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by oldmac2006
Fri 26 Aug 2011, 22:22
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

Disable Virtual Desktops

G'day Joe,
Thanks heaps ... that was a real concern for me. There are a couple of other options there that I was wondering about also.Now I know that too.
Easy when you look :-)
Cheers
Mac
by oldmac2006
Mon 22 Aug 2011, 22:24
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

RE: Create ISO from PuppyLiveCDBuild

G'day Joe, I thought (Dementia) I had clicked yes to create an ISO, but when I took the USB out ... there was not one there. So that's when I thought I would create one from the Folder :-) I have since redone the setup I wanted and created an ISO when prompted :-) ..it worked OK and all is good. So ...
by oldmac2006
Wed 10 Aug 2011, 07:39
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

Create ISO from PuppyLiveCDBuild

I created a new Kiosk look and then went to remaster puppy live CD to create an ISO image, saving the files onto a Flash Drive, it created the PuppyLiveCDBuild folder, but no ISO image. So I created an ISO image from those files in the PuppyLiveCDBuild folder using ISO Master, my issue is that when ...
by oldmac2006
Sun 29 May 2011, 10:05
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

G'day Purjuju, The Puppy Universal Installer is on a normal Puppy 5.2 CD Are you using Puppy in a Kiosk ?? If not then you can download a full Puppy 5.2.5 and then using the Puppy Universal Installer load it onto a HDD. The installer is on the Start menu under Setup. There are good prompts and instr...
by oldmac2006
Sat 28 May 2011, 11:41
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

I may have solved my own problem :-). I have loaded the add on personal-menu in Firefox. This enables me to hide the parts of the menu bar that I do not want the users to see. The Public Fox protects users from accessing the addons once it is all installed. I will do some more testing ..but so far s...
by oldmac2006
Sat 28 May 2011, 09:46
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: How to make a Puppy Kiosk out of Lucid Puppy 5.2
Replies: 47
Views: 43630

The Puppy Kiosk setup CD is brilliant, I have had no trouble installing Puppy Kiosk to a HDD using the Puppy Universal Installer. I find the system runs a lot quicker off the hard drive than a CD or USB Flash drive. When using the CD I can freeze the system for short periods by loading up a couple o...
by oldmac2006
Fri 13 May 2011, 07:29
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Booting USB without HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 1877

Thanks for the info Sylvander, I'll try what is described there.
Cheers
Mac
by oldmac2006
Fri 13 May 2011, 05:44
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: Booting USB without HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 1877

Booting USB without HDD

I am trying to boot from a USB Flash drive without a HDD connected.
I have been booting on an older system no worries .....but that has a HDD. When I first tried on this new system I got the error “/bin/sh can’t access tty; job control mode off