I'm not at all sure what this feature might be good for, but it sounds like it might be a step toward making multisession Puppy do something I've wanted. At the risk of hijacking this thread, I'll explain.ecomoney wrote:Many thanks for replying. I think its important to get this out quickly so it will benefit the most users. The "rarer" install methods I think we could add this feature too later, for now what would be the code needed to only insert this link into "frugal" installs?
WhoDo has indicated to me that if this feature would DEFINITELY not break any existing code, he would be adding it to the soon to be released puppy 4.2 . I think frugal installs are used by the great many new users, and we should just concentrate on getting that part going for this, and leave the other methods until later.
Thanks again for your help PizzasGood
It has to do with Archiving stuff on a multisession DVD, so that the stuff in Archives is not loaded into RAM when multisession Puppy boots but is still available by clicking on the Archives directory (which would then mount the DVD and show the Archives directory in ROX.) I've experimented with saving stuff on a multisession DVD in separate sessions, which multisession Puppy does not see when it boots. If stuff is saved in, for example, a directory named Archives each time a special session is saved, then, when Puppy mounts the multisession DVD, the Archives folder which appears in ROX contains all the files and subfolders which were saved in all the separate special Archives sessions. Somehow the OS assembles the separate sessions into one folder. Amazing, and potentially very useful.
So it seems like all that is needed is an Archives directory, into which I would put anything I want to archive, and which is then saved to the DVD as a special session. I'm not sure how implementing this might affect the existing Puppy filesystem and whatnot. Any thoughts?
(By the way, Pizza, I'd be happy to test your program in multisession Puppy if I can find the time, but I don't really understand what problem it's intended to solve.)