Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.7 - Nov., 2017 - Final
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Android utilities in 528.007
For the last year or two I have been playing with Android tablets. For those who don't already know, Android is based on Linux. But many modifications, rooting, custom ROMs, etc. require low-level communication with a PC. Of course most utilities for this are Windows-based. However Windows is not very good at this, driver problems are rampant. Linux has a set of standard drivers built-in that work with nearly all Droids; the only exception I know of is the line of Hannspree tablets. If anyone knows how to make ADB and Fastboot work with them please let me know. But for most Android devices Linux is the way to go.
For some time I had problems with newer Intel chipsets, they seemed to be allergic to Android. This was true regardless of OS. Well, thanks to Sulu2, this is no longer the case. Not only does it run both ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) and Fastboot on my core 15-Z87 machine, but it will still boot and run my old P4 box that I've been keeping alive mostly to mod Androids.
I have put together a sulu2 remaster that includes the two utilities (I simply copied them from an Android SDK installation into /usr/bin/), Seamonkey (updated to 2.31), and Cydia Impactor, which is the only one-click Android root tool I have found for Linux.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/62oh3 ... ndroid.iso
Questions, comments, criticism welcome!
For some time I had problems with newer Intel chipsets, they seemed to be allergic to Android. This was true regardless of OS. Well, thanks to Sulu2, this is no longer the case. Not only does it run both ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) and Fastboot on my core 15-Z87 machine, but it will still boot and run my old P4 box that I've been keeping alive mostly to mod Androids.
I have put together a sulu2 remaster that includes the two utilities (I simply copied them from an Android SDK installation into /usr/bin/), Seamonkey (updated to 2.31), and Cydia Impactor, which is the only one-click Android root tool I have found for Linux.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/62oh3 ... ndroid.iso
Questions, comments, criticism welcome!
Re: Android utilities in 528.007
Wow, sounds great! So this sulu remaster runs on an Android tablet? That will have great appeal. Have you considered a dedicated thread with a HowTo tutorial etc? If this is something to try on a cheap Android tablet it sounds like fun.kevin bowers wrote:For the last year or two I have been playing with Android tablets. ..I have put together a sulu2 remaster
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Re: Android utilities in 528.007
No, you misunderstand me. This is simply sulu2 live CD to be run on a PC, with the two command-line utilities added that allow one to modify an Android tablet or 'phone, to wit, ADB and Fastboot. It will not run on an Android tablet, it is merely a tool for tweaking them, and one that is IMHO far easier to use than the Windows tools, mainly because of the lack of driver problems. And of course Puppy is simply easier to use than Windows.greengeek wrote:Wow, sounds great! So this sulu remaster runs on an Android tablet? That will have great appeal. Have you considered a dedicated thread with a HowTo tutorial etc? If this is something to try on a cheap Android tablet it sounds like fun.kevin bowers wrote:For the last year or two I have been playing with Android tablets. ..I have put together a sulu2 remaster
@ally, thanks for the mirror!
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Yes, that's its purpose. There are applications for installing various distros on Droids, also, I believe they work like a virtual machine, but I haven't seen one that supports Puppy. I believe Barry ported ARM puppy to Raspberry Pi, but that's as close as I've seen, and that was quite a while ago.greengeek wrote:So could I use your sulu to root an Android tablet, with the eventual aim of trying to load something other than Android? Eg: some version of Arm puppy?
@GreenGeek raises a good question and equally a good response followed. My rephrasing of what I perceive from their posts is:
@GreenGeek
Should there be an Area in Forum for discussing smartDevices (Android, et. al.) and PUPs.
@Kevin Bowers
PUPPY Linux needs to support the proliferation of Androids.
This idea really does need some consideration from the Forum maintainers, @Flash and @JohnMurga for this additional area. Of course, too, http://www.puppylinux.org also.
SmartDevices in now a mainstay with ever increasing numbers in our homes, garages, man-caves, cars, etc. PUPPY is an excellent platform for providing some solidarity and centralization of the various needs we all have as these ever increasing smartDevices show up for our use and benefit.
I +1 the ideas presented.
P.S. Some months ago I met the author of Android DualBoot utility. This should be in that forthcoming area as it has direct consequence to Puppy's operations on these kinds of Touch devices.
