devx and kernel src on Puppy 5.2.8 full HD

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Hotdog
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devx and kernel src on Puppy 5.2.8 full HD

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This How-To explains how I got the devx working properly with Puppy 5.2.8 in a full HD installation. Maybe you will not waste as much time as I did getting this to work.

The 5.2.8 devx in Quick Pet is gone. It was found at http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci_devx_528.sfs. The devx sfs file was downloaded to the “/
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#2 Post by chrome307 »

Great tutorial and thank you for sharing :)

Just a quick question, why do you use this 'source' file .....

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... atched.sfs

and not this?

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... atched.sfs

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Choice of sfs files

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Chrome307,

Thanks for the comment. The "L4" of the kernel source refers to the 5.2.8-004 version (my assumption), which I do not have. That was also my reasoning in the choice of the devx.

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