tpadesihelp wrote:This method was very easy with Win XP. Can I use this method with my new Windows 7 laptop?
Thanks in advance

See the notes regarding Windows 7 that rcrsn51 added to his initial post of this thread.

Monsie

Just for the record I have four Lexar flash drives, and all are running fine. In fact, I have had three of them for five years and they have all had heavy use. :wink: slavvo67 , this is an interesting topic and could provide some useful information. Toward this end, it would be better to get a good ...

sindi,

Try the following edit: Hope that helps,
Monsie

Hi schnahz,

If you are certain that your laptop supports booting from a usb drive, have you checked the bios to ensure that this feature is enabled and that the boot order is such that your system would search for a bootable flash drive first before any other drives?

Monsie

Here is just a heads up that http://www.puppylinux.ca/ appears to be down at the present time.

I don't know if Eric is aware of this yet or not, but given that its the holiday season, I'm thinking it could be awhile before the site is up and running again.

Monsie

Hi all, I have Quirky installed on a 16 gb flash drive. The install script appears to have formatted the flash drive as f2fs, but it's showing up as two partitions: sdb1 (fat) and sdb2(f2fs). I am not sure if this is the intended outcome or not. Should I have re-formatted the flash drive as ext 2 or...

I never thought it was a o.s. issue. Yet, you told tempestuous that you disagreed with his assessment... --go figure. I have not found anyone who has actually done it. Before I blame the hardware, I will go thru the manual and complete all the steps. I downloaded the firmware, but it doesn't say ho...

Hi DM, Were you able to resolve this issue? I wondered if maybe it was just a glitch, and with a reboot of Puppy you were able to get on-line. The system has cleanly shut down every time I've shut it down so I don't know if there was a risk of corruption. Hmmm, it sounds like you should be keeping a...

I have to say I do not agree with your assessment. It will be easier getting it setup and running under Windows since it has no "Linux capable" sticker on it. :) When that is done, then as Schwarzenegger said, "I'll be back." :-) I can post a link to a copy of the manual if that...

rburkartjo,

Have a look at this thread here. The versions of Bleachbit are more up to date and there have been some fixes for Puppy Linux.

Hope this helps,
Monsie

thank you nic007 and sorry for the late reply. deleting xloaded solved the boot up error message. However I'm still having issues with spot and web browsers. for example i installed Firefox 25 on Puppy Raring remaster. i copied my root and etc over.also i setup Firefox to run as spot in the remaste...

Hi Winescape, You should be able to use your Windows XP disk to repair your installation. I wonder if the boot order needs to be checked in your bios settings. It could be that your hard drive is set to boot first before an optical drive or other device. My thoughts are that you may have messed up t...

mstlpflx wrote: So what I'm hearing is that the entire focus of Puppy developers has changed to the attitude of Microsoft and the users who have been faithful and helped to make Puppy one of most used Versions of Linux are just going to be deleted as well?? What's up with that guys ? This is a very...

Puppy has existed for quite some time now in the guise of a "pure" Puppy experience e.g. Quirky, Wary and Racy etc. as well as a "clone" experience e.g. Slacko, Lucid and Precise. They all lived perfectly happily together and is was this rich choice that (as well as for other re...

Pmount uses probepart to determine space on a drive whereas Partview uses diskfree to determine such info. The problem seems to be that the Block size is not set consistently at 1024 bytes when measuring drive space and capacity --particularly with probepart : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto...

Wary 5.5 is buggy with respect to usb drive assignments... something which I mentioned to BarryK earlier this year. If this is a major concern, I recommend that you install Wary 5.3 instead.

Monsie

wiko,

Try using the Puppy Universal Installer to create a savefile on your usb drive. Hopefully you can do this without having to re-boot... and then can you post the output of your PUPSAVE file?

Monsie

wiko,

Would you please go to /etc/rc.d directory and post the output of your PUPSTATE file...

Thanks,
Monsie

I don't understand. You want support for new hardware using these old versions on a 32 bit OS? Yes. I think there is still lots of support for running a 32 bit OS, even on newer systems. We need to start somewhere. The specs I propose serve to raise the bar, but to ensure stability in terms of upgr...

Hi all, I would like to see the community edition carry on from where BarryK left off --so-to-speak. Putting Precise Puppy aside, I feel that Wary and Racy are Barry's signature Puppies, and that we should look at these two breeds first. Wary fits an important niche in that it is designed to work on...