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PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I bumped my pupsave size by 64MB, taking my free space there to 115MB according to the taskbar thingy. This had the effect of increasing the amount of the youtube I was watching to 28 seconds. Whoopee! Crying or Very sad

FWIW, this is the youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNf6_ivPk4

But other, longer youtubes play to completion. Weird.

bigpup · Posted: Wed 15 Jun 2011, 17:03 Post subject:

mikeslr

Hi All,

I decided that I use LibreOffice Write and Calc so often that it made sense to load the LibreOffice SFS on bootup. Although "Boot Manager Configure bootup" see the SFS --named LibreOffice33.SFS-- as an SFS of the proper version and permits me to move it to the right hand pane (of SFSes to be loaded at bootup) and is the only SFS in that pane, both before and after booting, it does not load. I have no problem loading it via JRB's Linker.

Is this just a naming problem, i.e, requiring that the name be changed? or is there a bug in the Boot Manager Configure App?

MikesLr

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1603 Location: South Australia

mikesir,

It should work but you could try renaming the file to:
LibreOffice_33.SFS

Jesse · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 465 Location: Auckland, NZ

Hi All,

I set up a computer with Lucid 5.2.5, booting from a usb card.
It all worked lovely until I took out the hard drive.
The hard drive was not being used in any way, no swap partition or puppy files are on it.
The PC has 1gb ram, and I am using a 256Mb Usb chip for booting.
The boot screen at "loading drivers to access hard drives ..." kicks me out to the command prompt, mentioning that it cannot find lupu-525.sfs. But I can find my sdb1, mount it, and find lupu-525.sfs there, so something just needs a wee tweak.
If I plug the hard disk back in (ide 80Gb) the usb boot works, I find this a bit odd that I can't boot without a hard drive.

Can someone please point me in the direction of which script is in charge of that task that is failing (presumably in the initrd.gz somewhere)?
Also I'll need to know how to extract and bundle the initrd.gz file too.

Cheers,
Jesse

bigpup

Jesse · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 465 Location: Auckland, NZ

mikeslr · Last edited by mikeslr on Tue 05 Jul 2011, 20:46; edited 1 time in total

Hi smokey01,

Thanks for the suggestion, but LibreOffice_33.sfs doesn't load either.

I'll try loading some others via boot manager and see if this is a more general problem on my setup;

Edit: Gimp successfully load via bootmanager, so it seems to be a problem specific to LibreOffice.
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Processor: 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor
Memory: 3375MB
Resolution: 1600x900 pixels
VGA compatible controller: ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics
Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

mikesLr

bigpup · Posted: Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:13 Post subject:

If you are having problems with wifi and modems you may find help with new drivers and info here:

Extras for Puppy 5.1 with 2.6.33.2 kernel
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59000

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Jesse, I wish you luck. If you look back in this thread you will see I tried and failed; I think Barry has not posted all the details of his fix. FWIW, it is also possible to boot without a hard drive if you have Puppy in the CD as well as on the USB drive.

I will be happy to help any way I can.

Jesse · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 465 Location: Auckland, NZ

Hey I found the problem, regarding booting without hard drive.

In the init script on line 499:
LESSPARTS0="`echo "$LESSPARTS0" | grep -v -f /tmp/ATADRIVES0`" #110205

It seems that Line 499 does not do its intended job, the reason being that the file /tmp/ATADRIVES0 always seems to have an invalid character in it, its totally weird to me too.

Well hey I am not really sure about why that file outputs unusual content.
But I found that if I replace line 499 with codes to do equivalent in commands that are known to execute as expected, then I can boot up without a hard disk.

replacement codes:

for REMOVEDRIVE in $ATADRIVES
do
LESSPARTS0="`echo "$LESSPARTS0" | grep -v $REMOVEDRIVE`"
done

Thanks for your help guys. I hope this patch goes into the next puppy.
Cheers, Jesse

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Worked like a charm on my hard-driveless laptop Jesse. No more need for anything in the CD.

However still not working on my hard-driveless desktop (an Intel D510MO). I think it is something else. I see this printed on the screen:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

On the LQ forum, I ran into a person that is trying to restore some older computers for the less fortunate.
I am trying to help him, but I would like it done right.
He is setting up one PC and going to use his experience with it to set up others.
He states that he did a full install to the hard drive and when he boots, the hard drive icon shows as not mounted.
If he mounts it and tries to shut down, the PC just reboots.
If he unmounts the drive, the PC shuts down normally.

The mounting part is where I am lost as I have never done a full install.
So I ask any with Lucid Puppy 5.25 and a full install, if their hard drive shows as mounted on booting.

Also, I had him do a test by creating and saving a short text file.
This was with the hard drive icon showing the drive as unmounted.
The file was available to him at the next boot.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4738 Location: Kentucky

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4738 Location: Kentucky

Quick test complete. Smile

No matter what the drive icon shows, the partition is obviously mounted on boot.Couldn't access the partition otherwise. My other Puppy full installs show a yellow dot on the drive icon...... don't know how I hadn't noticed this before.

Anyway, I clicked the sda12 drive icon, green dot came on, tried to poweroff and the system rebooted. The green dot was on sda 12 upon reboot but quickly disappeared and is off now as I'm posting.
HTH.