The devx_xxx.sfs file system won't get mounted and unioned in 2.x unless you use the frugal install (or boot from the CD). You CAN make it work in a full disk install, however. You need to mount the devx file system, and copy it to /, something like this (untested, I use a frugal install, because it...

Yay! Working good in the new digs.

Put out a tip jar if you need us to help with the expenses. I can't donate much, but if lots of us pony up a little, it should cover it.

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I've been running Firefox 2.0 in Puppy since RC2. Works good. Hasn't auto-updated to 2.0 final yet.

There's not much to installing it from the links above. It expands into a single directory with a "firefox" script at the top-level.

cp -r /initrd/pup_rw/* /mnt/encrypt-tmp/ I noticed this in your Encrypt-pupsave script, too. "cp -r" copies everything, all right, but it preserves neither dates nor soft links. Better to use "cp -a" (archive), which is the same as "cp -dpR", and preserves file attribu...

Typing this with Puppy 2.11 on my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Upgrade went fairly easily, with just a little trouble getting xorg to use 1200x1024 resolution. Everything works so far. Good job, Barry! As usual.

Mirrors, with torrents, of the ISO and devx at http://s3.amazonaws.com/puppy/index.html

Thank you, oh thank you. My new job requires a VPN-over-SSL client that I formerly couldn't make work in Puppy. So I've been doing my work in Slackware. Well, I don't mind Slackware, but it ain't Puppy. Replacing ip and route in Puppy with the Slackware versions made the VPN work. Yay!

You didn't say which version of Puppy you're using. If it's 1.x, then you need to reinstall the firmware on every boot. If its, as is more likely, 2.x, then the firmware will be persistent, stored in your pup_save.3fs file. You can use WAG to make using it for networking automatic on Puppy boot. Rig...

You could certainly have a different pup_save file for each user. If Puppy finds more than one on a volume, it asks which one to use. So you could have pup_save_bob.3fs, pup_save_joe.3fs, etc. Couple this with my startup password mechanism, and you can be reasonably secure. My startup password mecha...

so i think i need dm-mod.ko to make this work Yes, you do; ref the earlier instructions. You also need device-mapper I will email you a copy of all the binaries as a .bz2 in 3-4 hours. Just open it up and run the install script. Tested and works in 2.02 and 2.10B I'd love a copy of the binaries to ...

Makes sense to me, Barry. There are only a few of us who compile our own modules, but there are lots of people who use them. Breaking the former has an easy work-around, especially for those knowledgeable enough to compile modules (I'll probably boot 2.02 in a qemu vm). Breaking the latter would cau...

My 2.00-compiled kqemu refuses to load in 2.10 beta because of: kqemu: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module Not surprising since that was a different kernel configuration. That's what I get for compiling myself instead of downloading MU's Puppy-tested dotpup. :) I'm pretty sure my compila...

I use qemu from time-to-time to try out new ISOs. I've had it running on my server machine in Puppy 2.00 for quite a while now. Yesterday, I installed it in 2.10 on my laptop. qemu itself, binaries from their web site, works fine. But attempting to "modprobe kqemu", the optimization module...

I upgraded my 2.10 alpha pup_save by making a backup copy, changing the version in /etc/puppyversion from 210 to 209, and rebooting with the new vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and pup_210.sfs installed on my boot partition. Everything went as expected, and all the applications I use every day work fine. I'm ty...

What Mark said. The only reason I have Puppy installed on my NTFS file system is because I'm forced to use XP for work, but would rather run Puppy on the machine at home. Works well.

devx_202.sfs and other .sfs files don't work if simply mounted. They need to be unionctl'd into the union at "/". This is supposed to happen automagically at boot time, done by the script in pup_202.sfs that gets left in /initrd/sbin/init after the chroot. In Puppy 2.02, this didn't work i...

I see no usr/share/sounds/gaim directory in /initrd/pup_ro2, the pup_210.sfs mount point. Maybe the code that created pup_210.sfs omitted it, since it contained nothing but symlinks. The five sounds you mention are the right ones, and I doubt GAIM would have any problem with symlinks instead of file...

I'm running 2.10 now on the XP NTFS partition of my laptop. Works good. A couple of gaim glitches, though: 1) Gaim is now in /usr/bin and /usr/lib/gaim. It used to be in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/gaim. I have the silc plugin installed. Had to move it to /usr/lib/gaim. Not a big deal and won'...

I have no bandwidth limit, though each 100 megs of download costs me 2 cents.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/puppy/puppyoffi ... so?torrent

Or without the "?torrent" for direct download.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/puppy/puppyoffi ... so.md5.txt