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01micko · #211 Post by **01micko** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 02:01

quickpet 4beta1

This is the one that supports sfs installs.

Use at own risk.

Note, full installs are unsupported at the moment. Will fix that soon.

Best to try in a pfix=ram environment, or backup your pupsave.

Cheers

Jim1911 · #212 Post by **Jim1911** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 04:25

Hi Mick,

Works great, I was pleasantly surprised that it checked to see if the sfs was already present before download and then gave a reminder to use the Bootmanager to install it when it is present. Also, it's nice that the selected sfs is downloaded, placed correctly in /mnt/home, and selected in the Bootmanager so that all that the user has to do is a reboot. To top it off, it checks to see if the maximum number of sfs are already selected. Everything is covered for a frugal installation and your feedback dialogue is right on target.

Be interesting to see how full installs are handled.

Kudos,

Jim

01micko · #213 Post by **01micko** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 05:02

G'day Jim

Thanks for the kudos

I did fairly extensive testing but of course I only have my hardware and my connection to test so time to release

I hope I covered all angles but there could well be something I have missed, so anyone testing, if there is something not right please report! (no matter how trivial)

Full installs are something else. I rarely use them, only do for testing. There are a few ways I can go. The front runner at the moment is fully expanding the sfs and merging it with the file structure. It has advantages over mounting the sfs and at the end of the day the same disk usage will be apparent. It may be a little slower than mounting the sfs and merging it that way but it will be more reliable on low ram machines. The disadvantage is I have to write a bunch more code to track what's going on and create files so that uninstallation is possible. My buddy Trio wrote a cool sfs installer that mounts the sfs and records the changes with petget, but it does need updating for later versions of woof. It will be less coding but maybe more RAM hungry. We'll see over the coming week or so, I have a couple of low RAM machines to test on. The method for full installs will also be adopted for save back to cd/dvd installs. You need a high RAM machine to run one of those (over 512 MB) so that should be a non issue, though too many sfs on a save back install may cause RAM crashes. Wow.. so much to consider!

Any thoughts are most welcome!

Cheers

Lobster · #214 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 05:14

Works great,

For me too.

Look forward to seeing xaraLX there.

Igu has created a deb to SFS
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 057#444057

Here are some ideas for SFS . . .
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/
http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

(no matter how trivial)

the kernel_src information is too big to display without resizing

01micko · #215 Post by **01micko** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 05:17

Lobster wrote:
(no matter how trivial)

the kernel_src information is too big to display without resizing

Wot... no horizontal scroll bar???

James C · #216 Post by **James C** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 05:29

I've taken an old P4 off the shelf,removed 1 gb of ram and made another test box. Fresh frugal install of Luci-232...2.8 ghz/512 mb ram/1 gb swap.

Everything correct on initial boot....working sound and internet and the correct screen resolution.Installed Xorg_High and Firefox 4.0 b6.

VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 232

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
1651 frames in 5.0 seconds
1697 frames in 5.0 seconds
2420 frames in 5.0 seconds
2628 frames in 5.0 seconds
2597 frames in 5.0 seconds
2583 frames in 5.0 seconds
2604 frames in 5.0 seconds

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory : 513MB (134MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.23
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat Oct 23 00:27:13 2010
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-

-OpenGL-
Vendor : Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer : Mesa DRI Intel(R) 865G GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2
Version : 1.3 Mesa 7.7.1
Direct Rendering : Yes

Tasgarth · #217 Post by **Tasgarth** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 06:32

01micko,

quickpet 4beta1

This is the one that supports sfs installs.

Works great... for me too

Thanks.

Lobster · #218 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 08:06

Wot... no horizontal scroll bar???

Yes it is a minor inconvenience. I was being too trivial (yet again)

. . . talking of trivia, well actually quite important . . .
Maybe we can have either individual or joint accessibility SFS
- maybe a screen text to audio reader and magnifier . . .?
A puplet was recently released with this capability but I can not find it
to provide a link . . .

01micko · #219 Post by **01micko** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 08:20

funny Lobby, the scroll bar should be there, see my screeny at the top of page.

