Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.7 - Nov., 2017 - Final

[cthisbear]

Atle:

" Picking up the stick after Playdayz, is like a real honorable thing to do. "

rerwin is to be commended for his great work.

I use his versions off usb....lovely stuff.

I will download his latest gear soon...been a bit busy.

" the sun shines " every time I boot Lucid.

Chris.

[kevin bowers]

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!

[greengeek]

For the last year or two I have been playing with Android tablets. ..I have put together a sulu2 remaster

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.

[ally]

mirrored here: http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux ... ndroid.iso

[kevin bowers]

For the last year or two I have been playing with Android tablets. ..I have put together a sulu2 remaster

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.

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.

@ally, thanks for the mirror!

[greengeek]

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?

[kevin bowers]

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?

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.

[gcmartin]

@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.

[dejan555]

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.

samedog tries:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96597

[Hotdog]

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 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.

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!

[Hotdog]

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.

[RetroTechGuy]

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?...

[kevin bowers]

I can post the PET where ever someone would suggest. It is about 11Mb in size.

Try MediaFire, it's free (up to a point of course).

[RetroTechGuy]

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...

[Moose On The Loose]

Rockin' Rerwin!

I've been migrating all my installs over...

if you find the print to pdf doesnt work, try the attached pet.
The backend script doesn't alway detect that it is a puppy system

[Snail]

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?

[RetroTechGuy]

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?

Obviously make a copy of your savefile before trying it.

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)

[Snail]

Thanks for the encouragement, I'll give it a try.

[RetroTechGuy]

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

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stopped
"Empty print file!"

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?

[rerwin]

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

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?