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carbking
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
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Location: Pennsylvania, USA
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 Posted: Sat 11 Mar 2006, 15:38 Post subject:
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new puppy user here, it's very fine indeed but has me a bit confused. I'm running 1.0.8-ro-mozilla and booting from CD-ROM each time. I've installed some things (XMMS, StreamTuner) and they work fine and are saved between sessions. Then I decided to try an OLD 100 MB parallel port Zip drive-not to boot, just to mount and read-so I followed the instructions found elsewhere on this forum, namely:
downloaded ppa.o.gz to ~/my-documents
copied it to /lib/modules/2.4.29/scsi
In rxvt, typed in:
depmod -a
modprobe ppa
Then went to the Media Utility Tool and mounted the Zip drive and everything worked. Then I went to Start > Shutdown > Reboot Computer. After rebooting, I found I had to go thru almost the whole procedure again in order to be able to mount the drive. What really puzzles me is that the file ppa.o.gz (which I had copied to /lib/modules/2.4.29/scsi) wasn't there anymore, I had to go back to ~/my-documents and copy it over again. I think I'm missing something really fundamental here -- any comments?
Thanks!
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BarryK
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| Posted: Sat 11 Mar 2006, 20:50 Post subject:
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 Yes, puppy 1.x does not save anything in /lib, only if you have done a
full hard drive install.
However puppy2 does save /lib.
Anyway, your immediate problem is you will have to place ppa.o somewhere
in /root, then place some code into /etc/rc.d/rc.local to load it.
It has one dependency, parport.o.
So, put this into rc.local:
| Code: | modprobe parport
insmod /root/ppa.o.gz |
or, if uncompressed:
...or whatever the path is if not in /root/.
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carbking
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Thank you, I'll give it a try.
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carbking
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| Posted: Tue 14 Mar 2006, 18:57 Post subject:
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| BarryK wrote: |
Anyway, your immediate problem is you will have to place ppa.o somewhere
in /root, then place some code into /etc/rc.d/rc.local to load it.
It has one dependency, parport.o.
So, put this into rc.local:
| Code: | modprobe parport
insmod /root/ppa.o.gz |
or, if uncompressed:
...or whatever the path is if not in /root/. |
I tried the above and it did not work for me. I put ppa.o.gz in /root and added the code to rc.local:
| Code: | modprobe parport
insmod /root/ppa.o.gz |
when I rebooted, ppa.o.gz was still in /root (hooray!) but the drive still did not show up in MUT. I went to rxvt and typed
modprobe ppa
and the system responded with
modprobe: can't locate module ppa
I then tried
insmod /root/ppa.o.gz
and the system responded with
insmod: a module named ppa already exists
not sure of the terminology, but does this mean that the module ppa is "loaded" but I can't "start" it?
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