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LateAdopter
Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 285 Location: Reading UK
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Posted: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 05:55 Post subject:
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Hello jamesbond
Quote: | - Default dpi is now set to 96, font size reduced from 12 to 10 to maintain similar appearance to previous versions |
My monitor is 100 dpi and the first thing I do, when installing a puppy, is to set 96 dpi because I want the larger fonts. So I would need to change the font size back to 12.
Currently I use FD 620 and Pemasu's UPUP Precise 3.7.2 which are both on the old system. So I haven't had to work out how to do it yet.
Quote: | - Important multisession and usb-flash fix for certain scenarios where deleted files re-appear or saved files appears missing. |
Just for info:- I have a similar, but probably unrelated, issue with DVD-RAM with write protection set. The write protection is enforced by the optical drive and operating systems do not seem to understand.
If I mount a disk which has write protect set and delete some files using Rox filer, they disappear from the window and there is no error message, but the files have not been deleted.
I just have to make sure I know what state the disk is in before I do anything.
I don't need an update to Fatdog64 at the moment but I look forward to one with kernel 3.11 with Radeon power management. But only when it suits you.
Thank you for your work on Fatdog
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Jim1911
Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2460 Location: Texas, USA
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Posted: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 10:49 Post subject:
Request for update to Bibletime 2.9.2 |
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Hi kirk and jamesbond,
The recent update of Bibletime 2.9.2 has fixed numerous bugs. Please consider an update package to Bibletime 2.9.2 for Fatdog.
Thanks,
Jim
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 16:23 Post subject:
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JamesBond wrote: | ... Let me know if anyone is interested. | Your "Base2RAM=expand" seem of great interest to me. Does this feature work in Live media mode AND does it mean that the running system will not need to expand modules from the SFS in system operation? Further, will the Remaster run faster with this feature enabled?
FATDOG is so fast now, this seemingly would be hard to measure, but, yet, worthwhile.
Interested.
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Ray MK

Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 773 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri 26 Jul 2013, 03:43 Post subject:
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Hi jamesbond
Very interested - although my understanding of the many new features and updates is limited, what I do know, is that Fatdog64 in its latest guise boots faster and runs much better than any other OS that’s been on the E732 laptop.
(A short while ago my grand daughter cracked the laptop screen, (huge fester) so I was using an older LCD monitor, which a few days ago just stopped working (mutter). Fortunately, I’ve acquired a slightly newer Asus moniter, so back using the E732/FD64 again).
So an improved FD64 is of much interest to me and I suspect many other happy users. Many thanks to you and kirk for all that you do - much appreciated. Best regards - Ray
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Fri 26 Jul 2013, 04:35 Post subject:
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Always interested in Fatdog and it's still my preferred OS. I have been testing many distro's lately and I keep returning to FD.
None of the rest are anywhere near as responsive.
Thanks Kirk and James.
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irishrm

Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 243
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Posted: Fri 26 Jul 2013, 05:47 Post subject:
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Looking forward to Fatdog_next.
irishrm.
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Snail
Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 334
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Posted: Fri 26 Jul 2013, 08:56 Post subject:
Problem Unmounting SD Card Subject description: Seems to be a bug. easily worked around. |
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I inserted an SD card, non-bootable, formatted FAT32 in my laptop and booted into Fatdog. Everything worked fine, until it came to un-mounting. Clicking the little green box to unmount failed to unmount the card. Instead a Rox window for the root of the card opened. This occurred several times. Selecting "Un-mount" from the right-click menu worked fine. I can't find any previous discussion of this.
Possibly because it was inserted before booting, the SD card icon (A very nice icon it is too), is located first. There is not enough space for the lengthy name, mmc etc etc, so it runs into and is possibly overwritten by the first HD name, sda1.
For noobish questions, is there a more appropriate part of the forum to post into? I don't want to clutter this one up.
Environment: Lenovo T400 with Fatdog621 installed to Win7 partition, sda2. SanDisk SDHC 8GB C4 Card.
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Fri 26 Jul 2013, 17:45 Post subject:
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Snail have you tried moving the drive icon to another location on the desktop then click on the green dot. I assume you clicked on the drive icon earlier to mount it.
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Snail
Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 334
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Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 14:46 Post subject:
Desktop drive icon behaviour Subject description: Drive Icons: One down another to go |
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Hi Smokey,
You are right. The problem of the green box on the SD card icon failing to unmount the card, opening a Rox window instead, only seems to occur when the icon is loaded in the left bottom corner of the desktop. It is placed there when the card (VFAT 8G) is inserted before bootup. It will also go there when it is reinserted after boot, since there is a gap for it to go into. In both cases unmount fails. So it's not the booting causing the problem. It also happens with a couple of 2G VFAT Cards. Otherwise, everything seems to work OK and the drive mounter can unmount them.
I notice that there is a "Safely remove" option for USB sticks in the drive mounter. Why is this needed? It is not there for SD cards.
A strange problem. One out of 5 USB sticks I inserted does not produce a desktop icon at all when inserted. It can be seen in /mnt and the drive mounter can see it and safely remove, mount and unmount it. It's behaviour is normal in Win7 (Slow as heck) and it also seems to work entirely normally in Fatdog, except for this one quirk! It's a 4G Lexar. The others are 2G and 0.5G. All are VFAT.
By the way, I think that the drive icons are a terrific user aid. Are they unique to Puppies? The only other distros I've used didn't have anything like them but that's about 4 years ago.
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chapchap70
Joined: 18 Nov 2010 Posts: 205 Location: The Island Of Long (NY, USA)
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Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 18:17 Post subject:
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I recall an older USB (Sandisk) stick I was using to boot other puppies not having the icon displayed with Fatdog even after manually mounting with pmount. The Sandisk would not mount automatically. I could get to the files with a file manager after manually mounting the stick.
The format was vFat and when I changed it to Ext4, the icon appeared along with the others like normal after booting or inserting the stick afterward.
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Snail
Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 334
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Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 20:58 Post subject:
Desktop drive icon behaviour Subject description: No icon |
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As in Chapchap's case, there is no icon for this particular USB stick regardless of whether it is mounted or not.
As all of my flash drives are formatted FAT, FAT32 for the 8G SD, VFAT for the rest, it is not a filesystem type issue, as far as I can tell anyway.
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Hans
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 45 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat 03 Aug 2013, 08:08 Post subject:
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Yes Jamesbond and Kirk I am as always interested in a new fatdog!
And thanx again for all the hard work
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DrDeaf
Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 68
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Posted: Sun 04 Aug 2013, 22:27 Post subject:
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jamesbond wrote: | This is what we have in the Fatdog-Next as of today. Still using the 600 as the base. I have this running for quite a while now. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Fatdog64-Next Release Notes
Changes from 621:
Updates:
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- Linux 3.9.4 with lxc support but without XFS support
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Maybe not the interest you wanted, but I am interested in XFS support.
Would that be possible?
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don922
Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 429 Location: Nong Yai Buah
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Posted: Tue 06 Aug 2013, 05:32 Post subject:
frugal installation problems |
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I downloaded the Fatdog64-621.iso and the MD5sum is correct.
Using ISOMaster iso file editor I have extracted the following files from the Fatdog64-621.iso and put them in a new directory /mnt/home/puppy-fatdog-621:
fatdog.png
fix-usb.sh
initrd
vmlinuz
In a frugal installation the menulist is as follows:title Puppy 528.005
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy528.005/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy528.005 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy528.005/initrd.gz
title Puppy 529
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy529/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy529 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy529/initrd.gz
title Fatdog 621
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy-fatdog-621/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy-fatdog-621 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy-fatdog-621/initrd
Initrd is shown as initrd.gz in Puppy 528.005 & Puppy 529. Fatdog 621 calls it just initrd.
The directories for Puppy 528.005 & Puppy 529 were prepared the same as Fatdog 621 and work fine.
What is wrong with what I've done with Fatdog 621? Why doesn't it boot?
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Marv

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1016 Location: SW Wisconsin
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Posted: Tue 06 Aug 2013, 10:53 Post subject:
Re: frugal installation problems |
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don922 wrote: | I downloaded the Fatdog64-621.iso and the MD5sum is correct.
Using ISOMaster iso file editor I have extracted the following files from the Fatdog64-621.iso and put them in a new directory /mnt/home/puppy-fatdog-621:
fatdog.png
fix-usb.sh
initrd
vmlinuz
In a frugal installation the menulist is as follows:title Puppy 528.005
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy528.005/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy528.005 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy528.005/initrd.gz
title Puppy 529
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy529/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy529 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy529/initrd.gz
title Fatdog 621
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy-fatdog-621/vmlinuz pmedia=satahd psubdir=puppy-fatdog-621 pfix=fsck nosmp
initrd /puppy-fatdog-621/initrd
Initrd is shown as initrd.gz in Puppy 528.005 & Puppy 529. Fatdog 621 calls it just initrd.
The directories for Puppy 528.005 & Puppy 529 were prepared the same as Fatdog 621 and work fine.
What is wrong with what I've done with Fatdog 621? Why doesn't it boot? |
Here is what I have in my Grub4Dos menulist. The directory fatdog_621, along with my other pup directories, menulist, grldr, common opera and sfs directories are in a bootable fat32 partition on my sata sdd. The data/working directory is an ext partition on that sdd. 64 bit core 2 duo laptop. Works, don't know if it helps. The fatdog bootstuff is explained pretty well in the fatdog FAQs, linked on the first post here. It does less searching for boot files than most pups so more explicit locations rqd.
Code: | title fatdog_621 set up for humongous initrd
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /fatdog_621/initrd
kernel /fatdog_621/vmlinuz savefile=ram:device:sda1:/fatdog_621/fd64save.ext2
initrd /fatdog_621/initrd |
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