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sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4006 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks Mark, I seem to recall some of this from when I looked at Puppy-2's boot code.

I'll keep this in mind as I work on a "Unleashed to SFS" builder GUI.
I have "mksfs" that seems to work well building SFS files by merging or joining
image files, directories, & SFS files into new SFS files.

vtpup · Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 15:04 Post subject:

Post deleted,

wrong thread, sorry.

MU · Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 19:08 Post subject:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29194
Mark

vtpup · Posted: Fri 20 Feb 2009, 22:02 Post subject:

ecomoney · Posted: Sat 19 Sep 2009, 16:08 Post subject:

If you want your sfs to automagically create an icon on the desktop (which is something many new linux users need until they get to know under the hood), here is a tip to do it.

mary john · Guest

Hey all,

There are more than one way to create .sfs file, but i follow a single path like here,this is eaisy and quit way to create a .sfs file. If u want to go with my path then u must follow this
The sfs files will mount on "/",
Also, the file naming format for puppy2 is as follows:
*_200.sfs
where the "*" means any text string, the "200" is the 3 digit puppy version number. So when Puppy version 2.0.0 is released, it is compressed as 200.
Having versioning in all the .sfs files is probably a good thing.
ou can have up to 4 of them, and they will load in alphabetical order, for example:
devx_200.sfs
kde_200.sfs
Order is important, as a file named myfile.txt in devx_200.sfs will hide myfile.txt in kde_200.sfs.
So, in a running puppy2:
tmpfs (ramdisk)
persistent storage (hd, flash, dvd)
pup_200.sfs (puppy himself)
devx_200.sfs
kde_200.sfs