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Liam Murphy

Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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Location: Washington State, USA
PostPosted: Mon 23 Aug 2010, 06:22    Post subject:  
DMcCunney wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
DMcCunney wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
Has anyone got any idea please about how this might have happened and how to fix it? At the moment (though the community centre tech's being very understanding about it) I hardly dare mention Linux or Puppy in the centre for fear of the guffaws I'd get.

This sounds like an incomplete installation of some sort. I can't see how running Puppy from a live CD should do this.

Did this persist after a power cycle?

Thanks for answering, Dennis;

Yes it did. There was no installation; I took the CD out of the drive and tried to boot from the hard drive as usual, with this result.

I can't see why it might have happened either, but it did. According to our expert, a couple of pointers went missing from the Windows XP boot loader (NTLDR) and one of them linked to the hard drive. It's worrying me somewhat because I've always used Puppy on public computers on the understanding that it's completely "safe" to run it from a CD-ROM and a savefile on the hard drive, as I did in this case.

Weird. If something trashed the Master Boot Record, I can see something like this occurring. That's not hard to fix, but is a bit tedious.

I'd be very startled if a standard Puppy CD did that. I can't say for sure about a custom Puplet. It might have been coincidence, or it might have been an improperly housebroken Puppy, making a mess where it wasn't supposed to. Give a copy of the CD to the tech at the community center, and ask him to look at it. You want a second opinion to rule out Puppy being at fault.
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Dennis


Hi I am new to the forum and to Puppy.

I bought this computer recently because I am a wannabe writer (never published) who needs a machine exclusively for word processing, so I didn't care that the laptop was old. I was appalled, however, at how slow XP Professional was running on it, I formated the HD and I installed Puppy 5.1 on it to speed it up. It worked great and I am very happy with how fast it is Very Happy .

However, when I went to reboot for the first time "NTLDR is missing" error came up so everytime I boot I have to insert the Puppy CD twice, once to get the error, second to boot the system.

I was very happy to see this post and that there was a fix, but I am sorry that it is tedious Crying or Very sad .

Dennis, could you share the fix with me?

Liam
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Gateway 9550 Laptop: Pentuim III - 1066MHz with 254MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive
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cthisbear

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Location: Sydney Australia
PostPosted: Mon 23 Aug 2010, 07:22    Post subject:  
" I formated the HD "

Should have used DBan.
No way that should show after format.
Or do you have 2 partitions??

Chris.
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Liam Murphy

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PostPosted: Mon 23 Aug 2010, 14:59    Post subject:  
I just have the 1 partition. I don't have a problem with reformatting the drive again, so what is DBan and how do I use it?

Thanks for replying!

Liam
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cthisbear

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PostPosted: Mon 23 Aug 2010, 17:55    Post subject:  
http://www.dban.org/

5 Minutes would do for your purposes.
Under no circumstances boot this with another drive
which has important data..

Chris.
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Liam Murphy

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PostPosted: Thu 26 Aug 2010, 04:28    Post subject:  
Thanks for your advise Chris, after many adventures I was able to get rid of the error message and got Puppy installed again.

Liam
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cthisbear

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PostPosted: Sat 28 Aug 2010, 02:10    Post subject:  
Liam:

Good result - thanks 4 posting back.

Chris.
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harii4


Joined: 30 Jan 2009
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Location: La Porte City, IA , U.S.A.
PostPosted: Sat 04 Sep 2010, 13:05    Post subject:  
pulp 0.1 file for rapidshare is no longer there?
good found a link that worked.

i really like the speed of pulp but i would like to go back to rox as the file manager.
Need to edit pmount and is there any other apps. need to mod for that?
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daxo

Joined: 15 Aug 2010
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PostPosted: Sun 12 Sep 2010, 15:43    Post subject: download links dead/broken  
EDIT found pulp download at http://flusslinie.wordpress.com/category/pulp/

rapidshare dl not working

thanks!
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zenfunk

Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Fri 24 Sep 2010, 18:23    Post subject:  
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i really like the speed of pulp but i would like to go back to rox as the file manager.
Need to edit pmount and is there any other apps. need to mod for that?

Hm, don't think anything else, apart from pmount, calls the file manager. You can open pmount in a text editor and do a search for emelfm and replace it by rox- this schould work. If all fails just copy pmount from another puppy iso.

I'm glad that so me of you like my little project. I found that puppylinux.asia is no more- so sad...
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harii4


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PostPosted: Sat 25 Sep 2010, 00:48    Post subject:  
any plans for an new pulp?
seamonkey and rox gtk1.2 ?


if you do:
have rox there for the non-emelfm users.
some of the gtk1.2 themes look better than most gtk2.0 ones.
great work!!!!
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Dave_B

Joined: 02 Aug 2010
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Location: Idaho, USA
PostPosted: Mon 27 Sep 2010, 00:04    Post subject: Pulp works great on my 1999 laptop  
PIII 512M 750MHz
10G HD
I'm using it right now. Minimalist and FAST.

Thank you

Dave
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zenfunk

Joined: 18 Mar 2009
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PostPosted: Tue 28 Sep 2010, 12:30    Post subject:  
harii4 wrote:
any plans for an new pulp?
seamonkey and rox gtk1.2 ?

Nope, so far pulp does what I want it to do.
It's all free software- so feel free to roll your own. Personally I'd love to see what people can do with GTK 1.2 apps. So far all filemanagers for GTK 1.2 are not ideal (IMHO).
Emelfm is a bit awkward to use for someone who is used to GNOMEs Nautilus, and to be frank I never liked rox very much.
Something more standard - like pcmanfm or nautilus would be great, but they are all gtk 2.0 or gnomish or heavyweight.

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if you do:
have rox there for the non-emelfm users.
Rox is still there. Just start it via terminal.
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some of the gtk1.2 themes look better than most gtk2.0 ones.
great work!!!!
Unfortunately the better looking themes are slow as well- it seem as if you can't have yur cake and eat it.
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greengeek

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PostPosted: Fri 24 Dec 2010, 03:25    Post subject: Browser wont start
Subject description: browser works ok on pulp 002 but not 003		  
Hi Zenfunk, on my old laptop (Tosh 2180cdt) pulp 002 works well, but I have a problem with pulp003. The browser will not start.

Have you heard anything similar from others?

I've tried lots of live distros but am very much a beginner and don't really know where to start troubleshooting for this problem.

Pulp003 looks nicer so I'm keen to get it going if I can. cheers.
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zenfunk

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PostPosted: Mon 07 Feb 2011, 23:16    Post subject:  
Strange problem.
Could you tell me what happens when you type firefox in the shell?

Christian
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PostPosted: Mon 07 Feb 2011, 23:16    Post subject:  
Strange problem.
Could you tell me what happens when you type firefox in the shell?

Christian
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