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Thanks that where friendly. Having not installed it as a full install
I see no way that it can save such an install?
Or am I missing something not known to me
Xpud can remember by saving a copy of itself including the added apps?
Redo will always stay new due to it being "Live" and thus not saving anything?
Guys I only guess. It has a casper directory so one maybe can create
a casper-rw file on a ext3 formatted partition or USB?
and add rw to the boot line and ...
But would it not need some program that actually do save the program one
download and install?
Not that I want to do it too much hassle for somebody so computer challenged as I am.
Late at night here so sweet dreams
I see no way that it can save such an install?
Or am I missing something not known to me
Xpud can remember by saving a copy of itself including the added apps?
Redo will always stay new due to it being "Live" and thus not saving anything?
Guys I only guess. It has a casper directory so one maybe can create
a casper-rw file on a ext3 formatted partition or USB?
and add rw to the boot line and ...
But would it not need some program that actually do save the program one
download and install?
Not that I want to do it too much hassle for somebody so computer challenged as I am.
Late at night here so sweet dreams
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
not an ideal solution though
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Thanks for this, I'm using Absolute now but have decided for the time being to stick with IceWM as it works well enough and truth be told I can't be bothered at the moment to figure out which Slackware 14 packages I need to install XFce. A Slack package manager is- long overdue IMO.sketchman wrote:Got it. Working on mine, anyway. Just replace your "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" with the modified attached one. Modified "rc.local" looks for "startxfce4" and uses it if found, and if not uses the default "startx" script. Either way should get you from GRUB to desktop in one keystroke.Colonel Panic wrote:It would be good to be able to boot straight into XFCE though.
EDIT: Just noticed a glitch with this. Thunderbird (for example) can't find its config directory and makes a new one in "/". Just a heads up. No big deal really as you can just make a symlink in "/" for your original folder, but if someone knows how to fix that I will and reupload the file.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
Finally..... a new Aptosid 2012-1. Purely for the smaller download I chose XFCE over the KDE.
http://aptosid.com/
http://aptosid.com/
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3.6-8.slh.3-aptosid-686
aptosid@aptosid:~$
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Yep, that's my next one (and the XFCE version too).James C wrote:Finally..... a new Aptosid 2012-1. Purely for the smaller download I chose XFCE over the KDE.
http://aptosid.com/
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aptosid@aptosid:~$ uname -r 3.6-8.slh.3-aptosid-686 aptosid@aptosid:~$
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
legacy OS mini
Pretty KDE desk and a lot of useful applis
Très jolie distro avec des applications Nombreuses et utiles. Une distro bien pleine ce qui devient rare
It's rare nowadays to find a distro so rich.
Weakness :wifi connection
Très jolie distro avec des applications Nombreuses et utiles. Une distro bien pleine ce qui devient rare
It's rare nowadays to find a distro so rich.
Weakness :wifi connection
Slax 7.0 final was just released so I did a quick manual frugal install. Pretty impressive.... KDE 4.9.4, kernel 3.6.9 and in only 212 mb.
http://www.slax.org/blog.php
Running as root too.
http://www.slax.org/blog.php
Running as root too.
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Haven't gotten around to doing a test install yet but the latest siduction 12.2.0-Riders on the Storm was released too.
http://siduction.org/
Probably get around to doing an install tomorrow.
http://siduction.org/
Probably get around to doing an install tomorrow.
Slax 7.0
Only accessing half of my 1 Gb of swap...... guess I need to check it out.....
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bash-4.2# uname -r
3.6.9
bash-4.2# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 505084 481480 23604 0 35872 222132
-/+ buffers/cache: 223476 281608
Swap: 524284 36676 487608
bash-4.2#
Only accessing half of my 1 Gb of swap...... guess I need to check it out.....
I hope you share the code you used in the frugal install menu.lstJames C wrote:Slax 7.0 final was just released so I did a quick manual frugal install. Pretty impressive.... KDE 4.9.4, kernel 3.6.9 and in only 212 mb.
http://www.slax.org/blog.php
Running as root too.
would be cool to test.
One guy had difficulty to get it to do save.
How did you set it up?
He does mention bits of it here
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Persistent changes
By default, Slax detects if you run it from a writable device. If yes, then all the changes you make to the operating system itself are saved and restored next time you boot. All file modifications to Slax itself are saved into a special file changes.dat, which is created on your boot device in /slax/changes/ directory, and grows automatically in size up to 4GB. If you, for any reason, do not like this feature, simply uncheck the appropriate boot option and your Slax will start using the default 'fresh' configuration. It may be useful also in cases you'd like to test something system-wide, since if you screw things up, you can always revert to the previous state by reboot.
