PHATSlacko - March 2013

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PHATSlacko - March 2013

#31 Post by ETP »

Hi 01micko,

Thanks for the GParted f2fs aware pet,it works fine.

A utility to create a dual boot PHATSlacko card or stick can be found here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 299#691299
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Re: PHATSlacko - March 2013

#32 Post by 01micko »

Billtoo wrote:Hi 01micko,
I followed your instructions about creating the two partitions on an
SDHC card, I used my remaster dvd and when I copied the files that you
suggested it failed because it couldn't find the savefile that was
created on the f2fs partition.
I made a PHATslacko folder the copy the files from the dvd.

I tried a second time and this time I copied all the files on the
remastered dvd to the ext2 partition,(no folder) and ran grub2dos.
I booted the card in another pc and made a few changes,then shutdown
creating a savefile on the f2fs partition.
Turned the pc back on and booted from the card, it found the savefile
this time.
Thanks for that, I amended the instructions and updated the screen shot.
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libreoffice on a stick

#33 Post by Minnesota »

Help:

I tried twice to load to a stick and run Libreoffice.

First I used a 1g stick, then a 2g in case install was not complete, should be enough. I can run Libreoffice from the CD desktop icon. No hard drive. So boot should be clean. I get the sticks to boot, and most things to run. I get a message when I click on the icon on the desktop, file not found or no reference to defaultwordprocessor.

Any suggestions or can you duplicate the problem. Same for Calc of course.

Thanks.

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#34 Post by rcrsn51 »

Minnesota: Did you remember to copy the adrv_slacko_5.5.00.sfs from the ISO onto the flash drive?

I ran PHATSlacko on a flash drive with ISObooter and it worked fine.

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qt4 and libre office

#35 Post by Ledster »

Ran ootb on my i5 quad core/ATI HD5750 setup (cd start up with save file on hard disc).
Great, with only one small minor prob.

I don't like the size of the menu fonts in VLC, so went for qtconfig - not in the menu
system anywhere. Fixed by opening it's .desktop file and adding X-Desktop to Categories.
Desktop seemed a reasonable place to me.

Libre Office is great, but I do like to have a local help system. I did try to compile
LO myself a few days ago (in 5.4 - configured without java and a few other things, but
make crashed insisting on having java). As I have the help source file to include with
my compilation is there any way I can install/link it into PHS (phatslacko)?

edit
have now thrown in Stellarium 0.11.4 and Scribus 1.5 svn sfs's (both compiled in Slacko 5.4)
and both run fine - fast and problem free.

Many thanks for this one - I think I will be using it for a long time!

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PHATSlacko - March 2013

#36 Post by Billtoo »

@01micko

I have your audacious 3.3.1 sfs in my PHATslacko remaster, I made pets of
audacious 3.3.4 a few days ago in another slacko 5.5 install so I just
installed audacious-3.3.4-i686.pet,audacious_DEV-3.3.4-i686.pet,
and audacious-plugins-3.3.4-i686.pet in PHATslacko and it's working
fine.
The Audacious 3.3.4 that I run in the other slacko 5.5 install won't
play mp3 files but 3.3.4 does in PHATslacko.
I made pets of 3.4 alpha1 as well but 3.3.4 is working so I'm going to
leave it at that.
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Re: PHATSlacko - March 2013

#37 Post by nancy reagan »

01micko wrote:PHATSlacko

Productivity enHanced And Tuned

Download 397 MB iso + md5 checksum, kernel source sfs (106 MB), headers pet. Use Slacko 5.5 devx.

Mirror ..many thanks dennis .. be ok! (iso and md5 only)

Torrent thanks to aarf

PHATSlacko - 5.5 is FATSlacko renamed and updated, so not to confuse with FatDog. This puplet is designed to enhance your productivity at
work or at home. It's based directly on Slacko 5.5

Have fun!
Hi Mick,

Would not THICKSlacko have been more self explaining ?

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LibreOffice on a stick

#38 Post by Minnesota »

rcrsn51 wrote:Minnesota: Did you remember to copy the adrv_slacko_5.5.00.sfs from the ISO onto the flash drive?

I ran PHATSlacko on a flash drive with ISObooter and it worked fine.
????? I ran the universal installer......period...... we need other procedure?????

PROBLEM SOLVED. With the manual copy
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#39 Post by tlchost »

Minnesota wrote: ????? I ran the universal installer......period...... we need other procedure?????
My experience was that the universal installer does NOT copy the adrive.sfs to the usb drive....I had to do it manually.

Another thing I noticed....the bootable USB drive I made was not readable by windows....which is really inconvenient, as I carry a USB drive with lots of portable windows applications, documents and severasl puppies with me.

As a work around, I moved the Phatslacko files into a seperate folder and added to my syslinux.cfg file so I can boot Phatslacko and still access the drive from windows.

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Re: LibreOffice on a stick

#40 Post by Minnesota »

tlchost wrote:
Minnesota wrote: ????? I ran the universal installer......period...... we need other procedure?????
My experience was that the universal installer does NOT copy the adrive.sfs to the usb drive....I had to do it manually.

Another thing I noticed....the bootable USB drive I made was not readable by windows....which is really inconvenient, as I carry a USB drive with lots of portable windows applications, documents and severasl puppies with me.

As a work around, I moved the Phatslacko files into a seperate folder and added to my syslinux.cfg file so I can boot Phatslacko and still access the drive from windows.
I believe that problem is solved if you format to FAT32 instead of recommended Linux ext2.

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#41 Post by tlchost »

Minnesota wrote: I believe that problem is solved if you format to FAT32 instead of recommended Linux ext2.
Did not solve the problem here.

gcmartin

Any other PhatSlacko users observe this???

#42 Post by gcmartin »

There seems to be a problem with this distro's SAMBA.

