Precise Puppy 5.7.1

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bohocmasni · #381 Post by **bohocmasni** » Sun 12 Oct 2014, 00:59

bohocmasni wrote:hi!

in precise 5.5 (IRC in older versions too) rox iconified windows works,

in wheezy35xx, precise 5.7, tahr 5.8 (and newer?) don't work at least for me.

how to reprod:

right click on any item, options, pinboard, iconified windows, show iconified windows, check in.

in precise 5.5, after minimalizing a window it puts an icon to my desktop, in precise 5.7.1 (and newer) it does nothing.

both uses rox 2.11,

up

mavrothal · #382 Post by **mavrothal** » Sun 12 Oct 2014, 13:44

mavrothal wrote: In case I build another delta,

Case has materialised

Here is the, last I believe, precise-5.7.1_to_5.7.2 delta (md5sum: b6ea7b96f49848776186ad7ea7dc907d).
<Edit> ...and here is the precise-5.7.1-retro_to_5.7.2-retro delta (md5sum: 26cb64612292706504fec7ee833d6f96) </Edit>

This is mostly to test the save_to_folder function and also contains updated bash, Puppy-package-*, sfs_load, and a fix for a soft wifi block in some hardware.

It also contains a savefile2dir script that it can be used to transform your savefile to savedirectory. To use it boot with pfix=ram, backup your savefile, and then in the terminal type

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savefile2dir /full/path/to/savefile.2fs

replacing '/full/path/to/savefile.2fs' with the actual path and name of your savefile.

Griot · #383 Post by **Griot** » Sun 19 Oct 2014, 17:22

Hello mavrothal. Pardon my noobness on this but I have to ask before I
scr#$ up something. Can I use "manual frugal" method after updating Precise 5.71.iso with delta files? Thank you.

mavrothal · #384 Post by **mavrothal** » Sun 19 Oct 2014, 17:50

Griot wrote:Can I use "manual frugal" method after updating Precise 5.71.iso with delta files? Thank you.

You can do a anything you would do with any puppy ISO, including "manual frugal"

Griot · #385 Post by **Griot** » Sun 19 Oct 2014, 20:13

Thank you mavrothal and a big thanks to everyone who participated in this project. Works like a charm.

However, I have two more questions about this. Is it safe to rename savedir and edit corresponding entry in fsckme.flg? Can I delete newly created/renamed savefile? Thanks.

mavrothal · #386 Post by **mavrothal** » Mon 20 Oct 2014, 05:13

Griot wrote:However, I have two more questions about this. Is it safe to rename savedir and edit corresponding entry in fsckme.flg? Can I delete newly created/renamed savefile? Thanks.

These are 3 questions

You can rename it while the first part remains the same ie "precisesave"
fsckme.flg is an empty file and unrelated to savefile. Is for checking the integrity of the file system.
You can delete anything you want.
None of these changes should be done while the savefile/folder is loaded. ie either boot with another puppy or with pfix=ram.

Griot · #387 Post by **Griot** » Mon 20 Oct 2014, 09:26

Thank you mavrothal. Yes, three is the number.

linuxcbon · #388 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 09:02

grub-probe is missing

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# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sdb1 /dev/sdb1
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/usr/sbin/grub-install: line 490: grub-probe: command not found
/usr/sbin/grub-install: line 490: [: =: unary operator expected

mavrothal · #389 Post by **mavrothal** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 10:44

linuxcbon wrote:grub-probe is missing

grub-probe was not in precise-5.7.1.
Use grub4dos

linuxcbon · #390 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 11:09

mavrothal wrote:grub-probe was not in precise-5.7.1.
Use grub4dos

I know, but I am writing bugs here, I am not asking for tips

. (I could also use syslinux or lilo or whatever bootloader, why do you only recommend grub4dos)...

mavrothal · #391 Post by **mavrothal** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 13:30

linuxcbon wrote:
mavrothal wrote:grub-probe was not in precise-5.7.1.
Use grub4dos
I know, but I am writing bugs here, I am not asking for tips . (I could also use syslinux or lilo or whatever bootloader, why do you only recommend grub4dos)...

Sorry. Posting after the 5.7.2 update I thought you are referring to the update rather than the 14-month old precise 5.7.1.

I'm sure you know it but for the others, grub-probe is part of the grub-common package that one can get through PPM from the ubuntu repo.
Anyway, I attach a pet that contains grub-probe only. Let us know if it is sufficient for grub to work, or if it also needs more of the grub-common utilities or libs.

The reason I pointed to grub4dos and not other boot loaders, is because this is in the menu and a puppy-staple.

linuxcbon · #392 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 14:09

Ah I see, you added some patches and called it precise 5.7.2, because there is no official precise 5.7.2.
Anyway grub-probe should be included by default. Still one program is missing, dpkg-query.

linuxcbon · #393 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 18:27

Trying to install grub legacy (version 0.97) to a usb stick , it tries to detect hardware from bios and because my pc doesn't have a floppy disk, grub legacy takes CPU and memory to very full, takes a lot of time.

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# grub --version
grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)

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# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sdb1 /dev/sdb

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# grub-install /dev/sdb

Causes :

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Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.

And dmesg shows :

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[  455.203296] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[  467.348881] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[  467.348889] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

(old bug for version 0.97 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/352787)

mavrothal · #394 Post by **mavrothal** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 19:20

linuxcbon wrote:Anyway grub-probe should be included by default. Still one program is missing, dpkg-query.

I thought I noticed you mentioned the grub worked OK on aHD with grub-probe. Did it or not?
dpkg-query is just informing grub of the installed packages (that's what dpkg-query does in general). Is not required for grub function.

linuxcbon · #395 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sat 25 Oct 2014, 19:30

mavrothal wrote:I thought I noticed you mentioned the grub worked OK on aHD with grub-probe. Did it or not?
dpkg-query is just informing grub of the installed packages (that's what dpkg-query does in general). Is not required for grub function.

No , grub didn't work, first try was a typo...I corrected the message.

linuxcbon · #396 Post by **linuxcbon** » Sun 26 Oct 2014, 19:51

gparted : for fat32 , it needs these programs to work : dosfstools and mtools.

don570 · #397 Post by **don570** » Fri 12 Dec 2014, 00:55

For people using the Chinese language and Precise 5.7.1...

I made a special page on installing Chinese menus when using LANG=zh_CN
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87045

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LazY Puppy · #398 Post by **LazY Puppy** » Sat 13 Dec 2014, 04:38

Hi.

While doing some work on this I have found a issue in precise 5.7.1.

The file /etc/DISTRO_SPECS in main sfs is different to the file /DISTRO_SPECS in initrd.gz. The one in initrd.gz is missing this:

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#multiarch distros, such as Ubuntu, will have this. ex: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu, so DISTRO_ARCHDIR=i386-linux-gnu
DISTRO_ARCHDIR='i386-linux-gnu'

RickGT351 · #399 Post by **RickGT351** » Sun 14 Dec 2014, 03:55

I have used Puppy Package Manager on several occasions today on a fresh install and after selecting the file and where to download it from, I get the message that the file is not available and to update PPM.
Did that and it made no difference.
I have had to resort to using a search engine to search for dependencies - which is a pain

linuxcbon · #400 Post by **linuxcbon** » Fri 19 Dec 2014, 15:54

Anyone tried to install fglrx ? I installed omega-14.12 but it crashes the pc.

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