Which is the latest 32-bit Puppy that can save to a live CD?
tallboy,
perhaps you need not worry too much about limited RAM.
The SysInfo below is from a Pentium M laptop with 750 MB RAM.
It is almost as old as my P4 and does run UPup Bionic Beaver (upupbb) 18.05 quite satisfactorily from live CD.
The 'Light' browser works ok and and I have run a DVD video with MPlayer successfully (boot CD removed)
I had to forcepae at boot and then load the fdrv_upupbb_18.05.sfs on-the-fly in order to be able to use a wifi dongle (the laptop has no in-built wifi).
It is a Puppy after all , I suggest you give it a try.
PC Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP Compaq nc8000 (PQ168PA#ABG)
Motherboard Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: 088C
BIOS Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Version: 68BAR Ver. F.12
Release Date: 08/17/2004
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Max Speed: 1600 MHz
Current Speed of Core
Frequency governor : ondemand
Freq. scaling driver : acpi-cpufreq
Sensor status is not available, or local hardware is not supported.
Personal Storage: RAM Disk
Size Used Free Use%
372M 250M 123M 68%
Memory Allocation:
(one window each of Abiword, Rox Filer and PupSysInfo open)
Total RAM: 743 MB
Used RAM: 663 MB
Free RAM: 80 MB
Buffers: 83 MB
Cached: 457 MB
Total Swap: 0 MB
Free Swap: 0 MB
Actual Used RAM: 123 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 620 MB Free + (buffers + cached)
Linux Kernel: 4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Thu Apr 26 11:45:00 +08 2018
PAE Enabled: Yes
Kernel Command Line:
initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz forcepae
Distro: UPupBB 18.05
Window Manager: JWM v2.3.7
Desktop Start: xwin jwm
regards
proebler
perhaps you need not worry too much about limited RAM.
The SysInfo below is from a Pentium M laptop with 750 MB RAM.
It is almost as old as my P4 and does run UPup Bionic Beaver (upupbb) 18.05 quite satisfactorily from live CD.
The 'Light' browser works ok and and I have run a DVD video with MPlayer successfully (boot CD removed)
I had to forcepae at boot and then load the fdrv_upupbb_18.05.sfs on-the-fly in order to be able to use a wifi dongle (the laptop has no in-built wifi).
It is a Puppy after all , I suggest you give it a try.
PC Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: HP Compaq nc8000 (PQ168PA#ABG)
Motherboard Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Product Name: 088C
BIOS Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Version: 68BAR Ver. F.12
Release Date: 08/17/2004
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Max Speed: 1600 MHz
Current Speed of Core
Frequency governor : ondemand
Freq. scaling driver : acpi-cpufreq
Sensor status is not available, or local hardware is not supported.
Personal Storage: RAM Disk
Size Used Free Use%
372M 250M 123M 68%
Memory Allocation:
(one window each of Abiword, Rox Filer and PupSysInfo open)
Total RAM: 743 MB
Used RAM: 663 MB
Free RAM: 80 MB
Buffers: 83 MB
Cached: 457 MB
Total Swap: 0 MB
Free Swap: 0 MB
Actual Used RAM: 123 MB Used - (buffers + cached)
Actual Free RAM: 620 MB Free + (buffers + cached)
Linux Kernel: 4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP Thu Apr 26 11:45:00 +08 2018
PAE Enabled: Yes
Kernel Command Line:
initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz forcepae
Distro: UPupBB 18.05
Window Manager: JWM v2.3.7
Desktop Start: xwin jwm
regards
proebler
Out of the Blue:
Perhaps try pemasu's Upup-Raring-3.9.9.2?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ost#713317
Or its "Vincent-Van-Pup" artsy re-incarnation by former member Starhawk?
https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_vincentvanpup
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=89395
Perhaps try pemasu's Upup-Raring-3.9.9.2?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ost#713317
Or its "Vincent-Van-Pup" artsy re-incarnation by former member Starhawk?
https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_vincentvanpup
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=89395
musher0
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Possibly Precise 5.7.1 Minimal or Barebones
Hi Tallboy,
As I've never run Puppies as a Multi-session CD/DVDs I don't know if it can. But musher0's post jogged my memory to consider newer Puppies which might. I was very impressed with csipesz's Precise 5.7.1 minimal, available from here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 774#954774. My post about it is on the 3rd page of that thread.
