If you have any old Flash stick, of 512MB or greater, you can just 'dd' the iso to it, and it will boot. My install page explains: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/amd64/releases/xerus-8.0/install-readme.htm @barry In the Booting section, a small typo... Should be turn OFF "Secure Boot...

Barry
Does UNetbootin work to write Quirky image to a USB drive?
https://unetbootin.github.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/

Use this for crontab -e, it should message every minute: Code: * * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 The minute setting is always correct because UTC time and system time always uses the same minute. For instance 9 * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 will always pop up a message at 9 minutes after every hour...

I think I'm close to tracking down the source of my cron job problems. crond app is using UTC time rather than system time. Computer installation: Windows XP machine ---> I've tried setting clock type to both Local time and GMT time and the problem is the same. I've tried booting april64 with a CD ...

What is the best way to search for files and items inside files with Quirky? That Pfind program is completely worthless and never finds anything . Anyone know of a program that actually works that I can download and get the job done? If you are willing to learn a command line tool... grep It is not...

I still can't get pschedule to do the following I suspect you have already tried the following... Using terminal do these work? This should give one message: gxmessage Hello don570 edit a crontab: crontab -e and put this in, it should message every minute: * * * * * gxmessage Hello don570 exit and ...

The 2GB requirement is for running from live-CD or a frugal installation, as everything gets loaded into RAM. If you go to my blog announcement for 7.0.1, there is a link to install instructions. There is a file you download, then run a script to install to a flash drive or a hd partition. -- that ...

It may soon be easy to run puppy on a Chromebook.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873561/ ... ebook.html

Bill

Barry wrote in `http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00120`: The desktop of QE works, I can go online with Midori, except it crashes when I go to gmail.com. Barry, I recently had a problem with the Chrome website, crashing Linux Mint 17. I wonder if there is connection. Seems to be the video driver ...

don wrote:Is there a way to get gnumeric back on Unicorn? No pets I hjave tried will work.

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gnumeric is essential.

Does anyone know the link to the lkive cd where BK is talking about Here ? http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00074 If you want to install Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 on a computer that will not usb boot (before Barry releases a live cd): + put all the Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 files on external storage, flash or ...

.... thanks, folks ....sorry if I am now drifting somewhat OT but, Bill, am I correct in inferring from the Barry quote that the .pet process is self-checking download-wise (assuming that the download is completed fully)? If so, sheesh! - I never knew that - every day is still a schoolday! Exactly....

Just been downloading the /pet_packages-tahr/devx-6.0.5-tahr.pet, from a couple of sources - ibiblio, uoc, - (partly with a view to test my new ISP service). grrrr, the hash codes don't match! Anyone have the kosher hash codes for this? http://www.puppylinux.com/development/createpet.htm A ".p...

Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Chrome Version 32.0.1700.107 Tried to stream music from this site and: VLC Web PlugIn has crashed http://www.wdav.org/streams/wdav-24k.m3u Used pupRadio which opened VLC and it is playing. Also playing the stream directly in VLC works. Then tried SeaMonkey 2.24 and it is playing wi...

Barry, this suggested useful feature was absent in Puppy and the same in Quirky Tahr. From one who cannot code from scratch, could you please devise a labour-saving way of copy and pasting complex command lines from say a web page, directly to the console terminal to avoid making typing mistakes. T...

Quirky Tahr 6.0.5 Chromium installed from PPM This Chromium is working great. I removed ALL Flash Players and Chromium WILL play TED http://ted.com/talks but SeaMonkey will not . Is there something about HTML5 not working in SeaMonkey for TED? TED gives this message: It appears that we are unable to...

I noticed one thing wrong. When running as root (not spot), the default download directory is supposed to be pre-set in /file/portable/chromium/profile/Default/Preferences to download to /file/downloads However, when I did a download, it defaulted to /root/Downloads I looked at Chromium settings, I...

The busybox 'printf' applet might do an octal to base 10 conversion. It works like the C printf() function. Barry, hour=`date +"%I"` # returns "01-12" hour=`date +"%H"` # returns "00-23" The problem is 08-09 are invalid octal numbers. # printf "%d" ...

Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 upgraded + service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet + devx_service_pack-6.0.4_TO_6.0.5-tahr.pet Posting with Chromium installed with PPM. Chromium Version 32.0.1700.107 Built on Ubuntu 14.04, running on Quirky 6.0.5 Seems fast! + Plays the youtube I tried. - Fails to play http://ted.co...

Quirky Tahr 6.0.3 upgraded to 6.0.4 SeaMonkey 2.23 Previously I wrote how I enabled an external mail handler in SeaMonkey so I could use sylpheed to handle mailto links. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=757596#757596 It worked in Quirky Tahr 6.0.4 that had been updated incrementally from...