Yes, I'm still using Puppy 3.01 with retro kernel 2.6.18.1--hey, it's worked, even though it's becoming more problematic due to all the lincrap that's worked its way into the system. Some time ago, (a year or more?) I updated Flash Player on my system, installing the whole tarball (including some fi...

Thanks, 01micko. I'll make a note to remember that F12 trick--I knew there had to be some way to operate in the GUI from the keyboard. Hitting F12 did get me to the menu and I was able to maneuver to the mouse setup, but the mouse was still unresponsive after rebooting and re-entering X. So I backed...

Not a happy puppy tonight. :( Yes, I'm still using 3.01, and have a problem with the mouse setting in Setup. I normally use a serial mouse (I've got 'em, I use 'em). I went into Setup to change the mouse setting to USB to test a USB mouse. All was fine at that point. I then replaced the USB mouse wi...

Thanks for the links for .pet files for Tux Typing. I was looking for that today. BTW, the links still work (unlike some of the links here). Is there a newer version available and will it also work under Puppy 3.01, at least with the libs that were made available for the version posted here? Thanks ...

I wasn't able to get Pidgin running before, and gave up for awhile. I'm now trying in earnest to get it going because I keep getting messages while using GAIM that Yahoo support was supposed to die August 15 (it's now the 20th and hasn't yet, which is good). I've been trying again (using various cur...

After a little digging around, I found that I needed the file fd0u720 in my /dev/ directory. That file is part of the Slackware package noted in the URL: http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-3.3/slakware/a2/devs.tgz. Downloaded it, extracted dev/fd0u720 to / , and fdformat recognized the module and...

I have a bunch of 720K (3.5", double-density) floppy disks that I want to give a fresh reformatting; among other things, to make sure the media's still good. As best as I can tell (seeing that /dev/fd0 only exists as fd0, fd0u1440, fd0u1680 and fd0u1760), Puppy is not geared to format any other...

I'm trying to get Pidgin running under Puppy 3.01retro-k.2.6.18.1, without success. I installed the PET file mentioned above, and it wouldn't work. I had found an unrelated post discussing libpixman that suggested in resolving that problem to install libpixman-0.1.6-i486-1sl.pet and rename libpixman...

Well, I don't see an emoticon for "screaming in agony", so I guess I'll just have to say it. My pup_save.2fs (I'm using 3.01) is a mess. It was taking forever to load at bootup, and now I'm getting a write error when it attempts to change 'master root' in creating the UnionFS filesystem. I...

I'm running Puppy 1.09CE (by choice), but I think this is a question that would be applicable to other versions as well. Background: I'm running Puppy 1.09CE from LiveCD on a PC with 256MB of RAM, with a 750MB pup001 file and 256MB swap file. (It's an old machine, and 256MB of RAM is the max.) Probl...

I'm quite content with Puppy 1.0.8r1/109CE, and the only real problem I have is that the dotpup and pupget links in the installer are dying. I'd love to see them updated to current links or removed if the package is no longer available. Links for the Debian Installer and undeb would be priority AFAI...

FYI: I'm running Puppy 1.0.8r1 in LiveCD mode. I have installed Firefox 1.5 from the relevant .pup file. For browsing, I mostly use the Mozilla 1.8 beta that came with Puppy 1.0.8r1, but occasionally use Firefox instead. There's something in Mozilla that I miss in Firefox and am wondering if it's a ...

FYI: I'm running Puppy 1.0.8r1 in LiveCD mode and running GAIM 1.5.0 (the version that came with it). I have been frustrated for some time with the "Save Conversation" box in GAIM. I like to have the box fairly large so that it's easy to find where I want to put a saved conversation withou...

I currently run Puppy2.10, and cannot mount Puppy 108 to look, where it has the icons. I think they are in /usr/local/share/pixmaps/gaim Please click on the "home"-icon on your desktop, and try to look, if you can find that folder. If you can see some pictures there, then download this do...

Since no one's replied to my first post, I thought I'd try again. Who knows (Barry?) how to set up the fuller emoticon palette for GAIM using Puppy in LiveCD mode short of reinstalling? This is in the interest of romantic harmony. My girlfriend and I have misunderstandings all the time because the a...

I'm presently using Puppy 1.08r1. I don't know if this issue has been addressed in later versions, but it's sure been an aggravation up to this point. Apparently to save space, the emoticon palette in GAIM has been abbreviated; the palette in SimplyMEPIS (as far as I can tell, the same version's bei...

I looked at the site, and it's only available there in source code form; they say go to your distro's site for binaries. I checked, and didn't see DAR in the DotPup collection. Is there some other distro's DAR that will install OK in a Puppy LiveCD environment? Failing that, (now that I'm looking at...

This discussion isn't far from my area of interest, so I thought I'd tie in here rather than start a new topic. I'd like to burn the contents of my PUP001 to CD, including the "invisible" dot-files and directories, such as ".mozilla". However, I cannot find a way either with Grav...

I like to check my data CDs after burning to make sure they're OK. I have already worked up a shell script to make an ISO from the CD-R and run MD5SUM which works great. But sometimes I don't have room to create an ISO. So I'm working on a way to compare the original ISO to the CD-R by mounting the ...

I'm presently using Puppy 1.08r, and it would be nice not to have to throw in my Puppy LiveCD every time I want to boot from Puppy. Does this work for Puppy 1.x also? If so, what differences would there be in setting up Puppy 1.x to load from a FAT32 partition? Details and examples, please--I'm stil...