Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Aitch]

jerriecan

Welcome, fellow IBM user

You'll probably find these useful, too

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29754

http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

http://pupweb.org/desktop/

enjoy

Aitch

[rod]

I was first pointed towards because of a number of comments Ihave had from fairly senior IT people in banking services over security, and who pointedly say they would never use internet banking themselves. Having seen a number of comments also that Linux was more secure, and then Puppy particularly so, because of using RAM, I tried it out and was extremely impressed. I had to get Firefox working as Sea Monkey is not a recognised browser by my bank, but that was fairly easy.

So far I have had only two problems. One is that it does not seem to be able to open Word documents at all well, which is a real hassle.

The other is that I may be a previous user only, as now whenever I try to load the machine fails to do so, with a series of error messages, of which the most serious appears to be Mod probe fatal error sys is not mounted, also X loaded input/output error, and USR/bin/X WIN line 471.

Meanwhile am in the interesting process of trying out Windows 7. FInally managed to connect up to a printer on the same network on XP - for anyone trying the same thing, don't use the route of connecting to a network printer, it will just waste hours. And forget asking HP anything.Actually most printers are on the W7 package. What you have to do is set up as a local printer and then configure the port. Well, anyone could work that out, surely.

Hope to be back on Puppy before long.

[jerriecan]

Thanks for the pointers, Lobster and Aitch! It took a bit to figure out mounting and unmounting drives and where to find them, but now I've got it sorted.

Jerriecan

[rod]

Well, after my message yesterday about unable to boot up my usually reliable 4.3.1 cd as it kept coming up with modprobe fatal error sys unable to mount, I downloaded version 5.01 and burnt an ISO image onto a CD. Booted from the CD, fine until the opening screen comes up and lo and behold, I could hardly see it, so faint it was. Curiously, all the previous screens giving choice of language, resolution etc had been fine. And everything seems to work fine, except I can hardly see what is on the screen. What a disappointment.

[infromthepound]

Hi,
Is anyone else having trouble with lucid?
I am using a K6-2 500 with 256 meg RAM. Lucid takes about 5 min to load, and won't keep the time/country settings. When I try to install, it just freezes; where depends on if I have tried before or it is a fresh format. I have tried formating as NTFS, Ext2 and Ext3. It will run OK in RAM when it eventualy loads though.
I have no trouble with other versions of Puppy, I found Arcade the other day and burnt it for a friend who wishes to try it. That loads and runs while Lucid is thinking of starting.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks, John

[LuPuNoob]

Hi.
Totally new to Linux - and not very technical - I downloaded Puppy 5 at the office and took the CD home and it worked first time on my old Acer laptop.
Very fast and quick booting I am well pleased. XP was running like a pig.
I am having some trouble getting on-line via my pcmcia network card. Have tried a D-Link and a Belkin so far. The Belkin appears to talk to the network but still won't surf. I'm taking a network cable home tonight! Then I can learn and chip away at the pcmcia problem at my leisure. If I can sort that I will be very happy. If not I may try an earlier pup.

[LuPuNoob]

Hi.
Totally new to Linux - and not very technical - I downloaded Puppy 5 at the office and took the CD home and it worked first time on my old Acer laptop.
Very fast and quick booting I am well pleased. XP was running like a pig.
I am having some trouble getting on-line via my pcmcia network card. Have tried a D-Link and a Belkin so far. The Belkin appears to talk to the network but still won't surf. I'm taking a network cable home tonight! Then I can learn and chip away at the pcmcia problem at my leisure. If I can sort that I will be very happy. If not I may try an earlier pup.

Just to prove i'm a noob. Posted this twice somehow

[LuPuNoob]

Am Online using the ethernet cable.
Watching Top Gear on iPlayer now.

Going to have a go at the wireless later.

[umpquajim]

I have tried a lot of linux systems and find a lot to like, I recently loaded Puppy 5 on a USB drive, and it boots up fine. I have a wireless router and I was online with a couple of clicks. But, there is one problem with Puppy 5. When I shut down or reboot, my settings are not saved. I have tried several earlier versions, and also Quirky, and none of those have this problem. I see that the pup-500.sfs file is there on the USB drive. I tried copying it to one of my hard drive partitions, but that didn't work either. When I search for help for this problem I find a lot of people wanting to shut off the save feature, but no help for my problem so far. Sure is frustrating to have to reset all my settings and download and install Firefox every time I use it.

