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Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 814 Location: Toronto

1) First, you will need to install 01micko's pet2sfs script.

2) Create a sfs folder inside any linux partition or...
if you are running a frugal install , you can also create the folder the linux filesystem. eg. the /root or /tmp folder.
- I must elaborate on this cause it's important. For example, I am running Puppy (frugal install) on sda1 which is a ntfs filesystem. If I create, a folder named /mnt/sda1/sfs, the permissions will get messed up because I created the sfs folder in the ntfs partition; it doesn't handle permissions the same way a linux partition does.
- to do this properly on a frugal install, what I usually do is create a /tmp/sfs folder.

3) copy all of the pets which you want to combine into the sfs folder you've created.

4) open up the terminal and change to the sfs folder you've created. For my example, I will use the /tmp/sfs folder. Enter the following code

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2399 Location: UK

Also, there is this, which can create an SFS or PET of combined PET files:

"This script combines your .PETs into a single .PET or .SFS file.
You will be asked to create a .PET file first, then a .SFS file
if no .PET was created. This script takes one argument - the
directory containing the .PETs that you want to combine into
a single package."

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4688

Can someone post this on a puppy site so that we don't keep repeating:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53241
It contains all info for ISO, sfs and pets using GUI tools only

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6817 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

RedQuine · Joined: 20 Mar 2015 Posts: 1

Thanks for the clear instructions, Aitch. That not only worked a treat, it was kind of fun as well. Smile

One tiny correction, though: the pet2sfs script is at http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/Common-apps/

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 1618 Location: UK

Another method that I sometimes use is to rename the pet with a .tgz suffix and open (archiver) that tar file, select all and copy to a temp work folder ... repeating for each pet so that they're all mixed in together. And then run mksquashfs to create a sfs of that directory/folder tree.

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 1366 Location: Germany

Hi.

PaDS 1.0.4

Just put .pet, .deb and .txz files into a directory. Right-click the directory and choose Combine to SFS / Merge to SFS.

It can handle the i386-linux-gnu directory / symbolic link issue (like in multiarch distros like Ubuntu). Next version can handle also the x86_64-linux-gnu directory / symbolic link issue (like in multiarch 64bit distros like Ubuntu).

I think this is currently the most comfortable way to create SFS Modules from multiple .pet, .deb and .txz files.

slavvo67 · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 1128 Location: The other Mr. 305

PADS works quite well!! I'm sure Technosaurus' option is good, as well.

Best,

Slavvo67

michaellowe · Joined: 17 Dec 2011 Posts: 69 Location: The Garden