The file changes.dat is designed to work even on FAT filesystems, which are commonly used on most USB flash drives. Unfortunately FAT is limited to 4GB file size; for that reason, persistent changes can't grow more. In case you need to save more, please format your storage drive with some Linux filesystem such as EXT4 or BTRFS and install Slax to it. Slax will be able to save changes natively and will be limited only by the actual capacity of your device. Persistent Changes functionality does not (of course) affect files on hard drives in your computer. If you modify these files, they will always be modified regardless of your persistent changes settings. /quotes
And to boot from iso like this
support from=/path/slax.iso boot parameter to load slax data from the given iso
But a good example of a grub4dos would be cool to have
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
not an ideal solution though
nooby wrote:I hope you share the code you used in the frugal install menu.lstJames C wrote:Slax 7.0 final was just released so I did a quick manual frugal install. Pretty impressive.... KDE 4.9.4, kernel 3.6.9 and in only 212 mb.
http://www.slax.org/blog.php
Running as root too.
would be cool to test.
One guy had difficulty to get it to do save.
How did you set it up?
He does mention bits of it here
quote
Persistent changes
By default, Slax detects if you run it from a writable device. If yes, then all the changes you make to the operating system itself are saved and restored next time you boot. All file modifications to Slax itself are saved into a special file changes.dat, which is created on your boot device in /slax/changes/ directory, and grows automatically in size up to 4GB. If you, for any reason, do not like this feature, simply uncheck the appropriate boot option and your Slax will start using the default 'fresh' configuration. It may be useful also in cases you'd like to test something system-wide, since if you screw things up, you can always revert to the previous state by reboot.
The file changes.dat is designed to work even on FAT filesystems, which are commonly used on most USB flash drives. Unfortunately FAT is limited to 4GB file size; for that reason, persistent changes can't grow more. In case you need to save more, please format your storage drive with some Linux filesystem such as EXT4 or BTRFS and install Slax to it. Slax will be able to save changes natively and will be limited only by the actual capacity of your device. Persistent Changes functionality does not (of course) affect files on hard drives in your computer. If you modify these files, they will always be modified regardless of your persistent changes settings. /quotes
And to boot from iso like this
support from=/path/slax.iso boot parameter to load slax data from the given iso
But a good example of a grub4dos would be cool to have
Here it is.....
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title Slax 7.0
root (hd0,5)
kernel /slax/boot/vmlinuz ramdisk=1 vga=792 root=/dev/ram0 rw perch,xmode
initrd /slax/boot/initrfs.img
The "perch" entry is for "persistent changes" and "xmode" boots straight into KDE4. I had to do a bit of experimenting before I got everything working correctly but it's all good now.
Thanks I ahve to test it too. Much appreciated you cared to share.
Yes I am writing from within Slax now but not being toram?
it is slow and I would need to tell it to use Swedish keyboard
in the boot code so ill change that one.
have not done a save yet but most likely it already done that?
So wonder how big one the Dev set up by default?
Thanks for helping me with boot code.
So why this instead of Proteus Linux which is the community
version of Slax?
Does this one have better features?
Yes I am writing from within Slax now but not being toram?
it is slow and I would need to tell it to use Swedish keyboard
in the boot code so ill change that one.
have not done a save yet but most likely it already done that?
So wonder how big one the Dev set up by default?
Thanks for helping me with boot code.
So why this instead of Proteus Linux which is the community
version of Slax?
Does this one have better features?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
not an ideal solution though
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Maybe I use austrumi the most (remaster ~250Mb in size) even some not working properly.
No wifi, some shortcut not working and a lot of thing that I dont know where to fix and no support at all. Opera with flash works ok so far, booting speed and remaster compression are the best.
Porteus is nice with xfce.
Slax7 would be nice with xfce or lxde or jwm, it will save around 40 seconds just to load kde or gnome. Not sure why do we need kde/gnome.
You can evaluate the comparison table by yourself.
My liveos test is only with one external HD on the same machine, not perfect but I have at least something to compare.[/img]
No wifi, some shortcut not working and a lot of thing that I dont know where to fix and no support at all. Opera with flash works ok so far, booting speed and remaster compression are the best.
Porteus is nice with xfce.
Slax7 would be nice with xfce or lxde or jwm, it will save around 40 seconds just to load kde or gnome. Not sure why do we need kde/gnome.
You can evaluate the comparison table by yourself.
My liveos test is only with one external HD on the same machine, not perfect but I have at least something to compare.[/img]
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- puppy_apprentice
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Several months ago you were running Porteus as root.......see herenooby wrote: So Porteus does not allow root?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 564#604564
The stuff on that entire page should still work.
@Nooby
No root access, maybe frugal install & persistent on NTFS?
or maybe I dont know how to get root?
No root access, maybe frugal install & persistent on NTFS?
or maybe I dont know how to get root?
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