X-Slacko Slim 4.4r49 (unique, stable, and flexible)

[mistfire]

@quirkian2new. Sure you can modify it by your preferences. About your issue, i suggest that you start from init scripts in init of initrd and /sbin/init also there is x-slacko build kit (download link was on the first post of this thread) for you reference and even build x-slacko slim from pristine X-Slacko.

Utilizing whole ram is applicable when the puppy was on full install or the save file or puppy file was from the hard disk. Making the init script more intelligent is very hard to implement. But if you are fluent in bash and linux underhood you can implement if you have an idea.

By the way can you please share your scripts that you modified in X-Slacko Slim?

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Kernel module protection settings
* Improved GUI
* Filemnt can now mount hfs formatted disc image as well as dmg files

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yg1fS ... Ff3qb40h-l
MD5 Checksum: 4e066aae9b7bc0bd7ebc9ac67954d369

Shoutouts to @ally for creating a dedicated archives in archive.org. Thank you very much

[ally]

get 'em here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_xslacko-slim

[mistfire]

Archive link is now updated on the first post of thread.

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* Improved handling of slackware package
* Improved handling of puppy alien packages
* Tazweb for viewing HTML files and for accesing, Puppy Help and CUPS web interface

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_xEWR ... bWxEqq_B0Q
MD5 Checksum: 6598bb0026b5c683e9a8310f52c517da

[foxpup]

Hi mistfire

I have some troubles with xslacko slim on my win10 machine. I tried both 4.4r2 and r3.

I get 3 hard beeps and then soft beeps when X comes in. I need the "VESA bios extensions not detected" fix. Then I get to X, but I have the soft beeps again, continuously. I stop it by choosing another device in the sound wizard (multiple cards), but then I have no sound at all anymore.

Second problem. I boot from my SSD. First to refind, then to bootx64.efi=grub2 and from there I can boot 32bit puppies on SSD from my 64bit uefi computer. refind and grub2 are on partition sda1, the frugal puppies are on sda9 from the SSD.
It works great with xenialpup, stretch, pyro32 and slacko6.9.9.9. But with X-Slacko Slim it does not find the pupsave. I use this in grub.cfg, like for the other puppies:

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menuentry 'Puppy X-Slacko Slim [mistfire]' --unrestricted --class linux --id='xslackoslim' {
   set root='(hd0,8)'
   search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set aee3598a-5686-411f-88c5-bac84cbede86
    linux /xslackoslim/vmlinuz pmedia=cd pfix=fsck psubdir=/xslackoslim/ pdev1=sda9
    initrd /xslackoslim/initrd.xz
}

(I had to remove "pkeys=be-latin1" from the kernel line.)
When booting from usb, X-Slacko Slim does find the pupsave!
Is there another option I can add to "show" X-Slacko Slim the pupsave?

[mistfire]

@foxpup where did you put the savefile of X-Slacko Slim? Please boot the X-Slacko Slim from your SSD. Take to the event where the savefile of xslacko slim cant found. After you get to the desktop compress /initrd/tmp into a tarball then send it to this forum. The log files /initrd/tmp will give clues about your problem on your computer.

Currently I have no actual UEFI machine to diagnose well your problem on booting puppy

[foxpup]

@foxpup where did you put the savefile of X-Slacko Slim? Please boot the X-Slacko Slim from your SSD. Take to the event where the savefile of xslacko slim cant found. After you get to the desktop compress /initrd/tmp into a tarball then send it to this forum. The log files /initrd/tmp will give clues about your problem on your computer.

Currently I have no actual UEFI machine to diagnose well your problem on booting puppy

Hi mistfire.

Thank you for looking into this. I understand it will not be easy to find the problem without an uefi computer yourself.
I PM'd you the /initrd/tmp log files.
The savefile is in the same dir as the frugal installation, that is /sda9/xslackoslim/. I also put it in the root of sda9, hoping it would be easier to find it, but alas.
When booting from usb, the pupsaves are found. It seems like the search action is different.

[mistfire]

Thanks for the tarball @foxpup. What boot parameters on the bootloader that you set for X-Slacko Slim on your usb?

Oh I forgot to say that there is a vanilla initrd included on X-Slacko Slim live cd the "initrd-fallback.xz" you can use that to replace initrd.xz that failed to find savefile. Then try to boot it on your SSD.

[foxpup]

Thanks for the tarball @foxpup. What boot parameters on the bootloader that you set for X-Slacko Slim on your usb?

Oh I forgot to say that there is a vanilla initrd included on X-Slacko Slim live cd the "initrd-fallback.xz" you can use that to replace initrd.xz that failed to find savefile. Then try to boot it on your SSD.

