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Hello everybody, maybe somebody might help me understanding the boot pathways shown by 'efibootmgr' command. I am wondering what a new pathway might have to look like, and what the "old" pathways mean. This is the laptop I'm working with: Apple MacBook 7,1 (from 2010) Intel Core 2 Duo CPU ...

Hi everybody, this time not adding ever new questions, I just wanted to let you know that I followed mikesIr's advice, as was... You can use the fossapup you have to create a fully functioning version on a USB-Stick: Menu>Setup>StickPup. But, using gparted, you will have to format the Stick as Fat32...

Hello, mikewalsh, and thank you for entering this discussion and for your encouraging comments. I thought that a laptop with EFI platform REQUIRED using a GPT partition table - but maybe I'm mistaken here? Well; ye-e-s. And no. That's the general perception.....but I'm posting this from my UEFI-equi...

I think I found the save file , the path in Rox filer is as follows ("evelyn" is what I had entered at first shutdown when asked to type a name or word that would help me to recognize that save file later): /initrd/mnt/dev_save/fossapup64save-evelyn Just one (hopefully small) question to ...

Hello everybody, I'm coming back to mikesir's post from jan 07, 2023 here. I think the boot-loader questions might address the right spot. (I've seen that bigpup posted a new suggestion yesterday, thank you!, but I'm somewhat slow in understanding everybody's helpful advice, so I'm going bit by bit....

Hello mikesir, thank you for indicating the "How Puppy Linux Works" and "How Puppy Linux Saves Works" posts, I started reading and will get back to them again. I also acquired another USB stick, for future use. I think I found the save file , the path in Rox filer is as follows (...

Hello mikesir, bigpup and BologneChe, thank you very much for your fast and thoughtful answers. I will have to study them to understand everything. :-) For now, only one information: although it is a Mac "machine" I am working on, there isn't any Mac OS on it anymore, I guess (I had Bodhi ...

Hi there, I'm the typical newbie. Worked with Linux Mint 20.3 for a year, but only experienced in the use of GUI. I manage to handle some copy-and-paste commands from, e.g., UbuntuUsers forum, but no deeper knowledge of command-line tools. Fossapup64-9.5 runs fine from live USB on my MacBook 7,1 (se...

Hi there, I'm the typical newbie. Worked with Linux Mint 20.3 for a year, but only experienced in the use of GUI. I manage to handle some copy-and-paste commands from, e.g., UbuntuUsers forum, but no deeper knowledge of command-line tools. Some days ago, I downloaded Frugalpup64-9.5.iso and put it t...