View the contents of your Pup001 File from Windows

[rarsa]

I have just added a section to the Wikka HOW-TO

[Rich]

Nice one......thanks for that.
it's one of those questions that crops up periodically.

Big Thumbsup for including the link to the explore2fs package too.

I've been trawling through the Wiki tonight........it's getting very comprehensive.

[papaschtroumpf]

it's on my USB drive "outside" of the pup0001, just in case.

[d4ndy]

I went looking for this entry. Looks like it's moved to http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Pup001Files.

[Lobster]

isn't this it?
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SeePup001FromWindows

[rarsa]

Thank you,

I was pointing to the HowTo page that no longer exists. So I don't even know now which one is the page I created. But the page pointed to by Lobster seems to have the correct info.

I've updated my link.

[Weeble]

This discussion isn't far from my area of interest, so I thought I'd tie in here rather than start a new topic.

I'd like to burn the contents of my PUP001 to CD, including the "invisible" dot-files and directories, such as ".mozilla". However, I cannot find a way either with Graveman or K3B (after mounting PUP001 from SimplyMEPIS) which will list the dot-files/directories so that I can include them in my compilation.

Can this be done directly (such as using CDRecord, in which case I'd appreciate somebody telling me what the command line would be) or do I need to do something like create a TAR file of PUP001 and burn that to CD?

Thanks for the help!

[GuestToo]

if your cdrw is /dev/hdc, something like this might work:

mkisofs -R /root/ | cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc -

NOTE: there must be a - at the end of the line

you can add other cdrecord options, like:

-tao speed=2 -data -overburn fs=16m driveropts=burnfree -eject

i'm not sure if the path should be /root/ or /root ... normally /root/ would include all files including hidden files, but /root/* would invoke globbing, which would not include hidden files ... but mkisofs might work differently ... read the mkisofs man page, and maybe experiment with a cdrw

you can burn a multisession cd by including the -tao -multi cdrecord options ... you would have to get multisession information from a multisession cd using the cdrecord -msinfo option to write another session

you can get around problems with file names by tar or tgz or tbz2'ing /root/ first and burning the tar file instead of burning the individual files as a file system

[GuestToo]

you might like to look at dar - http://dar.linux.free.fr/

[Weeble]

I looked at the site, and it's only available there in source code form; they say go to your distro's site for binaries. I checked, and didn't see DAR in the DotPup collection. Is there some other distro's DAR that will install OK in a Puppy LiveCD environment?

Failing that, (now that I'm looking at backup programs), how are bkup2cd and cdtar, which are on the LiveCD? (I'm using 1.0.8r1)

Thanks again!

[GuestToo]

this static version should work in Puppy (i have not tried it)
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/dar-static

the executable is over 2 megs, though you can compress it using upx to about 830k

docs:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dar-docs

they are about 5 megs uncompressed

you can use my undeb utiity to unzip the deb files

or i can make a package ... but we are running out of space on this forum ... a forum really shouldn't be used as a substitute for a file server

i just noticed Firefox 2's spell checker is working

[MU]

GuestToo, if you upload it here, I can mirror it, then you can remove it again.
Or upload to a temporary hoster and send me a pm that it is ready to mirror.
http://yourfilehost.com/
Mark

[GuestToo]

i thought that if you are smart enough to use dar, you probably are smart enough to unzip a deb

but maybe dar would be a useful package for Puppy