Fire Hydrant featherweight, Main & Inferno Released

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Tedwood · #106 Post by **Tedwood** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 10:21

I would have tried to find the answer in this thread but I see the latest reply is over a year old, others much older, so I'll just ask.

I just took your puppy for a walk, (fire hydrant 3.01) found on the pulets page, thinking it is the latest offering.

It is great, really quick and has lot's of useful things, unbelievable for it's size. The only trouble is I would really like to recommend this to others based on the feature list and performance, but I have quite a big problem with the icons and wallpaper on starting it.

Half of the icons are just "cogs" and you can't tell what they do if you don't recognise the name, and also the wallpaper seems eratic, sometimes blank, sometimes dark, and sometimes clouds.

Maybe it's me not doing something, but I can't figure it out. Could anyone tell me if this is a known problem, whether I could get a different version that doesn't do this, or whether it's just plain old user error.

thanks in advance

#107 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 11:05

Tedwood wrote:I would have tried to find the answer in this thread but I see the latest reply is over a year old, others much older, so I'll just ask.

I just took your puppy for a walk, (fire hydrant 3.01) found on the pulets page, thinking it is the latest offering.

It is great, really quick and has lot's of useful things, unbelievable for it's size. The only trouble is I would really like to recommend this to others based on the feature list and performance, but I have quite a big problem with the icons and wallpaper on starting it.

Half of the icons are just "cogs" and you can't tell what they do if you don't recognise the name, and also the wallpaper seems eratic, sometimes blank, sometimes dark, and sometimes clouds.

Maybe it's me not doing something, but I can't figure it out. Could anyone tell me if this is a known problem, whether I could get a different version that doesn't do this, or whether it's just plain old user error.

wow that sounds strange, I never had that issue with it, if you give me say 2 days, I'll have another look at that release, I'm almost finished helping out 4.2 and it might be released this weekend. So after that my time is free once again.
ttuuxxx
thanks in advance

Tedwood · #108 Post by **Tedwood** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 14:10

Thanks for the reply ttuuxxx, however I think it was user error - something to do with files/folders from another install of 4.1.2 on my drive, which I have got rid of and the problem seems to be cured too.

It's looking good now, but has rather too many icons and menu items for my needs, I will try to find out how I can lose some of those in the fullness of time.

The only problem I have now is Gparted doesn't deem to work - it just gets stuck scanning for ages, it finds drives eventually after several minutes though

I wonder what's causing that, because it's the best tool I have found for the job, but I can't always wait for it when it seems like it's not working

#109 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Fri 20 Mar 2009, 14:18

Tedwood wrote:Thanks for the reply ttuuxxx, however I think it was user error - something to do with files/folders from another install of 4.1.2 on my drive, which I have got rid of and the problem seems to be cured too.

It's looking good now, but has rather too many icons and menu items for my needs, I will try to find out how I can lose some of those in the fullness of time.

The only problem I have now is Gparted doesn't deem to work - it just gets stuck scanning for ages, it finds drives eventually after several minutes though

I wonder what's causing that, because it's the best tool I have found for the job, but I can't always wait for it when it seems like it's not working

Ya gparted was like that, what you could do is update Gslapt, then search for gparted, and update it. It might just do the trick.

ttuuxxx

Colonel Panic · #110 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Wed 25 Mar 2009, 10:20

Colonel Panic wrote:Thanks. Sadly, it locked up again and for no obvious reason so at the moment I'm back using puppyluvr's Icecat 3.01, though using the savefile I had from Featherweight. I'm not saying it was the fault of Featherweight but so far (3 hours' later) this combo hasn't crashed or locked up, so I'm sticking with it for the time being.

I've had lockups in several other distros I've used. It's always the same thing; the caps lock and scroll lock lights start flashing in unison and nothing works at all so I have to switch the computer off and start again.

The one it hasn't happened with yet is Lighthouse, for some reason (and even tazoc admits he doesn't know why). I'm going to try some others soon to see how they work out in this regard.

Hi. I've added some more swap (now up to 796 MB) and tried Featherweight again yesterday, and so far it's been fine, no lockups at all. Just thought you'd want to know.

Thanks for all the hard work etc.

Regards,

CP .

(BTW, using Firepup too).

#111 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 25 Mar 2009, 12:20

Colonel Panic wrote:
Hi. I've added some more swap (now up to 796 MB) and tried Featherweight again yesterday, and so far it's been fine, no lockups at all. Just thought you'd want to know.
Thanks for all the hard work etc.
Regards,
CP .
(BTW, using Firepup too).

