I thought it was by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst but the contents of that don't correspond to what I see on my initial boot screen - they correspond to what I see when I select 'lucid 528 (sda2/PBS)' from the initial boot menu. By the way when I select 'lucid 528 (sda2/boot)' from the initial boot me...

BH MINT.txt was created in MINT then opened in XP (see my 20/4/14 posting); BH Puppy.txt was created in Puppy and not yet opened in XP. It's odd that BH MINT.txt is so big after opening in XP as it should only have contained a few words of test text like BH Puppy.txt does.

The file's still not visible in XP.

The file's still not visible in XP.

Notepad in XP, Geany in Puppy. Exit via menu.

When I open the file in Puppy (after opening it in XP but not saving it) Geany says 'does not look like a text file or the encoding not supported'

A bootable MINT Linux 7 CD writes a txt file to the XP FAT32 partition and I can open the file I've saved and see its text content while still in MINT. After a reboot into Puppy I can see the file and text content and also in XP after a further reboot, but after that, Puppy can open the file but it ...

It was presumably formatted by XP which writes to it fine. Do you mean can another Linux distro write to it?

Yes, du gives the directory size. Here's the mount output when sda1 and sda2 are mounted. sh-4.1# mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue) none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=2,mode=620) none on /sys typ...

I’m flattered - it’s a long time since anyone called me a lad! I un-mounted the sda1 partition by right clicking its icon and selecting <unmount sda1 (if currently mounted)> then typed the command mount /mnt/sda1 into a ROXTerm window. It produced no output and mounted the drive bringing up a green ...

De-installed Wine 1.3.13-Lucid52.pet & installed Wine 1.1.43-Lucid.pet; Office now installs in ext2 sda2 (had to un-mount FAT32 sda1 else it said there was a pre release version installed) but Word still won't open a big directory. Also after a reboot the Program Files/Office folder was no longe...

Thanks for the information.

Thanks for the idea for increasing the Wine space, I'll try it but I've now changed to a Full install of Puppy Lucid 528 and tried again to install Office 2000 under Wine - first to the sda1 (FAT32 Windows) partition mapped as D: then when that failed, to sda2 (ext2 Puppy) mapped as C: both fail wit...

The sda1 partition is not shared (unless you mean between XP and Puppy) and I click the Puppy desktop icon to mount it so don't see any output. This time a created a test file via Puppy on the FAT32 partition, added some text to it and saved it then reopened it in Puppy to check then unmounted the s...

Thanks bigpup. It's a Full install (not Frugal) to an ext2 partition, and the FAT32 partition is mounted as sda1.
Brian

After finally I achieved a Full install and boot (see my other post) the card seems to initialise consistently on every Puppy boot. Maybe the Full install has a different set of kernel drivers than Frugal?

Puppy doesn’t seem actually write to my FAT32 partition, even though it looks from Puppy as if it is. Some sort of cache not flushed issue even on a clean shutdown?

The euphoria didn't last long! After Hibernating Windows, the reboot failed showing only <Try (hd0,0): FAT 32:> instead of the Grub menu. I struggled to reboot even from CD as it hung loading the image to RAM, but I was able to boot from CD using F2 puppy pfix=nocopy. Sometimes the CD boot didn’t sh...

I checked the size of the vmlinuz file in /boot on my ext2 partition and it was only 4k whereas the one in /puppy528 was 2177k so I tried to re-copy it from the CD but it said there was no space. I reformatted the ext2 partition and did a new full install from CD and so far it boots fine using Grub4...

Meanwhile, using the Frugal boot it still fails every few reboots (won't boot from HD or Puppy CD) and can best be sorted out by deleting then re-copying the 3 files (INITRD.GZ, LUPU_528.SFS and VMLINUZ) from the CD to the Windows partition; currently I can't see the .2fs save file on the Windows dr...