I also don't know how it compares to rerwin's Lupusupers (Lupus with updated kernels).
mikesLr
As I've never run Puppies as a Multi-session CD/DVDs I don't know if it can. But musher0's post jogged my memory to consider newer Puppies which might. I was very impressed with csipesz's Precise 5.7.1 minimal, available from here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 774#954774. My post about it is on the 3rd page of that thread.
I also don't know how it compares to rerwin's Lupusupers (Lupus with updated kernels).
mikesLr
I don't know, I never ever used a savefile!april wrote:Thats the usual message about no room left in the savefile isn't it?
I really liked musher0's Xenial with a dowgraded kernel, but it would not save the session to the disc.
Thank you for yuor kind suggestions on other distros, but I had hoped I would get some advice that would spare me the download and burning of a lot of distros that don't save to a multisession disc...
It is always fun to play, but I already have a huge stack of CDs and DVDs with different Puppy .isos...
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
sorry tallboy
in my eyes, this stay to be the standard way for puppy exactly as money continue to be the real standard way for payment else if someone prefer paypal or bitcoints etc. ...
the real question can possibly be:
which of the new moderns puppy can work friendly on old hardware. this is a different question (the olds one can that! the most of them!). for ex. warns Barry Kauler against the use of his new creations (Quirky's) on hardware having less than concrete power of RAM etc.
but the same question is possible inverted: which new terrible better hardware continue to permit to test old puppies (release 0,26 .. 2,11, only from this point, it was possible to really connect and use USB input hardware!). for those puppy's I continue to have an old museum i486-book PC! It can read, of course, my old CD-RW's from Puppy release probably 1.3 or 1.4 including the on the CD-RW recorded files. My new hardwares can't do it any more!
Kind regards
kind regards
this is absolutely not true. you generate a wrong opinion on Puppy...tallboy wrote:april and mikeslr: Sorry gentlemen, but you failed to understand my original question.In my experience whichever you choose to run with when asked to select your save file take the "ext4" file extension.
The point is that I never use a save-file! I run my puppies from RAM, not frugal but loaded from a live CD. And that is difficult with many late puppies.
in my eyes, this stay to be the standard way for puppy exactly as money continue to be the real standard way for payment else if someone prefer paypal or bitcoints etc. ...
the real question can possibly be:
which of the new moderns puppy can work friendly on old hardware. this is a different question (the olds one can that! the most of them!). for ex. warns Barry Kauler against the use of his new creations (Quirky's) on hardware having less than concrete power of RAM etc.
but the same question is possible inverted: which new terrible better hardware continue to permit to test old puppies (release 0,26 .. 2,11, only from this point, it was possible to really connect and use USB input hardware!). for those puppy's I continue to have an old museum i486-book PC! It can read, of course, my old CD-RW's from Puppy release probably 1.3 or 1.4 including the on the CD-RW recorded files. My new hardwares can't do it any more!
Kind regards
kind regards
I'm running upup Bionic Beaver from a DVD (same as running from a CD) completely in RAM. It's a 32-bit Ubuntu-based Puppy. I had to enter puppy acpi=off or something like that at the boot screen to get it to work in my computer. I've installed some stuff and then remastered the DVD (Menu -> Setup -> Remaster) but haven't yet rebooted with the remastered DVD.
Really?oui wrote:this is absolutely not true. you generate a wrong opinion on Puppy...
