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I look forward to trying Carolina out. I'll be attempting it on a ThinkPad T4* laptop with a Pentium M CPU and 2gb RAM.

Should be fun

EDIT: just curious, how did you choose the name? I live in North Carolina USA and I'm chuckling over the location matchup.

With the size of Carolina being over 300 megs, it seems like a small thing like adding fd0 as a device and an app for formatting floppies would not add that much size to it.
And there are still people that find a floppy useful.
Is not Wake Pup made for making a floppy to boot Puppy?

I am going to wait a few days before downloading the ISO as it may be in the process of being uploaded and I would not want to get a partial file what with my slow internet speed of 1.5mbs.

starhawk wrote:Just curious, how did you choose the name? I live in North Carolina USA and I'm chuckling over the location matchup.

The Carolina breed is a wild breed from the Eastern United States, commonly know as the "American Dingo". It has a very old lineage, but wasn't discovered until the 1970's. Here's an article from Wikipedia about the Carolina breed. Ironically, the name for the distro was suggested by an Australian.

By the way, I'd be very curious to hear how 'lina runs on your think pad

8-bit wrote:I am going to wait a few days before downloading the ISO as it may be in the process of being uploaded

The ISO is available in the repository. See the first post on this thread for links, as they have now been added.

could you apply this patch for 845 users? or does it interfere with other graphics cards?

No it's not a typo, pup-volume-monitor-0.1.7: Lightweight drive management.

I reported there was a problem with the pup-volume-monitor to akash_rawal, he kindly rewrote it,
this as fixed problems with unmounting and applications crashing while mounting drives.

Any chance of getting this in the Saluki repository if it's applicable? I'd be glad to test it.

I can't run Carolina as it's PAE and the flag checking in syslinux or Grub4dos won't let me even though it will run on my Pentium M boxes.

Here you go, Marv - pup-volume-monitor-0.1.7-i486.tar.gz.

oops heres the link to the patch

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/linu ... ff/?h=845g


saluki doesnt seem to have the patch command

can the patch command be added to carolina?

Here you go, Marv - pup-volume-monitor-0.1.7-i486.tar.gz.

Thanks elroy. Installed and running in Saluki 023. So far so good. It seems to have cleaned up the mount/unmount behavior (I usually do it entirely within Thunar now). I'll continue to use it.

slenkar wrote:could you apply this patch for 845 users? or does it interfere with other graphics cards

I wouldn't think it'd work. Carolina uses the PAE 3.2.13 Linux kernel. You would have to apply the patch to the correct kernel sources and recompile a custom kernel in order to accommodate this. You could do that, and then change the kernel out using the custom-builder in either Saluki or Carolina. At present, Carolina won't be officially supporting other kernels.

Carolina's target audience is newer users, and newer computers. While we'd like to accommodate everyone, and every situation, that just isn't possible.

No sound using either the multiple card wizard or alsa
Alsa says the audio card is Intel panther point

Any ideas?

thanks

Thom

Marv wrote:Thanks elroy. Installed and running in Saluki 023. So far so good. It seems to have cleaned up the mount/unmount behavior.

You're welcome, Marv. Sorry to hear that the PAE kernel won't run on your setup. I'll discuss with Geoffrey about possibly offering a Carolina version with the 3.2.8 kernel as an alternative.

tlchost wrote:No sound using either the multiple card wizard or alsa

Did you run the alsa mixer from the terminal to ensure that none of the devices were muted? That's the only thing I can think of, outside of maybe needing to load a driver.

Hello,
Wow, he`s a big boy!!
D/Ling now and will report back...

puppyluvr wrote: Hello,
Wow, he`s a big boy!!
D/Ling now and will report back...

Yes, she's a bit fat...but it's necessary for the application support. Thanks for trying Carolina out. Much appreciated.

@elroy:

DLing now.

Never heard of the Carolina dog -- skimmed the Wiki article you linked, rather educational indeed!

I'll keep you posted on how it works out.

starhawk wrote:Never heard of the Carolina dog.

Nor had I. Hence when Geoffrey suggested it as a name, and I read up on it, it was more than obvious that Carolina would be a great name. Plus the fact that "Carolina Linux" rolls off of the tongue quite easily...

Hello,
An adrive and a zdrive.. Interesting..

First impression is good. Booted up fairly quickly, correctly configured my vid card (gma45), my sound card, and barked.. Nailed the 1366x768 (instead of 1360 which some get wrong), and GL worked OOTB..

As with most 3 series kernels, I had wireless problems..
This is not a Carolina issue, but a kernel issue..
If my wireless card (RT5390) isnt physically turned on during boot, before the kernel is loaded, it WILL NOT turn on.
So, I rebooted accordingly, and it remained on..
It was seen as wlan0 under the pci2800 driver, as with Precise and Lupu Pups.
However, it failed as such:

Strangely, every post concerning this error and my card, pertain to Gentoo!
It is a firmware issue, and could be easily corrected I believe, I`ll get back on that..
Forgot to try ndiswrapper which works well for this card.
When I shut down, and attempted to make a savefile, I got:
"dev/ not found"
Could be a fluke, I`ll retry that again as well and get back, hopefully from Carolina itself....

cannot use "Carolina Custom Builder" because many required files are not in Carolina repository...

i might use Carolina without Adrive and just add a few required apps via .pets and/or Puppy Package Manager"...

also... might keep the Adrive if i could delete certain apps with "Remove Builtin Packages",.. eg, LibreOffice and Thunderbird

anyway... excellent os... hope you will continue to maintain it...

ps: currently using Saluki-023 with "custom" Adrive...

Beautiful puppy, best I've seen lately.

I particularly like the single click option.

Problems so far, no floppy and grub4dos only.

I have several puppies installed on my P4 but Win XP as my main OS. I want it to boot to XP without menu so puppies are booted by floppy.

I tried adding Caroline to the grub menu but it won't work.

Roger