Jobo's 'setting up Puppy' thread

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#76 Post by Semme »

Oh good. To me it's odd you've gotta clk to close tabs.. Great little extension here.

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#77 Post by jobo »

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1008M 540M 469M 54% /
/dev/sda1 5.1G 4.1G 1017M 81% /initrd/mnt/dev_save
/dev/loop1 1008M 540M 469M 54% /initrd/pup_rw
/dev/loop0 126M 126M 0 100% /initrd/pup_ro2
unionfs 1008M 540M 469M 54% /
tmpfs 31M 108K 31M 1% /tmp
shmfs 26M 0 26M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 74G 19G 56G 26% /mnt/sdb1

the fdisk file in root is blank ??

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#78 Post by Semme »

That means it wasn't entered correctly. Are you still having a problem with disk space?

Joe- how'd you like a terminal you can not only copy'n paste from, but *modify" too?

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#79 Post by jobo »

its still loading to a awp file and not the partition and i want it as fast as possible to compensate for the lack of ram

yes id love one

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#80 Post by Semme »

In order to format YOUR drive, you'd have to boot from usb. I know it's possible to copy the needed files there, then boot Pup'n run gparted to partition and format the drive. I haven't looked at it closely enough to know how it's done, though I suspect Plop is the utility of choice. This would be optimal for your situation. Hmmm....

In the meantime, that terminal is lxterminal.

Set your repos like in my screenshot, then OK'n exit.

Reopen and search.

When you click the pkg, follow like here, the bit about *choosing* pkgs- DON'T HIT UPDATE!

I know I can work out the usb bit, I'm just not there yet..
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#81 Post by Semme »

GOT IT!

This setup'll allow you to partition and format your drive.... granted- Plop can override your BIOS.
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#82 Post by jobo »

dont get to far into it, this comp wont boot from usb,, i set the partitions up on an external hd, only it wont recognize them , or rather it did the first time or two, but not since

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#83 Post by Semme »

Won't boot from usb? Sorry- you don't understand. Plop's different.

What happened to: fdisk -l

That's a little "L" btw...

You grab lxterminal? SeaTab_X?
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#84 Post by jobo »

cool so that will over ride the boot bios built in to the comp ? looks like one for tommorow its late here

thanks

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#85 Post by Semme »

Override's a possibility- yes, one for :wink: tmrw or later..

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When ya get a minute install this. Tell me it opens with a ctrl+shift+s key combo.

Your ability to take and post screenshots is gonna keep us on the same page..

*Oop's.. your dwnld wound up with a *gz* extension and wouldn't install, right?
No problem- rename it with a *pet* extension and <wink> she'll go..
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