Save directories to multisession DVDs using "growisofs"
Flash, will do.
Just to clarify for all; I forgot to add a screenshot showing all the content of / on the DVD above. The multisession DVD used in the screenshots is the one dpup_4.85 is booted from, so all directories are additions that are not read at bootup, but available when the disc is mounted.
Tallboy.
Just to clarify for all; I forgot to add a screenshot showing all the content of / on the DVD above. The multisession DVD used in the screenshots is the one dpup_4.85 is booted from, so all directories are additions that are not read at bootup, but available when the disc is mounted.
Tallboy.
Adding SFSs to a Muli-session LiveCD/DVD
Flash, after looking at your earlier question on Tuesday, I realize that I might not have given you an answer you were looking for.
You CAN add a file-folder to an existing Multi-session CD/DVD. and have these available to the system whenever you subsequently use that media. I'm sure you were already aware of this. But, I think your question may have been more along the line of whether "properly" placed SFS could be "drawn" into the desktop system, same as is done using frugal/full installation.
This is what I found:
About SFS(s) question, Yes, writing SFSs having them available to the system the next time you boot will NOT natively cause Puppy to pick up the SFSs, even though, I structured it in the same folders that a frugal/full system expects for SFS processing.
LightHouse will, when booting using pfix=ram,sfsconfig <=== This tells the system to "embrace" all SFSs found on the booting Live media for inclusion into the LightHouse desktop..
For all other Puppy distros, one must use Shinobar's or JRB's SFS Linking utilities for managing SFSs on Live media systems after booting to their desktops.
Hope this helps.
You CAN add a file-folder to an existing Multi-session CD/DVD. and have these available to the system whenever you subsequently use that media. I'm sure you were already aware of this. But, I think your question may have been more along the line of whether "properly" placed SFS could be "drawn" into the desktop system, same as is done using frugal/full installation.
This is what I found:
About SFS(s) question, Yes, writing SFSs having them available to the system the next time you boot will NOT natively cause Puppy to pick up the SFSs, even though, I structured it in the same folders that a frugal/full system expects for SFS processing.
LightHouse is the ONLY distro with technology for doing this, currently, for new startup Live media bootsFlash wrote: ... if you're still following this thread, did that work? Did the Puppy DVD find and use the OpenOffice.sfs file when it booted?
LightHouse will, when booting using pfix=ram,sfsconfig <=== This tells the system to "embrace" all SFSs found on the booting Live media for inclusion into the LightHouse desktop..
For all other Puppy distros, one must use Shinobar's or JRB's SFS Linking utilities for managing SFSs on Live media systems after booting to their desktops.
Hope this helps.
Since SFSs are just squashfs files, why not use the mount command to loop mount it read only?gcmartin wrote: For all other Puppy distros, one must use Shinobar's or JRB's SFS Linking utilities for managing SFSs on Live media systems after booting to their desktops.
I haven't tried this but it seems like it should work (?)

@ Flash and
@ tallboy
@ gcmartin
AND ANYONE ELSE !
The M/S tricks you guys have exchanged in the above !
Its too bad there wasn't a thread where these different little tricks could be kept in one place for anyone who would like to share and exchange
I dont know maybe already is one ?
@ tallboy
@ gcmartin
AND ANYONE ELSE !
The M/S tricks you guys have exchanged in the above !
Its too bad there wasn't a thread where these different little tricks could be kept in one place for anyone who would like to share and exchange
I dont know maybe already is one ?
[color=red]Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)[/color] :wink:
Sorry FlashFlash wrote:Um, isn't this is that thread?
I guess I have been looking in the wrong places
I looked for :
Tips & Tricks Using puppy as a M/S CD DVD
Alternative ways to use your M/S puppy
etc .
This tread is titled :
Save directories to DVD+RW as sessions, using growisofs
So this would go for frugal installs too
The title doesn't say anything about M/S puppy !
I am not trying to be an _ss here just saying
[color=red]Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)[/color] :wink:
That's Okay. I do what I can to make the forum beginner-friendly, but it's still going to be a learning experience.
I have never used the abbreviation M/S to mean multisession, so you'd never have found it. (My first thought when I see M/S is Microsoft, and for sure no newcomer to Puppy would know what M/S means.)
I have never used the abbreviation M/S to mean multisession, so you'd never have found it. (My first thought when I see M/S is Microsoft, and for sure no newcomer to Puppy would know what M/S means.)
I agree with you flash but now you understand what i am trying to sayFlash wrote:That's Okay. I do what I can to make the forum beginner-friendly, but it's still going to be a learning experience.
I have never used the abbreviation M/S to mean multisession, so you'd never have found it. (My first thought when I see M/S is Microsoft, and for sure no newcomer to Puppy would know what M/S means.)
It would be nice if there was a thread where everyone could share various ways to use puppy running on a multi-session cd dvd blue ray etc.
And these ways are tested and truly work
Also the thread should be sticky
This way there is info for beginners to start learning about running multi-session puppy
[color=red]Anyone can build a fast processor. The trick is to build a fast system. (Seymour Cray)[/color] :wink:
Save directories to multisession,DVDs using "growisofs" comm
You know, in a way, @Partman does show some of the nomenclature used in Puppyland which has differing meanings. So, the thread's title from "Save directories to DVD+RW as sessions, using growisofs" could be worded as "Save directories to multisession DVDs using "growisofs" command
@Partman, even though you abbreviate you might consider @Flash's observation about how, over the years, M/S means "Microsoft"; NOT "multisession". This confuses those who might want to help.
@Flash and others: To not cause confusion, it should have used the term for DVDs of "multisession"; NOT to be confused with a Puppy "SESSION", which is saved at the end of a user's desktop use for the next boot.
This post is an attempt to add clarity to the thread's original title and what that title pertains to.
Here to help
@Partman, even though you abbreviate you might consider @Flash's observation about how, over the years, M/S means "Microsoft"; NOT "multisession". This confuses those who might want to help.
@Flash and others: To not cause confusion, it should have used the term for DVDs of "multisession"; NOT to be confused with a Puppy "SESSION", which is saved at the end of a user's desktop use for the next boot.
This post is an attempt to add clarity to the thread's original title and what that title pertains to.
Here to help
partsman, I would think you got to this thread from Can swap file manager run swap in a live multi-sessn dvd? via Updating software, where there was a link to
Please post your simple tricks you know but others don't that sent you here.
There are currently 780711 articles in this forum, and I agree - it is not always easy to find one's way to these few well fomulated threads with extremely interesting contents.
The search function must be used, or site: in google, to find topics of interest, but the Forum index is also a good starting place.
gcmartin: noted!
tallboy
Please post your simple tricks you know but others don't that sent you here.
There are currently 780711 articles in this forum, and I agree - it is not always easy to find one's way to these few well fomulated threads with extremely interesting contents.
The search function must be used, or site: in google, to find topics of interest, but the Forum index is also a good starting place.
gcmartin: noted!
tallboy
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.