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Switchable R/ RW booting media

#1111 Post by gjuhasz »

01micko wrote: Well you can't really as the media is rw ... you can boot from an SD card they have the little switch on the side to make them read only (aka ro).
I propose to implement what the today's Slackware release offers as switchable boot media.

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06607

I admit this is too late for Lupu 522 but 01micko could easily try it in Slackpup...
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#1112 Post by nooby »

01micko wrote:
nooby wrote: How can we duplicate that to USB for us that have no CD nor DVD player such as on Netbook Acer D250 10" sized mini laptops?

Why can not a usb be made safe that way? Or a frugal on the hdd install?
Well you can't really as the media is rw (though I guess with some clever code it could be done as rw :? ). However, if you can boot from an SD card they have the little switch on the side to make them read only (aka ro) . I read somewhere on the forum that this works as far as booting puppy and running in RAM, though this was awhile ago. I'm feeling a bit lazy so sorry no link! :P
Yes and some more expensive USB Flash maybe have a switch on the side that make it to ro read only too?

But as with Linux in general one need permissisons to do things.

Could one not tell Puppy to boot on the USB and then say that only puppy script are allow to write changes to it and not any program that start. So that one keep the ability save important changes like installing a pet but not save programs that are not puppy. Maleware and virus programs is recognized as not being downloaded using the built in internal scripts like a PPM or such? Thus none such bad code would be saved to teh USB?

I guess when one know too little one naively think it is easy when in practice there is no structure allowing it to be easily set up?

Thanks for sharing thoughts on it.

Haha we have to tell the USB makers that we want an USB that behave like the CD/DVD media :)
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#1113 Post by nooby »

gjuhasz "I propose to implement what the today's Slackware release offers as switchable boot media. "

Where do they tell about that? The text says they boot with floppy. I have no floppy to boot with. I don't even have CD/DVD so how do I use this
"switchable boot media. " thing.

What exactly are you referring to?

From a review very lately.
For those who haven't run Slackware previously, it's something of a minimalist affair. You begin by booting from the CD or DVD, and are dropped into a root prompt. From there, if you need to format your disk you can choose between fdisk or the slightly more user-friendly cfdisk to partition your disk. Then you can run the Slackware setup utility, which walks through the installation of package sets.


don't they tell how do do frugal install?
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#1114 Post by cthisbear »

One thing that annoys me with newer Pups.

I can't save anywhere else but the USB.

I've tried Shinobar's version....and most times I've been happy.

But I had a problem here...my last post...and only Hirens got it
booting again. I spent hours with it.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=30

Now at least the Falcon boots Vista-Win7 ERD without error.

So I have multi....multi Puppies.

None of the Puppy 5 versions let me select any other partition
or drive...only USB.
It really pees me off....why this behaviour?
What is so different..

But it has been enjoyable.

The last one I tried was Puppy Arcade 10.
And he has Shinobar's ??? Pupsave the GUI???
And because it is Puppy 4.2.1 based it gives me all the options.

If someone can't get their USB to boot, go to my post.

Instructions and the menu is there.

The folder names are there.

Hiren's utilities are all there.

As long as you extract all your files with 7 zip etc,
to the correct folders...it just works.

//////

And 7 zip.

Why don't we have something simple that works.

FRRRRRRRRRRRustrating.

It's woeful. A dog's dinner.
Sorry...it had to be said.

At least i can reboot into the falcon to extract it in Mini Windows.

""""""""""

Next.
I saw a post by HiDeHo.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64525

"Hi my grub 2 experiences are as follows.

many os use grub 2 not just ubuntu this is only a guide you may need to change thing if using a separate brub2 /boot partition or another os with grub2

I wanted to create a custom grub loader with all the puppy boot options in it. i do it this way so that the main grub2 boot screen is not 1000s of lines long as each puppy needs its own entries this makes it easier and less colcated doing things this way.

from my ubuntu install i did this

i created a config file with the options in my puppy linux folder.

