Okay and good luck!

If your MB is Gigabyte 945xx, you should be able to boot from USB. You should change the boot order to 1. USB-HDD 2. CDROM 3. HD You can change that either by hitting the DEL-key (for permanent change) or F12 (to change boot menu) during the BIOS checkup. You should consult your MB manual or downloa...

Sorry, was away for a while. You can get some info by changing /etc/rc.shutdown a bit: # exec 1> /dev/null 2>&1 exec 1> /root/shutdown.log 2>&1 set -x at the top of the script (line 23 in mine). That is, comment out the quieting line and add redirection to a file and add set -x, which echoes...

Your PUPMODE=5. In Menu->System->Puppy Event Manager under Save Session tab there is a note that in PUPMODE 5 nothing is saved. So basically you should get it to ask you again where to save and how. If I've understood this correctly, if you add pfix=ram into your kernel line, it should ignore any ex...

There is a file /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE, which gives all kinds of info on your Puppy. What does it say? Is your PUPMODE=12? Did it ask you anything about your keyboard, language etc?

I had to play around with Puppy 4.31 frugal install quite a bit, so even when everything worked, it always started up clean (asking language, location and X server data every time. Then I took out boot option pfix=ram, and it started to use save file normally. It does this copy to ram at every boot ...

Network wizard seems to be doing this when you push the DHCP button dhcpcd -d -I '' "$INTERFACE" 2>&1 That is in /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh. There is setupDHCP() function, which is used by /usr/sbin/net-setup.sh. Are you sure this lease length is not determined by your modem's router pa...

I have no understanding how to load kernel modules (drivers) and associate them with specific devices, but here are some pointers that may help you to find and possibly cure the problem. Apparently there's been a kernel bug in version 2.6.29.1 that interpretes the chip in chatcam wrong, associates w...

Graphics card is back, motherboard graphics is (sort of) disabled and Puppy plays quite nice with it. So this acpi=off saved the day. Somehow frugal install's hw detection became mixed up where live version managed to handle it. Weird. Sometime during the weekend I'll do the frugal install on my mai...

Thank you, Béèm. You are most wonderful person and if anyone ever doubts it, I am willing to give a sworn statement to that effect. When I added the acpi=off into the kernel line, Puppy booted up just nice. Of course, at this point I have already removed the Radeon board and told BIOS to forget ever...

Tried adding vga=normal into grub. The results were exactly the same as before.

I'll try removing the graphics board tomorrow (well, later today). And need to look up those kernel parameters if there is something else to try.

Thanks and good night.

Tried booting with pfix=ram but it was no go, results were the same. And I remembered seeing that "copy to ram" message every time, so apparently it is default behaviour. I had some problems on an old system where I couldn't use Xorg on a full install while it worked fine with LivePuppy, s...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll put that into grub line and try booting.

Used my phone camera to preserve the final messages of frozen frugal boot. Linux agpgart interface v0.103 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0xb00, revision 0 HDA Intel 0000:0...

Sorry, it never gets there. Boot hangs up after that. Is there some way to retain the log? I have reset the system, it does not react to any keys or commands. But here is the xorg.conf from the LivePuppy, if it is any help: #Special base config file used in Puppy Linux. # ***************************...

First, the environment: AMD Athlon 64x2, 2,1 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 250GB IDE disk, Asus M2A-VM HDMI mb, Sapphire Radeon 3650 512 MB video board, Iiyama ProLite E481S 19" LCD. Disk partitions; sda1 FAT32 10 GB boot sda5 NTFS 80 GB Windows XP sda6 swap 1 GB sda7 ext3 39 GB Mandriva 2010 Free Using Puppy...

jemimah wrote: There's a symlink in /usr/local/bin/, firefox->defaultbrowser. This is a workaround because Abiword assumes firefox is installed. Just delete the symlink and everything should start to make sense. Thanks! Makes much more sense :) . I deleted that symlink and restored defaultbrowser an...

I installed Firefox 2.0.0.7 using Puppy Package Manager. Installation went fine except when it informed me of dependencies, the window was too short for the list and could not be scrolled. I tried minimize/maximize and then all the text was gone. Well, since it apparently just wanted to inform that ...

I did a save rebooted and started PupDial and clicked connect to internet and there I was! So, everything works :) . And yes, I think I'm using 3.5 beta, it was downloaded 15th february. I did try Gnome-ppp but had some trouble with it. It stopped connection at sending password. In the log it said s...

I deleted save file and started Puppee from clean slate with E169 in the USB port. I started PupDial and had probe for modem. It found ttyUSB0 just fine. After that I defined account#1 as follows: Init string 2: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet" Max speed: 460800 Phone number: *99# Wi...