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saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

Nooby, I forgot to add you need to have the word persistent in your kernel line in grub menu list in order to use live-rw file.

And one more important thing:
Do not delete live-rw file while it is in use from 1-hotROXpussy!
If you need to delete it do it from LM or Puppy or from Windows.
Otherwise you may loose the space from live-rw file and the only way to get it back is to format the partition.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks for all your efforts.

This part does not look promising at all.

"It is better to use different partition,
not the boot partition where your /live folder is located,
because this save file will mount your boot partition.

You can test to see if it will mount the boot partition in ro or rw mode.
If it is ro mode you have to put it on another partition or on usb stick instead.
Otherwise again you will lose rw access to your boot NTFS partition. "

So Debian is almost impossible to use in frugal install.

Now wonder it took years for AntiX devs to make it possible for them.
Thanks for the description how to install firefox. But without being able
to use the live-rw then what usage would I have of Pussy?

I could use LM12 instead and have a much more modern distro?

An odd thing is that when I start up Terminal and give it the command
setxkbmap se then it takes nearly 60 seconds to parse that one.

So something is very wrong there. LM12 does it in a second.

saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes sorry. this time terminal took only 1 second. I think I used the
LX-terminal when it too some 60 seconds. Not sure. I test again.

I did my best to get the save file working but I don't have
the brain needed to get all this.
What am I supposed to do to tell it to save it to the live-rw?

Nothing happens.

saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Hehe that is what I trust I have done a few times now.
I failed making the 44-firefox opening the way you wrote.
It shows the clock that it do something but in the end
nothing happens. So I lost temper and used synaptic
and installed iceweasel instead.

Now I will reboot and see if it remains.
Edit Nope it is gone so something fails.
Could be me not good at reading your
instructions. I've done my best though
and have to give priority to other things.

A major redo of how to place furniture in my small room.
Will take days to change around.

saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2980 Location: Sydney Australia

I hope that this project proceeds despite the recent circumstances.

No.... I haven't tried it.

But I was luke warm to Lucid, Slacko and Saluki.
To which I have given plenty of later testing.

So eventually if it becomes easy to download and run
like a regular puppy ISO can....I will give it a shot.

I just like to peek through the door now and then
to see what's happening.

Regards...Chris.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

I trust that this part fails

"check is your sda2 partition auto mounted after reboot with live-rw save file and do you still have rw access to the files on the partition."
I did not have access to it had to do a manua. mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt
It is a ext2 file though. But one have to manually do the mounting of sda2
so most likely that explains why it does not load the live-rw

Can one tell it on the command to load it before it really boot Smile

I mean to stop before it boots and there tell it to load the live-rw?

or does it goes wrong when it reboot. It never writes to it.
It still says it accessed it yesterday when I created it so
it has never got accessed ever since then. Despite me did my best
to follow your instructions. So something important is missing.

saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Nah I don't want to add the extra complexity of having to use a USB
Sorry. I have to take care of others things now. Much appreciated
that you cared about my selfish wants and wishes.

saintless · Joined: 11 Jun 2011 Posts: 481 Location: Bulgaria

As you wish, Nooby.

Since I've spend some time on this problem, I've tested NTFS partition made with Gparted + 1Gb live-rw file on it and 1-hotROXpussy.squashfs loaded in RAM.
The save file works and the partition is mounted on boot.

I don't see the point to continue this test by installing Windows and by formatting the NTFS partition from Windows.

I'm sure in time this information will be useful for someone else.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9476 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes this forum has/have a lot of active users
and at least some of them have windows
so it should be easy for them to jump in and
do the test.

I certainly did my best to unzip the offical live-rw file
and placed it on the / that my puppy name root.

So I have no idea why it failed. Ooops can it be this thing?

title Pussy Linux Beta 2
root=(hd0,1)
kernel /pussyhotrox/vmlinuz rw live-media-path=/pussyhotrox boot=live config persistent swapon quickreboot noprompt autologin username=root password=pussy toram=1-hotROXpussy.squashfs
initrd /pussyhotrox/initrd.img
boot

And I took the vmlinuz and the initrd.img from the Beta One of
hotRox. Where did you take it from?

If you are sure it will be important and none else want to test
then I can use your code instead but I want the word live
to be free for other OS I need to install on that HD.

So was it the code or was it the vmlinuz and the initrd.img
that where too old. I had access to none else at that moment.