I have our latest puppy lucid 5.2.5 on hard drive with w-7 and ubuntu 10.04. Installed on an old fujusti st5032 tablet pc. I have a copied script for rotating the screen...works great in ubuntu...cannot get it to run in pup. When I try xrandr from term I get: # xrandr -o left X Error of failed reque...

Thanks alienjeff:: You have confirmed what I was slowly beginning to realize. But, the reading I have done (BK blog, etc.) implies the busybox skinny bash is only used during the boot phase(s). It is not important enough to add a "core" utility. I only use terminal when there is no other w...

will puppy run xxd? If so, how?

@wuwei>> Thats a great source for simple, usable, everyday commands, but does not address the basic question>>>is puppy crippled to the point of unusable for recovery of broken systems??? I have used puppy for recovery several times but never dove down into the basic linux capability before.

Thanks; darkcity and rhadon. Both solutions have merit. I think I will take the easy out and rename the "save" files. Sorry I posted puppy version a few minutes earlier and forgot to include: Puppy 5.1 until I had a few problems then upped to 5.2.5. rhadon: I have looked at init.gz in the ...

Short question>>>long answer? _Is it possible? I have several Fujitsu st5032 tablet pcs that I am trying to revive. They have : 1-no hard drive 2-no battery They will: 1. boot easily from usb (if bios is set correctly) 2. bios is easily accessed using stylus and/or case mounted keys. 3. bios passwor...

I was using 5.1 trying to get an old wacom based tablet pc to live again. (st5032). The linux wacom project is impossible to use because of puppy's lack of basic linux commands OR it could be ME. Please tell me I am wrong and that puppy has basic command capability. ps: I quickly burned the latest p...

I am trying to install lighthouse pup 442 on an old t21 lap. I thought I had puppy 442 installed but could not boot because of "No setup signature found. " at the grub stage 2?. So, I booted cd with lighthouse 442 and installed (frugal) to same sub dir. and received the same error. I found...

I patched lhp iso with kde, mar, and bible time for my g-son new in coast guard. I would like to copy the exact dvd that I send him. I tried k3b, which I use regulary, and looked at several other burner pgms, but they don't want to copy multisession dvd or some other problems. Rather than start a lo...

This is probably in the wrong forum, but I am curious. I have lhpup, mar, kde, bibletime loaded on a 4g thumb drive.. and have used puppy for years (not an expert, tho). I even forget how to manage sfs files loaded at boot. Please point me to a wiki or tutorial for a description of Mariner etc... I ...

SOLVED Thanks rcrsn51... I don't understand how this fixed the problem. I would not have gone that way because hda5 is ntfs, but I'm beginning to see the light. The kernel and initrd on hda5 bypasses the ntfs prob w/grub etc. I am using 214 now or at least what I had marked on the pen as 214 it prob...

Since its only this one computer that I want to use several old ver's of puppy on I am taking another approach: Copy mbr of whichever stick I want to use to c:\ point boot.ini to above file It should work but I aint there yet. partial menu.lst title windows xp root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title flopp...

Solved....

My fault...I assumed the pen was drive 1 and was too stubborn to try other nos....It is drive 2...

All is well that ends

Think I should just give up, but ..... dd will copy the mbr for me.

But when I tried to use mbrfix in xp I could not get it to recognize the bootable pen drive with puppy214 on it.

Have booted and rebooted with menu.lst changes.....
I'm going in circles.

grub says:
AND i forgot to mention hd0 is ntfs
So I am stuck...think I'll take the rest of the day to go play with a kayak.

Sorry, I was not clear: the pen drive has a fully functional puppy 2.14 that boots from my laptop with no problems. When I select 'usb boot' from the grub menu; Booting 'usb boot' kernel /vmlinuz error26: selected disk does not exist I don't know what this means. Looks like I am refering to the wron...

I have puppy 3.00 on hd. bios does not support usb boot. I put grldr and menu.lst on c:\. I want to boot puppy 2.14 on usb pen. Also want option to boot other ver's on other pen drives Found several helpful posts on boot single version via system files to c:\. but nothing that would allow diff ver b...

Puppy now boots from hd frugal install. Found mbrwiz, a great mbr utility, and restored my mbr to get rid of grub. Copied grldr and menu.lst to c:/, modified boot.ini to include c:\grldr and it boots. Well allmost I used / instead of \ and it did not boot til I corrected it. Thanks for fast response...

That would work. I merely followed the instructions from http://www.puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm which says that puppy will load on any file system (and it will) then continues with the grub modification required which implies load puppy anywhere and use grub. I think that is impossible but want it...

I installed Puppy 3.00 to a ntfs partition in folder /puppy300 on hda5 as the univ installer suggested. Copied the installer recommended grub stanza to my menu.lst which resides on /boot/grub in a mandrake installation on hda6. When I rebooted grub gave error 17 which is 'part exists, but grub can't...