/dev/sda3/Puppy520/grub2.cfg

#This is a config file to get grub to boot puppy linux.
menuentry 'LUPUP 5.2.0 BOOT OPTIONS' {
insmod
set root
linux
intird
}
menuentry '01. Puppy Linux' {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,3)'
linux /Puppy520/vmlinuz psubdir=Puppy520
initrd /Puppy520/initrd.gz

and so on.

////////////

So I had another go, tried different things, to get my boot options
back in a working Puppy USB.

And afterr many reboots...Nirvana was not reached.

""""""""

Obviously I changed his drive from >> hd0,3 to sdc1/lucid520
which works fine for me.

Considering my menu...in my Hirens link above,
is there any way to get my boot options back on my usb.

I left it out...I put it back...insmod ...it's not needed is it???
Example:

menuentry '01. Puppy Lucid 520{
insmod
set root='(sdc1/lucid520)'
linux / lucid520/vmlinuz psubdir=lucid520
initrd / lucid520/initrd.gz
}
menuentry '02. acpi=off Default on for PCs >2001, may give boot/shutdown Probs' {
insmod
set root='(sdc1/lucid520)'
linux / lucid520/vmlinuz psubdir=lucid520 puppy acpi=off
initrd / lucid520/initrd.gz
}
menuentry '03. pfix=ram Run totally in RAM ignore saved sessions' {
insmod
set root='(sdc1/lucid520)'
linux / lucid520/vmlinuz psubdir=lucid520 puppy pfix=ram
initrd / lucid520/initrd.gz
}
menuentry '04. pfix=nox commandline only, do not start x' {
insmod
set root='(sdc1/lucid520)'
linux / lucid520/vmlinuz psubdir=lucid520 puppy pfix=nox
initrd / lucid520/initrd.gz
}
menuentry '05. pfix=copy copy .sfs files to RAM (slower boot, faster running)' {
insmod
set root='(sdc1/lucid520)'
linux / lucid520/vmlinuz psubdir=lucid520 puppy pfix=copy
initrd / lucid520/initrd.gz
}

///////

So ideas to get the F2 menu options back.

Thanks....Chris.

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#1115 Post by nooby »

But grub2 needs to be installed using an OS that have grub2 as the install boot option to set up that way.

I don't think one can use puppy to install grub2 so easily.
How did you accomplish that clever set up?

I guess I need to use google to find out what a Falcon is.
Nope too many answers to really be sure I know what it is.
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#1116 Post by ICPUG »

cthisbear

You say:

One thing that annoys me with newer Pups.

I can't save anywhere else but the USB.


I am not sure I understand what you are talking about.

My puppy 5s let me put a pupsave file on sda5, which is an IDE hard drive.

Your problem must be something specific to your setup.

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#1117 Post by nooby »

cthisbear if you do puppy pfix=ram then the software should be able to ask where you want to save.

if it fail to mount the HDD and present it as somewhere to save to then it is formatted with a specification that it does not recognize?
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#1118 Post by bigpup »

Problem with uninstalling Pidgin braking a full install of Lucid 5.2
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66443

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#1119 Post by cowboy »

playdayz wrote: I was able to get Sylpheed too cowboy. That minute and a half has got to be a good clue for someone on the sound. Firewallstate comes up slowly--it could be blocking. delayedrun could take a while to finish--those are just wild guesses. We probably couldn't change anything now though unless it was a slam dunk (famous last words ;-) Is your 521RC a fresh install?
Yes sir, fresh install from Live CD to savefile on USB stick. ext3 savefile format, usb stick formatted vfat. Don't think I'd fool with it now - sound does work for most people, even if it takes a bit of fiddling, or a bit of waiting. The clues might be useful, as you say, down the road. Thank you.
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Slackware joke

#1120 Post by gjuhasz »

nooby wrote:What exactly are you referring to?
The referenced Slackware "release" is really the release of the day. In other words, an April 1 release :D .
My part of the joke was only creating the "Last day's hitlist" picture. Sorry if I misled anybody :P

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#1121 Post by nooby »

At least one of us got totally fooled. I will not tell you whom though. Too embarrassing. :) I am a slacker but not so much into slackware
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#1122 Post by rjbrewer »

nooby wrote:At least one of us got totally fooled. I will not tell you whom though. Too embarrassing. :) I am a slacker but not so much into slackware
Nooby;

