Gee - thanks. That's a flood of information. Stuck at work today but will check it tonight and follow up. Thanks again.

Hello Forum. Pure nooby here. I'm in 5.2.5, and boy-o-boy am I completely lost. Apologies, as there are many posts on this subject but I couldn't make any sense out of any of them. There are a lot of posts in the forum pertaining to the message "Warning: Personal storage getting full, strongly ...

Been out of circulation for a bit. The Xorg switcher is very confusing (to simple minds such as mine) but I figured it out. Thanks very much for the help.

I think it threw me at first because I was using the 'change' option instead of the add option.

brian

That pet is exactly what I'm looking for. Supposedly I can add a second keyboard layout through the puppy setup (xorg option) but I can't figure it out. Will this pet work on 5.2.5? I ran it but nothing happened. Can you give me some instructions? I'm a 2-week newby and have absolutely no clue as to...

Ah - I see I didn't add a second keyboard. I was in the "xorg" keyboard interface. There's an option for additional keyboard layouts but it's obviously not where I need to be. In the puppy setup menu I can't find any such option. Can you give me the path to it? Sorry for the delayed respon...

Wow. That XFE is something else. Really nice. It will be a big help.

I was going to delete this whole subject, but as there is some very nice info and good links I guess I'll leave it up.

Thanks again for the help.

brian

Yup. I feel pretty stupid. Not sure why that space became unallocated, but I'm sure it was something I did. Sorry for the pointless inquiry. But I will use this venue for a follow-up question. Coming from a Windows background, I find the Rox file manager and the unix directory/file display conventio...

Rolf: Yes, I see that, but in pmount, the drive shows up as only 4 gigabyte (which was the size I reserved for the Puppy Installation. There's still (roughly) 455 gigabyte sitting on the drive that I can't get to. In fact, my original post mis-stated that. I can't get to the remaining storage outsid...

Hello Forum:

I'm running Puppy 5.2.5. In the hardware setup, there's an option to add a second keyboard layout. (I use dvorak, my wife uses qwerty). I have added in the second layout, but can't for the life of me figure out how to switch between the two. Can someone guide me through?

Thanks.

brian

I may be missing something very obvious here, but here's my point of confusion: Right now I'm running Puppy on a 500GB external USB hard drive. I would like to save my user files to the unused portion of the USB hard drive. But from within Puppy (say I'm working on an Abiword file) when I invoke a s...

- turn off "pnp os" in the bios. - also in the bios, lower usb speed from "hispeed" (480mb/s) to "fullspeed" (12mb/s). Curiously, there are no such settable parameters in my bios. There's just about nothing except the date and time set up, and a couple of diagnostic op...

That's all very interesting, especially the bios settings. Will try it and post back any changes.

Thanks all.

brian

Thanks Artie.

From looking over that link it appears the main problem is that Puppy is just buggy on netbooks. I should be using a different distro. There are a lot of known problems.

Thanks for the inputp

Brian

Brilliant, Bigpup!

OK, I think I have enough ammunition to figure out what will work best for me. Thanks very much for the help. And thanks to all who posted prior.

brian

That should work, except the save icon on my desktop has disappeared. It was there when I started, and I've done a lot of work configuring the system. Is it supposed to disappear like that? It was there for some time; I remember using it repeatedly. What might have happened?

brian

Hello Puppyluvr: I'm running 5.2.5, kernel 2.6.33.2 Let me try to clarify. I want to run off either a USB flash or (preferable) a USB hard drive. I'd like to plug either on into a PC of my choice - whatever is available - and be able to select the puppy save file I'd like to boot. These save files w...

Abject apologies from the sub-nooby before hand, but searching has failed to help. If I install multiple Lupusave files on my hard drive, Puppy always prompts me with the selection to choose from when I boot up. But I when I install multiple Lupusave files on my external boot media, I do not get an ...

You may be a nooby but whatever word there is for a sub-sub-nooby, that's me, so anything involving code is way beyond me. Although you may be on to something as I've been playing with it tonight and can say that the USBHD I'm using has a much better hit rate than the USB flash. About 50% versus 25%...

Hello Puppy Linux Hardware Forum: Here's a very very weird problem that I would like to share. I have a USB flash drive loaded with Puppy 5.2.5/2.6.33.2 in positively known good condition. I know it's good because it works on other machines and will reliably boot them into Puppy as well as read/writ...

I'll give Firefox a go-look-see.

I have prefixed the original post with "SOLVED"

Thanks again.

brian