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[rcrd]

Hi,

Thank you very much sigmargl!

This is my very first post. I've using puppy as my main OS for years now, but only Archpup has made come out of the shell and join the forum. Puppy and Arch... unbelieveable!! I'm really enjoying it. Thanks a lot for the excellent work.

One thing, urxvt didn't display or accepted special characters (accented characters (geany did), I wanted to write in Spanish in vim), so I had to generate new locale and add it to etc/profile. I don't know if that was the right thing to do, but it is working fine now.

I haven't manage to get the savefile working, but I'm enjoying myself remastering.

Thanks for the excellent work

[simargl]

Hi rcrd,
Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you like ArchPup . For problem with save file please I will
need some more information, is it on hard disk or usb and during boot process do you
see message like loading personal save file. If not try to select root of your partition when
making savefile, it will be created in folder archpup.

[rcrd]

Thanks for your help simargl

At the moment I have a frugal install of Archpup on HDD, Now, I have just created a savefile in root. I checked that the filesave was created, and it was, but when I rebooted, the boot process didn't find it, and then I checked but the directory Archpup and the savefile weren't there anymore.

In version 1204 I got kernel panic when creating a savefile in USB and HDD.

Thanks

[rameshiyer]

I also have same problem. No save file after rebooting in frugal install. Another thing, my USB drive was also not detected.

[mavrothal]

rameshiyer, rcrd, aand other with savefile problems try this:
On your first boot make your savefile either from the menu or typing "makepfile.sh" in the terminal.
Make sure you make the savefile it in a physical device partition and not in /root

Verify that your savefile is where it suppose to be. ie open Thunar and navigate to the mewly created savefile.
If not there, run again, preferably with the terminal command and look for errors.
If you can not make the savefile in a physical partition, look at the pup-volume-monitor, udev and kernel error logs for the root of the problem.

If the save file is OK, download archsnap.tar.gz
Open a terminal in the directory you downloaded archsnap.tar.gz and type

[simargl]

Can you, after creating save file, run this command

[rcrd]

mavrothal, thanks for your advice. I followed your instructions and created the file in sda3 partition, where my archpup-1212 resides, and the file exists. But when I reboot, it is not picked up.
The I saw simargl post (thanks for the tip) and after creating the savefile all my partitions get mounted, including sda3, where the filesave is. I rebooted and the savefile doesn't get picked up. I decide to run blkid -o list just after the reboot, before doing anything else and I see sda3 (where archpup-1212 and /archpup/savefile reside) is not mounted automatically. So I guess the file is not read because the partition is not mounted at boot time.
So, I decide to boot puppy 528, which also resides on sda3, and I see that puppy 528 mounts sda3 automatically.
Why is archpup not mounting sda3 at boot time? Do I need to include the mount code in .start?
Also, and this is most peculiar, after creating the savefile I decide to change the wallpaper, I go to /usr/share/backgrounds and select a different image I put there when I remastered the original archpup. The wallpaper doesn't change and the file disappear from /usr/share/backgrounds, I choose another image and the same thing happens, eventually all my image files disappear.
I am going to try with the original livecd just in case something went wrong when remastering.

Thanks a lot for your help

[simargl]

[rcrd]

These are my lines in the menu.lst

[oui]

Hi

Try better don't to use some save file at all!

It is very easy to remaster your archpup-1212.sfs exact as you need to work or play as comfortable as possible! after that, you have an high performance system with great advantages!

the starting level of your system is always in /initrd/pup_ro2 ! This is the picture of the content of your actual archpup-1212.sfs.

open thunar and test in /root if you see the hidden files, then open with thunar you partition sda2. after that:

copy it on the hard disk easily in a new subdir /mnt/sda2/archpup1212/install

[oui]

Hi simargl

Special thank for the superb application «scrot»! Do you know if it would be possible to shrink (all) pictures of a pictures directory instead to make screen shots?

rgds

[darkcity]

I'm liking Archpup's minimal approach and looking forward to trying pacman.

I've got stuck at the setting up wireless. I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction. I need to setup this up before I can connect to the net.

I've loaded the Frisbee sfs, but no wireless is detected, see pic.

I've tried modprobe b43 but no luck with Frisbee or Pwireless 2. I wonder if a later version of Frisbee is needed.

my card is pci broadcom BCM4318

here's some outputs-

[stifiling]

@darkcity

I was never able to get frisbee working correctly. the included pwireless2 seems to work fine though...i myself though am using wicd on 1204.

but for that wireless issue u're having, i'm thinking u're missing the firmware. i resolved it by copying out of another current pup...like precise or saluki the folder /lib/firmware to /lib/firmware on archpup...after rebooting and 'modprobe b43' it's working for me.

[mavrothal]

[oui]

hi darkcity

archpup is so much different as other Puplets as that, what we urgently need, would be a good Wiki page with all the hints from the 2 threads as far as always convenient for Archpup-12.12