Yes! It is a different question, and it is not what I ask for!and oui also wrote:the real question can possibly be:
which of the new moderns puppy can work friendly on old hardware. this is a different question
I am looking for the latest Puppy which will run in old PCs from a live, multisession CD.
Why?
My hardware is old, and not all have a DVD-player, just a CD-player/burner.
Most have early USB, not all.
Most have 512Mb or 1Gb RAM.
For some reason, many late Puppies can not save to a multisession disc, which is a vital point if you want to run from a live CD, and save to the same CD. They can burn a multisession CD, but not save to it.
Flash:
How much RAM do you have?
How much RAM and HDD space is required for doing a remaster?
Have you saved your sessions to the disc?
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
Summing Up -- Moving forward
Hi Tallboy,
proebler's posts, especially his note about how to switch to the Xorg server 1.11.4, appear to provide a way forward with upupbb (Bionic Beaver) running from a Live CD. Flash noted that it would run from a Live DVD. [In my ignorance, I would assume that the mechanism is the same, only the later providing more storage].
My own experience with upupbb's RAM usage is almost identical to proebler's, albeit I don't run from a Live CD: there's a great amount of data being buffered or cached, but actual RAM in use was 121. None of my swap had been employed as I had sufficient RAM. But I would assume that with 512 RAM and a 'generous' swap upupbb would still have functioned, albeit more slowly.
What I've also experienced with upupbb is that many applications built for older OSes ran OOTB. As your plan is to make use of older-less-ram-demanding applications and remaster, upupbb may well provide the modern Puppy for Older hardware you desire.
If it does, and does so satisfactorily, perhaps you might consider publishing your remastered ISO for those Puppy fans similarly situated.
If it doesn't, then let us know that as well. As you know many of us don't run Puppies from LiveCD/DVDs. Some of us don't even have CD/DVD burners which makes personally testing ideas regarding running from LiveCD/DVDs impossible. But we are really good at coming up with ideas about what someone else might do.
mikesLr
proebler's posts, especially his note about how to switch to the Xorg server 1.11.4, appear to provide a way forward with upupbb (Bionic Beaver) running from a Live CD. Flash noted that it would run from a Live DVD. [In my ignorance, I would assume that the mechanism is the same, only the later providing more storage].
My own experience with upupbb's RAM usage is almost identical to proebler's, albeit I don't run from a Live CD: there's a great amount of data being buffered or cached, but actual RAM in use was 121. None of my swap had been employed as I had sufficient RAM. But I would assume that with 512 RAM and a 'generous' swap upupbb would still have functioned, albeit more slowly.
What I've also experienced with upupbb is that many applications built for older OSes ran OOTB. As your plan is to make use of older-less-ram-demanding applications and remaster, upupbb may well provide the modern Puppy for Older hardware you desire.
If it does, and does so satisfactorily, perhaps you might consider publishing your remastered ISO for those Puppy fans similarly situated.
If it doesn't, then let us know that as well. As you know many of us don't run Puppies from LiveCD/DVDs. Some of us don't even have CD/DVD burners which makes personally testing ideas regarding running from LiveCD/DVDs impossible. But we are really good at coming up with ideas about what someone else might do.
mikesLr
I still have CD (CD !) with sessions registered on it.
I still have CD (CD !) with sessions registered on it. i think it's french Toutou 4.3.1 I have DVDs too, with sessions registered on it.. Bad souvenirs.. How many hours spent to find one CD trademark which do it.. I will give info later. Because lot of criteria are needed, not only trademark, but where the CD was built (Made in india, or Mexico or ... Marocco). Viva USBs, never i will burn again CD or DVD, excepted if i want to keep a Puppy which i suppose to disappear (PolarpupQT 005 is one of them, but i failed with multissessions)
Furthermore Some CDs can be played only on cd-burner where they were burn. A Nightmare !
I think Puppy is not the criteria, but CD.. It was dificult to find CD-RW 4 years ago, not available in all shops.
