Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[charlie6]

Hi Pemasu,
Xprimo 3.1.10.3...downloaded and installed
Again lot thanks for your time and energy !
Charlie

[James C]

Exprimo 5.X.3.10.3 .....frugal install on my main Athlon XP box.

GetFlash finally works.

Still no Wget or working ping though ........ unless I add the "-4" to the command.

[pemasu]

Thanks James C. I have followed the discussion about ping and wget ipv4 fix. The scripts are fixed....

[shinobar]

[shinobar]

@pemasu
BTW, the boot menu on the 5.X.3.1.10.3 seems older version.
The recent version is like this:
The 'Windows' menu is unified, add 'Grub2' menu.

[pemasu]

Thank you Shinobar of your feedback.
About Safe Mode disabling features. nodma nopcmcia does not work for me either. Of course there is reason why it does not work....but I do not know it. It might be kernel configuration which coulde be tested by testing other 3.X kernel booting. But it is shooting to the dark.
Meanwhile I will remove those choices.

Your menu.lst update suggestions. I do like that one page menu.lst more. I will update into it.
Acer laptops and possibly others has restore partition and the Windows choice finds the restore partition /bootmgr
If you install the real OS with included installer....(hd0,1)/bootmgr is the real win7 OS partittion
And you cant have usb hdd attached and configured to be bootable before laptop hdd.

So...it might be good idea...maybe....to have that choice there also. Otherwise some people might be confused when the grldr boots restore partition which offers you to create factory default installation to your win 7 OS partition.

It is nice boot choice when you do want to do that....but it really can confuse. Or...if there is other mechanism to inspect...when there is several bootmgr installed in hdd. In acer laptop the factory setup creates them to the restore partition hd(0,0) and for real OS partition hd(0,1)

About PLANG. Barry K posted today that he will upload soon updated 3builddistro which might have cure for locale persistence when you choose us_US.UTF-8 as default locale. And he has already uploaded updated quicksetup and lang2initrd. I am not sure if this kind locale persistence mechanism is good. The read only media users dont have possibility to update initrd.gz....at least without manual hacking. Which could be nice adventure to new users....lol...

[charlie6]

Hi Pemasu,

Here have edited the boot/grub/menu.lst with pfix=ram to boot in ram.
Here, this does not work if there are already existing squeezesaveMY_NAME.4fs files present into the /home directory.

Here have to rename the squeezesave files (for onstance XsqueezesaveMY_NAME.4fs) so that they are ignored at pristine boot up.

Cheers, Charlie

[pemasu]

pfix=ram should work.
The right syntax for extra savefiles is: squeezesave-xxxxnamexxx.4fs
I havent ever had problems with pfix=ram option.
if you have same named puppy folders in different partitiion...that can cause problems. Use unique name for each frugal puppy folder or pdev1 boot time parameter to guide the loader to the right partition.
I would need more info about your unsuccesful usage of menu.lst. Copy of unsuccesful menu.lst would help debugging.

[pemasu]

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.3.1.10.3 has been reuploaded with fully working menu.lst for Live CD. No other changes.

[jim3630]

5.X.3.1.10.3 frugal install to ext4 hdd pfix=ram.

only issue is firefox when reopen gives error msg ff is already running.
has done this after couple of reboots. of course, no other ff is open
but taskmanager does show one open. killing it in taskmanager allows
open ff from menu again.

[Tman]

[jim3630]

[jakfish]

Hi, pemasu--

Just tried out *.10.3, and it's looking good:

1) getflash works, and without the annoying reminders

2) in previous dpup versions, after setting timezone, etc, I used to get a prompt to restart X. I don't now--is that right, there is no need to restart X?

3) from exprimo repo, downloaded and installed .5 bluetooth pet without problem

4) fn volume control on S10-3t is fixed, with on-screen volume scale

5) no more prompt about setting up pupsave file until actual shut-down; I like that, too

6) my xorg.conf reconfiguration to get working ClickPad and touchscreen still functions

7) as usual, dpup exprimo found my router and broadcom internal wifi, and WEP setup went fine


A couple of things:

1) your bluetooth start-up file (that lives in /root/Startup) is missing

2) when I downloaded .5 bluetooth pet, for the first time in my dpup try-outs, it warned me of copying over libs. I knew I needed .5, so I went ahead and installed. But the file is necessary, and you don't want t to scare off new users and bluetooth. Maybe this pet should come pre-installed

3) fn brightness works, but with no on-screen scale (similar to volume control). I don't mind, but is a file missing (the way volup, etc was missing from previous version)?


I hadn't realized that Racy 5.2.2 had a 3.07 kernel, so I tried that out. Racy saw my router, but couldn't connect, nor was the ClickPad fully functioning. My xorg re-config crashed Racy.

So this dpup is the real thing for my particular hardware.

Many thanks, once more,
Jake

[shinobar]

Strange for me, the PupShutdown does not accept keyboard.
I pressed the power-button, the PupShutdown dialog arises, but it cannot be managed by the keyboard.
I suppose it is not safe considering the case we loose the mouse or the display. There is no way to shutdown unless the hard power-off.

[pemasu]

Shinobar. That Pupshutdown problem needs fixing. Thanks.
I am atm in Polarpup...probably whole this evening. I am considerating to update Polarpup a little. Just compiled Qupzilla in it and testing it now.
But I will back with Dpup Exprimo tomorrow...I just have too much stuff around to reboot.