Thanks noryb009. I shall progress that thought with my contact. Unfortunately, I was not given a description of what actually happened when it failed. The contact solved the problem by reinstalling Windows 7 and reapplying Lin'N'Win! I may have lost the ability to find out what happened. If there is...

Not so long ago I finally updated the Lin'N'WinNewB project notes with the method for Windows 7 as used in the Windows Installer. I recently had some feedback which suggested a failure of Lin'N'Win when trying to install to a Windows 7 PC which has a boot option back to legacy Windows XP. The Window...

Thanks for the info Otropogo and the kind comments on my previous post bigpup. I must emphasise that the post I wrote before was written after I had flowcharted the init in series 3 pups. Hopefully, all the comments about search not being faster are negated by the init in use today. I think that was...

won't nofstab leave it in a state where you cannot do anything with the drives? They are not just unmounted - they are unavailable to mount at a later time should you desire until you go through the process manually. I don't know - I am asking.

I've run a couple of tests. My current set up has Lupupluslibre and standard Lupu in 2 subfolders of my sda5 partition. Booting each separately I create a file in the home directory to identify which lupu I was in. This was done to be sure I had the correct save file loaded in subsequent tests. Test...

You might like to read this post and those around it: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=652119#652119 The discussion spreads over pages 9-11 of the thread and sorta peters out without a definitive answer after rcrsn51 found a solution to his particular problem. Shinobar makes an inter...

In boot/grub/menu.lst, a line near the beginning says; # timeout 30. Remove # Change 30 to the amount of seconds of pause you want. If Win is installed to 1st partition it wil boot 1st. This is for regular grub; not grub4dos. Strange - I thought that in legacy grub and grub4dos what was booted by d...

Bligh 4.3.1 was a masterpiece! Sadly, Puppy development model does not always give continuity. The next masterpiece was 5.2.8. I'm intrigued to know why you stick with 5.2.5. Did something get broken in 5.2.8? 5.2.8 does not work with very new hardware so I have run Slacko with that - but only becau...

I think the psubOK and psave parameters were relevant to an earlier version of Puppy (4.3.1?). They are ignored in 5.2.8. As RetroTechGuy has intimated it would be best to move your pup files and associated save file to a subdirectory and use the psubdir parameter to point to it. Then the searching ...

After adding and removing a removable hdd (which became sda1, reshuffling the drive order), and necessarily modifying the linuxsys.cfg file on the usb flash card which I use to boot into Puppy Linux. I rebooted with the new syslinux.cfg, and was surprised by the result. The last line in the origina...

I use 800x600 on my 17" CRT cos that is all my eyes can cope with. Now I have finally got a second hand 19" LCD with 5x4 aspect ratio (NOT 16x9) I may likely move to 1024x768 or a bit higher. Since new LCDs seem to come in 16x9 only I fear for the eyesight of people who like to use compute...

Nooby,

On November 2nd (2012) I noticed that the Beem ID had been used in the previous 24 hours. I immediately sent a PM but there was no response and I haven't seen the ID again.

Until we get a modular pup isn't the solution to the original poster's problem to try Tiny Core Linux (TCL) and add the programs wanted.

It seems to me that TCL was made specifically for the purpose requested.

I HATE software patents and silly obvious hardware patents.

However, please justify your statement:

Have you ever noticed that Puppy is patented by Barry?

Barry has copyrighted stuff but as far as I am aware patented nothing. There is a difference.

Not having heard of REFS I did a search and found this blog from msdn. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx I don't think you are right about Windows 8 using REFS at the moment. It only comes with Windows Server for a start and ...

If you create a couple of save files under different names you shouldn't have to mod anything, not even menu.lst. Puppy should see two save files there and give you a menu to choose. If RSH mods the initrd.gz of Lazy Puppy like he says then you would have to specify the psave boot parameter in the m...

I guess

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/NeoGrub

I presume you know how to modify menu.lst to boot a frugal puppy.

No - I have never tried this.

mini-jaguar has not come back in 3 days so not sure whether he is pleased with the responses or not. They do seem to be conflicting! There are 2 possibilities here. One has been identified by CatDude but relies on a Puppy that recognises the pupsave boot parameter. This probably does not apply to ma...

You will not get a coordinated anything if a developer is in charge. They don't have the right people skills. This idea has been expressed before in the forum and I have never understood it. It paints the picture of "developers" as being social misfits still living in their parents' basem...

mavrothal - on this topic you speak wise words! How often this topic comes around. This is the timeline: 1) Newcomer sees Puppy and is amazed and enthused 2) After going through a few upgrades and spending a little time with Puppy, newcomer realises that Puppy is disjointed from one version to the n...