Screenshots and topic CD-RW by Musher
"In short:
for CDRW's, use the command: cd-info
for DVDRW's, use the command: cd-info --dvd"
Furthermore Some CDs can be played only on cd-burner where they were burn. A Nightmare !
I think Puppy is not the criteria, but CD.. It was dificult to find CD-RW 4 years ago, not available in all shops.
Screenshots and topic CD-RW by Musher
"In short:
for CDRW's, use the command: cd-info
for DVDRW's, use the command: cd-info --dvd"
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I have 2 x 2GB sticks of RAM in this computer, but even 64-bit Puppies say there's only a little over 3GB of memory. Maybe that's because the video card is reserving the difference or maybe I got cheated on the RAM sticks. Still, 3 GB has been plenty for me to do everything I want, including remastering.tallboy wrote:...Flash:
How much RAM do you have?
I don't use a hard disk drive at all for anything, haven't used one for years. My luck with them has been dismal, so I don't use them. I do have several flash drives plugged into USB ports, but I haven't used them for extra memory while remastering. I don't remember how much memory remastering used but there has always been enough RAM to do the job.How much RAM and HDD space is required for doing a remaster?
No. Bionic Beaver doesn't do multisession. I wish it did.Have you saved your sessions to the disc?
Barry's remastering program included the stuff I installed and the settings I made to Puppy but didn't include my browser settings or the puppy acpi=off that has to be entered each time the DVD is booted. I don't know what I have to manually add to the remastered stuff to make those things work.
I'm running the latest Bionic Beaver 18.05A as a multi-session DVD.
In my case the size doesn't matter because I've got plenty of ram and some swap.
Other than being unable to load an sfs things are working well.
In my case the size doesn't matter because I've got plenty of ram and some swap.
Other than being unable to load an sfs things are working well.
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# inxi -Fxx
System: Host: puppypc21002 Kernel: 4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae i686 (32 bit gcc: 7.3.0)
Desktop: JWM 2.3.7 dm: N/A Distro: UPupBB 18.05
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU: Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42138
clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 2000 MHz
3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 2000 MHz 6: 1400 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
Display Server: X.org 1.19.6 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1200.3GB (0.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
ID-3: /dev/sdc model: 0JB size: 80.0GB serial: N/A
ID-1: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID: System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4
No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Unused Devices: none
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 20.9C mobo: N/A gpu: 43.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 192 Uptime: 16 min Memory: 270.0/16111.6MB
Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191 running in lxterminal) inxi: 2.3.8
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# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16498328 246316 15540324 365412 711688 14759844
Swap: 8396796 0 8396796
#
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I think that problem usually happens with laptops.hamoudoudou wrote:Furthermore Some CDs can be played only on cd-burner where they were burn.
Yes, of course I will do that, MikeIf it does, and does so satisfactorily, perhaps you might consider publishing your remastered ISO for those Puppy fans similarly situated.
If it doesn't, then let us know that as well.
Hmmm.Flash wrote:Have you saved your sessions to the disc?
No. Bionic Beaver doesn't do multisession. I wish it did.
Hmmmmm.James C wrote:I'm running the latest Bionic Beaver 18.05A as a multi-session DVD.
I wonder, could there be a difference between saving to a CD or DVD? Could there be differences in the 'save session to disc' code? I'll try to dig out some code examples from the .isos.
I have always used CD/DVD -R discs without any problems, never -RW discs.
I'll download and install the BiBe, and see what happens.
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
How? I know there must be a script or something that makes it work, but I never bothered to find out if it could be ported to versions of Puppy that didn't come with it. Is there a .pet that adds it?James C wrote:I'm running the latest Bionic Beaver 18.05A as a multi-session DVD.
