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Applications that make Legacy OS 2 Great!

#1 Post by john biles »

Over time I'll add regularly the Applications included in Legacy OS 2 that make it a far more useful Distro then most users realize.
For those ignoring Legacy OS 2 for one reason or another, I hope this post entices you to rethink your thinking and discover why I'm so proud of this release.

Lets start with the version of K3B Burner included in Legacy OS 2 what can it do?

* Burn MP3's to Music CD
* Burn data CD's and DVD's
* Burn Mpeg1 in to VCD's
* Copy DVD5's
* Burn DVD9 to DVD5 created by K9copy.

Plus a whole lot more!
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#2 Post by DM was on fire! »

K3B is my favourite Linux burning utility. It was the first I used when I was growing up on Linux. :3

Where is the post with your .iso for LegacyOS 2 (or a direct link for it?) I tried to search for it a few pages back and nothing. Either that or I am completely missing something.

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#3 Post by James C »

DM was on fire! wrote:K3B is my favourite Linux burning utility. It was the first I used when I was growing up on Linux. :3

Where is the post with your .iso for LegacyOS 2 (or a direct link for it?) I tried to search for it a few pages back and nothing. Either that or I am completely missing something.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 877#529877

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#4 Post by john biles »

Another great Application is "Multimedia Converter 1.5" This was a lost Application from 2007 I found and have brought back.

I can't guarantee all options work but most do, enjoy!
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#5 Post by john biles »

K9copy where legal will shrink a DVD9 to a DVD5 even if it's an encrypted DVD. An average movie takes about 45 minutes to an hour to shrink.
An iso file is created which gets burnt by K3B.
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#6 Post by john biles »

Another useful Application is Mandvd.
I know this is an earlier version which suits Legacy OS 2's system well.
Turn those Videos and Pictures in to a DVD Home Movie to share.
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#7 Post by Dave_B »

I read your post about Legacy OS and decided to burn a CD and give it a try. I remember trying Legacy OS quite a while ago, but I couldn't get a wireless connection and moved on.
This time, I loaded the correct wireless module and the wireless connected fine. I'm using Legacy OS right now.
This laptop is a Compaq N410c with a 1.2 GHz PIII processor and 512 MB of RAM. I'm using a D-Link DWL-G650 PCMCIA wireless card and connected to my home wireless network with WEP encryption.
So far, everything works perfectly and my little laptop seems pretty zippy. You have included a very rich suite of apps, more than any other puppy variant I've tried lately. I have a family member running Ubuntu 11 on an older desktop, and I'm going to see what she thinks of Legacy OS, I'm pretty sure it is just the thing for her.
Thanks for the hard work,
Dave

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#8 Post by john biles »

Hello Dave_B,
Excellent! great to hear you've got wireless working! Which driver did you install? Also I apreciate that you listed the specs of your Hardware.
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#9 Post by Dave_B »

The ath_pci wireless driver works with my D-Link G650 PCMCIA card. Good thing I wrote down which driver worked in another puppy, because auto-probing loaded 9 drivers that didn't work before finally loading the ath_pci driver.
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#10 Post by john biles »

Hello Dave_B,
Thanks for replying!
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#11 Post by Sylvander »

1. "Why aren't you using it if it runs on your PC ?"
I'd LOVE to give this a go...
But it wouldn't boot on my old [2003] hardware.

Is there a fix?
Should I give it a 2nd try?

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#12 Post by john biles »

Hello Sylvander,
Can you list the specification of your PC.
How many Hard Drives does it have. Does Legacy OS 2 boot at all?
Can you run it Live. What errors do you get.

Hello Sage and others, if anyone has ideas when the specifications are listed please post your ideas. Lets see if we can get Legacy OS 2 installed on Sylvander PC. The results might inspire others to try also.
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RE: Why aren't you using it?

