sum: much improved, with great thanks ... but, as well as catching dependencies, how about automatically (or even, silently) installing them, too?

also, (at least in latest alpha 6) why doesn't remove packages that have already been installed?

windows works ... ( correction: worked, before the big crash, with no recovery cd, no nothing, thx, lenovo 3000 c200), windows vista) puppy still doesnt, but ethernet finally has me connected, so my happiness quotient is much improved (alpha 6) wireless connectivity has degraded, for me,, since 4.00...

although dingo requires manual profile loading on reboot, it works in 4.05, there is NO wireless connectivity dingo loads b43 driver; 4.05 insists on bcm43, i.e., misidentifies the interface . i cant even replace with the correct driver .... so, stuck EDIT: lenovo 3000 c200 laptop, celeron 1.7 ghz, ...

problem with wireless connectivity in various threads mirror my own experience. presently, have gone back to dingo, where i can always connect on every reboot, but have to always manually load my profile - puppy never remembers the settings! a few posts mention getting 169. ip's rather than the expe...

it's taken some time, and successive releases, but the latest puppy, although still no wireless connectivity in live mode, does work (sort of) installed to HD (bye, bye, vista!). And, puppy is finally remembering wireless settings. i think i just fixed the final hurdle by deleting the default 'alex'...

lenovo 3000 c200 laptop - after several attempts with successive updates, i have just achieved wireless connection!! thanx, now onward and forward!!

rodb

edit: i did downgrade to wpa, but even that did not help wiith previous versions - but this one works!!

i have tried several iterations of 3.0, but never able to achieve wireless connection. the final release is a step forward, because now, it is apparent that the security algorithm is a problem. WEP is the only security option available, which eliminates WPA (and WPA2). my wireless is WPA, and i dont...

i have the same long-standing problem with serial mouse ttyS0 is the driver for serial mouse in xorg.conf, set device to '/dev/ttyS0' instead of /dev/mouse or whatever - this will set the mouse to the serial port however, puppy often fails to remember this, so you end up having to do it again and ag...

you guys must surely know that pupget is one of your weakest links .... for a long time .... then, in beta 212, it is even worse! why cant pupget recogniuze dependancies and give you the oppotunity to load them ( it does RECOGNIZE them!) in 212, it seems that evrythings gets removed when you manuall...

The ntfs-3g driver used in Puppy 2.02 will not mount the partition if it is corrupted, even if Windows did not shut down properly the last time you used it. If you can't mount it, try doing it in a terminal: # ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 and you will see the error msg. update: another way round- i ...

okdoky, will try in a terminal (why do i have to be reminded?) you are undoubtdely correct in a corrupted system - something stopped ability to boot!! and to re-install - i suspect not just the harddrive - it is likely my tired old motherboard

thx, and thx for puppy!

rod

good point, but i am quite sure that win95 came with lfn support from the very beginning - well before vfat/fat32 ( i.e., in win95b!) but it is just an overlay - you can access all files by the standard 6 letters, then '~', then digit, then '.', then 3-character extension, i.e 8.3 format - readabili...

the term vfat applies only to hard drives - floppies are specifically formatted as fat12 due to their small size. drives up to 32 meg ( i think, pardon my laziness not to do the math) are formattable as fat16 (or fat, in common terms). only to accomodate bigger and bigger hard drives did windows ( a...

long-time user of win2k - ntfs goes all the way back to at least nt4, and was always optional between fat32 and ntfs. ms allowed one-time conversion from fat32 to ntfs; the reverse is only 3rd-party, as per the previous post present system is a mixture of fat16, fat32 and ntfs. puppy202 of course ha...

Thanks for checking that out. I'll find another serial mouse, see what that does. just to reiterate: i have the same problem with a microsoft serial intellimouse (wheel), which has worked well and continues to work well in every other distribution ti have tried hat honors a serial mouse (more and m...

i concur ... lots of problems trying to get gxine working... lots of problems getting network configuration set up, and all my media files are on another computer - version 8r1 was working great ...

i have just completed another install attempt to hd drive, with usual result ... nothing is written to grub folder on hard drive, and, indeed, nothing is ever written to mbr of the drive ... to see the problem, run grubconfig in a terminal window, and view the error report - unionfs error, not being...

hi, I have instaled puppy 1.08 to HD; found the puppy 2 .iso, burnt it, and can run it from cd, so i have the best-of-both ... (!!) Barry's description of puppy filesystems is fascinatingly over-my-head, my newbie query is: should i expect to be able to somehow run version 2 from cd, and have access...

just installed 1.08 puppy on an older system- and it recognized my obsolete sound card (ensoniq soundscape!!) VERY nice. now i can hear clearly ... my problem is i have a very hyperactive puppy; i know there are a few things i will get around to doing, but ... ( does it have something to do with my ...