The thing that is at issue here is how much ram does the computer have. If you boot a live Puppy CD and your computer has a low amount of ram, you have no room for more stuff, without a save file.gcmartin wrote:Hi ALL.playdayz wrote:. ... I have had anomalies that could have been due to installing software etc before creating a save file. ...
I am NOT a developer. I have always been a Live media PUPs users. But, over the years I have seen many discussions about when and where to do a "save-session".
Most recent (don't remember where) I seem to remember someone indicating that the problem of out-of-the-box (OTB) use of PUPs has to do with the presence of "/home", which in some PUPs become present ONLY in save session reboots.
QuestionsThanks in advance
- Is there some truth in this comment?
- If so, should there be a labeled requirement in all PUPs usage which instructs that "functionality is missing unless you reboot"?
- If so, is there some alternative to OTB Live media systems booting to alleviate this important need?
Remember Puppy tries to load the entire operating system into ram. That is everything on the CD.
It just will at around 256MB of ram.
So the answer is depends on how much ram you have.
Making a save file first, before adding stuff to Puppy, is probably good advice.