#13 Post by oligin10 »

Hi John, just wanted to let you know why I am still using TeenPup 2010. When I try to install to my Sony Vaio laptop, it shows hard drive partitions as hda, instead of sda. I don't have enough time to research this right now, but wanted to let you know what my problem is. Legacy looks great and runs fine from the cd, but I always do full installs. Thanks, Rob

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#14 Post by john biles »

Hello oligin10,
TEENpup 2010 Mini is based on Puppy 4.2.1 and has kernel 2.6.26 where Legacy OS 2 is based on Puppy 2.14 which has kernel 2.6.18

Between those kernels the kernel team decided to change internal Hard Drives definitions from hda to sda which use to be and still is in Legacy OS 2 a USB Stick. You'll do no damage to your PC, we hope! LOL!
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#15 Post by Sylvander »

1. Re-downloaded legacy-os-2.iso
Calculated the md5sum and it agreed with the value given.

2. Used Burniso2cd to burn the ISO file to a CD-RW disk.

3. Booted the Legacy OS 2 CD.

4. The following errors were displayed:
Mntg pup_214.sfs on /pup_ro2 Failed
Mount: /dev/hdc write protected, read only
Mount: Mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2
Failed: Invalid argument
Buffer I/O error on hdc, logical block 664
usb 1-2: Config #1 chosen from 1 choice
SQUASHFS error: unable to read superblock
Pmounting tmpfs on (/initrd)/pup_rw...
Creating unionfs on (/initrd/pup_new (to become "/")...
Kernel panic - Not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

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5. Hardware:
Mobo = ASUS A7A266
AMD Athlon processor = 1009 MHz
644 MB RAM reported [actually 3x256MB = 768MB total]
2-off 10 GB internal HDD's [ATA Samsung SV1021D; ATA Fujitsu MPF3102A]
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-112D

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fail to boot Legacy OS 2

#16 Post by gnomic »

Wild stab in the dark - using a rewriteable CD can cause problems. Perhaps try with a plain old CD-R? Your optical drive is on the vintage side possibly as well, assuming the CD-RW was written on it.

Does this machine by any chance have the video chip integrated on the motherboard? That might account for the apparent RAM discrepancy. Perhaps some system RAM is being 'stolen'. On some machines it is possible to select the amount of system RAM being used for video via the BIOS.

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#17 Post by Sylvander »

1. "Perhaps try with a plain old CD-R?"
(a) This optical drive is used to burn CD-RW disks for ALL the other Puppies I've tried, and they generally work.
I've no reason to suspect the use of CD-RW disks is causing a problem.

(b) I'd rather not waste a CD-R, when I expect such a burn to fail.
Need better than a "Wild stab in the dark" to justify the probable waste.

2. "Your optical drive is on the vintage side possibly as well, assuming the CD-RW was written on it."
(a) This optical drive is one of the newest items in this PC.
It has served me superbly well.
The other optical is an older Samsung CD-R/RW SW-252F.

3. "Does this machine by any chance have the video chip integrated on the motherboard?"
(a) NO, the video out is from a card:
nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (Rev 15)

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unable boot Legacy

#18 Post by gnomic »

Ah well, if you don't want to waste a cd-r . . . go on man, throw another sixpence on the fire as my old dad from Glasgow used to say.

Perhaps try the disc you have on some other computer if you can find one for such an experiment. If it works, then you know Legacy doesn't like some aspect of your computer. Have you tried booting from both optical drives? Is this the same brand of disc as previously found reliable?

Of course you have burned the disc at the lowest possible speed? 4x good, 32x possibly bad. I normally use burniso2cd at 4x or 8x.

No doubt your Pioneer is a very fine drive. However I find optical drives seem rather prone to failure. It's not surprising as they have exacting work to do while spinning the media. I think I have one of these in my collection of salvage, and it works OK with DVDs but not CDs.

As to the misreported RAM, just a guess about integrated video. Might be worth running a memory testing utility, perhaps one of the sticks is partly bad.

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#19 Post by 2byte »

Buffer I/O error on hdc, logical block 664
Your CD-RW disk is bad, at least that has been my experience when that error is reported. Had it happen just recently on a disk that had only been used once before, then had two more disks out of the same ten pack that were bad from the factory.


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#20 Post by Sylvander »

1. OK, I burned legacy-os-2.iso to a Sony CD-R.

And it behaved EXACTLY the same as the CD-RW.
Hence it is now WASTED. [Exactly as I expected] :(

2. "Is this the same brand of disc as previously found reliable?"
YES, I use the same 8 CD-RW disks = 700MB 4x Tuffdisk grade A+ CD-RW.


3. "Of course you have burned the disc at the lowest possible speed? 4x good"
YES, burn speed = 4x [chosen automatically by Burniso2cd]

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