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Geoffrey · Posted: Mon 07 Oct 2013, 23:37 Post subject: Updated repo

Updated repo with a few new and updated apps, see Recent Repository Additions.

Geoffrey · Posted: Wed 09 Oct 2013, 23:57 Post subject: Updated repo

Updated repo yet again with more Qt apps, see Recent Repository Additions.

ac2011 · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 72

Good to see Carolina's still being developed/supported.

I have either a bug report or a feature request for version 1.1, not sure which.

Seagate Expansion 4TB external USB 3.0 drive, plugged into a USB 2.0 laptop. Seen perfectly under Puppeee 1.0, Fluppy 013 and Windows XP. Not seen by Carolina.

Looking at dmesg, it's failing to understand the drive's geometry: it assigns seven or eight device names (e.g. sde to sdk), none of which is correct. Doesn't matter whether I format the drive as one large NTFS partition, two smaller Ext3 partitions, four Ext 2 partitions, etc.: Carolina's not even getting as far as the partition table.

I've seen reports of this elsewhere online, with one fix being to blacklist a module ('uas') but I've tried that, and I don't think that module's even in Carolina. In any case, it didn't work.

This looks like a kernel issue, and the drive takes a long time to be recognised even at the initrd stage, whereas Fluppy sails straight through.

Any ideas on a work-around would be welcome.

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 395 Location: Philadelphia, PA

I managed to make a symlink on the desktop for my friend, who does not want to know any more about computers than necessary.

The link is to a a script which causes evince to load the pdf manual for a phone I gave her.

How can we have an icon, eg a picture of a phone, for that symlink?
(instead of the generic thing it now has)

Thanks,
Sheldon

Geoffrey

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 395 Location: Philadelphia, PA

umair · Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2013, 02:06 Post subject:

Hi Geoffrey :
I want to install Virtual Box to run Win xp in carolina. Tried different sfs files of vbox. also load the devx file of carolina, but no success. please help.
Thanks in advance.
UMAIR

rg66 · Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2013, 02:27 Post subject:

umair · Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2013, 02:58 Post subject:

ac2011 · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 72

I don't know if this is of interest to anyone, but I've patched Carolina's initrd.gz so you can run with ramboot=1, as was possible in Puppeee and Fluppy.

I find this useful for when the kids are using my machine, as any damage they do is undone on a reboot. Also useful for testing new software: install a PET, test it, if you don't like it it's gone on reboot.

If anyone wants it, here it is. You just need to add 'ramboot=1' to the boot line. I've merely copied the code from Jemimah's Fluppy 013 initrd.gz and applied it in the relevant places, and added a new /mnt/tmpfs3 directory for it to use.

Given the size of the SFS files you'll need a fair amount of RAM, but on a 1GB or 2GB machine it's pretty handy.

I've barely tested this, having only just finished it, so be warned...

Hmm... can't upload. Forum complains about an empty file, and says the maximum allowed file size is 0MB. Is that because I haven't posted enough yet?

Geoffrey · Posted: Fri 18 Oct 2013, 23:32 Post subject: Updated repo

Updated repo with more Qt apps, see Recent Repository Additions.

I may as well do a bit of advertising for Carolina which contains some nice software.
There is the latest Nomacs image viewer, this now has a mosaic creator built in, along with it's many other features,
a great app to adjust raw camera images, along with it's ability to crop, resize and image conversion.

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 189 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Hi guys, just spent some time with Carolina and it is fantastic! Any chance it will be supported longer term? Also, just a heads up. Firefox 24 doesn't install properly. When trying to run from menu or quick launch, it doesn't want to work. I had uninstalled Firefox ESR and installed Firefox 24. I can run it from usr/lib/firefox. I couldn't run from terminal. I also checked with Racy NOP 522 and same problem there. Hope you guys can keep this up. IMHO this should be the official Puppy. Thanks again, Rob

Geoffrey

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 189 Location: Buckeye State, USA

Thanks Geoffrey, all good now. Thanks for the quick response and solve. I hope you guys keep this running. I was amazed how polished this is. I know its based off Saluki, but it has really advanced since then. Thanks again, Rob

ac2011 · Joined: 09 Feb 2011 Posts: 72

As mentioned in my earlier post, I modified the original Carolina initrd.gz to use the 'ramboot' sections from Fluppy (also present in Puppeee). I find this feature useful: other people might too.

I can't seem to upload attachments to this forum, so I've explained how I did it here. The code should actually allow you to add ramboot=1 to almost any other version of Puppy too, though I haven't yet tried that.

Backup everything before you start, and have a spare bootable medium on hand (e.g. USB stick or CD) as this could potentially make your system unbootable if your only running OS is Carolina.

First, make a temporary directory containing a copy of the Carolina initrd.gz. In that directory, do this: