Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[amj]

In my opinion fd-arm is considerably inferior to QX814. Credit to Don570 for doing a good job on packaging it and making it easy to install.

Having a save file is a pain. Installing to a partition is much better.

fd-arm was designed for a specific purpose - to run on hand-held devices. I trust it does that job well. But the original purpose of fd-arm and RPi are not a good match. If I remember rightly you can't swap the mouse buttons over on fd-arm. For a hand-held device that's irrelevant functionality. It was designed to be a largely closed system and it's not compatable with any major repository.

[don570]

Berryboot has a special version of Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3 available.

I downloaded and will test it this weekend.
http://berryboot.alexgoldcheidt.com/download/126/

Berryboot install instructions

[don570]

Tested and it works fine.
Some notes:
There is a good assortment of wifi drivers preinstalled.
Samba is preinstalled so a connection to a windows server can be created quickly.
DropBear isn't installed by default. But it is easy to install.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/armv7/packages/pet_packages-xerus/dropbear-2016.74-xerus-armv7.pet
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Here are instructions
https://www.howtogeek.com/141325/how-to-multi-boot-your-raspberry-pi-with-berryboot/

If you are installing from a Thumb drive...

You must decompress the .tar.gz file first to create the img file.

To add the operating system to your card, you must hold down the icon
labelled 'Add OS' and then you select your img file located on the thumb drive.

config.txt is automatically created from the berryboot config.txt file.
It is easy to modify if you wish.
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[TeX Dog]

[TeX Dog]

new added stuff with berryboots kernel ( added temp and lightingbolt )
did not know what device was placing a yellow bolt of lighting in upper right part of screen. was using new BBoot and media OS with that projector that has caused issues before. Turns out the newer kernels have updated firmware to change the confusing square power/temp onscreen with real useful icons. Also found out that there is a feedback on HDMI for its 5v level. The Projector and a long power line to RPi2B+ was causing low power conditions.
Also learned that you can control HDMI power feeds and sdcard speeds, looks like fun ahead.

Downloading PixelOS image to test next. Should be able to test my Pi3 tomorrow left it, expecting to return, a week of rains kept me from getting back to it.

There is a version for PCs as well, may try that.

[TeX Dog]

Not impressed with Jessie-PIXEL. Does look nice IF your system doesn't have overscan. My first test HDMI TV (first gen, actual CRT tube type) has extreme overscan due to age/technology use.
Could not see menubar at all and the menu with mouse click did not offer a path for a fix. Background graphic I could change, why a lonely blacktop road with a thunderstorm on the horizon was its default I never can tell, but the 'guy' who made the choice needs some serious counseling. The Symbology alone is unsettling but also foretelling, First Blush it looks nice 'clean new road' nice hills, but also that distant storm already over the road. Pixel looks nice, but offers less useful GUI, no default icon 'run' programs for the stuff I had on the test disk, no root,sudo or method that sticks to change permissions.
Horrible video playback, alpha blend methods removed (acts more like this QX814, then past versions without Pixel ) did not even have ffmpeg or the forked renamed version.
QX814 has multiple options for video, that only jittery webbrowser <its suppost to be the best > and omxplayer and it still preformed worse same everything else, verses the version on QX814.
I am going to snag some nice desktop backgrounds from PIXEL and call the review over.

SHORT VERSON: stick with QX its still better then the others newest 'best'

[BarryK]

Right now I am compiling SeaMonkey 2.46 on the Pi3, running Quirky Xerus 8.1.4.

It has been chugging along for about 20 minutes, but many hours to go...

Just a little note, I plan to get Easy Linux running on the Pi2 and Pi3.
Same Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus 64-bit DEBs as in Quirky 8.1.4, but Easy uses the layered filesystem, and has "q.sfs" with all of the filesystem in it -- like in Puppy.

However, there is no "save file", which I consider to be too much of a hassle. You can read how Easy works here:

http://barryk.org/easy/how-easy-works.htm

EDIT:
Finally got there: http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00518

[don570]

Note to Barry..

Don't forget to include 'Dropbear' for SSH clone
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[Sylvander]

1. Using THIS POST for guidance...
a. I did all of the necessary to extract the berryboot files to my 32GB mmc, 1 partition formatted as FAT32.
b. Put it correctly into my RPi2 mobo [I put it in squint once], [it's connected to my newly swapped-in Virgin Hub 3.0 using 2 "Devolo Powerline Adapters"].
c. Powered it on, and did all the necessary.
d. Chose to install both Raspbian and OpenELEC, with OpenELEC as default.
The necessary files were auto-downloaded from the internet, and the OS's installed [NICE ].
e. Eventually managed to get Kody to work [NICE , stuff is BIG in Kody , so it can be read on my 32-inch Sony Bravia smart TV from 12-feet away].

So...
2. What should I do to additionally install the "special version of Quirky Xerus 8.1.4".
I don't see it offered on the berryboot "Add OS" window.
Perhaps I need to look at that again.

[don570]

The way I do it ....

Download...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/berryboot-updated-images/files/quirky_xerus_8.1.4_rpi2_rpi3_2016.12.13_berryboot.img.tar.xz/download

Then decompress to get the img file.

I put it on a thumb drive and stick it in my raspberry pi 2.

The Pressing on 'Add OS ' icon should show img file if you wait for 10-15 seconds. (It's slow to show thumb drive contents )

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[shadower_sc]

don570's way of doing it is how you "side load" an image downloaded from here: (The Latest Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 is in the list.)
http://berryboot.alexgoldcheidt.com/images/

decompress command example from berryboot homepage:

[Sylvander]

[don570]

[Sylvander]

My RPi2 appears to have no led indicating when it's powered on.

Any thoughts?

[Sage]