Cheers TaZoC for your earlier reply,
sorry I couldn't respond before now - totally borked my L64save yesterday morning, and have been trying to resurrect it (and all my desktop settings etc, etc). At least I've learned from past experience to make copies of my downloaded updates, sfs' etc outside of my pupsave so it hasn't been too painful to get the situation nearly back to normal - but
if only I got into the habit of regularly backing up my savefile - especially before a run of application installs...
But back to your queries - I have had Startmount automatically mount my 4 partitions so my wife finds downloading and file manipulation a little easier with it all (Windows refugee - partitions "C"=Puppy, "D"=Data, "E"=Extras, "F"=Fotos...for sda5, sda6, sda7 and sda3 respectively. (Sda1 is an extended (logical) partition with C, D and E, while sda2=swap and sda3=F are logical's also.
The 3 USB flashdrives were present on a single hub, but I dimly recall that they were not actually mounted - perhaps 1 might have been, but it was not accessed by TextMaker when I was having the problems. I don't remember automounting the USB's with Startmount (if it is possible - haven't checked) when the issue first appeared. I certainly remember safely removing them before rebooting and finding the TextMaker unstabiltity resolved. I mention Startmount (again) as it and TextMaker were the 2 applications I found having problems - everything else I tested opened and closed well, and seemed to function fine - including other SoftMaker applications like PlanMaker and Presentations.
And thanks also for spotting my extraneous 'puppy' statement in my menu.lst alternations. I'll try again with it removed, to see if I get the filecheck verbosity on rebooting. Re cat /proc/cmdline, I get
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I borked the savefile in the process of trying to rip a DVD. Handbrake kept failing mysteriously, and I had no luck with Pburn's copy/shrink function either. So I downloaded "Thoggen" from the slackware64-13.37-salix repository - and My Bad - I halted the install during an apparent stall with the dependency downloads. Nasty "Pid: 1, com: switch_root Not tainted 3.0.3 #1" error message and loads of other error codes on reboot. Actually removing the 'bad' files from the pupsave is waaaay beyond me, so I had to start again from scratch.
Could you recommend a backup regime/ automated backup scheduler? I've made straight copies of pupsaves for backup in the past - but nowhere near as often as I should. I hesitate to use the automated backup pets covered here
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PupSaveBackup and in associated threads, in the 64bit environment (but have my new savefile as 3fs instead of 4fs, just in case it would be acceptable to use).
And what I forgot to mention earlier was a big THANK YOU for the way you've engineered the Wine settings in the menu and puppy file structure - really easy to follow for us noobs (and our spouses). I look forward to working with that in future
Cheers!
And keep your feet up, please - no hurry with my concerns. Thanks for your earlier consideration of my "issues"
P.S. Re the DVD - Even a straight copy of the file structure kept failing - the issue was a scratched DVD. Might see about installing "Unstoppable Copier" under your Wine settings - I'm not aware of Linux equivalents with similar success in disk recovery.