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#736 Post by 01micko »

Thanks for that Guy. Incidentally, Seamonkey-2b2 (the one I sent to the petstore :wink: ) works fine

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#737 Post by Jim1911 »

gposil wrote:jasmac, 482 should recognize ext4 without a problem, 477 will only recognize ext4dev.
Ext4 is not recognized on a frugal or full hd installation of 477 on my machine. Also, ext4 is not recognized on a frugal installation of 482. I have been unable to boot a full hd installation of 482 (will download and try again).

Other problems noted with both 477 and 482 frugal installations:
1. Set global font size does not work.
2. Synaptic package manager will not work. When trying to update, error messages are: "could not download all repository indexes", "E: Lists directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing." and "E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing." (same problem with full hd installation of 477)
3. First start wizard starts unexpectedly.

However, I've found that otherwise it is very stable and fast.

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#738 Post by gposil »

Mick, if you got the patch directory in 482 on the site you will find the netmodules update, which will fix the list problem.

Jim1911, 477 can only read ext4dev partitions not full ext4, but 482 should have no probs, i'll have to check that prob out. The Synaptic patch will be up later tonight, as stated earlier.

Jim1911, there is a pmount ext4 update in the patch directory, that should fix the problem...let me know

http://www.dpup.org/test/dpup482beta1-2.6.30.5/patch/

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#739 Post by Jim1911 »

gposil,

I am still unable to install 482 as a full disk installation with a new download. Grub tries to boot it, but it fills the screen with flickering error messages. Went back to 477 for a full hd installation which boots fine. A frugal installation of 482 boots with no problem.

I'll try the patches on the 482 frugal installation and report back.

Jim

EDIT: Using frugal installation of 482:
1. Tried patch which ppm shows as installed. However, ext4 partitions are identified correctly but cannot be mounted. Barry has apparently corrected all the ext4 problems with 430 (see his blog) and I now have a frugal installation of ttuuxxx's 4.3.1 running fine on an ext4 partition. I'd like to try full hd and frugal installations of dpup on an ext4 partition.

2. Using ppm, successfully installed amsn and Bibletime. Bibletime did have one missing dependency, libcurl-gnutls.so.4. It was then installed and Bibletime works fine. Both amsn and Bibletime .desktops had to be edited in order for the icons to show up on the menu.

3. Installed Pwidgets-2.1.0.pet which appears to work fine.

4. The "Set global font size" doesn't work on 482. Apparently, that bug depends on the hardware, but Barry's fix for it works fine.
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#740 Post by DaveS »

Gposil, could you and anyone else interested give me a quick opinion on this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47528

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#741 Post by James C »

gposil:

Good news, the installer patch worked and I was able to complete a full install of 482 Beta 1 to sda10 (ext 3).

Bad news, it will not boot. Get a page full of scrolling error messages to quick to read. Got a brief glimpse of what looked like X related errors, but they were zipping by too fast to read.

Works fine running live though. No trouble in full installs of Puppy 430 w/ the 2.6.30.5 kernel either.

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#742 Post by dejan555 »

kde pets uploaded here: http://dpup.org/dejan555

Take both kdelibs and kde, these are to be used with dpup, on other pups might need more dependencies, since I striped some libs that dpup already had.

KDE Menu is messed up, most items are in Lost & Found :D
I'll leave to someone else to fix that, you can arrange it with kmenuedit then share it if you know which are kmenu conf files.

I'll upload amarok pet some other day. I tested this on clean dpup477 boot. After install exit X then type xwin startkde. After you end session type reboot or poweroff. Have fun ;)
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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#743 Post by James C »

After numerous reinstallation attempts with 482 Beta 1 and still no success.....no boot, I was comparing the filesystems of a successful 477 install and the unbootable 482 install.Both are full installs.

In 482 Beta the SYS directory is totally empty and the TMP directory has much less inside.

Is the installer not copying everything to the hard drive?

Posting from 477 now....it is working fine....no complaints, just waiting for the Synaptics patch later.

