Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

swiatmar · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 238 Location: Danube, AT

Hello!!

I found some problem in puppy 5.2.

I am unable to remaster a liveCD!!! I've made it many times with other puppies, but in puppy 5.2 it doesn't work. Does anybody has a better expirence. has anybody tried to remaster?
Everything is working wright until burning. Puppy don't burn the remaster version an it throw out the CD.........

By the way if I don't burn only save remaster CD to disk lupu.sfs size has only 23 mb !!!!!!!!!
Somehow strange.

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Béèm , Have you tried Pwireless2 in PPM? Jemimah is developing a new wireless wizard to replace pwireless2 (in Fluppy I think) and maybe she has a pet of that. But pwireless2 might be worth a try itself. Please backup first Wink

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Béèm · Posted: Fri 07 Jan 2011, 20:39 Post subject:

swiatmar · Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 238 Location: Danube, AT

Okey

I think there is also a problem with burning. I've made a iso file burn it on other computer. but puppy don't boot

The other thing is I can read CD an DVDs, erase RW etc. The drive is regonized, but I am unable to burn anything.............
hmmm

ilanrab · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 99

smil99 · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 147

First of all, kudos to all those who worked tirelessly to ensure the successful release of Puppy Linux 5.2 (aka Lucid Puppy 5.2). Its a release we are all proud of.

Beem,
You may try the attached frisbee pet which I made from the one in Fluppy10. I had similar problems with the native internet connection tools in puppy and frisbee seems to do the job quite well.

Cheers.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Lobster · Posted: Sat 08 Jan 2011, 01:14 Post subject:

Had no problem burning RW-DVD's
Do an md5sum on the ISO and maybe burn at a slower speed.
Bugs can be reported here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=484347#484347

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

FRUGALITY or NOT FRUGALITY.
Folks who sup with the devil deserve their just rewards.
Remember Doublespace?! Arrrgggh.
There is no case for using compressed data files on HDs, much less OSes, esp. compact distros. Even an old 3Gb unit is adequate for a FULL installation of the OS itself. Text doesn't use much storage space so compression is irrelevant. Personal photos are best saved onto secondary devices; avid photographers with very large albums can use Tb external SATA/USB drives, modest amateurs taking family snaps can use USB sticks/CDs/DVDs or, best of all secondary HDs. Music lovers use MP3 compression to any of the latter storage media. Where's the need for a compressed file with machine settings? If you must have a dozen different versions of a single distro, if you must wear your lemming hat and buy laptops, use cheap USB sticks installed with favoured configurations, deleting versions that become obsolete as needs arise. Alternatively, my solution, a couple of dozen old low capacity HDs on caddies - SATA on an external port is even easier, but more costly.
Then you have the (mostly illegal if truth be told) video downloaders. DVD-RW or USB HDs. Well known that video d/ls are rarely watched more than once or twice subsequently, and can be d/l-ed again if necessary. Wiping your illegal caches regularly would be a sound strategy anyway against a visit from the Holyweird police and their cohorts. Notwithstanding, the operators of the music and film cartels are downright stupid - they will never stop pirating; privateers are too numerous and organised crime too powerful. Despite that, all the evidence suggests that increased exposure of products increases the legitimate trade. Claiming pirated copy as putative sales is illusory - those purchase options never existed.

So, let's stop this whole issue of updating compressed .sfs files. It might work, but it's pretty dumb to attempt it on vital data. Treat vital data with the caution that reflects it's value, even if that entails actually thinking about what to do with it.
At present one perceives far too many distracting enquiries from those who haven't taken the time to grasp the intention of each developer, reasonable limitations of individual releases and proper deployment with available HW. One guy isn't even willing to open his case to verify the actual chip fitted to his board!

scsijon

personally I have always used frugals to test and try new versions and puppies, when finally happu that all is working to my satisfaction I create a full on it's own partition. It allows me to also clean out the crud i play with while testing but will never plan to use in a real world situation.

with drive sizes being what they are now and the number of partitions you can have, i just can't see the necessity of running live on a frugal, besides I find a full install runs faster.

my five cents (no 2cents in aus anymore)

regards
scsijon
ps always have burn't at the slowest speed possible as then even an old worn cdrom can usually read it.

Lobster · Posted: Sat 08 Jan 2011, 08:00 Post subject:

Regarding the Jan 6 Pet . . .

Béèm · Posted: Sat 08 Jan 2011, 09:38 Post subject: Re: frisbee

Béèm · Posted: Sat 08 Jan 2011, 10:21 Post subject:

Béèm · Posted: Sat 08 Jan 2011, 11:03 Post subject:

Strange Package Manager experience.
I was looking for a package of which I knew it was a ubuntu one.
I selected the ubuntu packages and did an update in PPM.
With search I found the package. Later I was it was referenced in Packages-ubuntu-lucid-universe.

More later I saw I lost 8MB of save space.
I thought it could be due to the update operation in PPM and looked in .packages directory.
I saw indeed a 8MB file with a date of 29 apr 2010 and named Packages-ubuntu-lucid-mainpre
I looked inside the file (the package I looked for earlier wasn't there) and saw the structure is quite different as follows (first entry):