1. To install the latest Puli 6.0.3 bark2 onto my 4GB Flash Drive with ext4 partition:
Whilst running within Slacko...
a. Deleted all of the existing files on the partition...
b. Copied all of the new "Puli 6.0.3 bark2" files into the partition...
c. Ran "Menu->Setup->Grub4Dos" to install this bootloader.
d. Edited Some of the settings such as:
/mnt/sdb1/syslinux.cfg->default vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash pfix=ram pkeys=uk plang=en_GB
/mnt/sdb1/puli.cfg->timezone=Europe/London [other settings left unaltered]
/mnt/sdb1/timezone->Europe/London
Saved the changes to these files.
e. Noticed the new content of "/mnt/sdb1/packages", but made no changes to load any of these.
Need to read previous posts to remind myself how to do this [e.g. load "force_rigorous.pet" and "restore_latest-1.5.pet"].
What is "restore_fixed-1.5.pet"?
f. Rebooted from Slacko to the new Puli on my 4GB Flash Drive.
It booted just fine.
2. The problems began at the Puli desktop, as follows:
a. The welcome dialog appeared, still asking for language and keyboard settings, which I set as I wanted.
All other settings were there and correct.
OK'd the settings.
b. Copied over a new desktop wallpaper file, and set it as the new wallpaper.
c. Synchronized the time OK.
d. Re-configured the time display.
e. Made a backup->it appeared in the "/mnt/sdb1/backups" folder.
f. Re-booted Puli, and the backup wasn't auto-restored during startup, and all my changes included in the backup were not applied.
Guess I needed to do the following, that I'm doing now:
g. /mnt/sdb1/profiles/Common/smartload->activated the following:
"force_rigorous", "restore_latest".
h. Will now reboot to see what Puli looks like now.
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Now rebooted into Puli.
i. During the boot I saw the following [plus others] being loaded:
force_rigorous.pet
restore_latest-1.5.pet
j. It was also reported that the backup was restored.
It was reported that 0-mild was being applied [I wanted 1-rigorous, as applied above].
k. At the desktop, the old wallpaper was being used.
The old time display was being used.
l. Tried to manually restore the backup, but it didn't complete [just like before].
3. Can't make Puli do what I want it to do.
4. I'm inclined to re-format the partition to FAT32.
i.e. Use the methods explained in the 1st post of this thread for installing Puli.
I'm thinking that perhaps using an ext4 partition is causing Puli to misbehave.