Lazy Puppy--you got me there! I meant no HD, not no RAM: acronym mixup! I suppose some people might have figured that out... :) Also, I never said /root/Desktop. Replies like yours are frankly not very helpful for someone who is trying to solve probs with Puppy but is not a computer specialist. Also...

I'm booting frugal tahr off a flash drive on a laptop with no RAM. I would like to remove a couple sfs packages that I see in the desktop root folder: google_earth_7.1.2.sfs skype-4.3.0.37.sfs The reason I want to do this is because I'm recently having problem accessing CUPS printer interface, and I...

Thanks Karl-- Tried that just now with SFS-Load On-the-Fly and also Boot Manager, however, the google earth sfs shows up nowhere on either interface, so I can't load it or unload it. The skype sfs shows up in the "Load" box, so it apparently has never been added to the load list anyway?? W...

Hi rcrsn51--
In desktop's root file folder, I see two .sfs files:
google_earth_7.1.2.sfs
skype-4.3.0.37.sfs

Should I delete them to fix the CUPS 500 error?

666philb-- Per your suggestion, just reinstalled 1.4.8 in ppm and rebooted. No joy, same 500 error. At same time also uninstalled chrome since that was mentioned as a possible culprit in the thread that bigpup sent. I now understand that your chmod 755 /initrd/pup_rw did work. I see now that it chan...

Hi 666philb and bigpup-- Thanks for recommendations. Tried the chmod 755 /initrd/pup_rw in terminal. Nothing seemed to happen other than another root prompt after I entered. Cups page links still had same 500 problem. Also checked permissions in initrd/pup_rw as per bigpups link and they seemed in o...

Have been printing fine for 9 months. BTW really been enjoying tahrpup on an old Dell Latitude laptop. It's been very useful and economical for me and family. However, just today, can't print. So I went to the CUPS page, the tab to "Administration", but when clicked it just goes to a "...

Thanks bigpup--I was bypassing Set Timezone because I had set it on initial pup setup, and it showed sth like "Los Angeles, GMT-8" in the Set Timezone window, so I didn't bother resetting it. However, in looking down the drop menu of places and times, I noticed that the "Los Angeles, ...

666philb--the untick OCSP idea worked. UPDATE: I think it was a timezone glitch. My time zone setting that I had done in initial pup setup indicated "Los Angeles, GMT-8". That looked fine to me so I saw no reason to change it, but I noticed that there were issues with psync catapulting my ...

Hi Tlchost I'm not sure what you mean by "results" on the link you sent. I looked at it, pressed the "go" button, something called a "traceroute" happens below, and I haven't the slightest idea what it all means. It doesn't take me to the site in any way. I'm attaching ...

Have searched but not found yet a good step-by-step on how to set the pup clock well. I'm in tahr frugal on usb. The "help" button in "psync time server synchronisation" isn't really a how-to but rather an explanation of how the software works. My pup desk clock shows local time....

Tlchost-- Just tried again on Chrome, get somewhat different message now when I click "more" info button: "This webpage is not available The server at linuxliveusb.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Int...

Thanks Flash, disabling the screensaver there worked for me, but not resetting the seconds.

The links on the page, most or all don't work, either.

Hi mikeb--took a Screeny Capture of the window.
I hope it shows!

Hi Semme--yes, that's what I HOPE to see in Palemoon.
Thanks for the link, I should check out the chrome dropbox extension.

mikeb--do you know, is there a stock uploader gui on tahrpup that's useful for dropbox?

Tlchost--Weird! Just in case, just now I cleared cache of both Chrome and Palemoon before trying to access that url. message from chrome: Oops! Google Chrome could not find linuxliveusb.com Try reloading: linuxliveusb.­com message from palemoon: Server not found Pale Moon can't find the server at ww...

Thanks all-- Tried it again using a tahrpup fat32 usb I just made. First tried setting pupX screensaver to 2700 seconds (45 minutes), applied to session, and the darn screen still went out every 600 seconds (the default). Then just disabled screensaver using the checkbox, and now there is no screen ...

Thanks mikeb.
So I'll just retrain a pup on fat32 now.

Thanks for ideas! Problem is solved. (BTW Tlchost, the domain linuxliveusb.com has not been working today or yesterday.) Regarding the usb booting on dell optiplex 755: Updated bios--didn't help. Tried it with an ext3 formatted usb stick with a single partition--didn't help. Made a fat32 stick singl...