You haven't even started to "get" slack.

http://www.subgenius.com/

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#1123 Post by RandSec »

Sage wrote:
The firewall needs to be up by default before the first network transaction is allowed. (Originally, that would be me, RandSec.)
Not quite. Only if your machine(s) has/have already been cloned.
Those old network attacks were not simply a response to user error, but were actually able to reach in from the net and exploit issues that would otherwise have been hidden. At one time, the Microsoft Windows worms were a vast plague, which stopped dead with the release of XP SP2, where the firewall was enabled by default. Before that, the firewall had been available, just not enabled, and that made the difference.

The old tricks are being recycled all the time. And if somebody takes a particular dislike to Linux or Puppy for some reason, we could have problems. With modern malware techniques, it may be difficult for us to even see those problems. We depend upon the OS to report processes, files, and data content, but when malware runs it owns the OS, and lies to the user. (Malware LIES, imagine that! Now imagine it owning the OS.) Nowadays, in Microsoft Windows, it may not be possible to even see the malware files, or to see changes in those files, from within the owned machine. We want to avoid those games.
That is only likely if you've already done something stupid, eg like opening obviously bent emails from people you've never heard of, trying to buy V-i-a-g-r-a online (just when will the Yankies learn to institute a proper NHS service?!)or visiting porn sites (your wife knows about this?!). There are those around who are dumb enough to dual boot with other OS es.
Getting the user to open or even run a Trojan attachment is the way it used to be, and certainly is a continuing issue. On Windows, much of the recent problem has been .PDF attachment Trojans, but the attack of the day changes as any particular technique becomes ineffective. Recently, hundreds of thousands of otherwise ordinary web sites were subverted to take browsers to malware pages. Usually, the Firefox add-on NoScript offers good protection for this, but the OS is not much involved in that fight. One possible exception might be a recent trend toward exploiting Java, which is cross-platform and thus a significant risk even for Linux.

One of the larger lessons from malware in Microsoft Windows is that once infected, the OS needs to be re-installed. On a hard-drive system, infection changes boot and run-up data to restart the malware each time. So far, so good, since we might re-install just that. But when malware runs it contacts a botmaster who can do anything at all in the machine. Since it is not possible to know what the botmaster has changed, recovery in place simply cannot be guaranteed, and our old friend the OS is not what we knew before and cannot be trusted in any way. Thus, the motive for DVD booting, which essentially does re-install the OS on every session. But with modern malware we may not even know when we have been infected.

Anti-virus scanning for particular malware files is no longer effective for a range of reasons, but for one thing, modern malware can "encrypt" the infection files. Even if the infection-dropper is found, scanning will not be finding the real malware. When malware leaves something around for scanning to find, it has made a mistake. So, if we find anything at all, we need to re-install the OS. The real problem is that when done properly, we really do not have tools to show that a malware infection exists.

As an alternative to scanning, we can imagine checking each and every OS file for existence and correctness, necessarily from a different OS instance (since this one may have been subverted). By booting from CD, an appropriate program could check that every required OS file exists on the target drive, and that it produces the correct hash value. That would be just a first step, of course.
How many times? Buy a pair of caddies. HDs are cheap. One per user. If the other person screws up on their HD that's their problem. But, with Puppy, even that expedient is overkill - use one machine per person. People dispose of machines perfectly able to run Puppy. You don't need multi-cores, etc, etc. That's what this is all about. If you want bells, whistles and go-faster stripes you deserve all you get.
And stop bugging our clever developers to make this compact distro run the latest and greatest gadgets that don't even run on the supplied driver for you-know-who's OS.
I recommend each user have their own boot DVD+RW. That still does not get me out of maintaining each one in the house, and configuring for the wife.

Actually, it might be a REALLY GOOD IDEA to make some sort of translation interface that would allow drivers for Windows to be loaded and used efficiently in Puppy.
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#1124 Post by rjbrewer »

Sage wrote:
It's only happening on this Dell 700m; Luci-Lupu wifi are stable on
the PowerSpec pc.
et seq.

