Remaster problem [SOLVED]

[gliezl]

After I remastered Puppy 2.02 to fit my needs (install dotpups, pupgets), burn the iso, I get error messages running leafpad, gnumeric, seamonkey, geany, & gaim. It says SEGMENTATION FAULT or FLOATING POINT EXCEPTION. What have I done?

I am remastering from a frugal install in a NTFS drive. Could that be that culprit?
Yet the Puppylivecdbuild folder is in a FAT32 drive.
My ISO is about 273 MB. Full of dotpups/pupgets. (not yet installed)

Can someone give some tips in order for me to avoid such problems?
Thanks!

[gliezl]

Remaster problems corrected when I run it on Live-CD and not on hard drive. I just successfully remastered Puppy2.02 to look like XP but not close enough.
See screenshot

[sunburnt]

Just the Q I've had for a long time, will a frugal HD install do a remaster?
My guess was as your experience turned out, the answer is no.

If I get time to look at the remaster scripts, I might modify it to work from a frugal HD install.
It & the CD aren't very different, so it should be fairly easy to do...

[Ted Dog]

delete the .Xloaded file first, delete the -lzma- in this script , and rename the pup_210.sfs to your version, works on 2.02 (started there and have updated to 210)
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#!/bin/sh
#simple script to remast
mksquashfs-lzma / /mnt/hda4/pup_210.sfs -e /proc /initrd /var /tmp /archive /mnt /sys /pup.sfs
sync

#add pristine folders (out of current pup_xxx.sfs)...
mksquashfs-lzma /initrd/pup_ro2/proc /mnt/hda4/pup_210.sfs -keep-as-directory
sync
mksquashfs-lzma /initrd/pup_ro2/tmp /mnt/hda4/pup_210.sfs -keep-as-directory
sync
mksquashfs-lzma /initrd/pup_ro2/mnt /mnt/hda4/pup_210.sfs -keep-as-directory
sync
mksquashfs-lzma /initrd/pup_ro2/var /mnt/hda4/pup_210.sfs -keep-as-directory
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[SamSung]

Hi Ted Dog,
Thanks for the instructions above, I am not sure that I understand though, so please forgive my ignorance and answer a couple of questions.

I am right that the script you have posted will allow the remastering of a simple HDD install.

Is the script complete in itself or is it a list of the mods to another script.

You say delete the .xloaded file first where is this file and why delete.

You say delete the -lzma- from the mksquashfs command, why, just interested in trying to understand.

I am sorry that some of the questions are basic but I do not have a simple HDD install to try it out on but I am looking for the most effective way of remastering, if you have some thoughts on that I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Sam

[Ted Dog]

Purpose to take all the settings & changes made and recompress them back into the main squash file, usable in any method of install.
The script is complete, you may need to move the resulting file over the older version. You can delete any pup_save etc...

.xloaded is a hidden nag file that if found on reboot causes the computer to stop at prompt and not go into window desktop mode.

Code: Select all

rm /etc/.XLOADED

add above line just after the first line of the script.

Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm,
-lzma is a new compression method added to version 2.10 Alpha /Beta that frees about 10M more than the default compression method in current use. It is not availabe just yet in the offical release 2.02 or the CE release version 2.03
more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA

[raffy]

Thanks for the ingenious scripts, Ted Dog.

Liz, that is a cool "XPuppy"

Maybe you can share your JWM files.

[SamSung]

Thanks for the answers Ted Dog, so if I have understood the script will "remaster" the .sfs file on anytype of install. Wow that is promising.

Gliez I would also be interested in your JWM files and where you found any useful info on reconfiguring JWM.

[gliezl]

Liz, that is a cool "XPuppy"

Thanks Raffy.

Maybe you can share your JWM files.

Gliez I would also be interested in your JWM files and where you found any useful info on reconfiguring JWM.

I was planning to upload the ISO. Atleast to be hosted for a few days for others to download. I wish somebody would assist.
It's not running in JWM, but FVWM95.

I wish blinky would run in FVWM95, that would be cool.

[Dougal]

Thanks for the answers Ted Dog, so if I have understood the script will "remaster" the .sfs file on anytype of install.

It won't work with a "type 2" HD install -- that doesn't have anything mounted on /initrd/pup_ro2.

[Ted Dog]

Ops missed one, but it will need those pristine files to go back to an iso version.

[GuestToo]

gliezl, have you tried uncommenting one of these lines in .fvwm95rc?

#*FvwmButtons (1x1) "modem" whatever Swallow "Blinky"
#*FvwmButtons (1x1) - network24.xpm Swallow "Blinky"

you might have to change "Blinky" to "blinky" or "Exec blinky", or something to get the right syntax

also, i think MU compiled Blinky as a dockapp

so it might be possible

[MU]

no, not dockapp, but trayicon.
I think Fvwm95 will not support that, as trayicons are a relatively new standard by freedesktop.org.

But if I remember well, in .fvwmrc you can set options for windows, for example if they shall have a window-border or not.

This is a bit tricky, and I don't know if you can force the window-position.

If there is interest, I could compile a version without window-border, where you can pass the position as comandline-argument like
blinky-window 0 0
to place it in the top left corner.

I have headaches, so not today.
Please send me a PM if there is interest to remind me to do it tomorrow.

Btw. Gliezls Iso is just uploaded:
http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releas ... pup202.iso (80 MB)
http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releas ... so.md5.txt

http://puptrix.org/isos/pup202.iso
http://puptrix.org/isos/pup202.iso.md5.txt

She certainly will anounce it "officially" when she is online again.

Mark