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LateAdopter · Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 131 Location: Reading UK

Hello jamesbond

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2423 Location: Texas, USA

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

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3091 Location: Earth

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 725 Location: UK

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

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1737 Location: South Australia

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.

irishrm · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 194

Looking forward to Fatdog_next.

irishrm.

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 238

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.

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1737 Location: South Australia

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.

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 238

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.

chapchap70 · Posted: Thu 01 Aug 2013, 18:17 Post subject:

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.

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 238

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.

Hans · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 45 Location: The Netherlands

Yes Jamesbond and Kirk I am as always interested in a new fatdog!

And thanx again for all the hard work

DrDeaf · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 41

don922 · Posted: Tue 06 Aug 2013, 05:32 Post subject: frugal installation problems

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:

In a frugal installation the menulist is as follows:

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?

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 241 Location: SW Wisconsin