I do not use a usb for booting. I used to though, so I can try if you want. For booting from usb I still use good old grub4dos. That is a legacy boot then, with the main files on the SSD and init and kernel on the usb. The lines in menu.lst would be almost the same as those in grub.cfg. You want me to try it on my machine, and report?

As soon as I have some time I try the vanilla initrd too. What does it mean "vanilla"?

[mistfire]

@foxpup vanilla initrd means it is unmodified initrd came from the puppy created by the community. The initrd.xz included in X-Slacko Slim was modified while the initrd-fallback.xz was not

[foxpup]

Hi mistfire

I got some time to try the vanilla/fallback initrd and it works! It finds the savefile now.
Do I miss something now? Is there something in the 'normal' init that is not in the vanilla init?

I still have to solve the problem with the beeps and audio.
I wanted to switch off the touchpad (because I am clumsy ) but when I clicked it in the Input Wizard I got "Couldn't find synoptic properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
Maybe I have to try the extra drivers.

[mistfire]

@foxpup indeed that there is something missing in the normal init and I will try to fix it. I think that your touchpad is not synaptic. I think hotkeys in your keyboard to enable/disable touchpad might work.

[foxpup]

@foxpup indeed that there is something missing in the normal init and I will try to fix it. I think that your touchpad is not synaptic. I think hotkeys in your keyboard to enable/disable touchpad might work.

So it is the other way around: something is missing in the normal init
I tried with the extra fdrv from LxPupSc but that did not resolve the audio, nor the touchpad problem.
I can turn off the touchpad in the Input Wizard in other Puppies. I will look for the hotkeys too.

[mistfire]

@foxpup may I know the name and model of your sound card and touchpad?

[MochiMoppel]

Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.

This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:

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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz

This the content of the the source directory:

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# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim
total 162696
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs

I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?

[foxpup]

@foxpup may I know the name and model of your sound card and touchpad?

This is from pup-sysinfo in slacko64-6.9.9.9:

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Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio [8086:9d70] (rev 21)
+ Kernel Driver: snd_hda_intel
+ Memory Used: 21.48 KB
+ Path: /lib/modules/4.9.30/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko
+ Description: Intel HDA driver

The full audio specs in attachment.

Just another minor thing: setting the numeric lock on startup does not work. Maybe it does for a moment, the indicator turns on and then off again almost immediately.

[mistfire]

Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.

This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:

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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz

This the content of the the source directory:

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# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim
total 162696
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs

I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?

@MochiMoppel you installed X-Slacko Slim in a subfolder so the name of subfolder must be specified

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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram psubdir=pup_slacko_slim
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz

[Geoffrey]

Hi mistfire, somehow I'm not able to boot your distro. I get a message telling me that puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs can't be found.

This is my entry in grub4dos, which basically is what I use for other Slackos. The only difference is that other Slackos use initrd.gz instead of initrd.xz:

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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz

This the content of the the source directory:

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# ls -l /mnt/home/pup_slacko_slim
total 162696
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1032108 Nov 23 17:58 initrd-fallback.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1804512 Nov 22 15:31 initrd.xz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149676032 Dec 13 00:17 puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4944368 Nov 27 23:21 vmlinuz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   9129984 Nov 23 14:54 zdrv_xslacko_4.4.sfs

I also tried initrd-fallback.xz. Same result. Related to the xz compression? What am I doing wrong?

@MochiMoppel you installed X-Slacko Slim in a subfolder so the name of subfolder must be specified

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title Puppy Slacko Slim
kernel /pup_slacko_slim/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram psubdir=pup_slacko_slim
initrd /pup_slacko_slim/initrd.xz

I have the same problem, can not find puppy_xslacko_4.4.sfs, my menu.lst looks like this, the other two pups boot fine.

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# menu.lst produced by grub4dosconfig-v1.9.2
color white/blue black/cyan white/black cyan/black
#splashimage=/splash.xpm
timeout 10
default 0

# Frugal installed Puppy

title Puppy xtahr 2.0 (sda1/xtahr2.0frugal)
  uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
  kernel /xtahr2.0frugal/vmlinuz   psubdir=xtahr2.0frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /xtahr2.0frugal/initrd.gz
  
title Puppy stretch 7.0.0a2 (sda1/stretch_7.0.0a2frugal)
  uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
  kernel /stretch_7.0.0a2frugal/vmlinuz   psubdir=stretch_7.0.0a2frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /stretch_7.0.0a2frugal/initrd.gz 
  
title Puppy xslacko 4.4 (sda1/xslacko_4.4frugal)
  uuid 4194cebe-228c-457e-a401-5b899247bfd1
  kernel /xslacko_4.4frugal/vmlinuz psubdir=xslacko_4.4frugal pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /xslacko_4.4frugal/initrd.xz   

[mistfire]

@Geoffrey can you please send me initrd/tmp files?