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frourio · Joined: 04 Jan 2017 Posts: 112

Thanks Peebee.

That leads me to 3 more question though Wink

1. How does Tahrpup do it then with the Ubuntu packages? (Is that because Tahrpup is a larger project and you're just a one-man-show?)

2. Is the Slacko 64 bit stable enough to run with as a main OS then?

3. How do Slacko and Ubuntu compare? Does one sacrifice on software if running a Slacko install? (Think I read once that Slackware is essentially a one-man-band, so you're kind of at the mercy of that guy? Could be confusing it with something else though.)

peebee · Posted: Sat 28 Jan 2017, 05:52 Post subject:

frourio · Joined: 04 Jan 2017 Posts: 112

Thanks Peebee.

That makes me have more questions about Slacko, but yeah, let's just leave this thread relevant and I'll take them to another post.

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belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

peebee · Posted: Mon 05 Jun 2017, 12:56 Post subject:

LxPup64-17.06.0-uefi.iso

Derivative of slacko64-6.9.9.6-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso
Kernel 4.9.30
Firefox & LibreOffice

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

norgo · Joined: 13 Nov 2015 Posts: 299 Location: Germany

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

Hi Peebee,

Well, just found out the hard way that the "save2flash" isn't working at all in 17.06 after the setting it up. To note, save2flash works in 17.05.

I think I remember Sailor E. mentioning this problem a few days ago, but I cannot remember which thread it was in. Anyways, I can confirm the bug exists and there's a problem.

Frugal install. LxPup64 lets you do whatever during this first boot up, then properly sets and saves that first pristine session (and whatever changes you made). But any subsequent boot and/or reboot, there's no save2flash function. Icon pops up, as usual on desktop, but if you click the desktop icon, only up pops the gtk dialog and that's it....there's no saving that occurs. It doesn't matter what pupsave mode you choose in Puppy Event Manager, save2flash doesn't work.

I'll see if I can find where Sailor E wrote about this in the past couple of days.

Not sure what to do to fix this. Anyone have any ideas?

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

Hi Peebee,

Just following up on the bug: Sailor E had reported it, and said it was just fixed (commit 5296) in woof-CE. See Sailor's comment here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=956833#956833

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

Following up again to the pupsave problem, here's a fairly easy solution (for the frugal install gang) until Peebee releases the next version & this gets fixed:

1) Bootup any other pup (hopefully another frugal installed pup that's along side your LxPup64)

2) click on your downloaded LxPup64-17.06 ISO (wherever it is)

3) Copy the "puppy_lxpup64_17.06.sfs" to some newly created folder so you can work on it easily.

4) In this new folder, open a terminal

5) Type in the terminal:

unsquashfs puppy_lxpup64_17.06.sfs

6) let things run until the terminal is finished unsquashing it. A "squash-root" folder is created with all the puppy_lxpup64_17.06.sfs's contents.

7) In this "squash-root" folder, go to the 'snapmergepuppy' script (it's in /usr/sbin, if I recall correctly)

Cool

Make the changes in this snapmergepuppy according to Gyro's instructions here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=956708#956708

9) Save the changes made

10) Now open a terminal again. Type in:

mksquashfs squashfs-root/ 'new.sfs' -all-root -noappend -comp xz

11) Let things run as you'll watch in terminal things are re-squashed into a new.sfs file using xz compression.

12) When it's done, take this new.sfs and copy it over to your original frugal install folder of LxPup64

13) Now right-click the original name of "puppy_lxpup64_17.06.sfs" and copy it. Then delete it.

14) Apply this copied new name to the "new.sfs", so it looks just like the old and is named like it.

15) Voila', you're finished. Shutdown the current pup you're in. and boot LxPup64 back up, and all save2flash functions are working 100% again.

Hope this helps anyone.

peebee · Posted: Wed 07 Jun 2017, 02:11 Post subject:

devx:

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-7.0/testing/64/devx_slacko64_6.9.9.6.sfs

or

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-slacko-7.0/testing/64/devx_slacko64_6.9.9.6.sfs

peebee · Posted: Wed 07 Jun 2017, 02:29 Post subject:

A simpler way to fix the snapmergepuppy update until 01micko updates slacko64 is a ydrv - attached - remove false .gz

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1642

Hi Peebee,

Two things:

1) Rox won't launch, up pops a dialog box saying "invalid .....rox-filer-manager.desktop". Rox launches fine from /usr/local/apps/Rox-Filer folder, so I looked closely at the .desktop file, and for the "EXEC=" line, all it had was "rox". So I changed it to "EXEC=roxfiler", and it solved the problem.

2) Also, can you tell me how to get my partitions to show up on the desktop? Take a look at this pic: no matter what I set things to, the partitions of the USB drive (of which there are four) will not show up on the LXDE desktop. Here's a pic with the vacant section below the 'Desktop Preferences" popup where the partitions should be (bottom-left):

peebee · Posted: Thu 08 Jun 2017, 12:21 Post subject: LxPup64-17.06.0b-uefi.iso

Updated 14-jun-2017

Delta to LxPup64-17.06.0b - iso md5=efa65074a4f487a9fef7d37f13d3f3b2

Derivative of slacko64-6.9.9.9-uefi-k4.9-FF-LO.iso

Fixes rox app.

@Belham2 - drives will appear on desktop if option is ticked in Desktop Preferences -> Desktop Icons, but only after they have been mounted in pcmanfm or pmount.... see screenie