BarryK wrote:Yay, EasyPup 2.2.14 is out:
https://bkhome.org/news/202003/easypup- ... eased.html
As I mentioned in the EasyOS 2.2.14 announcement, the PackIt app is supposed to be in the right-click menu when right-click on a file or folder, but isn't. It is still available in the "Utility" main menu. I did have the right-click menu working, must have done something wrong in the pet, I will fix that asap.
Hi Barry.
Hope you're well and in good spirits.
Two things or questions:
First Question:
1) was rushing around this morning, trying to do more things at the same time than this old brain can keep up with, and when I updated my EasyOS to 2.2.14, I dutifully copied the 3 things we need to, but of course I forgot to click on the initrd so it could begin to popups to ask if wanted to update the boot specs file.
Upon rebooting and not having a correct 'boot-specs' file,my EasyOS couldn't boot because it now could no longer find the boot partition.
So, I got in another pup (Radky's) and thought, "no problem", I'll just (on the EasyOS USB, inside SDA1) run:
# mkdir initrd-tree
# cd initrd-tree
# cat ../initrd | cpio -i -d -m
# cd ..
----I then, after opening another terminal and typing 'blkid', I made the necessary 'boot-specs' corrections like we used to do in the early days.
Then I continued:
# sync
# rm inintrd
# cd initrd-tree
# find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd
# sync
# cd
...and I thought, ok, it should be fixed now.
Well, upon reboot, everything was now completely screwed (the initrd seemed to be toast) and I instantly just got the ancient blue-screen-of-death from old WinXP days.
What did I do wrong? And if this happens in the future, what is the correct thing to do. just spent two hours re-installing 2.2.14 fresh and re-setting everything up like I had it before. Was kinda frustrating but don't understand what I did wrong......
2) Second question:
I updated Petget, and all the 'Debian' repos updated.
I then installed the latest Firefox-ESR-68.4.0.
Firefox-ESR installed easily and runs great.
I then rebooted (always do this after installing something).
I then go to EasyOS Main Menu, click-->Filesystem-->EasyContainerManagement, and select "Simple".
I wanted to create a 'Container' for this Firefox-ESR install.
But, nowhere under the "Simple" Easy Container Management" menu, is the selection for Firefox even available.
In EasyOS 2.2.14, is it still not possible to put something, or in fact, anything???, in a Container after it has been installed via PETget Package Manager??
I personally dislike doing any Containers via SFS system. But I understand if you say it (using SFSes only) is the only way, at the current time, that Containers can be set up & run properly in EasyOS.
P.S. Also wish there was a way to have a jwm tray icon to know the firewall is actually "Active". Call me old-fashioned, but not seeing anything always leaves me to wonder about it....