Multisession was not in the original CD specifications. It just sort of grew out of necessity and opportunity. Each manufacturer implemented it their own way. Later versions of the CD specification did include multisession, but by then everyone was already doing it wrong. Multisession was included in the DVD specification, so it works much better from a DVD than from a CD.tallboy wrote:Hmmmmm.
I wonder, could there be a difference between saving to a CD or DVD? Could there be differences in the 'save session to disc' code? I'll try to dig out some code examples from the .isos.
I have always used CD/DVD -R discs without any problems, never -RW discs.
That said, rewritable DVDs are handy for trying out lots of new Puppies but my experience is that if they're more than five years old they should be thrown away. Stick with DVD-R or DVD+R for the Puppies you want to keep.
Didn't do anything out of the ordinary.Burned the DVD with burniso2cd then rebooted.When I shut down the save dialog came up then on the next screen clicked the save to cd button. no pets,no scripts just the default 18.05A iso.Flash wrote:How? I know there must be a script or something that makes it work, but I never bothered to find out if it could be ported to versions of Puppy that didn't come with it. Is there a .pet that adds it?James C wrote:I'm running the latest Bionic Beaver 18.05A as a multi-session DVD.
You are now touching the issue that I have been trying to point out in this thread:Flash wrote:So all this time I've been saying that recent Puppies can't do multisession when they can? Why didn't someone set me straight?
NOT ALL RECENT PUPPIES CAN SAVE TO A MULTISESSION CD, BUT I AM
DOING MY BEST TO FIND OUT WHICH ONES THAT CAN!
When you use the SAVE option in the shutdown dialog the first time, you activate a script that ask if you want to save to disc. If you confirm your intentions to do so, you also activate a script that places a SAVE button on your desktop for future, random saves to disc, without having to use the shutdown dialog, if you prefer that. You may want to save important work as you go along. See script code below.
I think that the contents of those scripts may have changed over time, and that some of the makers of new puppies might even have found them too old to include in a late version.
And for the record, I did just what James C described, I used the shutdown dialog. My problem is that it didn't work in musher0's xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1 when I tried to save to a multisession CD. I might have worked with a DVD, but as I told, my ancient hardware usually don't have a DVD burner, if I'm lucky they have a CD burner.
Simple, don't throw away the old /root and /etc dirs as the remaster program suggest, just edit them instead! That's what I do.Flash wrote:I don't know what I have to manually add to the remastered stuff to make those things work
Moderators: To avoid misunderstandings, I have renamed this thread:
Which is the latest 32-bit Puppy that can save to a live CD?
From Lucid 5.2.8.7: /usr/sbin/savesession-dvd
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#!/bin/sh
#(c) Copyright Barry Kauler 2006 www.puppylinux.com
#2007 Lesser GPL licence v2 (http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html)
#BK updated may 2007 for 2.16.
#BK updated v2.22, sync with rc.shutdown multisession bugfix.
#v3.01: BK 11 oct 2007, removed multisavefunc() to /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy.
#v412 /etc/DISTRO_SPECS, renamed pup_xxx.sfs, pup_save.2fs etc.
#v555 pup files renamed to woofr555.sfs, woofsave.2fs.
#w482 use xorriso instead of cdrtools/cdrkit if installed.
#/etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown saves session at shutdown, savesession-dvd is called
#from desktop icon to do an immediate save to multisession-cd.
#w482 use xorriso if it is installed (see also functions4puppy)...
CDRECORD='cdrecord'
MKISOFS='mkisofs'
if [ "`which xorriso`" != "" ];then
CDRECORD='xorrecord'
MKISOFS='xorrisofs' #growisofs reads this variable.
fi
export CDRECORD MKISOFS
#variables created at bootup by /initrd/usr/sbin/init...
. /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE #v2.02
. /etc/DISTRO_SPECS #v412
ORIGPUPMODE=$PUPMODE #v2.22
#PUPPYVERSION="`cat /etc/puppyversion`"
. /etc/rc.d/functions4puppy #v3.01 has multisavefunc.
