darry19662018 wrote:http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/old_laptops

Nice... Now where is Beem, and that old _really_slow_ laptop?

Flash wrote:They make me jump every time.

I always jump with joy!... I know that it correctly configured the sound on whichever random device that I installed it on...

All very interesting. Maybe Puppy should warn at setup that a full install is a security risk. If there had been such a warning, I probably would have chosen frugal. Oh well, live & learn. Hello sleeper48. In the same line of thought, the recommendation for "pupsave folder" in the sav...

If it is not broken do not fix it! But we need newer programs, that use more code to do the same thing, so Puppy will be bigger and use more RAM! :shock: :roll: We are Puppy! Resistance is futile! Well, if the age of the file timestamps is the only "problem", just go into the folder(s) in...

I don't have a Pi3+ to test but I am guessing that it needs a newer version of the bootloader firmware and a newer kernel. I took the bootloader firmware from http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/firmware/r/raspberrypi-firmware-nokernel/raspberrypi-bootloader-nokernel_1.20180328-1~nokernel1_ar...

@RTG my syslinux.cfg looks like this: [...] label xenialpup64-nokms linux vmlinuz initrd initrd.gz append pfix=ram,nox pmedia=cd menu label For machines with severe video problems text help Start xenialpup64 without savefile, without KMS, and run xorgwizard to choose video resolutions before starti...

Also make sure SD Card is properly prepared. Windows has special app ---> SD card formatter. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ In linux you should wipe card using following command You can install using Windows or a Linux computer Format your micro SD card as fat32 using a windows or li...

-- 4 long blinks, 4 short blinks -- just sat at the opening splash screen). That is what happens when the wrong kernel is being used. For example if I use the raspberrypi3 kernel with my raspberrypi2 machine. I'm sure I put the right kernel in the package though. and the config.txt will load vmlinu...

@RetroTechgGuy Personally, I set pfix=fsck as my default sorry I have to ask this simple question, but exactly how do I do that? and what default are you referring to? and I made a PupSave backup but again, how do I deploy that if I need it?.... you see I really know nothing except for finding stuf...

... other times I just have to yank the USB out of its socket to shut off the system. Yikes! It's even better to use the shutdow button on your machine if you must. IIRC the 'reboot: power down' is okay, I have it also. But the minutes' wait to shutdown is not. Then do a reboot with pfix=fsck, a fe...

Fatdog Arm for Raspberry Pi 3 [...] Open up fatdogarm-pi3-03-15-2018.zip. You will see some files and folders inside a folder. Drag the contents of the folder to a freshly formatted (fat32) micro SD card. 3) Take out the card from its adaptor and insert in your raspberry pi3 computer. Plug in the p...

The boot process probably didn't find your save file or folder probably due to a corrupted file system. I think the command to fix it is fsck. Also note that using ext4 file system helps to avoid these issues. Using savefiles, I always modify my boot sequence to (for example): kernel /Sulu/vmlinuz ...

Palemoon (latest) and Firefox ESR cannot play H264 in Lucid Puppy 2016. I read that we need libavcodesc57. I don't find it in the package manager. I did find ffmpeg but it seems to be from 2007. Any suggestions how to view H264 with Palemoon, other than changing versions of Puppy? youtube-dl used a...

If you didn't use a pupsave file or folder, it figures... No backup anywhere either, eh? Tsk, tsk... This is really one of the things that I like about Puppy. A "backup" is as simple as copying the savefile to a new name (and/or drive). I periodically clone my entire drive to a 2nd (backu...

You better not make such a big savefile! Choose pupsave directory instead. It adapts its size as needed. Your partition has to be linux file system then (ext2/3/4, prefer 3). Performing a switch-root is normal at boot, but because you made such a big pupsavefile it takes forever to finish. Just del...

Incidentally, I (unfortunately) had an opportunity to do a surface scan on one of my hard drives... I found instructions on doing a surface scan under Linux, but it needed some tweaks to work under Puppy (some capitalization issues)... I found that the following does a thorough non-destructive surfa...

You might get lucky and it will import all your mail. I had a tbird folder shared with windows and the windows install did the job for me. Otherwise imap sounds like a good option.... mike I often copy the folder tree over, just because I have such a huge pile of email (and associated sort filters)...

Hi, I've been having a few problems with my Thunderbird mail system and the associated container lately and am finally considering moving across to Seamonkey's. The moving tasks seem easy enough as it's a straight step by step scripting transfer, but I was wondering if there was any gotya's in ther...

Burn_IT wrote:You won't be able to get rid of System Volume information.

Well, Linux (Puppy) can delete the folder/tree but as soon as Windows touches it again, it will put it back on the drive...

Thank you very much RetroTechGuy! Any recommended or suggested reading for somebody who is eager to learn about managing storing devices? One of the things I do with most of my drives is to set reserved space to zero. On a typical multiuser system, the users can clog things up to the point that the...