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jamesbond wrote:

rcrsn51 wrote:

jamesbond wrote:choose "small initrd" when asked.

I can't find this option.

You may not have enough memory (the operation uses /tmp and /tmp must be at least 800MB) ...

That explains it.

Flash drive booting is very flaky and depends on the BIOS.

No kidding. I tried three different 64-bit machines, two different flash drives and Syslinux/Grub4dos. No combination would boot the large initrd.

rcrsn51 wrote:No kidding. I tried three different 64-bit machines, two different flash drives and Syslinux/Grub4dos. No combination would boot the large initrd.

Does it boot the small initrd? I have one flash drive that cannot boot my desktop - no matter whatever puppies/grub4dos/syslinux or fat16/fat32/ext2 I put on it. The same drive will boot my laptop

rcrsn51 wrote:Has anyone been able to make a bootable flash drive with b2? Mine never get past

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Loading initrd.....................................

I just did it and it works fine .

kirk , jamesbond , you are fast ...

I've also seen the repo is richer now... Now I'll try the release candidate and fit in other pets .

Somebody suggested one can fool the boot process by pretending the
big initrd to be a standard initrd.gz and then maybe it boots? Sadly no link

I have not tested this b/c I boot from HD

jamesbond wrote:

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fatdog-split-initrd.sh /path/to/your/original/initrd /output/path [/path/to/optional/tmp/dir]

So I set up an external tmp with lots of space and ran the command. The second unsquashfs operation aborted at 34% with a "Killed" message. However, the procedure continued to build a new initrd and sfs.

The new setup booted from USB, but the sfs must be incomplete. It threw a bunch of errors and wouldn't start X.

I probably need a machine with more horsepower to do this properly.

rcrsn51 wrote:Has anyone been able to make a bootable flash drive with b2? Mine never get past

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Loading initrd.....................................

I did also, but I add "waitdev=5" after kernel command:

kernel /vmlinuz waitdev=5
initrd /initrd

Maybe this "5 seconds" is for the system to detect the flash drive.

@rcrsn51

Here is my modified menu.lst entry for FD600 after your advice.

title Fd64 600b2 (sda3/Fatdog600b2)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /Fatdog600b2/initrd
kernel /Fatdog600b2/vmlinuz savefile=direct:device:sda3:/Fatdog600b2/fd64save.ext4
# kernel /Fatdog600b2/vmlinuz psubdir=Fatdog600b2 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
initrd /Fatdog600b2/initrd.

That works just fine.

Time to have a look at 600rc I think.

@ Nooby

Have you tried downloading from nluug if ibiblio is slow? When I downloaded the FD600b2 .iso from there I got a 1MB/sec download speed and it took around 3 minutes. I generally only get around 70kB/sec from ibiblio.

Yes the .nl is much faster. Usually an .iso in under 3 minutes or faster.
Sometimes some 30 seconds or so for small ones. But they had not
RC when I looked for it yesterday so I took it from Ibiblio and it took
some 35 or so minutes. I tested it and it worked with the old save file.

Kind of cheating to only do an upgrade Would be better as a test
if I had started all over but I where lazy.

Besides I am a single user being root kind of person so the multi user part
would never get tested at my shack. I don't even know how to do such things.

Thanks to Kirk and JamesBond for all effort you guys put into this.

Yes the .nl is much faster. Usually an .iso in under 3 minutes or faster.
Sometimes some 30 seconds or so for small ones. But they had not
RC when I looked for it yesterday

Ah you must have tried quite early then. I downloaded it from nluug 14 hours ago (midnight CET)

Fatdog 600 final is here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79537

jamesbond wrote:

mini-jaguar wrote:But I am still having problems with the Audacity .pet and the Wine .sfs. They show up in the menus, but when I click on them they don't do anything and nothing shows up on the screen. Even the Wine Version thing doesn't do anything.

Mini-jaguar, thank you for your wallpaper. For audacity - it requires wxWidgets. Did you install it from the package manager? If yes, it would have prompted you to install wxWidgets too.
Wine.sfs requires 32-bit compatibility library, because it is a 32-bit app (in fact it comes from green_dome pet, converted to sfs).

o.k., thanks, it works now.

and no, I didn't use the package manager.