Whats the best way to get the codecs needed for mp3 and mp4?

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myst

thanks for the replies :) Flash is working fine now but no luck as yet on the sound. My dvd player wasn't working in Ubuntu so I booted puppy to watch my movie and discovered the dvd wasn't working and that I had no sound. In Ubuntu the dvd started working when I removed the gstreamer 'bad' set of p...

As always thank you for your replies and for sharing your knowledge. I hope I did not come off as complaining that fatdog would not boot from disc. It's not the issue. This computer is not booting anything from disc. So far I tried Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, fatdog and I think one other (with the c...

It used to be easy to just mount one of the ubuntu partitions (or windows for that matter) and copy a file but now I find I can not access any of my music files on Ubuntu, When I mount the partition and click the home folder it shows as empty folder, What's the best way to handle file sharing on the...

Thanks for the reply. It's Precise 5.7.1 (630 I believe). I have it running on a usb drive. No install

I've edited the alsa config as suggested here - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84945&sid=85249201f83771d8cf053ddd468eedd3 The box is an HP110 Desktop with 2 cards (one is hdmi) Still no sound though. The other issues are no dvd playback - assuming I need some other codecs? and ...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check out macpup, too.I managed a fix for this mostly by trial and error. I rebooted precise, removed the icons I didn't want keeping the trash can and the save button. I hit the save button right after removing the icons and rebooted precise. Worked like a charm that...

I haven't set up puppy in a long time, lots of stuff I don't recall now. Typically I do not use icons on my desktop at all or very few. I removed the icons using 'remove item' then set up my pup save file. They all came back plus another one marked 'save' right in the middle. Where did I go wrong? t...

The steps were a bit different in Windows 8.1, but I got secure boot disabled. It gives you a code to enter upon reboot to make the secure boot change persist, then I just changed the boot order in set up (under 'storage'). Both fatdog and precise are booting normally from a usb drive. However, even...

Thanks for the reply. It's efi with a boot only windows hard coded into it.. I was able to make a usb drive just now one with fatdog and one with precise and got them both to booted. I used livelinux afterall to make my usbs - so this one is solved

thanks for the replies. My machine will not boot from a cd or dvd so not sure making a usb in fatdog will work, but I'll give it a whirl if possible.

I've struggled my way through windows and hp efi maze but I need to create a bootable fatdog64 usb - using windows. Are there directions online for that? I haven't found any so far.

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mystmaiden

Thanks for the replies and the great info. So far, no joy. I tried the legacy option - it does nothing at all when trying to boot from a disc. HP has worked some kind of annoying software magic to make booting anything but windows a crazymaker (so far I haven't managed to disable secure boot at all)...

I just bought a new HP machine and then found out that it can be a pain to set up a dual boot with ubuntu. Does the same hold true for trying to boot from a puppy live cd?

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mystmaiden

I'm trying to help a friend whose windows machine has picked up an ugly bit of malware so I downloaded the clamav version in the ppm for Racy 5.2.2 . (This is the first time I've seen Racy - very snazzy, btw) I've looked and I don't see a menu entry for clamav, does it require running from the comma...

BruceB The problem in this case is you think your missing something. Ouch. I suppose you're right though, I'm the first to admit my thinking processes do get me into difficulty from time to time. I did try to change the permissions with Puppy when I moved the files by checking 'allow user etc' but I...

Thanks so much for the replies. I thought maybe there was something I needed to be doing in Puppy when I moved the files. This would be so easy if Ubuntu let you run as root like Puppy does

giving this a little bump

Is there a way to share files between Puppy and Ubuntu without having to change ownership of the files for them to function in the Ubuntu machine? I noticed that when I move files from Puppy to Ubuntu, they come out as being owned by root. I think I'm missing a step or something.

I just wanted to do a one-time clean boot of puppy (without the alterations I've made to it) to check something on the host machine. It doesn't give me the option of choose which pup save for some reason - it always boots that one.