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Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2006, 02:14
by Hopeless
Hi all, a brilliant effort by everyone involved!
However... I can't get a puppyKDE live disc built. I can't have a pupxxx on this computer as it's ntfs and puppy has broken it once already! I can't seem to remaster a live cd in ram on my other computer (have managed it with 1.0.6, but can't seem to get it happening today with 1.0.7).
Has anybody seen an iso of puppy+KDE on the web somewhere?
Alternatively is there anybody here who would be prepared to build + host one?
I know I'm asking an awful lot, but puppy is the nearest I've ever been to being able to say goodbye to MS forever. It works perfectly on my home laptop with dialup, where almost no other distros will even run. The only problem is that I've fallen in love with KDE and anything else just seems... well, not nice.
Thanks for all the hard work, regardless.
Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2006, 17:29
by Nathan F
I was considering creating a KDE-Puppy iso but life got in the way. I may still get to it sometime after Grafpup-102 (coming in about 2-3 weeks).
The best way to do this would be to create it from scratch using PuppyUnleashed. Unfortunately you can't do this at all from within an ntfs partition.
I may be re-formatting my entire hd soon and installing Vector Soho, so I would be able to build an iso on that. I'm using my company laptop for Grafpup right now and it's only got 2 gigs of linux space that I snuck in, so I can't fit two versions of Unleashed in at the same time (let alone leaving room for compiling apps for Grafpup).
If someone else is interested in trying this then don't wait for me to do it. Go ahead and get it done.
Nathan
Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 02:18
by bongmaster
im about to attempt installing kde (from .pup at top of page)
hope it works.. i prefer kde
is te usr-more.sfs essential? i have a hard disk install of puppy (no pup.000 file at all) and am unsure about mounting that sfs..
i will if it has to be. but all i want is a nice kde desktop instead of the basic puppy one...
Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 02:41
by MU
yes, you need both.
Note, this is a older, reduced version.
The most complete actually is:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/Megapu ... README.htm
That was made for Puppy2, but if you extract the files, it might work too in a harddriveinstallation of Puppy1.
Mark
Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 20:04
by bongmaster
i have just redone puppy from fresh on hard drive with puppy 2.02
so this is a full kde desktop then? and will work ok with it?
Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 20:10
by MU
what is redone?
I did not try it with a full install, but it should work.
I use it in Puppy 2.02 as a frugal installation.
Mark
Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 20:23
by bongmaster
i prefer to use a full hard disk install as it can be more stable than mounting file based filesystems
imo
i'll try it out tho
as long as it dont mess things up
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 02:07
by bongmaster
ok i got it installed. but i do not think the sfs is being mounted (due to my install being a full hard disk install) ..
how do i mount this sfs? or extraxt the contents to the right locations?
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 08:27
by muggins
with a full hard disk install you should just have the .sfs file under / , then it should be seen & mounted automatically on bootup.
a hidden directory /.usr_more should be there after reboot. i can't remember if i ever had to symlink anything or not?
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 12:43
by bongmaster
well i managed to mount the megapup sfs to a folder in mnt, and then merged the contents with the rest of the system..
i now can run kde, but have no apps in the start menu
but its working so that bit is done
so far so good
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 15:17
by MU
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 15:34
by bongmaster
thnx will try that now
i seem to be missing a few parts of kde.. but i think it just doesnt know where they are
(like konqueror, tho it is there cos i ran it from the commnad line.)
kde seems to be missing its settings folder so no control panel either
hehe
i'll sort it eventually
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 15:41
by MU
The whole KDE-stuff is in /opt
sh-3.1# which konqueror
/opt/kde/bin/konqueror
sh-3.1# which kcontrol
/opt/kde/bin/kcontrol
Kcontrol works for me, do you get errorsrunning it from a consolewindow?
Mark
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 15:48
by bongmaster
that menu fix link u gave me before seems to have done it
yay all kde now
thnx so much.. if i have any more problems i'll post here
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 15:49
by MU
fine
Feel free to ask more
Mark
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 19:02
by bongmaster
back already
hehe
was just wondering how to get the items from jwm's start menu into kde's
well its mainly to get access to the wizzards (firewall and suchike)
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 19:10
by MU
You should have a program:
/usr/local/Puppy-wxB-menue-0.8/Puppy-wxB-menue
That displays the JWM-menu with a different method.
It is quite old and might not work, if you installed programs with my debian-installer.
Alternatively install the XDG-menus .desktop -files, then many (not all) of Puppys programs appear in the KDE-menu (but without icons):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... system.pup
I made it for Icewm, but it works with KDE, too.
Mark
Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 20:33
by bongmaster
perfect
thnx