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by rcrd
Sat 22 Dec 2012, 11:32
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

Hi all, I decided to try and use a tiling window manager in Archpup. I downloaded i3 with dmenu via pacman and installed it modified the xinitrc (comented out the openbox line and added an exec i3 command). It works absolutely fine apart from the fact that it didn't reboot or poweroff. I had a look ...
by rcrd
Fri 21 Dec 2012, 09:04
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

Success!! @mavrothal Thanks for your advice. I had the savefile in /archpup so I moved it to /archpup1212 and it works!! Thanks a lot. @oui I had remastered archpup to suit my needs, ie Spanish kb layout, utf-8 for terminal, software installed via pacman, and I like ii... but it bugged me that the s...
by rcrd
Thu 20 Dec 2012, 19:01
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

These are my lines in the menu.lst

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title Archpup 1212 frugal in sda3 dir archpup1212
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /archpup1212/vmlinuz psubdir=archpup1212
initrd /archpup1212/initrd.gz
I'll play around with the a non remastered iso, see what happens.

Thanks
by rcrd
Thu 20 Dec 2012, 18:19
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

mavrothal, thanks for your advice. I followed your instructions and created the file in sda3 partition, where my archpup-1212 resides, and the file exists. But when I reboot, it is not picked up. The I saw simargl post (thanks for the tip) and after creating the savefile all my partitions get mounte...
by rcrd
Thu 20 Dec 2012, 15:31
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

Thanks for your help simargl At the moment I have a frugal install of Archpup on HDD, Now, I have just created a savefile in root. I checked that the filesave was created, and it was, but when I rebooted, the boot process didn't find it, and then I checked but the directory Archpup and the savefile ...
by rcrd
Thu 20 Dec 2012, 14:25
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: ArchPup 12.12.2
Replies: 461
Views: 244822

Hi, Thank you very much sigmargl! This is my very first post. I've using puppy as my main OS for years now, but only Archpup has made come out of the shell and join the forum. Puppy and Arch... unbelieveable!! I'm really enjoying it. Thanks a lot for the excellent work. One thing, urxvt didn't displ...