I did several searches on various keywords and im not having any luck finding it. It seems like it might have been discussed before, sorry if a :repost: My plan was to find the script that executes on bootup and issues the command "xwin" to initalize the GUI. I have been looking through .x...

exec leaves a script and never returns, so anything after an exec command is never executed ... put your commands somewhere before the exec $CURRENTWM line and remember that .xinintrc and rc.local0 and /etc/profile will be replaced if you upgrade to a newer version of Puppy ... rc.local and profile...

However your second instructions. I put the java command at the bottom of .xintrc and it never executes. I double checked the running processes and nothing. I am assuming you have installed java? :?: A Puppy sized Java is available as a pupget (try that first) and a more standard and larger version...

You should put commands, that shall be available "globally" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local0 To run a Java-App (if it has a grafical interface), put it in /root/.xinitrc It is important, to add a "&" in the end, so that it runs in background, and does not block the desktop. Something ...

As a shortterm solution of what I want is to have a .sh script execute on startup. Once the gui loads most probably. This script sets up all my serial ports (6 of them) and executes a java application. I found this page: http://www.goosee.com/puppy/puppy-startup.htm but when I put my setserial and m...

wow, I think it worked. Im running now, I'm assuming primarily out of RAM. I'll try and get some of my stuff installed now.

actually booting now....and I see a line where it says pup001 was createdand resized to 216941KBytes

maybe thats all I was needing it does it automatically. lol such a noob

it seems stuck here though...maybe its just slow since its CF. ill post back with success or failure momentarily.

Not really, grub is installed...and I'm kinda guessing at what I need to put in the menu.lst based on what Bruce B showed me in another thread: title Puppy on hdd1 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram PFILE=pup001-none-512288 PHOME=hda1 vga=normal initrd (hd0,0)/boot/image.gz But I'm not sure h...

OH SWEET
grub did install without error

Hi, you should not choose a full install on such a small drive. Simply copy vmlinuz, image.gz, usr_cram.fs and pupp001 to the drive. Then resize pup001 so that it fits the size of the drive. Like this all files stay compressed, and you should have enough space to install JDK inside pup001. Mark Tha...

Is this possible? I have a 320MB CF card in an IDE cradle. When I do the HDD install it expands to 279MB. This doesn't leave room for me to install JDE. It would also be nice if I could install JDK.

I don't know what is wrong, everything went beautifully. But it did the exact same thing as before when I was trying to boot to a FAT file system. When it tries to boot hte PC/104 board throws lots of paris of 9's like below: L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 ...

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Installed it smoothly (though took much longer) and rebooting no. *Crossing Fingers*

I put the newly installed harddrive in the Primary Slave position on our PC/104 stack. I changed the menu.lst file appropriately to get it to boot in this new position. Now I need to partition and format the CF device. Problem, when I run the install to hardrive script it asks for the CDROM. There i...

I went back through the procedure fresh and it works, completed the script and everything. When I tried to boot it gave an error about could not locate usr_cram.fs. I'm gonna look into it now (I put it in /boot/ and not in just /). So excited ^_^

Today I also have my USB key attached, it has my pup001 file so it will remember all my configs for everytime I reboot. I decided I wanted to start on a new fresh clean drive so first I used cfdisk to wipe the parition, rebooted the computer, created a new one using cfdisk, it defaulted to type: lin...

Why not just install the CD/IDE module in another computer, install Puppy on it, and swap it back to the sub? The CF/IDE module thingy is surface mount and not removeable from the PC/104 board. The CF modules is, but not its IDE adapter. I guess I could always buy some new hardware...but I would re...

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So when you say once I install GRUB using setup(hd3) do I just need to then change its grub.conf file to hdb1 to get it to boot from primary slave? and then when mirrored or installed over to the CF set to hda1 ?

Certainly, I get this:

When I run the HDD install script it keeps wanting to make a bootable floppy disk. Everytime it tries to access the floppy drive on this computer or the other computers in my lab here at school it craps out. It finishes formatting but fails during verify. So I need to do it manually. I copied the 3 ...