I think you are making a point in a roundabout way, but clearly NOT doing a frugal install is like throwing away a big part of Puppy's features!

*** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY *** A frugal pup need vmlinuz, the builds sfs, and the initrd.gz files. So all that needs to be done is rebuild the patched kernel with the desired options (and additional patches) to produce the new vmlinuz file and rebuild the modules. Then replace the modules in the initrd.g...

I turned off all the addons and graphics and now it works fine. I would turn on things to see what is causing the issue, but right now I am enjoying my superlight browser and not missing all the ad-junk I'm not seeing or wasting my limited bandwidth on...

Those were definitely issues in my setup but it is still stalling considerably. I may have to accept Chrome is just better now. At least firefox is more usable now if I need it! Thanks...

I'm seeing the latest versions of firefox freeze a lot on Lucid 5.2.5. I'm curious if anyone else has been seeing this? I suspect its flash related but not sure. Firefox is almost unusable now. Fortunately, chrome is fine as are the usual puppy browsers (seamonkey). I've seen this on more than one m...

I'm trying to setup a samba server and I noticed I was unable to reach port 445 and it appeared to be blocked. I went through the firewall setup and installed a firewall with this port open and accepting all foreign machines (its for a closed network), and then it was happy. Can anyone shed some lig...

Thanks for the ideas. I solved it by: 1. Booting from a different pupsave file. 2. Mounting the corrupted device pupsave file: mount -oloop pupsave.ext /mnt/loop 3. rm /mnt/loop/dev/sdb1 & /mnt/loop/dev/sdb (the corrupt files) 4. umount /mnt/loop && fsck pupsave 5. Reboot to the formerly...

Well, to be clear, its the device handle to the flash, not the actual flash drive that is corrupted. I can stick any flash in there and /dev/sdb1 won't read right now.

The actual drive is ext3.

I've been plugging in a flash drive into the system for data dump (not to boot), which typically appears as /dev/sdb1. In yanking it in and out (probably improperly at some point), I've managed to corrupt /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 on a 4.3.1 ext3 (internal and pupsave.3fs) frugal install system. IE, if...

Very cool, didn't realize that!

Hi, I'm playing around in pupmode 12 (ata hard drive) and I noticed that if I write a file to the unionfs drive and hit power...say...10 seconds later, the file never actually gets written and won't be there on the reboot. But, if I wait around a couple minutes, hit power off, it'll boot up with the...

Actually, it seems the correct thing to do is to go down in the list past the initial options and select "Pacific". This sets it to US/Pacific timezone which ends up being PDT, not PST. PDT means "Pacific DAYLIGHT Time" and handles the GST-7 and GST-8 properly throughout the year...

I noticed on all of our 4.3.1 systems that when you set the localtime to PST, /usr/localtime links to timezone GST+8, not GST-8. I'm pretty certain this is a bug.

I booted with pmedia=atahd on Puppy 4.3.1 and now I can't insert a usb flash and see it! I switch the boot parameter back to pmedia=ataflash and it works fine.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

So I looked in /tmp where there were some x error files. Turns out I had a lock file left on X, so I had to do was remove it and all was well again. *SIGH* That killed a couple hours. Anyway, in tracking this down, I see the "computer didn't shutdown properly" flag being set in the /usr/bi...

1. to check your disk at start up put this in your menu.lst pfix=fsck Funny, I just realized that this morning from the puppy cd-rom iso!! I felt a little foolish...figured someone had thought about this before. 2)savetoflash feature is to lessen the wear on flash memory. if you want to remove it th...

Hi, just tried 4.3 from 4.2. So far, so good! I'm confused on the save feature. I can't get "savetoflash" off the desktop in a frugal install. And periodically, a "saving RAM to disk" comes up on the screen that is undesirable that I never saw on Deep Thought. (SOLVED -- SEE BELO...