Cheers Jemimah that solved it. One other thing people might find useful is that installing puppeee to its own frugal directory the kernel wasn't picked up by grub2 with the command update-grub. so you have to edit the grub file manually in the host distro in my case ubuntu sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_...

Hi just trying to do a frugal install puppeee using downloads from the new website today.

And the install halts saying that it wont install to an ext4 partition. ext4 was added some time back - has the ext4 option been lost or is this just me?

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Excuse me for asking this again but can I upgrade my frugal install by just overwriting some of the files?

I think thats all that was needed before but I can remember which files need to be updated.

cimh
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3.5 running great on my 901. frugal upgrade worked perfectly - thanks As usual your work looks very solid - just noticed my temptray icon had disappeared not sure why - it was there a minute ago! but clicking on the file in startup folder brings it back. Sorry to hear some people not enjoying chrome...

I like the new thermometer tray icon. Looks good cimh

traytemp is a nice idea, just one minor suggestion: Hows about another suggestion ;) - make the traytemp icon look like a small netbook ala fewt's acpi-utils then it can change colour according to fan temp and retain the temp osd. then right clicking opens up eee-control without having to goto the ...

I decompressed and put traytemp into root/startup but its not showning on reboot. Sorted I had to right click and make executable. Works fine running blue with no fan 41C

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Hokal, can you check if the Fan script is actually starting when you switch to powersave? The command is 'ps -ef |grep fan'. If you change the thresholds, switch to performance mode, then back to powersave, and it should work. It does work I know what hokal means the first time you select it the fa...

3.4 testing on my 901 frugal install Ext4 works :) Pwireless 2.8, now with 'nolink' mode for flaky connections still ra0 up and down a lot initially then I ticked the nolink option - yes this seems to make the link differently - but it takes ages . . 30s from the desktop till it connects :( - I see ...

The fonts look ok to me. Have you tried adjusting the global font size? yes it helps but they do not look as good as the deb version from http://www.google.co.uk/chrome the fonts look great when this is installed to eeebuntu. But the pet version I used for puppeee (googlechrome-004) I think has tin...

Jemimah

One problem with chrome is the fonts are too small - there are fixes but its more work.

cimh

Cimh, you've been running Chrome longer than I have, any stability issues? I dont think its ever crashed on me in 3 months linux use. (FF crashed today on me so In my experience is more solid than ff) and its at least twice as fast as the competitors. FF with meekat goes a long way to giving you mo...

Browsers - I am copying my mail from the other forum. where I benchmarked the main browsers: these show that chrome is easily the fastest. ff with meerkat is ok on a small screen. I agree that html editing is the only reason I like seamonkey - but how many of us do that? and recently I have used scr...

I have the same problem with my 901. Only SOMETIMES after booting the display is distorted and the 901 dies completely. My remedy: When the display appears, just move your mouse around and open any window. Strange, but then this fault will not happen! I never mentioned this, because I thought it mi...

interface ra0 nolink - Looks good connect seems better - certainly dont get the rA0 down pop up - only been using it at a distance for 10 mins but looks hopeful. BTW just before I added the lines I was 30cm from my wifi box and I still got the rA0down and then IP address pop up so it seems like it ...

my eeebuntu3 uses: kernel 2.6.30-02063004-generic

and its fine.

Thanks Jemimah and Hokal On shutdown my eee creates the save file fine. I guess it is the ext4 which stops it getting picked up on boot. Perhaps Jemimah you shouldn't bust a gut over this as the most recent phoronix tests with the newer kernals =>31 show that ext3 was faster than 4 in more than 1/2 ...

Here is the updated initrd.gz which will find puppy files on ext4 filesystems. This worked perfectly - many thanks cimh However . . . puppeee isnt picking up my pupsave files on boot. They are being saved to the same directory as the frugal install eg/ sdb5/puppy431 could this be related to ext4 as...

jemimah wrote:Here is the updated initrd.gz which will find puppy files on ext4 filesystems.

This worked perfectly - many thanks
cimh

@ cimh Does eeebuntu use the newer grub2? Hi Trapster. Eeebuntu3 is based on ubuntu 9.04 and still uses the older grub. Grub2 became default on ubuntu9.10. the Eeebuntu team became fed up trying to keep up with the 6 monthly cycle of ubuntu and are building eb4 from debian. but yes worth checking. ...