Hi, Thanks for the effort to make these .pets and the sfs creation script. I have tried this using Lucid Puppy 5.20 and have received a bunch of gconftool errors when I run the vmplayer from a terminal. I have installed the hal pet you provided. The player seems to run though, so I'm not sure if it ...

Thanks, I have coincidentally just found this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34474 which points to a description of this package. Will give it a try later today. I'm very interested in getting Puppy to boot fast, especially after reading about the Intyel Dev guys who got to ...

Hi All, I've decided to use Puppy 4.1 as the primary distro on my Dell X1. To this end, I'd like to customise it to remove/disable unnecessary modules and set up some power saving options. If necessary, I might try recompiling the kernel with specific options for this hardware to speed up booting. T...

Thanks guys, very helpful. My CF card is a Sandisk Extreme 1GB. I guess I didn't do enough research before snapping it up for £5 on eBay - it apparently has a read speed of only 10MB/s, using a usb card reader. If that was what I was getting in my test, then I am getting only 3MB/s in the dedicated ...

Right, so a little bit more testing: Copying the pup_410.sfs from the CF card to /mnt/ram1 takes 1m35s! Copying the same file from the CF card in a usb card reader takes 35s. 3x faster, but still slow. At boot, the "copying to ram" part takes 4-5 seconds. I've also tested in WinXP and in a...

Some more information: The SD card seems to work permanently now. I loaded puppy from my UFD with pfix=ram and it showed up. When I shutdown, I created a new pup_save and on rebooting and loading this, the SD card still works. Must have been something in my previous session. I have also discovered s...

I did something similar to what you suggested. I am using syslinux as my MBR on a USD Flash Drive to boot puppy 4.1. I did a frugal install to the CF, again with syslinux. I then added a section to the syslinux.cfg of my UFD to give me the option to boot from the CF. The section reads: LABEL 1 KERNE...

Thanks. That looks like quite long thread, but I'l have a good read and see where things are at.

Hi, I've been using Puppy for a few months and am extremely impressed, both with it's speed and feature set. It seem to be a very suitable OS for a netbook, once setup. To this end, I have bought a Dell Latitude X1. This machine is fanless and has Compact Flash and SD Card slots, as well as a 1.8&qu...