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482beta1 Service Pack

#744 Post by gposil »

Ok, I have released a Service Pack which adds all Barry's ext4, installer, netmodules, grub update and a few other patches from 430, as well as some of the fixes that will come in 431.

http://www.dpup.org/test/dpup482beta1-2 ... rvicePack/

Could someone test the full install option and report back please.

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#745 Post by James C »

As soon as I can reboot I'll give it a try. Thanks for the quick work...

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#746 Post by gposil »

Can I get everyone's view on making 482 the main dpup release and keeping 477 as our retro version.

If the consensus is that 482 is our base then I will let Barry know, and announce the fact that dpup will follow the base course of Barry's releases.
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#747 Post by James C »

I hope that someone has better luck with the service pack than I had. Downloaded the delta, verified, combined into 482 Beta 2, burned and verified with burniso2cd and rebooted with the new disc.

No boot. right after "loading initrd.gz.............ready" I got"Bummer, cannot run '/etc/init.d/rcS : no such file or directory". And a prompt which would accept no input, so had to do a hard shutdown.

Redownloaded the delta. remade the new iso and reburned.......same result.

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#748 Post by James C »

To the other question at hand, since I'm running Puppy 430 w/ the 2.6.30.5 kernel I'd vote for using 482 as the main release. If it works as good or better than 477, which I can't really test yet.I prefer the newest kernel that will run on my equipment.

Oh, I tried 482 Beta 2 on 2 computers.....same result.

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#749 Post by 01micko »

Yep, 482 as the Flagship, 477 the skanks.

(PS, Thanks for fixing Pet Store)
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#750 Post by Jim1911 »

Bad news, I had the same results as James C , but I've included some additional error message content:

Bummer, cannot run'/etc/init.d/res': No such file or directory.
Please press enter to activate this console.
(Pressing Enter resulted in:)
-sh:id: not found
-sh:id: not found
-sh:id: not found
[:14: unknown operand
-sh:id: not found
(Then went blank, pressing Enter again resulted in repeat of above.)

This was with a frugal install, will do another full hd install when this is corrected. For the present, that partition has 477b. Agree with 01micko, 482 should be flagship.

Has the synaptic pet been updated?
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#751 Post by sinc »

482 is the only version that works for me so ... yeah... a vote for 482 for me. I will try the full install later on my home computer and report back. :D

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#752 Post by clarf »

Hi, I hope not to be too late to the party guys.

I tried dpup-477beta1-2.6.27.4.iso in a VMWare machine without problems, later tested dpup-482beta1-2.6.30.5.iso and worked fine too. Then decided to use the later version with updated kernel for my laptop (has the same features and runs fine) dind´t find any problem yet.

First impression:

- The menu options are a mess, seems alphabetically ordered but need a separator bar for app categories and some submenus could be good too.

- The Control Panel in contrast is well organized and something that Puppy really needs in all official versions, good categories and color schemes.

- In many areas seems to have the same software collection that Puppy 4.3, needs a little fat free work here. But I suppose your are making a stable base version first.

- I liked ROX theme (somehow Gnome related?).

- Seems a little faster than Puppy 4.3

Great release gposil, very solid base to work with. :wink:

I´ll suggest that for the dpup-482beta1 version you should create a new thread, large threads are hard to follow and the title in this thread is for 476.

Greetings,
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#753 Post by Jim1911 »

Successfully installed 477b to an old Sony laptop with only 64MB ram. Runs great.

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#754 Post by sinc »

i downloaded the xdelta. created the beta2. and did a manual frugal install and got the same error message as the guys before me posted. oops, something broke. Image <--- thats a mean little face, I'm not really upset.

hmmm? i just booted up in 214x and checked the md5sum and it actually is not the same as what you have listed. I am going to try and download again.

is there a way to check the md5sum from within dpup?

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#755 Post by 01micko »

Clarf

I agree with your comment on a new topic.. in fact 2 new topics... dpup477 and dpup482..

What say you gposil?

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