CONSRUN="$1" #will execute multisavefunc from a rxvt console.
#...this script calls itself a second time, as multisavefunc uses dialog,
# and runs without X.
#also test if X not running...
[ "`pidof X | grep '[0-9]'`" = "" ] && CONSRUN="yes"
if [ ! "$PUPSAVE" = "" ];then
SAVEFS="`echo -n "$PUPSAVE" | cut -f 2 -d ','`" #f.s. and partition where ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save.2fs is located.
SAVEPART="`echo -n "$PUPSAVE" | cut -f 1 -d ','`" # "
SAVEFILE="`echo -n "$PUPSAVE" | cut -f 3 -d ','`"
else
exit #v2.22
fi
CDR="/dev/$SAVEPART"
if [ ! "$CONSRUN" = "" ];then
multisavefunc
exit
fi
if [ "$PUPMODE" != "77" ];then
xmessage -bg "indian red" -center -title "SaveSession-DVD" "Sorry, this is not a multisession live-CD/DVD"
exit
fi
if [ "$CDR" = "" ];then
xmessage -bg "indian red" -center -title "SaveSession-DVD" "Sorry, this is not a multisession live-CD/DVD"
exit
fi
#before can save a session back to DVD, have to be sure that DVD is unmounted...
if [ "`mount | grep "$CDR"`" != "" ];then
sync
echo "Unmounting $CDR..."
fuser -k -m $CDR
sync
umount $CDR
if [ ! $? -eq 0 ];then
xmessage -bg "indian red" -center -title "SaveSession: ERROR" "Sorry, $CDR is currently mounted and cannot be automatically
unmounted. You will need to unmount it manually.
Click OK button to quit..."
exit
fi
fi
xmessage -bg "#ffc0c0" -center -title "SaveSession" -buttons "SAVE:10,CANCEL:11" "This program takes a snapshot of changed and new files and
saves them to CD/DVD. For the multisession-CD/DVD, this happens
at shutdown, however, if you are working on critical files and
do not want to lose your work in case of a power-outage or
system crash (latter very unlikely), this program is a solution
-- just run it whenever you want to backup.
WARNING: CDs have much less space than DVDs, and there is more
wasted space in each saved session, meaning that a CD will fill
up fast. Therefore, for CDs use this Save script infrequently.
Click SAVE button to save session..."
[ ! $? -eq 10 ] && exit
#recursive execution...
exec rxvt -e /usr/sbin/savesession-dvd yes
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#User-selectable flash drive save options:
# ask = At shutdown, ask user whether to save to flash drive.
#Remove the "#" from an option below, to activate it.
#ask
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
Thanks, I'll look into that. Although if I can do multisession saves to the Puppy DVD instead of remastering, I won't need it.tallboy wrote:...Simple, don't throw away the old /root and /etc dirs as the remaster program suggest, just edit them instead! That's what I do.Flash wrote:I don't know what I have to manually add to the remastered stuff to make those things work
Forum member Ted Dog messed around with multisession flash drives. Maybe this code is left over from that.There is also this funny little script in /ets/shutdown_save_modeThe question about wanting to save to a multisession disc, is found at line 173 in /usr/sbin/shutdownconfig.Code: Select all
#User-selectable flash drive save options: # ask = At shutdown, ask user whether to save to flash drive. #Remove the "#" from an option below, to activate it. #ask
Since I had a few free moments I did a multisession Bionic CD.Possting from it now and already saved a session to the cd.Same process as the DVD earlier.
If memory serves, the last real multisession I used was Tahrpup so I have no idea about any releases between Tahr and Bionic.
But to answer the original question, the latest Pup to run from a multi-session CD is Bionic because I'm running it now.
If memory serves, the last real multisession I used was Tahrpup so I have no idea about any releases between Tahr and Bionic.
But to answer the original question, the latest Pup to run from a multi-session CD is Bionic because I'm running it now.
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