@GreenGeek
Should there be an Area in Forum for discussing smartDevices (Android, et. al.) and PUPs.
@Kevin Bowers
PUPPY Linux needs to support the proliferation of Androids.
This idea really does need some consideration from the Forum maintainers, @Flash and @JohnMurga for this additional area. Of course, too, http://www.puppylinux.org also.
SmartDevices in now a mainstay with ever increasing numbers in our homes, garages, man-caves, cars, etc. PUPPY is an excellent platform for providing some solidarity and centralization of the various needs we all have as these ever increasing smartDevices show up for our use and benefit.
I +1 the ideas presented.
P.S. Some months ago I met the author of Android DualBoot utility. This should be in that forthcoming area as it has direct consequence to Puppy's operations on these kinds of Touch devices.
samedog tries:kevin bowers wrote:I haven't seen one that supports Puppy. I believe Barry ported ARM puppy to Raspberry Pi, but that's as close as I've seen, and that was quite a while ago.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96597
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Utilities to upgrade
XArchive 0.2.8-6 and undeb/unrpm (based on 1.10.18 archive backend) are standard utilities in Lucid 5.2.8 through 5.2.8.7. They cannot handle the .xz format. For that matter, the excellent XArchiver 0.5.2svn-r28705 from code-master ttuuxxx doesn't recognize it, either.
.xz is becoming a standard. Wikipedia has this to say about it:
.xz is becoming a standard. Wikipedia has this to say about it:
Does anyone have any replacement(s) suitable for Lucid Puppy? Debian has a comand line version of xz-utils but it is in xz format. If you don't already have it, you can't get it and if you had it you wouldn't need it!xz has gained notability for compressing packages in the GNU coreutils project, Debian family of systems deb (file format), openSUSE, Fedora, Arch Linux, Slackware, FreeBSD, Gentoo, GNOME, and TeX Live, as well as being an option to compress a compiled Linux kernel. In December 2013, the Linux kernel maintainers kernel.org announced that they would use xz instead of bzip2 as their compression tool from 2014 on.
[i]Puppy 5.2.8.7, Full Install[/i]
Utilities to upgrade
Folks,
I have found one possible answer to my own question - PeaZip. It will handle the xz compressed files and create them, too, plus about 15 other formats. I have made a PET of version 5.5.2 and tried it on Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 and 5.2.8.7 and it seems to work quite well. I can post the PET where ever someone would suggest. It is about 11Mb in size. Or, you can get the DEB from http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-linux.html There are two versions there. The one I used is Gtk-based. The other one is Qt-based.
I have found one possible answer to my own question - PeaZip. It will handle the xz compressed files and create them, too, plus about 15 other formats. I have made a PET of version 5.5.2 and tried it on Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 and 5.2.8.7 and it seems to work quite well. I can post the PET where ever someone would suggest. It is about 11Mb in size. Or, you can get the DEB from http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip-linux.html There are two versions there. The one I used is Gtk-based. The other one is Qt-based.
[i]Puppy 5.2.8.7, Full Install[/i]
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Rockin' Rerwin!
I had a couple machines that weren't happy with 5.28.005, and even they are fine with 5.28.7 (lower load than Slacko Retro, and good support for older hardware)
I've been migrating all my installs over...
I wonder if/how my 333MHz PII will handle it?...
I had a couple machines that weren't happy with 5.28.005, and even they are fine with 5.28.7 (lower load than Slacko Retro, and good support for older hardware)
I've been migrating all my installs over...
I wonder if/how my 333MHz PII will handle it?...
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Re: Utilities to upgrade
Try MediaFire, it's free (up to a point of course).Hotdog wrote: I can post the PET where ever someone would suggest. It is about 11Mb in size.
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So I have just installed LupuSuper1 on a couple machines.
With the new kernel, it seems that I need a new devx file. I've been poking through this thread, and not seeing it.
Which one do I need for lupusuper1-5.2.8.7-k3.0.25-20141203.iso
Edit: OK, I found it...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 656#749656
However, for the SuperLupu1, it needs to be named "sulu_devx_001-4.sfs"
(it doesn't see "002")
Incidentally, there is one caution on adding these devx files. I've had this on a number of different machines, and different puppy versions.
