Hi Sylvander
1. Merging means adding to, as this code taken from the first post in the link:
For directories stored in
/root/pictures/
# to initiate ie blank disk.
growisofs -J -R -Z /dev/hdc -graft-points
oct06/=
/root/pictures/oct06
# to merge another directory on to disk
growisofs -J -R -M /dev/hdc -graft-points
dec06/=
/root/pictures/dec06
You will then have a disc containing the directories
oct06/ and
dec06/.
If you're still in december, you may merge your latest pics into the existing content of
dec06.
I hope I don't overload you with too much info at once: Take a look at the lower 3 windows in the picture in
this post, where the entire
/tmp/applications directory is copied to the disc sr0 as a separate session, on the same disc as the puppy. It can be added to with a simple command, just as the
Save button add dirs and files to the directory on sr0 which hold the puppy files.
The
sr0/applications directory will not be loaded at bootup, but can be mounted and read at any time. This is the way I prefer to save files to the DVD, the
Save button is only used for saving changes to configs and settings that I want to load at bootup.
Beware: Saving a file that already exists in a session on the disc wih the
growisofs command , will 'overwrite' the old version, even when using a DVD-R! Strange but true!
2. A remastering is simply adding and removing programs from the original puppy. I have some I like to use in all puppies, like 'xpdf' and 'pdftk' to read and manipulate pdfs. They are downloaded and set up, while I remove 'epdfview', and all references to it is replaced by 'xpdf'.
You must also know that for example
/usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser contain a command to open your favorite browser, and if you install
opera and the browser icon insists on opening
firefox, you have missed that setting during remastering.
Most of you have probably not read the text in
/usr/sbin/remasterpup2:
This program has created folder /tmp/root, which has everything that is nowgoing to be added as /root in the \$PUPPYSFS file.
This is mostly 'pristine', as obviously you do not want all your cache files,
temp files, email files, and other working/temporary files to be burnt onto
the CD. However, if you are familiar with the workings of Puppy, you might
like to take a look at /tmp/root right now, and possibly add anything that
you want from /root (or remove something!)
Well, yes, you'll want the configs! This is the culprit, you have tweaked your puppy, polished it to perfection, and then it is not saved to the new remastered version after all. You
MUST read through the script before making an attempt to remaster. I usually remaster a puppy 4-5 times before I'm satisfied. (
notecase is a good tool for noting your tweaks)
3. OK, I've never used
wine.
4. I know some puppy derivatives don't always act as the original, you should post a question in the puppy's thread.
The warning you get seem to me as if the session is closed, and cannot be added to?
5. Try an older one,
LupuPlus_5.2.8-1 may work OK for you. You should also look at
quirky and
wary , they have booted very fast on some of my PCs.
And I forgot, welcome to the wonderful world of multisessions.
Edit: I might add that the reason I remaster, is to avoid the slow loading of savefiles. But, I don't understand if the loading is so slow on a 64-bit machine; when I switch from a slower PIII to a P4 1.8 GHz PC, my live disc boots very fast. (less than a minute)
Edit2: Hmm, will a CD boot faster than a DVD? I have to make a test!
tallboy