antiloquax wrote:
Great stuff, but since I don't have a Pi as yet, haven't tried any of the distros.(and you can run as root in Arch!)
Can one go straight into root in Arch without having to log in (type anything) at all?
Yeah LXDE is strange like that. Definately a WTF moment when you use LXDE for the first time and it doesnt even have desktop icon drag and drop support. Rox-filer background support is still the best solution in my opinion until you make the huge step of running something like XFCE or some other huge desktop environmentantiloquax wrote:That looks great, Lobster. I'm still unable to put icons on my desktop
Do you know how to get rox and jwm to co-operate?
mark
(and you can run as root in Arch!)
That is a very good question.Does the Rasp Pi debian image that is the recommended for the Rasp Pi use a Grub bootloader or something like syslinux?
I love this wiki article, the first step for making your rasp pi debian a puppy after you login and start the desktop is to put a puppy wallpaper as the background.Lobster wrote:
Puppi pre-alpha running on ARM Raspberry Pi Motherboard
When you get your pannet of raspberries
this will get you started:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppi
I know the boot process isnt as straight forward as other systems, something to do with the gpu booting first and using it to boot the rest of the system or some such thing.Dave_G wrote:sickgut wrote:
That is a very good question.Does the Rasp Pi debian image that is the recommended for the Rasp Pi use a Grub bootloader or something like syslinux?
I've never bothered to investigate the link (if any) between the grub bootloader and BIOS.
If there is a link, which I suspect there is, as I remember reading something
about the bootloader reading some values from the BIOS, and since the Pi
does not have a BIOS but more of a binary "blob", this could be a problem.
But then again the bootloader for Pi would be different and probably make use
of the "blob" (sounds like something from a low budget sci-fi movie )
I know that the Pi makes use of boot.asm and config.txt at boot time so
your idea may even be useable in there.
I guess one way to check is to download the image and have a look
around in it's contents but at 443MB, that's my cap for the rest of the month gone.
Yes - it's this Rox-filer background support that I am trying to do. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate it.sickgut wrote: Rox-filer background support is still the best solution in my opinion until you make the huge step of running something like XFCE or some other huge desktop environment
try this once roxfiler is installed and you have booted into xorg with startx:antiloquax wrote:Yes - it's this Rox-filer background support that I am trying to do. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate it.sickgut wrote: Rox-filer background support is still the best solution in my opinion until you make the huge step of running something like XFCE or some other huge desktop environment
re Arch. At the moment, I am still logging as root, then X starts automatically. I will look at auto-login at some point soon.
There's more to Puppy than the wallpaper - must get that rubick's cube game running
This is the line i have inserted in Pussy's JWM config file to activate the roxfiler background:sickgut wrote:try this once roxfiler is installed and you have booted into xorg with startx:antiloquax wrote:Yes - it's this Rox-filer background support that I am trying to do. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate it.sickgut wrote: Rox-filer background support is still the best solution in my opinion until you make the huge step of running something like XFCE or some other huge desktop environment
re Arch. At the moment, I am still logging as root, then X starts automatically. I will look at auto-login at some point soon.
There's more to Puppy than the wallpaper - must get that rubick's cube game running
in a terminal :
rox --pinboard=pin
the background should appear.
ofcause tho you must install rox via: apt-get install rox-filer
antiloquax wrote:Thanks sickgut,
I have been trying the"rox -p pinboard=pin", but I haven't had any success.
I'll try later and add the line you mentioned into my .jwmrc
I tried "rox -S" and I did get a pinboard - but no mouse!
userland? Is that like Disneyland?Btw, have you considered doing a complete rebuild of your userland
with hardware floating point acceleration enabled? I think that made
the Arch Linux version much faster.
Not really sureDoes the Rasp Pi debian image that is the recommended for the Rasp Pi use a Grub bootloader or something like syslinux?
Dont worry about the actual size of the debian on the sd card, i dont think any attemps to slim it has been done by the rasp pi team. Generally a 2GB debian installation can be stripped down to 1.2gb or so fairly simply without affecting the actual workings of the OS. Also we can run squashfs for a few things as well and this takes it down more. A 2GB debian install that is slimmed of bloated junk files and squashed is about 500mb max.Lobster wrote:Not really sureDoes the Rasp Pi debian image that is the recommended for the Rasp Pi use a Grub bootloader or something like syslinux?
They do not have a bios - the bootloading is direct from SD
No SD no boot . . .
iceweasel was too slow to use (about 23 seconds to load)
icewm did not have success with . . .
netsurf which Mark is using could not find as a Deb
synaptic (very useful) is very slow
Mark as soon as you have an img of an Arch Puppi let me know
so I can burn and test if it works
I can certainly let you have it, but I am at very early stages at the moment. I'm hoping to add some packages later and try to fix a problem in Pygame (won't load images other than .bmp!)Lobster wrote:
Mark as soon as you have an img of an Arch Puppi let me know
so I can burn and test if it works