Changing Universal Installer's Name
Posted: Mon 14 Oct 2019, 00:14
Almost easier done than argued about. I recently remastered Xenialpup64. One of the things I did was to change the name "Puppy Universal Installer" to "Legacy Installer" both as the name of the /usr/share/applications/...desktop file and within that file in the Name= argument.
In Xenialpup64, and as far as I know, all recent Puppies, opening that application presents the choice of running the Installer or running Bootflash USB Installer. Whether the latter choice should be replaced or supplemented with, for example, Frugalpup/Stickpup by gyro, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 85#1005485 I'll leave to others more experienced. But, as far as I know gyro's pet does what it purports to do; and adding it/them as an option shouldn't be any harder than the change which added the Bootflash option.
One thing which will have to await resolution of that question is updating /usr/share/doc/installation.htm. That's the "Help" file which opens in the default web-browser if the "Installation Introduction webpage" button on the Installer is clicked. [Suggest changing that name to something like "Installation Introduction Guide". Calling it a webpage suggests that an internet connection is necessary, which it isn't].
That document hasn't been updated since, IIRC, 2014. Consequently, it lacks any information about booting from a UEFI computer. Bearing in mind that I'm more biased toward Frugal Installs than the person who last wrote/edited it, I'll volunteer to present for discussion a revision once how Puppy can adequately deal with UEFi computers has been resolved.
I'll leave to others the task of getting the revisions into Woof.
That there are 5,000+ versions of Puppy, and God alone knows how many of their ISOs in the Wild and Webpages on the Web presenting misleading information doesn't justify not making the necessary changes as we move forward.
In Xenialpup64, and as far as I know, all recent Puppies, opening that application presents the choice of running the Installer or running Bootflash USB Installer. Whether the latter choice should be replaced or supplemented with, for example, Frugalpup/Stickpup by gyro, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 85#1005485 I'll leave to others more experienced. But, as far as I know gyro's pet does what it purports to do; and adding it/them as an option shouldn't be any harder than the change which added the Bootflash option.
One thing which will have to await resolution of that question is updating /usr/share/doc/installation.htm. That's the "Help" file which opens in the default web-browser if the "Installation Introduction webpage" button on the Installer is clicked. [Suggest changing that name to something like "Installation Introduction Guide". Calling it a webpage suggests that an internet connection is necessary, which it isn't].
That document hasn't been updated since, IIRC, 2014. Consequently, it lacks any information about booting from a UEFI computer. Bearing in mind that I'm more biased toward Frugal Installs than the person who last wrote/edited it, I'll volunteer to present for discussion a revision once how Puppy can adequately deal with UEFi computers has been resolved.
I'll leave to others the task of getting the revisions into Woof.
That there are 5,000+ versions of Puppy, and God alone knows how many of their ISOs in the Wild and Webpages on the Web presenting misleading information doesn't justify not making the necessary changes as we move forward.