Thanks for your thoughts. OK I can see the advantages, but I think maybe I have not really understood the structure of a frugal /live install and what is placed there. My Debian Dog was reporting that I only had 30Mb left on a few occasions and I assumed that it had something to do with having symbo...

I have a rather complicated situation, or at least I am making it complicated. I want to make a DebianDog frugal installation into a full installation. (same DD system from the same .iso) Keeping all the changes I made in the frugal installation. Here's what I think I need to do and if I have got th...

Well, some good news (kind of) and some bad news. I managed to get 15Gb back on one of them and the other would not take any writing to it. Both accepted dd commands but only wrote Mb not Gb which is what I was hoping. see the output below. I think one has died because it will not allow writing to t...

OK, thanks for the suggestions guys. I will try this and see what happens.

Fanless PC, Debiandog Jessie. I have a couple of Sandisk USBs which do not get recognised on the screen by any linux I have tried. They do show up in dmesg, dfisk, etc. Any ideas what I can do to get these back please? I understood that the USB interface was in a hardware chip and reports a descript...

Couple of quick questions - 1) on boot, where do I change the boot process to login as puppy rather than as root? 2) I just want to copy a simple file from one machine to another but the scp command is executing my ~/.bashrc & ~/.profile as well which appears to make the scp fail. Am I doing som...

Yes, I changed my host name as I am running it from a memory stick on another computer. This changing my PCs hostname helps me be certain of which one I am on. I need to ssh to other copies of DD. Maybe if I go back to the iso and load that I will find the DISPLAY env variable I need. OK, well thank...

It is a bog-standard one as far as I know. What does your environment DISPLAY variable show? When I logout from root and login as puppy (as opposed to doing su as I was before) I get: $ xhost +local:puppy xhost: unable to open display "" and env DISPLAY is not present at all in env variabl...

Hi Fred, Thanks for your quick reply. puppy@debiandog:~$ xhost +local:puppy No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display ":0" sudo works OK but essentially I am running as root aren't I? I would prefer to run as puppy if possible because other people may be running the application a...

I have another small problem but it may not be anything to do with DD at all. I have found other posts about it online but none of them really seem to make it any better. I will describe it and see if anyone has any ideas. I am developing an application using python and gtk 2. The program runs OK if...

Hi Fred, Thanks for your comment. I have managed to get back my drive icons and the message about the default pinboard no longer shows on bootup. I am not sure what I did, but I did restore some stuff as you suggested so it was most probably that which sorted it out. The only problem now I have is t...

It is strange, because I have added a link to /root/Startup and am sure it is executable. When I click on it as you suggested, it runs and shows the drive icons correctly. However, after all that, when I reboot, expecting this to run as part of the startup routine, I get no drive icons but I get a m...

Are you using pcmanfm or thunar as your file manager? If so, select /usr/local/bin/desktop_drive_icons, to to menu edit-create link, and put a link in /root/startup. That should start it up automatically every time.] I think I am using Rox, but I have added items to Startup before so I can do that ...

I have rebooted to see if that would sort it out and bring them back but unfortunately, it didn't. However, there is a solution which was given to me on the DebianDog thread by dancytron for anyone who comes along looking for it. It is here. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=981946#98...

Thats marvellous, thanks. I now have my drive icons back. I have the program but it does not return cleanly to the command line so I have to Ctrl+C to finish it. It does generate my drive icons though which is good. I wonder what it is trying to do? If I can find that out, I can fix that so that it ...

Hi, I posted this in General but it seems there is something which is more of a DebianDog thing than a Puppy thing. Hope someone can help me. I tried all kinds of search terms "drive and icons", "drive icons" but nothing obvious came up in a title. I am using Debian Dog (maybe no...

Thanks for your response. There is no event manager or anything like it. There is a task manager which may have the program/script I am looking for but I do not know which one to run. However, since I have booted since all the drive icons disappeared, they would have regenerated themselves already i...

If I were you, I would try to run python from the command line to see that everyting is installed correctly. Once you get the version of python showing and the >>> then you can go to the next step. If I remember correctly in some of the earlier Puppy versions I used, the DEVX development sfs had all...

I tried all kinds of search terms "drive and icons", "drive icons" but nothing obvious came up in a title. I am using Debian Dog but I hope the instructions are the same for Puppy as well. If so, then this is OK here but if it is specific to DD then I guess I need to ask in the l...

Thanks for the answer and solution. Perhaps I am having a senior moment, but I still do not understand (in spite of the explanations which you have written) what is the difference in all the versions of DD. The systemd, the systeminit, porteus, live-boot 1,2,3, etc. In Slacko, there was a copy to RA...