rcrsn51: It works! I created another menu.lst entry with the "pfix=ram" option at the end, and I could issue the umount command and run GParted. Now I have the extra partions I can use use to do a full Puppy HD install. Thank you! :D I tried to do use GRUB's "press e if you want to ed...

rcrsn51: If I try, I still get "umount: cannot umount /initrd/mnt/dev_save: Device or resource busy" on the console too. Must be something about the way I'm booting my frugal installation. Here are my menu.lst statements: title Puppy Linux 4.1.2 kernel (hd0,1)/puppy412/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd...

I mostly use Puppy on a 4+ year-old Dell Inspiron 5100. The CD/DVD combo drive went bad a year or two ago, but I've been able to set up a frugal installation of Puppy and dual-boot Puppy 4.1.2 and WinXP as needed. However, I'd really like to set up Puppy in his own native partition. Unfortunately, i...

I love Puppy 4.1.2, but I have one major frustration with it on my laptop. My WiFi network connection freezes up at random times, although it happens much more frequently during high-usage periods. If I'm surfing through web sites with a lot of graphics, or streaming some media, I get a lockup about...

I mostly like the standard 4.1.x (Dingo) icons, but does anyone else besides me find the desktop icon for the home folder really blurry? I grabbed an alternative icon from another common Linux icon set (sorry, I don't recall which one at the moment... it's in another pup_save file) and adjusted it a...

maddox: Thanks for the feedback!. For this release, I revised my Makefile so it would automatically build the .PET, but an earlier version of the Makefile did not properly rename the usr-template/ dir to usr/, and I did not clean that up before running the build for the 0.9.5 release. I'll fix the u...

I built VisiHex for my Puppy 4.1.0 installation with JWM. I have now tested the .PET with my older 2.17 installation which has IceWM, and seems to work fine except for a minor issue with the main menu keyboard navigation (Alt-F should pop up the File menu, etc., but they don't). This issue does not ...

Full announcement, screenshot, and .PET are available in an 'Additional Software' Posting . I'm releasing a new Beta version of my freeware VisiHex application, a handy GTK hexadecimal file viewer built and especially packaged with Puppy in mind. This little GTK application is coded in C to be small...

I've fixed the bug mentioned above, figured out the window resizing, and did some other minor improvements. The Beta version is announced here. Join me in that thread if you have bugs in the new Beta version or suggestions.

I'm releasing a new Beta version of my freeware VisiHex application, a handy GTK hexadecimal file viewer built and especially packaged with Puppy in mind. This little GTK application is coded in C to be small and fast. In addition to the normal scrolling control, there are handy keyboard shortcuts f...

I've discovered I've mistakenly left the limit for the search pattern at a very low size (4 bytes) after doing some boundary testing. :oops: I intended to allow search patterns up to 32 bytes/characters. I'll fix that when I figure out how to set up the repainting routine in the main window to adjus...

MU: Yes, after I ran fixmenus and restarted JWM, I could see VisiHex! I thought the fixmenus behavior happened automagically each time X restarts or at least when Puppy reboots, but at least in my 4.1.0 frugal installation, it does not. Maybe fixmenus can be added to a post-install script? Thanks fo...

In this VisiHex -- GTK hexidecimal/ascii fileviewer in development "Cutting edge" forum thread I introduce my new application VisiHex and ask for some guidance on creating and using a .desktop file so VisiHex will be inserted into the Puppy menu. If anyone has created a .desktop file to ad...

Hello folks. Mike Lockmoore is my forum name. I am a long-time software developer and designer, previously working mostly in Windows and some embedded systems, lately working mostly in embedded Linux. I like to use Puppy at home, and recently I decided to port my Win32 hexadecimal file viewer to GTK...

MU: Thanks, that works!

Note my spiffy new avatar.

Hello. I've been writing a new GTK application to view any file as hexidecimal bytes. (I will post it later and get some help polishing it and making a .PET for it, maybe under "Cutting Edge" or another forum heading.) Anyway, for the earlier Win32 version of it I made, it was easy to add ...

Yes, on the filename capitalization... I certainly know better. I work with Fedora and an embedded Linux as part of my job. But when I'm in Windows (as when I'm setting up the GrubLoader menu.lst and configuring the files for a frugal bootup), I'm used to Windows not caring about the capitalization....

I had left my pup_410.sfs named in UPPERCASE (the way it was extracted from the .ISO CD image), and that did not match the expected lower-case spelling. After I renamed it in lower case, it booted!

Béèm: I tried without it and it did not make any noticeable difference. Thanks for replying. I went back to the "Lin-'n'-Win" setup instructions I used with the 2.x series and found they have new instructions for the 4.0 series. I hoped that the new instructions would work with the 4.1 ver...

Quite a while back I set up frugal puppy 2.14 and then 2.17 on my XP laptop and I think Barry K. helped me configure the following commands in GRUB's menu.lst, which worked: title Puppy Linux 2.17 kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PDEV1=hda2 initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.gz boot What should I use for th...