I am trying out a Dell Latitude D610 Laptop. It has a touchpad + miniature joystick + 2 sets (upper & lower) of left & right mouse-buttons - but no middle button. The menu/Setup/Mouse-keyboard Wizard has an option to emulate a middle mouse-button on a 2-button mouse - but how do I use it?? N...

Edit the boot.msg file (open as text) - something like the following (without special characters) and change the pup version line :


l

logo.16
4.30

For a list of boot options, press the <F2> key.
Puppy will boot automatically in 8 seconds...

Open /etc/profile in a text editor and search for PS1 (PS(one))
it will be something like --
PS1="# "

If you want it to display the folder-name from which you opened the terminal change it to --
PS1="\w# "

There are loads of other options but I can't remember them now

My ACER Aspire 5050 laptop has a built-in wifi card which isn't working too well but still registers as a wlan0 for pup430's connectwizard. I can remove & blacklist it - but then I can't get pup430 to recognize my plug-in pcmcia linksys WPC54G card - it looks like the pcmcia socket is dead - no ...

Linksys PCMCIA wifi card WPC54G-EU v3 works fine in pup430 with its built-in b43 driver. I use it with WEP on an IBM T22 laptop.

I must admit I have not tried the pup Bootflash but I have successfully used the Universal installer to make bootable USBs from many makes. I noticed that over half of my usb flash drives did not come as ready-bootable devices so the default mbr selection (do nothing) gave me unbootable drives. I no...

--------------------------------------------------------- reedited 22sep09 (Partview problem is NOT a PUP430 issue) see below ------------------------- pup430 (full) grub-booted frugal on an IBM T22 Thinkpad & a DELL Dimension 2400 PC (both upgrades from pup425). Works beautifully on both - exce...

@8-bit Thanks for your 19:58 16sep09 msg re:Starting CUPS from Menu - Much Obliged! This does indeed start cups_shell & bring on all the drivers. I've been accessing cups via http://localhost:631/ too long :oops: My CanonS520 using native S500 driver can print to local printer & network pup4...

(THIS ISSUE IS NOW SOLVED - see below) frugal pup425 with SFSconverted OpenOffice-3.0.sfs on IBM T22 Thinkpad & DELL Dimension 2400 PC Pup425 is the fastest booting & fastest running pup yet on my computers - pet-install with auto-menu update is great. Well done! It does almost everything I ...

Another solution if you have a frugal installation is to install the jre as usual then move the big java files from /usr to mnt/home & then replace the original usr/java file with a symlink back to the files in mnt/home. This is especially effective if you have many pup versions going at the sam...

In frugal pup425 I tried to install partview from a partview-4.1.pet which had the following notes -------------------------- Here is a pet that will install Partview to Puppy 4.1, or Puppy 4.0 It requires installatiion of: http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/pet_packages-3/tcl-8.5a4nothreads.pet ht...

Thanx aragon your ref to posil's geanie 'execute' fix works fine in frugal pup425

go to > preference > tools in geany and replace the term_command with
Code:
/usr/X11R7/bin/xterm -e bash -c

Geany menu execute doesn't seem to work I downloaded devx_425.sfs for use with with frugal pup425 tried to compile/build/run hello.c using Geany_0.18 editor Geany compiles and builds but doesn't execute. Compile gives "gcc successful message" & produces hello.o build gives "gcc su...

edit 17sep09 This issue has been solved - I should have accessed cups via Menu/System/Cups instead of http://localhost:631/ this starts cups_shell which brings in a whole slew of drivers. Please see message by 8-bit circa 16sep09 ----------------------------------------------------------------------...

Frugal pup421 CUPS/OpenOffice-3.0.sfs incompatibility? OpenOffice-3.0.sfs clobbers CUPS windows shared printer. New installation from a live CD -- Beautiful!! Everything works out of the box! Well Done everybody involved with this EXCELLENT pup version!! My printer (an ancient cheap & reliable C...

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Thanks for the suggestion Oakums, but the answer turned out to be very simple 1) Menu/System/Puppy Event manager/Desktop Icons Uncheck the tickbox for drive icons on desktop Check the tickbox to erase, redraw & realign existing icons (not sure if this is really required) Click OK 2) Menu/Shutdow...

I have a grub-booted dual WinXP/Frugal-pup411 system on a Dell Dimension 2400 PC. The Pup411 screen has drive icons enabled at bottom left of screen. The icons from left to right are fd0, sda1 (XP on ntfs), sda2 (vfat), sda3 (pup411 on ext2) sdb1 (vfat 2nd drive). USB drives icons (sdc1, sdd1 etc ) ...

I have Windows XP on a 16G sda1 partition a utility fat16 37G sda2 partition frugal puppy 4.11 on a 9G ext2 sda3 partition everything works fine :) my GRUB menu.lst file starts like this----- # Start GRUB global section timeout 5 default 0 color light-gray/blue black/light-gray # End GRUB global sec...