lol:
@ Aitch, i could have posted message files showing scantily clad babes a long time ago,
i just thought it may have been frowned upon, especially by our lady members.

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#151 Post by mikeb »

especially by our lady members
all 3 of them ROFL Image

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#152 Post by CatDude »

Hello mike
mikeb wrote: all 3 of them ROFL Image
Surely there is more than 3, isn't there ?

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#153 Post by mikeb »

I was exaggerating...I know of only one at the moment...

ps Aitch has gone suspiciously quiet

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#154 Post by CatDude »

mikeb wrote:I was exaggerating...I know of only one at the moment...
Mmm looks like a new thread/poll is required. :lol:
mikeb wrote: ps Aitch has gone suspiciously quiet
He has hasn't he, bad boy.

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#155 Post by Aitch »

I'm still around...

Just been visiting a friend, ......with a broken PC

....and got snowed in, and network- less :(

So what do I find when I come back

Lady puppians gettin' the mikeb taken out of them.....tut, tut

Now who's a bad boy, eh?

Happy Xmas, Ladies......
Aitch, i could have posted message files showing scantily clad babes a long time ago,
i just thought it may have been frowned upon, especially by our lady members.

CatDude, I'm glad you didn't, thanks

Aitch :)

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#156 Post by Karl Godt »

I want to thank to point for
Open a terminal in WD1, (right click: Window > Terminal Here)
and enter:
cpio -iv < pupsta1
even cpio --help is saying
Examples:
# Copy files named in name-list to the archive
cpio -o < name-list [> archive]
# Extract files from the archive
cpio -i [< archive]
# Copy files named in name-list to destination-directory
cpio -p destination-directory < name-list
but after learning that 'patch -i' is the same as 'patch <' I always just tried `cpio -iv PIC` which didn't worked .
I want grub to go because the 'extlinux.conf' entries seems not to be overwriteable. Mine extlinux.conf on USB Flash looks like
default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 150

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram debug panic=60 pkeys=de
which seems to boot in debug mode even if I adjust the Kernel command line.
It will take me some days to get it working I think, but thank you very much !

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#157 Post by russoodle »

mikeb wrote:
especially by our lady members
all 3 of them ROFL Image

mike
Hey, c'mon mikeb, there are at least half a dozen of us that i can think of, offhand, probably heaps more though...and i can only imagine what you and our resident reprobate, Aitch, might've asked Santa for this past Christmas :shock:
(j/j, Aitch)

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grub screens

#158 Post by russoodle »

Wow CatDude, you've done a great job on those new grub screens :D

Have to say, i'm inclined to favour #9...love that photo..
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#159 Post by Indy'spup »

I love the graphical interface lol especially the message.pup16

Works like a charm
Thanks!!! :D

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Frugal GFXmenu Boot Loader is awesome!!

#160 Post by Indy'spup »

The graphix menu worked like a charm on a full install, but since trying many puppies and settling on a mijnpup Frugal install I was temporarily baffled with combining gfxmenu to Grub4Dos and the alternative complexity of Grub2 booting a Frugal install..

Thanks to CatDude for all his hard word on this gfxmenu project and the hint from mikeb i got the deal under control and found that Grub2 was totally unnecessary :)

A Frugal Puppy Install (mijnpup in this case)
Run the latest Grub4Dos
placed the message.pup16 gfxmenu to the same location as the grub menu and loader eg /home
then edited the menu, adding the Global comments and the gfxmenu line eg.

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# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v
#
# Start GRUB global section
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
timeout 5
default 0
gfxmenu /message.pup16
# End GRUB global section

# Frugal installed Puppy
title mijnpup 520
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /mijnpup520/initrd.gz
kernel /mijnpup520/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=mijnpup520
initrd /mijnpup520/initrd.gz

# additionals

# title Grub4Dos commandline\n(for experts only)
# commandline

title Reboot computer
reboot

# title Halt computer
# halt

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Frugal puppy + grub4Dos + gfxmenu = awesome!!

Image Ok now what's up with that!!

meanwhile... here it is uploaded instead :)

Thanks :D

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