212 pup_212.sfs ended up in my pup_save

[PaulBx1]

I noticed the Free Memory applet said I was 80 or 90 MB lower than normal. I used the handy Graphical Disk Map to discover the culprits. They were:

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sh-3.00# ls -la /initrd/pup_rw/mnt/data
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Nov 28 21:29 .
drwxr-xr-x   12 root     root         1024 Nov 30 09:43 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           64 Nov 28 21:27 extlinux.conf
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      1300662 Nov 28 21:27 initrd.gz
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     67411968 Nov 28 21:29 pup_212.sfs
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      1751220 Nov 28 21:27 vmlinuz
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     16269312 Nov 28 21:29 zdrv_212.sfs

Yesterday I was using the Universal Installer to try to create a bootable USB flash. I wonder if in the process, things got copied there and not cleaned up? (I had exited it prematurely a couple of times.) Strange to put things like that there, rather than (for example) /tmp, or even just copying directly from the CD to the flash. I wonder what this /initrd/pup_rw/mnt/data directory is for anyway? I guess I will clean that one out...

BTW, I have that flash drive in a USB port generated by a PCMCIA card. I can't boot directly off USB flash on this machine, so I thought I'd try the CD to kick start it. But when I enter pfix=usbcard or pfix=usbflash or pfix=usbstorage, it just ignores me and takes files off CD or hda1 as usual. Is this supposed to work, or do I need to kickstart it with a boot floppy? Or a CD that doesn't have any Puppy files, like a floppy image kind of thing? One would think, if you tell it to go to USB for this stuff, it would go there, but apparently not.

I have searched for this but there is an awful lot of old and conflicting info so it wasn't much help.