Edit2: this problem seemingly is linked, somehow, to DNS/WINS registration. One of the Live PCs has magically appeared with its server name and workgroup names showing as well as a MASTER name (workgroup line) as well. Its information fields are filled when viewed from on all 3 PCs, while the other 2 PCs fields remain with empty fields no matter where the smbclient's query is run for them.. (SEE BELOW in "More Additional Information")

Edit1: Warning, this problem is showing up in FATDOG620 which also ships with a current SAMBA for system startup. (SEE BELOW in "Additonal findings", as well)

What is occurring is that the PC is being statted with SAMBA which doesn't display a hostname. And nothing appears to be working to get it to product its Netbios hostname. This is observed soon after FirstRun completes by pening a terminal and doing the following

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# smbclient -U% -L localhost
Domain=[Workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.0]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	Dowbkiads       Disk      
	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Puppy Samba Server)
	CUPS-PDF        Printer   CUPS-PDF
Domain=[Workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.0]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
#
Am wondering if the latest security releases of SAMBA will alleviate this problem in PhatSlacko.

Confusing, is my KVM virtual machine version is NOT exhibiting this problem for it sees the hostname and the workgroup name appropriately displayed. But the problem is found on the Live booted laptop and desktops, thus far.

Further, doing a save-session and reboot, the same problem exist on reboot as before....And retrying with a boot where "pfix=ram" yields same error.

The PC's desktop start procedure can be observed by the steps outlined in this Beginner's Guide document.

Additional findings
This exist on my current FATDOG-620 system as well running SAMBA 3.6.12. This may NOT be a simple SAMBA version problem but maybe something else in the distros.

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# smbd restart
# smbclient -U% -L localhost
WARNING: The security=share option is deprecated
Failed to load upcase.dat, will use lame ASCII-only case sensitivity rules
Failed to load lowcase.dat, will use lame ASCII-only case sensitivity rules
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.12]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	data            Disk      Downloads
	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (FATDOG620beta2-SMB)
	CUPS-PDF        Printer   CUPS-PDF
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.12]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
# 
Ideas....anyone on why the Server and Workgroup fields are showing up blank? NO firewalls are active.

More Additional Information
Cannot explain why this suddenly has info and others dont. This view is run from FATDOG looking out at one of the PhatSlacko's on the LAN. That PC's server and workgroup fields were shown like the above consoles show.

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# smbclient -U% -L 192.168.1.6
WARNING: The security=share option is deprecated
Failed to load upcase.dat, will use lame ASCII-only case sensitivity rules
Failed to load lowcase.dat, will use lame ASCII-only case sensitivity rules
Domain=[Workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.0]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	Downloads       Disk      A Central Download folder for all to use
	Downloads2      Disk      A Central Download folder for all to use
	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba Server)
	CUPS-PDF        Printer   CUPS-PDF
Domain=[Workgroup] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.0]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------
	PHATSLACKO-ONX2      Samba Server
	UPSTREAM             Lure/Record IP address

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
	Workgroup            UPSTREAM
# 
This PC had blank fields when viewed 1 hour ago when trying to get to the bottom of this problem. But, the other PCs have same blank fields as before.

in case anyone is wondering, Iff the IP addresses are used, all shared resources can be accessed.

Any ideas
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simargl

#43 Post by simargl »

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#44 Post by ally »

hey micko

gvfs fixed transmission/audacious errors


@simargl

curious to know more

:)

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#45 Post by 01micko »

@ally.. good gvfs fixed it.

<ot>
simargl is just peeved because of this. Never mind his bagging of puppy in general and alienating his major adrive developer.

He'll either get over it one day or fight to the bitter end. Doesn't matter. :)
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Compiling problem

#46 Post by peebee »

Hi Mick

PhatSlacko doesn't include the Broadcom wl.ko wifi driver.

Tried to compile it but loading the Slacko5.5 devx with sfs-load-on-the-fly kills PhatSlacko stone dead....

Have checked all md5sums are correct, plus loading the devx in Slack5.5 is fine.

Loading via the bootmanager does seem to work and wl.ko is compiled but a modpost error occurs during compiling.

The delta file for k3.8,2 and the multi-kernel wl driver pets can be found:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 468#691468

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Re: Anyone other PhatSlacko users observe this???

#47 Post by 01micko »

gcmartin wrote:There seems to be a problem with this distro's SAMBA.
I don't think it's time to panic just yet! I think if running live there is a minor bug that sets the share to /mnt/home, which doesn't yet exist. This can be easily rectified with samba simple management. Also, samba needs to be restarted after changing the hostname, this is what may have caused your problem.

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peebee, I didn't have a problem loading the devx. Anyone else experience this?
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#48 Post by rcrsn51 »

Mick: Both Samba and devx loading look fine to me. Although I don't agree with having the Samba server turned ON by default.

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#49 Post by peebee »

01micko wrote:peebee, I didn't have a problem loading the devx. Anyone else experience this?
Hi Mick

I think I know the answer.....

My usual method of compiling is to boot a pristine frugal install with no savefile and then load the devx and kernel souces with sfs load on the fly and then make - i.e all in ram.

I guess PhatSlacko with the adrv loaded may use a lot more ram and therefore the above method will not work - will test by having no adrv loaded....

[edit] - nope still crashes even without the adrv

Precise 5.4.93 with the k3.8.0 kernel behaved in exactly the same way:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00142

Sorry if I've raised a red herring.
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#50 Post by 01micko »

No problems peebee... if you want to compile in RAM use /tmp but if it was just to be faster, that is without installing then yes, RAM crash is the culprit.

You can also make and mount a RAM disk, Bruce B has the code in one of his stickies at the top of the forum, I forget off hand :oops:
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