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[saintless]

Edit - 21.06.2017: According to this post the thread stays open as a community project:

[James C]

Just a quick hardware check test.......... appears to be working as expected on my Athlon XP box. Wired internet connected on boot,correct screen resolution (1440x900) using nouveau. Dillo and Xfe are working. Booted the non-pae kernel by-the way.

Running "apt-get update" right now.

Almost 3 am so too late for more testing now ....need sleep.

Looks like a solid beginning.

[James C]

Successfully installed Iceweasel 17.0.9 with apt-get so it's working.

[saintless]

[saintless]

First thing I don't like in wheezy live cd.
It mounts /live/image/ which here is /lib/live/mount/medium in read-only mode and mine is formated in ext3.
I thought it was my mistake while removing packages but the original debian iso does it the same way.
First job is to search a fix for this. Might be impossible for me. We shall see.

[saintless]

[anikin]

Hi saintless et al,

the simple solution, that you've found - where that code comes from?
I had something like that in squeeze, even worse - my whole SD card with all the puppies and Lite-Debian was inaccessible. The reason, it seems, because I removed 'persistent' option and I also tried 'nopersistence', which I believe equals to pupmode5/pfix=ram. Plus, at the same time, I was switching between pae and nonpae versions. Finally, in the nonpae version I'm able to access, r/w sdc1 with the 'persistent' option present. OK, a quick question - how do you compile stuff in LD? Does it have dev tools in the unstripped ISO? Haven't tried wheezy, yet.

[Keef]

anikin

Might be worth looking here:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/build-essential

[saintless]

Hi, Anikin,
the simple solution comes from mount man page:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
I found there the same example with ro. I just change it to rw.

Squeeze uses different save file and menu option persistent. If it doesn't present in grub it is possible to mount /live/image in read only mode.

Wheezy changed peristent with persistence option. Still trying to understand the structure changes in wheezy. Unfortunately no time to give proper information how to use debian live extra options. I will do it sooner I can.

Ho do I compile stuff in debian - never did this to tell you the truth. '' especcialy with debian I never feel the need to learn how. I can download all I want from debian repoes and have it working in few minutes.

To compile stuff you need:

[sunburnt]

Hey Toni; I tested it, it boots good, w3h ( whatever...) browser looks like a VT & doesn`t work.
Dillo got Google up, so the network is running good. I see the Xfe suite, a good drop in...
I doubt the XfPackageManager is compatable with Deb. You definitely should remove it.
I don`t know how to install apps, so I didn`t test it. There`s no Save file, how`s that work.?

It would not shutdown, and won`t exit X and drop to the console, had to press reset button.
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[musher0]

Hi, Toni.

I tried to boot using three of the four options, and each one hangs at:

[Schpankme]

[James C]

[sunburnt]

In short... This distro has Debian parentage. Most Puppies have no real package parentage.

Their package management systems show this point most obviously. Debian "just works"...

[James C]

Went ahead and did a quick install. Ran apt-get update (success) and now installing Iceweasel. Easy as pie.