Not a new boy around here rj, so why are you still wasting your dosh on dodgy proprietary cr*p?! You know that Dellboy and his cohorts get up to all sorts of leverage trickery with their boxes to save a few cents and garner favour with the Beast of Redmond. Not enough proverbial six-year olds in your neighbourhood to build proper kit from eg NewEgg or Anand?

If you're stuck with junk HW, esp. if there are BIOS issues, you can try searching for the actual Chinese manufacturer of the board and flash to the generic BIOS. Works for me when I'm gifted with defective proprietary stuff.
???
What is all this blustery brewhaha?
The 700m is a laptop, not a pc.
It's an outstanding puppy machine.

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#1125 Post by playdayz »

Lucid Five Twenty-Five

A Five Digit Update from Lucid 5.2
The Ultimate Expression of the Lucid Vision

What we need is a quick sanity check. There are so few changes, just make sure it does the obvious, boots, installs, runs. Who's awake and online? Maybe we can have a release when the Aussies wake up!!!

In the first message. Thanks.

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#1126 Post by James C »

Barely awake...I'll see if I can get a download going...... :lol:

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#1127 Post by RandSec »

01micko wrote:
nooby wrote: How can we duplicate that to USB for us that have no CD nor DVD player such as on Netbook Acer D250 10" sized mini laptops?

Why can not a usb be made safe that way? Or a frugal on the hdd install?
Well you can't really as the media is rw (though I guess with some clever code it could be done as rw :? ). However, if you can boot from an SD card they have the little switch on the side to make them read only (aka ro) . I read somewhere on the forum that this works as far as booting puppy and running in RAM, though this was awhile ago. I'm feeling a bit lazy so sorry no link! :P
I have installed to SD card many times. Ironically, it turns out that the little "switch" on a SD card is not really a switch after all, but just a plastic tab which the reader senses. That means we are not going to be changing that switch without removing the card, which is not allowed when we have booted from it.

I have also tried USB flash which has a write-protect switch. (In my case, the "Clip Flash Drive" from imation.) Changing that write-protect switch in place is tough, but possible. After that, the next problem is a need to be hyper-aware of exposure in the write-enabled state. Whereas the optical drive file system can be limited to updating only when the user commands, the flash drive is always enabled and frequently written automatically. So if the user goes one step too far, that cannot be reversed, and recovering security means starting from scratch.

The advantage of the DVD is to load the current system (which involves traversing multiple directories finding the latest file, and somehow learning to ignore those which have since been erased) into RAM. After that, the DVD drive stops and there is no activity. The DVD is not used in operation (unless commanded, of course). So if the DVD drive suddenly starts up and blinks, we have a clear indication of a problem.

In contrast, the USB flash always runs and often blinks. A malware attack in that environment is just one momentary blink among many. There is no clear indication of trouble, and of course no way to recover either.

I promote Puppy Linux LiveDVD to people worried about online banking and get a lot of negative feedback. For one thing, many machines no longer have DVD capability, so there are continued requests for a secure flash approach. Having tried this myself in several ways and reasoned it out, I currently recommend using an external DVD writer instead. Nobody likes that, but it is the best I can do with the Puppy we have.

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#1128 Post by James C »

playdayz wrote:Lucid Five Twenty-Five
What we need is a quick sanity check. There are so few changes, just make sure it does the obvious, boots, installs, runs..
Well, 525 boots,installs and runs on the old P3 test box. :)

Testing later,time for my breakfast........... :lol:

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#1129 Post by tubeguy »

525 on Compaq Presario S4500NX
Athlon XP 3000+ @ 2GHz
1.5Gig ram

Frugal install to 20gig ext4

Only one thing, didn't connect to the internet straight away on first boot, got this error message when trying to download FF4 from Quickpet.

Otherwise OK, posting from FF4 now.
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#1130 Post by rjbrewer »

playdayz wrote:
What we need is a quick sanity check..
Did a quick sanitary check;

a spill in the 3rd floor stairwell,

janitor on his way to clean it up.

Is this version 04-01-2011?

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