TazPuppy 5.0 rc2

[muggins]

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fixmenus?

[mistfire]

TazPuppy beta 2 released

NOTE: TazPuppy is now the new name of Tazpup

Changes:
* Improved tazpkg installer
* Improved tazpanel and tazpkg
* All file associations are now working properly
* Application Menu is now more organized
* With on-demand features
* Network now supports more than 1 NICs (wired only)
* Huge bugfixes and improvements

Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jScQ8 ... JatfpPosK9

Build kit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OBZWzV ... sp=sharing

[thinkpadfreak]

Hello.

I tried booting TazPuppy beta 2.

After booting successfully, I wanted to save to a hard drive, but could not.
I got a message saying "no suitable partition to save to."

The hard drive consists of four partitions:
sda1 (ntfs, windows boot partition)
sda2 (ntfs, windows c: drive)
sda4 (ntfs, windows recovery data)
sda5 (ext2, containing Xenialpup)

I created a directory for TazPuppy in sda2 and placed vmlinuz, initrd, main sfs, and zdrv there.
I have multiple puppies installed in sda2.

I would like to know if there is anything wrong with the configuration above.

Regards.

[peebee]

After booting successfully, I wanted to save to a hard drive, but could not.
I got a message saying "no suitable partition to save to."

I got the same message....system shutdown with no savefolder created.....all my partitions are Linux formatted

[Terry H]

New manual frugal install on USB Flash drive. I installed Intel 7265 wifi card firmware. First shutdown successfully created save folder on Flash drive (sdb2 formatted as ext4). Save folder loaded OK on reboot.


Edit: Subsequent saves/reboots OK also.

[mistfire]

@peebee and @thinkpadfreak where did you boot the Tazpuppy? From disk? or usb? Does your hard disk interface was ide or sata?

[peebee]

@peebee and @thinkpadfreak where did you boot the Tazpuppy? From disk? or usb? Does your hard disk interface was ide or sata?

Disk - sata

[mistfire]

@peebee upon booting the tazpuppy does the probepart and probedisk command detects all of your hard disk installed and its partitions?

[mistfire]

@peebee upon booting the tazpuppy does the probepart and probedisk command detects all of your hard disk installed and its partitions?

[Terry H]

On the new frugal install, prior to internet connection the date /time was displayed correctly from the HWCLOCK. The value of '/etc/TZ' was Australia/Perth. After installing WIFI firmware and connecting to the internet the date time was set to Australia/Perth (AWST).

I used Setup > Time Zone Configuration to select Canada / Toronto, which set '/etc/TZ' to America/Toronto. This had no effect on the date and time that is displayed. It should have changed to display ESDT.

I ran System Tools > Slitaz Config Dialogs selecting set-date. This displayed:

Old date: Tuesday September 11 03:05:10 AWST 2018
New date: Tuesday September 11 03:05:20 AWST 2018

So the system appears to still referencing Australia/Perth even though the TZ is America/Toronto. What is being referenced to get the system time? How do I get the correct date/time displayed?


Full disclosure:

This was occurring in Beta 1, but as AWST is 12 hours in advance of ESDT, I just changed the display to be displayed in 12 hour format instead of 24 hour.

[thinkpadfreak]

mistfire wrote:
> where did you boot the Tazpuppy? From disk? or usb? Does your hard disk interface was ide or sata?

From a hard drive. I think it is sata.

I ran the commands probepart and probedisk, and they seem to have been executed successfully.

I attach the screenshot.

[musher0]

Hello mistfire.

I just tested your TazPuppy-5.0, and it booted just fine on this PC (hw
summary attached).

The only problems I had were:
-- the Puppy "pkeys" cheatcode seems not to be recognized (or there is
no cf keyboard present?)
-- I instinctively pulled the plug when i got the error message for pkeys, and
had a hell of a time restarting the machine when I put the plug back in. It
would just show the amber light and stay there; I had to wiggle the plug
back and forth a bit to show the green light again and restart properly.
Of course, this may not be a problem caused by tazpup at all, only a hw
problem with my machine, but I thought I'd report it anyway just in case
someone else had the problem.

For the rest, congratulations!
-- a 85 Mb's Puppy sfs that works, we haven't seen this in a very long time!!!
-- of note, the 4.17 kernel you use is snappy on my old machine. Why
snappy on your TazPuppy and not on other recent Pups?

Truth be told, I had tried a couple of versions of the regular Slitaz a few
times in the past, but it never completely booted, it never got to the
desktop. So I was rather reluctant to try a "TazPup". But yours boots fine
all the way to the desktop.

Good continuation!

BFN.

[mistfire]

TazPuppy Beta 3 released

Changes:
* fatal error on shutdownconfig where unable to find partition is fixed
* some tweaks for time settings

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JusTNf ... sp=sharing

Build kit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqdknq ... sp=sharing

[Terry H]

Just saw this when finishing up for the night. Downloaded and quick frugal install, using save folder from Beta 2. Date/Time now set correctly.

More tomorrow...

[musher0]

Tried your latest, and no glitches! Great work, mistfire!

[greengeek]

Can't seem to get wifi working. If I select setup and wifi configuration - then enter "root" as password nothing happens. Did I forget how to use this??
cheers!

[foxpup]

Can't seem to get wifi working. If I select setup and wifi configuration - then enter "root" as password nothing happens. Did I forget how to use this??
cheers!

Same here. I tried to set it up from the slitaz config tool, my wifi is found, but no connection.
The wifi-config does not work; this in terminal:

sh-4.4# tazbox su wifi-box
/usr/bin/tazbox: line 837: /usr/bin/wifi-box: Permission denied
/usr/bin/tazbox: line 837: exec: /usr/bin/wifi-box: cannot execute: Permission denied

I had no pupsave in beta 2, as others reported. This has been solved in beta 3.

[s243a]

I was looking for the kenal sources for a slightly older version of TazPup. I found my kernal version at:
http://smokey01.com/huge_kernel/4.17.0/

I'm not sure if it is compatible or not with tazpup.

Edit

Just as some background, previously I was looking for the kernal sources for the virtual-box guest additions. Currently, I'm trying to compile Tor. According to one of the comments in the c file limits.h was supposed to be part of the kernal sources. I found it at the following path:

/usr/src/linux/usr/include/linux

I added the following environmental variable:

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export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include -I/usr/src/linux/usr/include"

[Terry H]

Can't seem to get wifi working. If I select setup and wifi configuration - then enter "root" as password nothing happens. Did I forget how to use this??
cheers!

Same here. I tried to set it up from the slitaz config tool, my wifi is found, but no connection.
The wifi-config does not work; this in terminal:

sh-4.4# tazbox su wifi-box
/usr/bin/tazbox: line 837: /usr/bin/wifi-box: Permission denied
/usr/bin/tazbox: line 837: exec: /usr/bin/wifi-box: cannot execute: Permission denied

I had no pupsave in beta 2, as others reported. This has been solved in beta 3.

On a new frugal install this morning, I was having the same issue, Setup >Wifi configuration is not being run after entering root password.

If you click on the tray network icon, then click "Configure" button, then enter root password, this will bring up TazPanel, which will allow the network configuration to be completed.

[Terry H]

New frugal install of Beta 3 to USB Flash drive using UEFI. Apart from the network config workaround being required, all is working well. Date/Time setting is OK. New Save Folder successfully created. System update,er 78 packages were updated, I noticed a couple of missing dependencies, were identified and installed by the Package Manager.

So thanks again mistfire. Well done, an excellent puppy.