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Hi all, a brilliant effort by everyone involved!

However... I can't get a puppyKDE live disc built. I can't have a pupxxx on this computer as it's ntfs and puppy has broken it once already! I can't seem to remaster a live cd in ram on my other computer (have managed it with 1.0.6, but can't seem to get it happening today with 1.0.7).
Has anybody seen an iso of puppy+KDE on the web somewhere?
Alternatively is there anybody here who would be prepared to build + host one?

I know I'm asking an awful lot, but puppy is the nearest I've ever been to being able to say goodbye to MS forever. It works perfectly on my home laptop with dialup, where almost no other distros will even run. The only problem is that I've fallen in love with KDE and anything else just seems... well, not nice.

Thanks for all the hard work, regardless.

Nathan F · Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2006, 13:29 Post subject:

I was considering creating a KDE-Puppy iso but life got in the way. I may still get to it sometime after Grafpup-102 (coming in about 2-3 weeks).

The best way to do this would be to create it from scratch using PuppyUnleashed. Unfortunately you can't do this at all from within an ntfs partition.

I may be re-formatting my entire hd soon and installing Vector Soho, so I would be able to build an iso on that. I'm using my company laptop for Grafpup right now and it's only got 2 gigs of linux space that I snuck in, so I can't fit two versions of Unleashed in at the same time (let alone leaving room for compiling apps for Grafpup).

If someone else is interested in trying this then don't wait for me to do it. Go ahead and get it done.

Nathan

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

im about to attempt installing kde (from .pup at top of page)

hope it works.. i prefer kde
is te usr-more.sfs essential? i have a hard disk install of puppy (no pup.000 file at all) and am unsure about mounting that sfs..

i will if it has to be. but all i want is a nice kde desktop instead of the basic puppy one...

MU · Posted: Sun 20 Aug 2006, 22:41 Post subject:

yes, you need both.
Note, this is a older, reduced version.
The most complete actually is:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/Megapuppy003-Puppy2/megapup003-README.htm
That was made for Puppy2, but if you extract the files, it might work too in a harddriveinstallation of Puppy1.
Mark

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

i have just redone puppy from fresh on hard drive with puppy 2.02

so this is a full kde desktop then? and will work ok with it?

MU · Posted: Mon 21 Aug 2006, 16:10 Post subject:

what is redone?

I did not try it with a full install, but it should work.
I use it in Puppy 2.02 as a frugal installation.
Mark

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

i prefer to use a full hard disk install as it can be more stable than mounting file based filesystems Smile

imo

i'll try it out tho Smile

as long as it dont mess things up Very Happy

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

ok i got it installed. but i do not think the sfs is being mounted (due to my install being a full hard disk install) ..
how do i mount this sfs? or extraxt the contents to the right locations?

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

with a full hard disk install you should just have the .sfs file under / , then it should be seen & mounted automatically on bootup.

a hidden directory /.usr_more should be there after reboot. i can't remember if i ever had to symlink anything or not?

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

well i managed to mount the megapup sfs to a folder in mnt, and then merged the contents with the rest of the system..

i now can run kde, but have no apps in the start menu Confused

but its working so that bit is done Smile

so far so good Smile

MU · Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 11:17 Post subject:

Fix the KDE-menu in Puppy 2.02:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9747&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=16

3rd message.

Mark

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

thnx will try that now Smile

i seem to be missing a few parts of kde.. but i think it just doesnt know where they are Confused

(like konqueror, tho it is there cos i ran it from the commnad line.)
kde seems to be missing its settings folder so no control panel either Very Happy

hehe

i'll sort it eventually Wink

MU · Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 11:41 Post subject:

The whole KDE-stuff is in /opt

sh-3.1# which konqueror
/opt/kde/bin/konqueror

sh-3.1# which kcontrol
/opt/kde/bin/kcontrol

Kcontrol works for me, do you get errorsrunning it from a consolewindow?
Mark

bongmaster · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 44

that menu fix link u gave me before seems to have done it Very Happy

yay all kde now Razz

thnx so much.. if i have any more problems i'll post here Wink

MU · Posted: Tue 22 Aug 2006, 11:49 Post subject:

fine

Feel free to ask more Smile

Mark