ETP wrote:@ Puppus Dogfellow & greengeek,
You may wish to try my f2fs version of 666philb's Unicorn-6.0 building block pupplet.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 817#816817
It is something I keep returning to as it is quick,versatile & very stable.
No problem with Nvidia.
thanks for the rec, ETP. i just recently mirrored the original. does yours have the PPM fix? how can you change the size of the f2fs partition that gets created (or do you need to make an image file first)?
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i downloaded the initrd and vmlinuz, placed them in a folder on sda3, ran grub4dos, got the following entry in menu.lst:
title war3ry66 (sda3/wary66)
uuid f8f444ac-98cb-46a2-8f2b-64d2b0ab03a2
kernel /wary66/vmlinuz psubdir=wary66 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /wary66/initrd
, which looks good to me. it also gave me the idea to manually redo the frugals on one of my machines--i moved around the folders, unpacked some isos so that the folders looked like any other bootable pup's, reran grub4dos--everything looks like it'd work but i haven't yet rebooted. can anyone think of a reason the preceding would fail (savefolder/savefile issues on existing installations aside) or anything i should change before i attempt to boot one of them? i left one installation intact so i'm pretty sure (possibly faulty jwm compile aside) i'll be able to boot from something off that drive regardless.
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for anyone interested, the installations work that way. you could just copy the format from the menu lst, make a folder with the initrd.gz, the main puppy.sfs, the vmlinuz, and the zdrv, if any (decompress an iso to get htese files), copy the uuid from the blkid readout (just enter blkid in to a terminal window--not necessary if there are working installations on the partitions represented in the menu list--just copy over since the id numbers for the partitions don't change), and the pups you've set up in this way should boot. at least precise and unicorn did, and i don't see why the other puppies (quirkies are likely another story) wouldn't also work. anyway, you could place frugals on any partition with this method. it's pretty quick, too, especially with find and replace, geany, and a few working templates (i.e. a menu list that's worked in the past--again, why recopy the drive data if it's already there. just rename a folder and the paths the entry contains. however, if you've destroyed the menu list, that blkid command comes in pretty handy. i've personally decided to keep a spare menu list in my dropbox folder as a precaution...).
does anyone know how many different ways you can write a menu list and still have it work? what's the boot up process looking for as far as how the list(s) get formatted? how many ways of identifying a text document as a menu list are acceptable? i copied the format that i believe grub4dos generates--it was run many times on all the machines and i believe is a prerequisite for any of this working (i basically said yes, fine, that sounds good to all the pop ups).
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unicorn was nice and quick, but i'd like double monitor support out of the box and neither zarfy nor lxrandr seemed to be able to get both monitors to work at the same time...(i eventually got double monitors working in unicorn--zarfy's virtual monitors are a bit--itty bitty, but the gui's manageable enough.
anyway, it does look very promising.
and installations just got a bit easier. for me, anyway.
(hopefully someone else can use it/attest to the fact it works (though i don't think my new installations imaginary)).
edit: seems like a fairly established practice--i'm pretty sure it's just what known around here as a manual frugal.