When you add the devx and reboot, it seems to corrupt the PuppyPin file.
So before adding this, go into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer and copy PuppyPin to PuppyPin.bak.
When it crashes on you, click on any visible icon (mine all pile up in the lower left corner). Open the window, click on the "home" button. Go back into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer and copy your PuppyPin.bak file over the corrupted PuppyPin file. Restart X from the menu, and it's back to normal...
With the new kernel, it seems that I need a new devx file. I've been poking through this thread, and not seeing it.
Which one do I need for lupusuper1-5.2.8.7-k3.0.25-20141203.iso
Edit: OK, I found it...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 656#749656
However, for the SuperLupu1, it needs to be named "sulu_devx_001-4.sfs"
(it doesn't see "002")
Incidentally, there is one caution on adding these devx files. I've had this on a number of different machines, and different puppy versions.
When you add the devx and reboot, it seems to corrupt the PuppyPin file.
So before adding this, go into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer and copy PuppyPin to PuppyPin.bak.
When it crashes on you, click on any visible icon (mine all pile up in the lower left corner). Open the window, click on the "home" button. Go back into /root/Choices/ROX-Filer and copy your PuppyPin.bak file over the corrupted PuppyPin file. Restart X from the menu, and it's back to normal...
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Some versions of 528 don't print to PDF
if you find the print to pdf doesnt work, try the attached pet.RetroTechGuy wrote:Rockin' Rerwin!
I've been migrating all my installs over...
The backend script doesn't alway detect that it is a puppy system
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- PDF_printerfix.0.0.pet
- (3.37 KiB) Downloaded 235 times
updating 3hd .6 to .7 versions
Can I just copy the initrd, vmlinuz and sfs files to my existing 3hd 5.2.8.6 directory( and edit menu.lst or sylinux.cfg of course)? What about savefile compatibility?
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Re: updating 3hd .6 to .7 versions
Obviously make a copy of your savefile before trying it.Snail wrote:Can I just copy the initrd, vmlinuz and sfs files to my existing 3hd 5.2.8.6 directory( and edit menu.lst or sylinux.cfg of course)? What about savefile compatibility?
I found that it was compatible, with at least the 5.2.8.7.
When I moved to LupuSuper1, I decided to start a fresh savefile, to remove all the non-user files "crud" that eventually accumulates in them...
As for the install, I think that's pretty much what I did. (I may have had puppy do an install in a new folder, just to make sure, then moved those contents over to replace the old...verifying the grub bits and paths)
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3HD upgrade to 5.2.8.7
Thanks for the encouragement, I'll give it a try.
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Hi Rerwin (and others).
After doing my upgrade to Sulu1, I realized that I hadn't installed my HP Laserjet 1020. It's a new savefile, so all my old baggage is gone.
I seem to have forgotten what magic I did to get it running under 5.28.
I tinkered a bit, and then uninstalled all the various drivers I tried, and added only foo2xxx_rcrsn-2014.pet
I get a handshake "cycle" when I start up, but when I try to print I get
Under 5.28.005 (or earlier -- I simply used my old save file), I also had some HP drive (hpijs3.11.1.d-something -- I tried adding that, but didn't work).
Am I missing something obvious?
After doing my upgrade to Sulu1, I realized that I hadn't installed my HP Laserjet 1020. It's a new savefile, so all my old baggage is gone.
I seem to have forgotten what magic I did to get it running under 5.28.
I tinkered a bit, and then uninstalled all the various drivers I tried, and added only foo2xxx_rcrsn-2014.pet
I get a handshake "cycle" when I start up, but when I try to print I get
Code: Select all
stopped
"Empty print file!"
Am I missing something obvious?
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All of the lupus contain the HP support packages hpliplite-3.14.3 and hpliplite_plugin_install-1.2 in an attempt to support many HP printers. My printer experience consists only of installing my HP printers in CUPS. What happens when you do that?RetroTechGuy wrote:After doing my upgrade to Sulu1, I realized that I hadn't installed my HP Laserjet 1020. It's a new savefile, so all my old baggage is gone.
I seem to have forgotten what magic I did to get it running under 5.28.
I tinkered a bit, and then uninstalled all the various drivers I tried, and added only foo2xxx_rcrsn-2014.pet