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mikeslr

Despite this thread having been closed (without explanation), perhaps this reply will help. I ALWAYS have flaky internet. (Thanks, Verizon :twisted: ). Conman is the best at quickly establishing an internet connection. But a PITA once it looses it. So I use Network Wizard as the default. Takes a lit...

mikeslr

Sorry, I meant to write 'whichever is your Ext4 partition'.

mikeslr

This review demonstrates why https://puppylinux.com/ shouldn't offer old Puppy releases. Reviewers just grab the first option they see in this homepage, then talk about unmaintained things like PPM and the old Puppy installer that doesn't support UEFI. :thumbup: Or https://puppylinux.com/ should pr...

mikeslr

What brand of USB-Key did your use? What was it's alleged size? Not all manufacturers are honest. When you used rufus, did you carefully follow the instructions here? https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=40522#p40522 particularly, Step 6: "Under Persistence use the slider to have ru...

mikeslr

I haven't used Diskpup in awhile, and even then seldom. If you neither created a folder before running diskpup, nor were asked to create one by it, Fossapup64's system files (initrd.gz, vmlinuz, puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs, etc. may be scattered all over the Top level of the sda4 partition. Folders, th...

mikeslr

I am running bookwormpup64 without a save folder. So do I. This means that you are running in PUPMODE 5. If you change to PUPMODE 12 before shutdown or reboot you will not be asked to create a savefile/folder. The PUPMODE is stored in the file /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE . I use a command to do this ( sed -...

mikeslr

Rather than burning a CD, I recommend acquiring one or more good USB-Sticks and burning Puppys to them. Scandisk is a reputable manufacturer. You can get bye with an 8 Gb stick; but a 32 Gb Stick can be obtained for less than $10. It's large enough that once you've deployed one Puppy to it others ca...

mikeslr

Hi bigpup Will have a look that that as well EDIT - I have browsed that link before, and is from 2022. Is the OS it proposes still valid / current, and works with 32 bit and internal wifi? Regards Chris Puppys are a fan-driven family of operating systems. There is no steering committee making deter...

mikeslr

Rockedge, will Test3-radky.tar work if the virtual HDD is formatted to ext3? Although there are other advantages to using ext4 rather than ext3, https://askubuntu.com/questions/44908/what-is-the-difference-between-ext3-ext4-from-a-generic-users-perspective the principal ones are: "Overall maxim...

mikeslr

Because symlinks don't work from a Fat32 partition Mike's portables can't be used AS-IS. But you can use them to create an SFS: Create an empty folder: e.g. Right-Click an empty space and from the Pop-Up menu select New>Directory and give it a name, e.g. temp. Create an Brave directory within temp: ...

mikeslr

Your Menu might use a term other than "Exit". Maybe "Leave". It's usually at the bottom. Clicking it opens a GUI which offers the "Restart-X" or "Restart Graphical Server" option: different names for the same thing. What it does is have Puppy re-catalog its sy...

mikeslr

IIRC, the 'old' palemoon was built-in. That is all files were included in the puppy_slacko...sfs. The hard way to get rid of it is to use Menu>Setup>Remove Builtins, Save --which creates white-out files so that while they're there they are ignored-- and if you're really serious Remaster. When you Re...

mikeslr

There are two modules in NicOS-Utility-Suite, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=12983#p12983 which make it easier to 'capture' customizations, themes, settings, etc. Save2SFS is the easiest. It doesn't do a 'remaster'. It creates another file-system which will be loaded on boot-up. No...

mikeslr

Hi, Scooronimudge. :welcome: To the Forum. See this thread, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=80259#p80259 and follow its links, especially to https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=100547#p100547. If this is the first time you've burned a Puppy to a USB-Key, tell us what operat...

mikeslr

Sylvander, we can't read each others minds so we have to use language and no one speaks the same language. We only think we do. Occasionally, there's sufficient misunderstanding that wars result. I'm still trying to figure out what is meant when I hear 'That's bad' or 'It's the bomb.' The first time...

mikeslr

I, again, suggest that further discussion of the grub2 boot-loader problem be continued here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=10951.

This is NOT a BookwormPup64 problem. It will occur without regard from which Puppy grub2config is run.

mikeslr

Not sure if the following provides useful information or is just a 'red herring'. On the two laptops on which I've encountered the problem one was an HP Pavilion (I think) model 15-cc184cl. I think because it is a 17" and could not find a model other than an otherwise identical 15". It cam...

mikeslr

Yes, gparted the entire drive creating a first fat32 partition and setting its boot flag. grub2config still reports the same error. Suggest further discussion of this grub2 problem --which isn't specific to Bookworm-- be continued here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=113883#p113883...

mikeslr

I see that gyrog has been working on grub2, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=104876#p104876, updating it to 2.06 from 2.03 or 2.04. I wonder if that is sufficient, noting --from the above thread-- that the new 2.06 binary doesn't support Secure Boot and that "GRUB2 has matured t...

mikeslr

Yes, /mnt/home is your 'Home' partition. How to download?: whichever way is easier. Mike's portables are fully portable. Once downloaded, even after extraction, they can be moved/copied anywhere, even to another computer. That remains true even after you've customized them*. Within the extracted fol...

mikeslr

Just flagging a problem which surfaced on the Bookworm thread, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 31#p113831: "grub2config v2.01 fails on GPT drive". And several posts which follow that.

mikeslr

Hi Sylvander, Welcome back. :welcome: Please tell us about your computer, in particular CPU and the amount of RAM. As you've used slimjet in the past, I assume the computer supports SSE2 &/or SSE3 instructions. I don't recall any Slimjet which functioned if either wasn't built in. It may be nece...

mikeslr

wizard, "grub2config v2.01 fails...Has anyone else seen this error?" Yes, the first time on an HPLaptop which came with Windows 10. I assumed that the failure was peculiar to it. Then on a Dell after I had installed (first) Manjaro, (later) Linux Mint. I assumed the Manjaro install had som...

mikeslr

Just to be sure you know: Don't make a copy of a Save (File/or Folder) while it's being used. Generates errors, 'though they may be trivial. Rather first boot 'pfix=ram', or into a different Puppy. Most new Puppys have 'Duplicate' on the Right-Click Pop-Up Menu. Does the job of copying easily. All y...

mikeslr

Link to discussion in compiling Section, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 17#p112917. Does NOT have to be compiled. But does require devx.sfs to be loaded and files installed, including some python.
As of this post, I think, it only worked under JammyPup64.

mikeslr

Link to discussion in compiling Section, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 17#p112917. Does NOT have to be compiled. But does require devx.sfs to be loaded and files installed, including some python.
As of this post, I think, it only worked under JammyPup64.

mikeslr

devx.sfs for F96, from the OP of the F96 thread, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=85882#p85882 > https://rockedge.org/kernels/data/ISO/F96-CE/devx_fossapup64_9.6.sfs The OP of Puppy threads often provides such link. Further info, limitations : https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dicta...

mikeslr

OOTB, questionable. And it doesn't matter whether you run as Root or Spot. A dedicated hacker targeting you can evade spot's folder restriction. The same applies to 'Major Distros' insistence that you run as 'User', and even if you employ a firejail. If you're really concerned, run web-browsers in a...

mikeslr

Just a follow up to Marv's reply to your question about ydrv.sfs. See, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=12983#p12983 for the tool which works with them among other things.The Save2SFS module creates and/or modifies both adrvs, and ydrvs. These are basically identical except that the ...

mikeslr

Works fine in Bookworm64. May open files a 'tad' faster than your gpdf. See, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 46#p113046

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