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#381 Post by nooby »

d4p wrote:No problem, just change (0xff) to (hd32)

Grub4dos is still the best bootmanager.
It support NTFS, VFAT, Ext2/3 & CDFS.
So what to use for Solus?
http://solusos.com/
suppose I download SolusOS-DEV-063.iso

title SolusOS using iso boot for SolusOS-DEV-063.iso
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /SolusOS-DEV-063.iso
map --heads=0 --sectors-per-track=0 /SolusOS-DEV-063.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
kernel /live/vmlinuz live-media-path=/live iso-scan/filename=/SolusOS-DEV-063.iso quiet splash union=aufs
initrd /live/initrd.lz

I tested four different codes and one of the error was that

Error 60 File must be in one contiguos file area
From poor memory.
The other error where something I failed to know what it says well enough ti remember it.

So would be nice if you tell us how to get a contigious file area or what code you use.

Solus being debian maybe one can learn from Sickgut how he boot PussyLinux? What other Debian does boot on NTFS?

I have to travel today so I can only read your answers late afternoon local time.
Hope somebody give code for solus
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Alhumaidy
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God Damn Windows!

#382 Post by Alhumaidy »

Hi, everybody!
This is my first post-reply since joined the forum and one month of using Puppy Lucid 5.2.8. Yesterday, was a bad day by all means of the word. A virus appeared from no where when I was using a trusted WindowsXPSP3 application and ruined my world. I swore to use Puppy from now on and if I could have time, I will make a distro called: "God Damn Windows".

So, welcome to open world! open source! this is the real life of freedom and happiness!

CHEERS!!!

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kooliepup
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#383 Post by kooliepup »

"God Damn Windows"

Love it!

Go commercial with it and make heaps.
There's no place like 127.0.0.1

cthisbear
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#384 Post by cthisbear »

Alhumaidy:

Welcome to puppy.

Many of these things can be fixed easily enough with Hiren's and the
Falcon boot cds...and of course Puppy.

Have a look at my How To Fix Windows pages.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58305

Hitman Pro is good...allows a one time free fix.

Use Majorgeeks 4 downloads....never >> cnet.

http://majorgeeks.com/

Keep away from Nortons, Mcafee etc.

Chris.

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whattos ?

#385 Post by einar »

Tried this wattos5 in virtualbox and it felt speedy. any comments ?

lightweight os with ubuntu repo and synaptics package manager :)

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wattos

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#386 Post by linuxbear »

Did someone ask about a small version of puppy that they could customize? Am I going slack in the head here? I know I saw it somewheres, so my response lands here:

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Barebones

PupNGo with GUI is only about 8 Mb... but I haven't tried it yet

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51478

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#387 Post by James C »

Playing with Semplice....... kinda dark looking , isn't it?
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#388 Post by James C »

A new one I'm testing..... :lol:
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#389 Post by nooby »

A new kind of linux. Totally dominating the market soon :) Cost a fortune too!
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#390 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Vector Linux Light 7.0 rc1 to my eeepc701 using my usb cd/dvd drive.
It's got the gslapt package manager which works well for installing applications and doing updates.
It's a tight fit on the 4gb hard drive which only has 257mb free now.
It's working well so far.
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#391 Post by Colonel Panic »

Thanks for the heads up Bill. I haven't been following the Vector forum lately and so didn't know there was an rc version of Vector 7 Light. I may well head over and take a look.

Cheers,

CP .
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.

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#392 Post by rjbrewer »

Installed Win 8 consumer preview to a spare drive.
Left room for a Puppy and did a full install of Wary.
Used grub legacy (mbr).
No problems booting either o.s.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#393 Post by nubc »

@rjbrewer
How large a partition was necessary to install Win 8 preview?

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#394 Post by James C »

nubc wrote:@rjbrewer
How large a partition was necessary to install Win 8 preview?
Not rjbrewer but my Windows 8 install (32 bit) took about 15 Gb for the base install. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 832#608832

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#395 Post by rjbrewer »

nubc wrote:@rjbrewer
How large a partition was necessary to install Win 8 preview?
Nothing less than 16 Gb would work for me.
It installed ok to my pc but wouldn't work on the laptop.
It's easiest if you already have a Win 7 box.
It isn't supported by any of my wireless cards so far.
Just playing around a bit, seeing it's free till next January?

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
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#396 Post by Colonel Panic »

I recently downloaded Mint 12 LXDE and have been using it this morning. It doesn't seem any heavier on system resources than 11 LXDE was, i.e. it runs (just) in 512 MB of RAM, and it works well.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.

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#397 Post by d4p »

""There is no post at this date in that thread
It Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2011, 23:17, how to do it.""
""Error 60 File must be in one contiguos file area
From poor memory.""

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... a5fe8481d1

""While when most of us talk about using frugal install we talk about using the HD that is formatted in ntfs and having the menu.lst on same partition""

It works fine on both (100% NTFS) External&Internal HDD
title SolusOS 1.2b 1:01/0:48
root (hd0,1)
kernel /live/vmlinuz boot=live config live-media-path=/live quiet splash union=aufs --
initrd /live/initrd.lz

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#398 Post by Colonel Panic »

I'm using Bloathi (an expanded version of Bodhi, which needs a DVD to burn to and load) at the moment, live from a public computer as my own won*t boot live DVDs. If you like Bodhi (and it seems a lot of people do), then Bloathi is more of the same, including more Enlightenment themes. The only problem so far is that I*ve been unable to set up my keyboard correctly, with interesting results when I try to input such things as brackets, at symbols etc.
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#399 Post by linuxbear »

Colonel Panic wrote:IThe only problem so far is that I*ve been unable to set up my keyboard correctly, with interesting results when I try to input such things as brackets, at symbols etc.
I have had no issues with Bodhi loaded on an old Acer laptop and an oldish HP pavilion desktop. There's a nasty-gram which comes up on boot, but it vanishes when enter is pushed and I have not bothered to fix it yet. There is also another nasty-gram which shows up during power down, but of course it goes away when the machine shuts down. Other than that, Bodhi is extremely fast on my old lappie and I love the E17 environment.

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#400 Post by James C »

Running the latest openSUSE testing .....looks pretty good if you have fairly new hardware.
Decided to use KDE 4 since I can't stand Gnome 3 ..... :lol:
linux@linux:~> uname -r
3.2.0-2-default
linux@linux:~>
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