Cheers

Stripe · #220 Post by **Stripe** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 09:22

Hi Mick
I have the scroll bar, but cannot find a devx file anywhere, is there one or am I looking in the wrong places?

Cheers, its looking very good, well done
Stripe

01micko · #221 Post by **01micko** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 09:34

Stripe wrote:Hi Mick
I have the scroll bar, but cannot find a devx file anywhere, is there one or am I looking in the wrong places?

Cheers, its looking very good, well done
Stripe

Hi Stripe
No devx as yet... I just renamed the luci-230 one... for my use, but it will show up in the sfs loaded, as will any other sfs loaded. Main reason for that is that Puppy only supports 6 sfs loaded at the moment and it gives you a quick visual as to what you have at the time.

I may make a special case for the devx as it is generally uploaded to a different folder at ibiblio.
Thanks for testing

Cheers

Lobster · #222 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 10:18

funny Lobby, the scroll bar should be there, see my screeny at the top of page.

Apologies - I do have the scroll bar. I do. I do.
The minor inconvenience is having to use it
because the text does not fit

Sorry for the confusion . . .

Iguleder · #223 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 11:49

playdayz, here's something you could use. Replaces some Windows 95-style MIME-type icons with GNOME icons, makes Rox look more modern.

Also saves some space - it replaces some ugly icons for individual MIME-types with symlinks to generic icons (Real Audio, Flash).

EDIT: if you want to uninstall it - uninstall the PET, then copy the contents of /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX/MIME to /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX/MIME.

playdayz · #224 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 14:49

can this sfs be installed to full install of Luci-232?

I do not see an option for one click install in rox after downloading

edit =ok - found sfs installer for full install = SFinstall-0-1.2.pet and tried it
do not see entry in memu system
edit = ran fixmenus and now have entries in menu system under document

now have following errors

root~# kspread
kspread: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root~# kword
kword: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root~#

edit = copied libqt-mt.3.3.8 , and symlinks libqt-mt.s0.3.3 and libqt-mt.so.3 from /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8 to /usr/lib

all koffice programs now work fine except for following eror when run from command line

libqtmt should have been there--but I never even tested with full installs. When 01micko releases the Quickpet that supports full isntalls and sfs's that is when there will be a "one-click" way to install sfs's. thanks.

Jim1911 · #225 Post by **Jim1911** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 15:32

The koffice suite, installed by Quickpet, also requires libqt-mt.3.3.8 , and symlink libqt-mt.so.3 to be copied from /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8 to /usr/lib.

playdayz · #226 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 15:53

The koffice suite, installed by Quickpet, also requires libqt-mt.3.3.8 , and symlink libqt-mt.so.3 to be copied from /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8 to /usr/lib.

Oh drat. I will fix it. Thanks. I am having trouble with this. libqt-mt is in /usr/lib/qt-3.3.8/lib and K-Office works when I download and install it. Can anyone provide more details please?

Possibly something else that uses libqt-mt has been installed and then removed taking libqt-mt with it.....
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Here is another java_jre sfs to test. I looked at the options and it was possible to make the squashfs without compressing the inodes. That seemed plausible and it worked better on my machine. I know this is a hassle but it would be ncie to have a good sfs of Java. Thanks.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... d-sfs4.sfs

The test is that there are files in /opt/java/lib/i386 and the browser should also work at java.com to see if java is working.

Iguleder · #227 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 16:01

playdayz, my stupid wireless card won't let me download 232. It keeps disconnecting ... can you upload /root/.packages/woof-installed-packages?

playdayz · #228 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 16:43

Iguleder, This one? The gz is phony--please delete. Thanks.

Iguleder · #229 Post by **Iguleder** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 17:31

Yep, this one! Thank you!

I'll try to make Amarok and Koffice SFSs.

playdayz · #230 Post by **playdayz** » Sat 23 Oct 2010, 17:51

I'll try to make Amarok and Koffice SFSs.

Another KOffice might be good (might be better than the one we have), but Amarok and K3b are what we don't have. Thanks.

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