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edoc wrote: OK, so not so funny guys, where are the files hidden?

I can see Seamonkey 12 files I acquired via Puppy Package Manager when I use pfind but when I go to /usr to look at them they are nowhere to be found - and I do have All on to show them in case they are Hidden.

Very weird..

I was also able to import my Seamonkey mail folders directly. I had to export the Seamonkey address book as a LDIF file, then I could import it into Sylpheed. It took about a half hour.

edoc wrote:

Jim1911 wrote:Hi edoc,

A little off topic. I don't know anything about UEFI, but before I installed Windows 8, I did have frugal installations on the same drive with Vista that worked well. It appears that you need to resize your Windows partition and create a new linux partition for your frugal installations. CAUTION: Resize using Windows itself. Then install Grub4Dos to boot, it works great. That will get you away from booting with an USB installation.

Jim

We rolled back the MS version of windows from win8 to win7.

There's a problem with setting up the Lighthouse64 EFI boot file - it's non-persistent for some reason ... will chase that later.

menuentry "Lighthouse64 Linux" {
                icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_lighthouse.icns
                loader vmlinuz
                initrd initrd.xz
                options "pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda7"    (Change sda7 in this line to whatever your new ext4 partition is. See boot options for more info.)
                 }

edoc wrote:

edoc wrote:

Jim1911 wrote:Hi edoc,

A little off topic. I don't know anything about UEFI, but before I installed Windows 8, I did have frugal installations on the same drive with Vista that worked well. It appears that you need to resize your Windows partition and create a new linux partition for your frugal installations. CAUTION: Resize using Windows itself. Then install Grub4Dos to boot, it works great. That will get you away from booting with an USB installation.

Jim

We rolled back the MS version of windows from win8 to win7.

There's a problem with setting up the Lighthouse64 EFI boot file - it's non-persistent for some reason ... will chase that later.

I just noticed that my sda4, the working partition for LH64, is for some reason ext3 rather than ext4.

Two questions:

1. Is it mandatory that it be ext4 to play nicely with UEFI? No idea? I am completely satisfied with Grub4Dos which does a super job booting Windows and many Linux installations.

2. Will the contents of sda4 be wiped if I change from ext3 to ext4? Yes, gparted will wipe contents. I've found that ext3 and ext4 are both stable and have both type partitions.

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menuentry "Lighthouse64 Linux" {
                icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_lighthouse.icns
                loader vmlinuz
                initrd initrd.xz
                options "pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda7"    (Change sda7 in this line to whatever your new ext4 partition is. See boot options for more info.)
                 }

edoc wrote: 1. Is it mandatory that it be ext4 to play nicely with UEFI?

Jim1911 wrote:No idea? I am completely satisfied with Grub4Dos which does a super job booting Windows and many Linux installations.

2. Will the contents of sda4 be wiped if I change from ext3 to ext4?

Jim1911 wrote:Yes, gparted will wipe contents. I've found that ext3 and ext4 are both stable and have both type partitions. Regards,
Jim

Booting Lighthouse64 602 k3.8.7
blacklist=radeon initrd=initrd.xz BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz

Temporarily enabling cpufreq-performance scaling governor for faster boot.

Loading drivers needed to access disk drives...
Waiting for usb partitions...
Locating main file and session files...
Finding L64-602.sfs and L64save files...
Found 1 save file(s) loading main file and session file...

Loading savefile /L64save.4fs (sda4)...
Size=487.9MiB, 76% free

Found swap, loading main file /L64-602.sfs (sda4)
Min RAM to copy: 379M free: 3292M... copying main file to RAM

Setting up the layered filesystem... PUPMODE=12
Verifying aufs tables...
Checking for preconfig files in /mnt/dev_save/precfg...
Preparing for a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...
Kernel module radeon was moved to /usr/lib64/x/modules to prevent loading.

edoc wrote:Just installed Seamonkey 2.12 and it works fine.

I was able to symlink (Copy, Link Relative) my xxxxx.default folder and bring across all of the files and folders from the previous installation.

Note: Seamonkey shows up in Network whereas the other apps all show up in Internet - not sure who would fix the Seamonkey PET for consistency.

I will continue to use Seamonkey as my primary email app but may link to Firefox for Web due to the lack of support for Seamonkey for dontfollowme and firebug.

gcmartin wrote:Wondering: SeaMonkey is a built-in feature of FATDOG. Is there a PET which would provide proper constructs for LH64? I looked for one in FATDOG but, I may have overlooked where it resides.

Just thoughts that would make the SeaMonkey experience a simple one.

CatDude wrote:Hello tazoc

I was wondering if it is at all possible to turn off the volume label on the desktop drive icons

CatDude
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tazoc wrote:David,
Please check that all needed channels are enabled in the mixer, (right-click on the speaker icon for retrovol down near the clock -> then click 'Full Window'.) Usually the first four or five should be enabled (not muted) and raise the volumes if they are lowered.

edoc wrote:When I right-click on the speaker icon I get a small window.

In that window there is only FILE in the upper left corner and a checkbox above "IEC958" centered at the bottom.

tazoc wrote:... next I think I would try the Multiple Sound Card Wizard, also found in Setup under the main menu.

tazoc wrote:If that doesn't work--my last idea is to delete the file asound.state inside /var/lib/alsa/ and reboot.