puppy doesn't remember any settings

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Mets
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puppy doesn't remember any settings

#1 Post by Mets »

hey guys,

I've run Puppy a few times now, and I've noticse that Puppy never remembers anything. Everytime I boot up I have to select keyboards to use, reconfigure the video settings, reconfigure internet, etc. Is there any way to automate this?

Also, this time when I booted up Puppy, it is telling me that I have 13.9MB of space left, where as last time it was 700MB. I haven't changed anything. Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

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#2 Post by laika »

Puppy unpacks itself into a RAMDISK and operates from there. unless you're using that Save-to-File option to store your settings somewhere when you power down , everything disappears from RAM.

as to your other question, i have no idea. sometimes my Puppy 2.13 says there are 180MBs after booting and sometimes 56MBs.

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free ram

#3 Post by HairyWill »

If you boot without loading a pup_save.3fs (previous session) the free memory widget will show the amount of RAM + swap space - files created/modified this session.

If you boot utilising a pupsave the widget should show the amount of space left in your pup_save.3fs file. This can be increased, if you have the disk space using "resize personal storage file" on the utilities menu.

Lots of questions here, please answer as many as can.

Have you chosen to create a pup_save.3fs file when you shutdown?
How big was it?
Where did choose to save it?
If you mount all of your disk partitions in MUT can you find a pup_save.3fs file?
I presume you are just booting from the live CD?
How much RAM do you have?
Do you have any swap space, if so how much?
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#4 Post by jonyo »

Bit off topic here..but..
Is a frugal install the same as a live cd setup?

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#5 Post by WhoDo »

jonyo wrote:Bit off topic here..but..
Is a frugal install the same as a live cd setup?
No.

LiveCD setup has all files on a multi-session CD, including saved sessions, or just the pup_save.2fs file stored on another drive.

Frugal install has all files, vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_2.xx.sfs, zdrv_2.xx.sfs and pup_save.2fs, on the subject drive in their compressed format, only uncompressed on boot and/or as required by on demand nature of .sfs

Hope that helps.

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#6 Post by laika »

HairyWill,

that's good information!

now i can't replicate the different report from the freemapplet that occurred before i made a pup_save.2fs file. i have 256MB RAM, but when i ran from the 2.13 CD sans save file the freemapplet tray display would sometimes report 180M, but more often 56M. no such weirdness after making a place for pup_save.2fs on an ancient 211MB hard drive, nor when i put it on CF card.

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#7 Post by Mets »

Thanks guys. I guess it's telling me how much space I have on my .3fs file. However, if I'm using that, how does it not remember the settings... :?

Hairy, to answer your questions:
I created the .3fs once at shutdown, but I'm guessing it hasn't/doesn't update
I run Puppy off of a 128mb flash drive, so I created it on there. It's not a lot of space, that's for sure, since there wasn't a lot of free room left. I was unaware it was reporting free space in that file. i always thought it was reporting free RAM.
Yes I have the file
I have 1gig of RAM
no idea on swap space. Total memory paging file is a little over 2 gigs, when I boot in windows mode.

Thanks a lot.

Charlie

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#8 Post by HairyWill »

Have at a look at your isolinux.cfg file my bet is that you are appending pfix=ram to your boot options. Remove "pfix=ram" and try again. If that doesn't work post your isolinux.cfg
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#9 Post by steevieb »

Are you trying to save to a SCSI disk? I had the same problem with having to keep resetting everything. I had to install an IDE drive.

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