But as It happens I'm preparing a seminar on linux for the local MakerSpace. As PuppyLinux is the best entry level system I have come across. And the fact that it seems to "just work" on anything you throw it at. I would like to use it as the foundation for the seminar.
Among the flavors Fatdog64 is my favorite at the moment. Personally I always use frugal mode and dont mind doing the few configurations I need to do to get keyboard, wifi and the latest firefox up and running.
To a spoiled windows user in automatic mode ( and a new computer every second year because the computer gets slow *grin* ) a system that was frugal but ready configured with the right keyboard, the latest firefox/java, and help scrren open at boot, would be ideal.
We can achive this by using the extrasfs parameter at boot time, exept for a few snags.
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/dev/sdb2 on /tmp/extrasfs/mnt/1 type ext2 (ro,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr)
My grub2 menuentry:
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menuentry "/isos/Fatdog64-721.iso med devx.sfs" {
search --set=isoroot --fs-uuid 2a0d270d-38d3-45e7-bda8-bf02d4232a2f
set isofile=/isos/Fatdog64-721.iso
echo "loopback:=(${isoroot})${isofile}"
loopback loop (${isoroot})${isofile}
linux (loop)/vmlinuz rootfstype=ramfs savefile=none extrasfs=uuid:2a0d270d-38d3-45e7-bda8-bf02d4232a2f:/fd64-721/fd64-devx_721.sfs
initrd (loop)/initrd
}
Loading a personal.sfs with my settings and firefox-link-to-current.sfs woorks great. So if I could get passed the readonly mount I would be in bussiness, as they say
Note: oading the devx with extrasfs messes up my (root/spoot) home area. ( can not load Seamonkey and other similar stuff ).
Anyone have experiences they could share? Good or bad, does not matter.
Do I go about this the wrong way? Is there better solutions? I did look for @RSH's LazY pupp, which I think did something along the gate of what I want, but @RSH has been quiet for some years and Lazy pup's web page is advertising pokemon.
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