[ISHOULDCOCO]

I am using Peppermint and will promote it and Lubuntu and the like.
The reason i am writing this is because Puppy very obviously has all the code written and has made a big effort

The install is amazingly flexible and but too obscure and arcane.

It is a dead-end and sent me back to a plain old USB install

I fell at the bootloader question, The menu suggested that default was mostly likely correct and i had flagged the EXT4 partition as bootable
GRUB got lost somewhere, rebooted with stick back in - nada.
Anyway , back to USB - i failed to save my session and subsequently about four different apps advised my that they would require a restart to enable personal sessions - dugg about in wizard of wizards and crawled about these forums for a while
Key job is to get user to the browser

Distros fail to sell themselves and often put their eccentricities in the shop window.

Very similar experience to 4.2RETRO and TEENPUPPY2009

Please flame away to your hearts content

i will be back same time next year

COCO

[ki_harding]

in the old version of puppy i only needed to click on the browser icon once to open seamonkey
this isn't the case in teenpup can i alter this?

i would have stuck with 2.something it was fantastic but i couldn't get youtube working with it after they started using more updated flash player
tried firefox wasn't stable
couldn't upgrade seamonkey

would like a very simple puppy like the 2.1 or 2.4 or what ever it was but with modern internet browser, is there such a puppy for me?

isn't adobe a pain in the tail end to install
one time I tried under xp using firefox I ended having to download adobe manager first, large download and slow as you know what and then slowed the pc down

anyway I am trying teenpup for now but I really like one click application entry

can anyone help
i've tried searching and got nowhere

[Aitch]

ki_harding

Try 214X by ttuuxxx

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553

[very long support thread]

Aitch

[dingo53]

Puppy 5 is great. I've installed it on a Abit NF7 / Athlon 2200 / 512 MB a few times due to my errors and once had it sorted I've installed it on an aging Toshiba 2100CDT dual booting with OpenDos 7. No problems with Grub despite the warnings.

There are still a few issues with the laptop, some of which I've seen addressed elsewhere, but it all looks good.

Thanks to the Puppy team! The eleven year old Toshiba lives on.

[imnotrich]

So I'm frustrated. I recently tried Quirky and Lucid's live cd's on my laptop just to see how they felt, sounded and played.
Sadly neither quirky or lucid would boot, most of the time they failed to recognize my keyboard although sometimes I would be able to use the keyboard for a while during the boot process before it hangs up.
Ok, I figured I'll wait for a few versions before trying again, and instead go back to my 4.3.1 sfs install.
To my dismay, the 4.3.1 now doesn't automatically connect to wireless as it once did. I have to re-enter settings. I thought live cd's were not supposed to make any changes! Big D- for Quirky and Lucid.
Hundreds of noob hours spent getting 4.3.1 to work properly with my hardware, get the software I want running now wasted.
And to make matters worse now it seems xfprot is broken in the repos. Booting a friends laptop to 4.3.1, I tried to install anti virus and BONK! It downloads, but won't run. Says unable to determine fprot verson. WTF? It works fine on my 4.3.1 laptop. I'm totally confused.
I not adept enough to troubleshoot such major bugs, and even if lucid/quirky could get to a command line or gui without a keyboard I'm pretty well hosed. Makes me wonder what sort of testing was done prior to release.

Now maybe this is a clue, but the Ubuntu live cd does not like my laptop either failing similarly and locking up on the splashscreen-never getting past the boot process, and the amd64 version of ubuntu won't load on my amd64 desktop either. It always fails during the boot up (though it doesn't fail the same way each time - which further perplexes this noob).

Help!

[hei]

I want to thank all the people who contributed to the development of Puppy Linux. It is one of the best and easiest to use linux distributions out there. I am new to linux and no very little about computers, and I was able to load and install Puppy 4.3.1 with no problem. I was able to use most of the programs without even looking at the man pages. I can not even begin to know all the man hours that was spent in it's development. So, it is hard for me to ask for more effort, but if there could be more documentation as help pages. The man pages are good and I'm grateful for them. But, I get lost in them sometimes. If there were how toes documents right within the distribution, this would help. I know almost nothing about code, but if I could be any help with documentation I would be glad to. Thank You all again for making computing fun!
hei