Posted: Sat 26 Jul 2008, 03:29
Mark,
I installed your Muppy 0084 Alpha today and am very impressed with it's potential. I had already gotten WOW's test implementation of gnome-2.2.0 and have been amazed at his work. However, your implemention seems to be even better especially since you have the Desktop Environment Chooser to choose different desktops.
Some thoughts on problems I've encountered on my installation to my hard drive where there are numerous frugal installations on an ex2 partition. 1. Started Muppy-Mini-008.4A using pfix=ram and had problems immediately in trying to copy from the CD to the /muppy0084alpha folder that I had set up on the ex2 partition. For some reason the file manager activated by the device icons at the bottom of the screen was showing that the CD had 3 files that were actually located on a flash drive. None of your files were showing up. Activating the PC file manager from another location and selecting the CD showed your files and I was able to copy them to the 0084 folder. 2. After mounting the CD, it could not be dismounted until a reboot. 3. Upon reboot and creating a save file, there is no opportunity to specify the save location, so file had to be manually placed in correct location after rebooting with another Pup400 CD. 4. When the system comes up, other 2fs files are not recognized and it boots directly into 0084 which provides no opportunity to select other 2fs files or to boot with pfix=ram. 5. Likewise, booting with Pup400 CD doesn't show 0084.2fs. 6. With the sfs file selected, bootup was very long.
Being able to select other Desktop Environments and check them out is a great feature. I continue to be astonished at the hard work that you have put into this project and how you are able to program in so many different features. I hope the Puppy community recognizes the importance of your efforts.
I haven't tried many of the programs, however, I did find that GParted and the Openoffice selections don't work. I mounted OpenOfficeO2.4.1
sfs (haven't tried selecting it with the Bootmanager yet, maybe that's why) no idea on GParted.
I am looking forward to your other distributions. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Jim
I installed your Muppy 0084 Alpha today and am very impressed with it's potential. I had already gotten WOW's test implementation of gnome-2.2.0 and have been amazed at his work. However, your implemention seems to be even better especially since you have the Desktop Environment Chooser to choose different desktops.
Some thoughts on problems I've encountered on my installation to my hard drive where there are numerous frugal installations on an ex2 partition. 1. Started Muppy-Mini-008.4A using pfix=ram and had problems immediately in trying to copy from the CD to the /muppy0084alpha folder that I had set up on the ex2 partition. For some reason the file manager activated by the device icons at the bottom of the screen was showing that the CD had 3 files that were actually located on a flash drive. None of your files were showing up. Activating the PC file manager from another location and selecting the CD showed your files and I was able to copy them to the 0084 folder. 2. After mounting the CD, it could not be dismounted until a reboot. 3. Upon reboot and creating a save file, there is no opportunity to specify the save location, so file had to be manually placed in correct location after rebooting with another Pup400 CD. 4. When the system comes up, other 2fs files are not recognized and it boots directly into 0084 which provides no opportunity to select other 2fs files or to boot with pfix=ram. 5. Likewise, booting with Pup400 CD doesn't show 0084.2fs. 6. With the sfs file selected, bootup was very long.
Being able to select other Desktop Environments and check them out is a great feature. I continue to be astonished at the hard work that you have put into this project and how you are able to program in so many different features. I hope the Puppy community recognizes the importance of your efforts.
I haven't tried many of the programs, however, I did find that GParted and the Openoffice selections don't work. I mounted OpenOfficeO2.4.1
sfs (haven't tried selecting it with the Bootmanager yet, maybe that's why) no idea on GParted.
I am looking forward to your other distributions. Thank you for all of your hard work.
Jim