I'm not following this super closely so my comments may just muddy the water instead of helping. If your wireless card has an old Broadcom chip you may need to build and install the b43 package from the AUR, and install the package b43-fwcutter from the official repositories. You need both if this i...

No static release. Following is my understanding - I've not done an initial Arch install in over a year and things have changed quite a bit since I last did. Every month they publish an ISO, but this is really just enough to boot and get on the Internet. At that point you use Pacman to upgrade the p...

Since you asked, I tried about 18 months ago and determined it was beyond my abilities. That was with Woof I, never tried it with Woof II. I've got some forum posts here with notes and comments of what I found, Woof changes, etc. I recall at least one support script (not one of the numbered Woof scr...

There is an announcement regarding this topic in the Announcements section.

I've managed to get a working build system (package of scripts) that will create a Puppy like OS based on Arch Linux. The resulting system is meant to be installed to a USB drive, although there is a method to do a frugal hard drive install. Both feature persistent storage. The download below is not...

What about making that Arch thing of yours truly Puppy like in that it can boot on NTFS internal HDD in frugal install Your question touches on something I've been pondering: what is it that makes Puppy a Puppy, or for that matter what makes any distro what it is. In my own mind I've come to the co...

Sorry to be so late to the party, and I think I might be one of the forum members mentioned in the first post working on a Woof-Arch build. Short story: I decided to drop the effort. To answer one of the questions, I don't believe Arch is a good canidate for a Woof build. What I was finding is that ...

Some progress, but it has been tough going. I've made modifications to several of the Woof scripts and I can now download the files, extract them and build. I've even got it to the point where I can get an operational Puppy/Arch console up - but it dies trying to bring up Xorg for a graphical deskto...

I had seen Barry's comments about getting XZ working for Slackware. I have not checked the Slackware packages, but Arch is (was?) in the process of converting from GZ to XZ so you need the scrips to check for both and uncompress as appropriate. I think I had gotten past that issue with the Arch buil...

I am trying, but this is not a simple thing. Subsequent to Woof being released Arch has decided to change their repositories over to xz compression. The base Woof scripts only deal with PET and tar.gz files. I have got the scripts revised to deal with xz, however there are other items that will also...

Processor: Intel Celron (Pentium III/ Pentium III Xeon/ Celron) Memory: 383 M Audio Adapter: ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2 Have checked and used: Network wizard Seamonkey PMusic Gnome Media player pupRadio Pnethood Haven't checked printing as I don't have a printer hooked up to this computer. So far ever...

I have been using the 7 April 2010 version of Woof to try and build an Arch version of Puppy. I have run across a couple of items and this seemed to be the most appropriate place to post them. The first is a real minor item, in the file DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS-arch there is a line that reads: yes|gnome_me...