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jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

dr. Dan: Thanks.

h2sammo3: fatdog-updater wasn't updated to work with 800 yet ... we'll fix that.

Anyway, why do you want to keep updating? If you do update, please update the package(s) individually, rather than doing a "mass update" and update all the packages at once.

fatdog · Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Posts: 104

Fatdog64 800 RC is released. Thread here.

h2sammo3 · Joined: 04 Jan 2019 Posts: 22

if i boot without savefile i can use wpa suplicant from the app in the taskbar as intended. if i boot from my savefile i cannot anymore.

does the beta release that i have currently installed merge by itself into the official 800 release? or do i have to install the 800 official release independently?

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

fatdog · Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Posts: 104

wrong post deleted.

h2sammo3 · Joined: 04 Jan 2019 Posts: 22

is there a way to fix this besides starting a new savefile?

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

There is. But it's rather complicated (as in, it involves CLI operations and many steps).

1. Boot without a savefile.
2. Open the old savefile/savedir using Rox.
3. Launch a terminal from that for windows
4. In that terminal, type "ROOT=$(pwd) removepkg $(ls var/log/packages)"
5. Close terminal, close rox, and reboot, using the old savefile this time.
6. Then open a new terminal, and type "fatdog-clean-whiteout.sh yes".
7. When asked answer "yes".
Done.

h2sammo3 · Joined: 04 Jan 2019 Posts: 22

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

You did step 2 and step 4 wrong.

This is how to do it:
2.a Open Rox folder and locate /mnt/sdb3
2.b Inside that rox you will see fd64save.ext4. Click it. It will open a new folder.
2.c Launch a terminal from within that folder (right-click, then from the menu choose "window" -> "terminal here".

Then proceed with the rest of the steps.

On step 4 and step 6, do not type the quotes. Just type the commands within the quotes.

h2sammo3 · Joined: 04 Jan 2019 Posts: 22

thank you, this worked.

btw, updating rox-filer fails something wrong with the link i think - cannot download

WB7ODYFred

Hello Fellow Fatdog64 800Beta users,
I meant to hit reply, but hit new post instead. This should be filed under Fatdog64 800 beta testing notes.

My goal was to download a .ISO file and write/burn it to a USB Flash Drive. I attempted to use two tools Unetbootin and etcher.io (now https://www.balena.io/etcher ) to accomplish this task. What tool do you suggest using for writing a single .ISO file to a USB Flash Drive and make the usb flash drive bootable? Can application image Linux x64 etcher be supported under FatDog64 800RC?

EDIT: To answer my own question use

WB7ODYFred

Forum post moved over here to WB7ODYFred's entry http://murga-linux.com/puppy//viewtopic.php?p=1019578

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

@h2sammo: btw, updating rox-filer fails something wrong with the link i think - cannot download

Did you update via gslapt? or from where? Can you please post the exact message?

@Fred: My goal was to download a .ISO file and write/burn it to a USB Flash Drive

If you're already booting Fatdog then why don't just "dd" it and then use the "fix-usb.sh" command. You don't need to use any 3rd party software.

Or you can use "Fatdog Installer" (both the BIOS or UEFI version depending on your your needs); both of them will work on USB flash drive too. If you use Windows you can use LICK, which is included in the ISO.

Method of installation is the 4th entry in the FAQ:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/harddrive.html (this FAQ is also available in your copy of the ISO)

Of course, if you want to use unetbooting, or etcher.io, or anything else; you can, too. But please bear in mind that we don't test them and they may or may not work, because they may depend on some stuff that we don't have or don't include by default.

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For example, looking at this:

h2sammo3 · Joined: 04 Jan 2019 Posts: 22

error message: Failed to download rox-filer-jun7: HTTP response code said error

from gslapt

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 3475 Location: The Blue Marble

I cannot reproduce the error. All rox-filer-jun7 upgrades and downgrades correctly, no error. You might have tried to download when we were updating the repo. As a rule, if you encounter this error, please wait for a while (say 5-10 minutes) and then try again.

Anyway, we are way over alpha and beta stage, in fact, we're very close to release. A lot of bugs where fixed from alpha beta release, so if you want to test I'd recommend you to test with 800RC or just wait for final release.

I will stop responding to this thread because it brings this to the top, obscuring the fact that we already have 800 RC released two weeks ago.