Thats excellent to hear, I'm using dpup(debian woof pup) right now and well I think it might be the next base I use

ttuuxxx

taca0 · #112 Post by **taca0** » Tue 14 Sep 2010, 05:45

Any mirrors of the Fire hydrant but the big one or fat ones??

harii4 · #113 Post by **harii4** » Sat 16 Oct 2010, 19:05

Not Found

The requested URL /ttuuxxx/firehydrant/featherweight3.0b.iso was not found on this server

any other links????

James C · #114 Post by **James C** » Sat 16 Oct 2010, 20:08

harii4 wrote:
Not Found

The requested URL /ttuuxxx/firehydrant/featherweight3.0b.iso was not found on this server
any other links????

I'm uploading a copy of Featherweight 3.0b as I'm posting this.Link to follow when upload is finished.Size is 131 mb.

http://www.filedropper.com/processing/f ... ?id=fh-30b

# MD5
1930c3a483b619d5099a0ea1da66b121 FH-3.0b.iso
# SHA1
6a3a9016c9105d509208d89f2ebe9fa2a6d41f90 FH-3.0b.iso

#115 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 16 Oct 2010, 20:51

Hi I have them all located at http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/ I still have to move them to the right directory, that's why I didn't post the link.
Thanks
ttuuxxx

#116 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 16 Oct 2010, 21:11

just moved them with filezilla

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/FireHydrant/
ttuuxxx

James C · #117 Post by **James C** » Sat 16 Oct 2010, 21:21

Don't guess there's anything like too many download links

maxpro4u · #118 Post by **maxpro4u** » Sun 17 Oct 2010, 15:49

Just did a frugal install on a ext3 formated drive, boots fine but upon reboot it doesn't load the savefile(savefile is in folder named 300). Here is my menu.lst entry

title 300
kernel (hd0,0)/300/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda1 psubdir=300 pnpbios=off
initrd (hd0,0)/300/initrd.gz
boot

taca0 · #119 Post by **taca0** » Mon 18 Oct 2010, 16:21

Thanks for the new link.

But I can only use the FHjwmc because the big one like the FHabi or FHoopen are not work right one not detect Ethernet card and the other (FHopen) its can be extracted from iso file for frugal install, gives and error.

RetroTechGuy · #120 Post by **RetroTechGuy** » Mon 18 Oct 2010, 16:29

harii4 wrote:
Not Found

The requested URL /ttuuxxx/firehydrant/featherweight3.0b.iso was not found on this server
any other links????

I just tried it, and noted that Smokey01 doesn't like download managers -- open the link and use a standard "save" to save the file (don't right click to save).

harii4 · #121 Post by **harii4** » Mon 18 Oct 2010, 22:47

thank you,
i have now tested it.
now i have an problem - i like all of ttuuxxx's stuff.
just wish he made an 2.14x firehydrant featherweight.
then picking one would be easier.

taca0 · #122 Post by **taca0** » Tue 19 Oct 2010, 01:31

I know that this is not the post of the LivingWater 2.17 but it give me this error :

Newcrest · #123 Post by **Newcrest** » Tue 19 Oct 2010, 03:54

maxpro4u wrote:Just did a frugal install on a ext3 formated drive, boots fine but upon reboot it doesn't load the savefile(savefile is in folder named 300).

The save file for a Puppy from this era needs to go in the root directory. As a bonus, it doesn't particularly care which disk or partition that root directory is from.

CatDude · #124 Post by **CatDude** » Mon 08 Nov 2010, 16:40

Hello ttuuxxx

I have uploaded a copy of Inferno to Russoodle's site,
as the copy that was on Caneri's site had vanished into thin air thanks to the so called hosts being a bunch of ..... <--- please insert your own description

Inferno 3.0b.iso (448 MB)
Inferno3.0b.iso.md5.txt

If asked, use the following:
user = puppy
password = linux

CatDude
.

harii4 · #125 Post by **harii4** » Tue 07 Dec 2010, 01:30

no sound: i,m getting an error for alsa

Loading driver...
Starting sound driver: snd-op13sa2
done
/usr/sbin/alsact1: load_state No soundcards found...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: no such device
amixer: Mixer attach default error: no such device

dpup is bogging on this old hardware:
Dell Latitude cpi D266XT 266MHZ with 124MB ram and 5GB hard drive.
i'm hope to use this as my main OS.

"fire hydrant featherweight" is my favorite due to gimpshop,shutterbug and graveman.

Is there an pet for adding "Startup" folder or one for ttuuxxx's "updated petget"? (form classic 2.14x)

only thing i'll add is yeahwm,feh,htop,hardinfo,links2,logout and yeahlaunch. (my other favorites)

thank you

EDIT: found the startup folder .pet
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... c97580a906

or here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 2faecd7c39

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