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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10505 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks for taking time to care about my problem booting.

Edit. To make a long post very short.
Something did happen when I wrote FATslacko Some error that
is on the bit level because it looked okey so I made some error.

It got solved when I renamed it to slacko-pro and it booted just fine.

old text no reason to read this one. So typical nooby text. Tedius.

I used this code and it gave errors and refused to boot on the other computer too. Standard Slacko do boot on both computers.

title FATSlacko
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /FATslacko/initrd.gz
kernel /FATslacko/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda2 psubdir=FATslacko puppy pfix=ram
initrd /FATslacko/initrd.gz

Edit. After extensive testing I conclude it where my bad.
BS behind the wheels or what it is named.

I must unknowingly had made a typing error in the FATslacko
So that one of the letters belonged to a foreign language or
outside the keymap because it gave error code that it failed to find the keymap.

I tested many many variation on booting and they all failed with the original name I had chosen but as soon as I changed the FAT to slacko-pro then
it booted regardless of if I had pmedia=atahd or scsihd or no pmedia at all.

I also tested this bragging code

title Puppy FATSlacko 5.3.3x (sda1/slacko-pro)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /SLACKO-PRO/initrd.gz
kernel /SLACKO-PRO/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=SLACKO-PRO pfix=fsck
initrd /SLACKO-PRO/initrd.gz

that one booted too. So my bad something in the orignal name of the subdir
went wrong but looked still like FATslacko so not detectable. Now it boots regardless of what I do.

Like I trusted it is not a multi-user OS so he misunderstood why I liked FatDog thinking the reason where that both where fat.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10505 Location: SwedenEurope

I know how annoying it is to derail a thread.
Not sure how to handle this at all. I give links
and see if that is better solution than to continue here.

gcmartin suggested that I would answer his questions
here in this thread. Is that really polite?
Here is the link to his Q:s

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=635894#635894

Here is the new thread that I created.

emil · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 609 Location: Austria

I just installed FATslacko on the office computer for my secretary - applied fixes from micko - all went well and smooth.

Saved me lots of time of configuring!
Only thing I changed was that I installed opera for email (I need IMAP and I like the thread feature of opera very much, because several people work on the same email accounts from different locations).

FAT version should be an alternative official version of any future puppy. Majority of people who want to work with puppy will have to install those additional packages anyway - imho.
thanks
emil

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2081 Location: New Zealand

Fat Slacko running well on my Acer D250 netbook (might be the same model as yours nooby...), but with one exception so far -

If I open a .bmp with mtPaint and then try to save it as a .jpg, there is no .jpg option in the dialog. I don't have a lot of experience with mtPaint but I'm pretty sure I've been able to do this on other puppies.

However, if I take a screenshot with mtPaint I can save it as .jpg without problems.
EDIT:I've just realised that if I take a screenshot and save it as .bmp, then reopen it with mtpaint I it WILL let me convert/save it as .jpg - so there must be something wrong with the other .bmp that mtpaint can open it ok, but not convert it to .jpg. Weird. (The bad .bmp was created with Libreoffice draw)

Also, the prtsc key on this Acer netbook is not working with fatslacko, but does work on my Tosh TE2100 with slacko53. (can't remember if I had added any extra pet on slacko53 to enable it...). Should it be working on Fat Slacko?
EDIT: Ignore this prtsc problem - I just realised the button DOES work, but just not when the mtPaint save dialog suffix choice box was up on screen. Also, it doesn't work when I am just looking at the basic desktop background - only when a window is open.

bwh1969 · Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 127 Location: Allentown, PA

This is the first puppy I have put on my ASUS 1201T and had pretty much most stuff work, i.e. wireless, and have some of the extra stuff. It even works with the Trinity sfs. I still use JWM most of the time due to the fact that the default apps in JWM work with puppy more nicely.. The PAE kernel lets me take advantage of the RAM. I tried Lighthouse 64 bit and fatdog but LHP takes so much longer to load, and fatdog at the time had very limited packages.

I had some acpi scripts that I found somewhere for another puppy so most of my Fn keys work.

I have and am still a kubuntu fan; however, my battery kicks much more quickly when running that... more processor with more eye candy = less runtime.

Thanks for the hard work with this.. It is truly a breeze to use and a pleasure to use.

bwh1969 · Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 127 Location: Allentown, PA

I was trying to do a remaster to shrink my overall frugal setup, but run into an issue I never ran into with remastering a puppy:

It skips the whole squashing of my os, It puts /root and /etc in /tmp, and then just creates an iso with that. Weird. It is not including any files from /

So the whole iso is unusable. Why is it not including and squashing my base system?

soundNICK · Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 126

soundNICK · Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 126

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7546 Location: qld

soundNICK

try the PPM patch which affects all Slacko 533 builds form the Slacko bug reports thread.

soundNICK · Joined: 13 Oct 2010 Posts: 126

tlchost · Posted: Mon 30 Jul 2012, 20:57 Post subject: 533 vs fatslacko

Is there a url that compares Fat Slacko and 533?

Both Fat Slacko and 533 both recognize my 2 TB drive and 16 gigs of memory...which is a lot better than so manym of the puppies.

Thanks....it's reallyu nice to use the hardware I own.

Thom

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2408 Location: near here

Are the Qt libraries used for Fat Slacko available as a Pet for thinner dogs?

starhawk · Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 17:30 Post subject:

Hmmm... slight problem with updated drivers.

I haven't installed the MESA fix yet so that may be the cause.

Installing the proper ATi driver for my gfx card (Dell ATi X600) does all sorts of weird things to the desktop. The window borders are now yellow and the menu button is gone from the tray.

Removing said driver, however, breaks USB support.

Oh well, I know by now very well how to reinstall Wink

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3613 Location: Earth

Hi @Starhawk.

Did this occur from a CD/DVD boot? If so, would you boot to Opening splash, hit F2 and do

starhawk · Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 21:05 Post subject:

gcmartin, this had happened after already installing it.

I wiped it away with a fresh install -- nothing I'm a stranger to. Just curious as to what might have caused it, is all.

...although, the breaks-stuff-on-removal bit is a definitely-newb-unfriendly bug...