Solved: used VESA option in video wizard and set resolution to 800x600. Works with racy 5.5 and precise 5.5beta. Not necessary with lupu 5.28 or slacko 5.33.

simargl wrote:You could try lxrandr, in Archpup for example it comes pre installed.

I think that is just a graphic front end for xrandr, which doesn't do the job. The desktop does not scale to the window size.

Recent puppies do not play well in VirtualBox, which is unfortunate, since that is the easiest way to try out new variants. The default display resolution has been increased to where it is too big for a virtual machine window on a laptop display. If you decrease the resolution with Puppy's built-in ...

puppyt wrote: Good call amigo. For us former-MS acolytes (MS-DOS/NT), Puppy's file structure appears to have a fractal-like but mystifying organisation with repeated (and often empty) directories branching off at intervals. Linux-like, we see, only different... . This is an extra complication on top...

In slacko, I can't find the equivalent of the left lower corner button in lupu or wary. Where would I find gparted, for example? I'm running slacko in virtualbox, but that works OK with lupu and wary. Carolus... right click on the desktop. Does the menu pop up? Yes, right clicking on the desktop sh...

In slacko, I can't find the equivalent of the left lower corner button in lupu or wary. Where would I find gparted, for example? I'm running slacko in virtualbox, but that works OK with lupu and wary.

Thanks, tempestuous. rt3370sta did not work properly but rt3070sta did.

Puppy 5.28
Asus USB-N13 wifi dongle with Ralink chipset
Vendor 0b05, ProdID 1784, Rev 1.01

Puppy 5.28
Asus USB-N13 wifi dongle with Ralink chipset
Vendor 0b05, ProdID 1784, Rev 1.01

The default setup is not working. Which driver should I use, and how should I install it? (Must I uninstall some pre-existing driver, and if so, how?)

I put copies of wary_500.sfs in all of: 1) the root of the USB flash, 2) the root of the hard drive system partition (Windows XP on partition 2), and 3) in /nixboot/wary50 on the hard drive, and then tried booting with the following grub4dos menu.lst entry: title wary puppy 5 persistent rootnoverify...

Tried as suggested. Got

"Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives ....
(next in red:) pausingwary.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console."

I think that is the same error message as with the original boot codes.

How to boot Wary using grub4dos? I've been booting Puppy 2.16 and 4.12 by chaining from the Windows XP bootloader to grub4dos to a USB flash drive as described in: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1058 However, this method does not work for wary 5.0. Using the following entry in menu.lst,...

This means that, in future, systems like Carolus has are more likely to be the norm than the exception. Thanks, didn't know this. I kept stuck several years ago with XP. Good to know. This is hardly a new phenomenon. My 2003 Dell desktop and 2006 Sony laptop both have OEM Windows XP on the second p...

In the post you reference Windows is at the first partition not the second. Yes, so I had to change that. I've noticed elsewhere (maybe unetbootin) that Windows was assumed to be on the first partition. But that is not true for my 3 machines from different manufacturers. In any case, your question ...

I still don't understand your setup. You have already monkeyed yourself by installing grub4dos. You say it is configured to boot from partition 2 which contains the Windows install. Where is puppy then? As described in: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=13861#13861 I had to modify th...

Beem wrote: "You have very funny factory installed systems." If so, it is all the more reason not to want anything monkeying with the system disk without permission. On two of these computers I am currently booting puppy with grub4dos configured to boot from the second partition. Dell, Son...

Barry has been on both sides of this fence in the past and so must have given it some thought. All three of my computers, from different manufacturers, have OEM Windows installed not on the first partition, but on the second. The first partition contains stuff from the manufacturer. On the two lapto...

Béèm wrote:carolus, you should ask that to the person who developed the script, which is Barry Kauler.

He seems to follow these discussions, and could not have the time to justify every decision he makes. But I remain curious.

Following is code in the rc.shutdown script in the same directory as rc.init in Lucid 519.] Thanks. I interpret this as showing that there no risk of creating an automatic swap file whenever memory > 256MB. But why not ask permission before proceeding? It should be no big nuisance since this condit...

carolus wrote:In 5.1.1 there is no /etc/rc.sysinit. In init, I don't recognize code that creates a swapfile

I was just looking in initrd (which can be read with 7zip directly from the iso, without burning and booting). I now realize that a lot of the boot code is in the squash file.

In 5.1.1 there is no /etc/rc.sysinit. In init, I don't recognize code that creates a swapfile, only code that detects a swapfile, and grepping on comment lines that contain the word "swap" did not reveal anything. But I'm not very good at reading big scripts, and maybe there are other rele...