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jimhap · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 63

Is it the base packages proposed in the 2.17 list, or the 2.16 base packages list?

And are they different? (Just in case you kept it the same)

Weird questions right? Embarassed

Just making sure I don't jump upgrade again....

jimhap

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

First report:

SD
Tried out an internal SD reader on my neighbor's laptop. Pmount saw it but gave an error on mount but DID mount ok. MUT didn't see it (didn't check but looked liked the new MUT didn't make it into this dress rehearsal).

Serial Modem
Machine in the kitchen had serial modem autodetected and set up successfully.

WakePup
Didn't even look for it in the image but I'll fine tune some of those menus one last time for wakepup. I just spewed out what I had for the day that last time and drifted off into electronics again.

HFS
Noticed the modules made it into the squash. Dougal had me run something that saw my partition, will have to double check that. I'll try to get some "rough draft code" tested to get it into pmount and mut.

It would be a shame to get so close and leave it out with, having the sound wizard and all other imac stuff supported.

Puppy should be like a "master key". We're almost there.

msumner · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 02:53 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 04:06 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 04:10 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 04:26 Post subject:

Dougal · Posted: Fri 06 Jul 2007, 14:59 Post subject:

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

so am I to take the lack of a reply that I'm the only person to have the /ect
problem?

grndoor · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 19

I have a Laptop with an internal CD drive which is faulty.

I therefore boot the Puppy Live CD from an external USB Drive which shows up on /dev/sr0.

With the Puppy 2.16/2.16.1 Live CD I have to use the "pmedia=usb" or "pmedia=usbcd" boot parameter to force a boot from the external USB CD Drive.

With the 2.17 Experimental Live CD this method no longer works and the boot process fails with an error message:

"ERROR, cannot find Puppy on 'usbcd' boot media"

Doing a "diff" on the 216 and 217 "init" files includes:

929c944,946
< [ ! "`test-scsi | grep '/scd'`" = "" ] && PMEDIA='satacd'
---
> #[ ! "`test-scsi | grep -E '/scd|/sr'`" = "" ] && PMEDIA='satacd' #v2.17 added sr
> #[ "`grep -E ' scd| sr' /proc/diskstats`" != "" ] && PMEDIA='satacd' #v2.17
> [ "`ls -1 /sys/block | grep -E '^scd|^sr'`" != "" ] && PMEDIA='satacd' #v2.17

Running the above 217 "init" command, "ls -1 /sys/block | grep -E '^scd|^sr'", from the command line left after the failed 217 boot, produces "sr0".

The USB CD Drive is therefore being partially recognised.

BarryK · Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2007, 05:51 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2007, 09:03 Post subject:

grndoor,
I looked trough the code, but can't see anything wrong. The code you showed that tests for 'sr' is not quite what you think. At that point in the script, usb-storage module has not yet loaded, and I assume that usb-storage is required before Linux can 'see' the usb dvd drive ...well, that's what I always assumed, as it applies to flash and hard drives.
So, the test at that point in the code only picks up any sata dvd drives.

But anyway, sata or usb, it's the same thing from the code logic point of view.

Well, I think I have to finally go and buy one. I won't buy a usb dvd drive though, as they are expensive, about 130 Au dollars, and after getting it working I will probably never use it again, which is really wasteful.
But, I might get a sata dvd drive -- they have come down, about 50 Au dollars.