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Mr Doolie · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 143

Why does the Puppy Unleashed (according to the docs) have to be on a linux formatted partition? Why won't it work on a FAT32 partition?

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A FAT32 partition does not ahve the structure to hold\store the various permissions\attributes required by Linux....That's the easy answer.

Although if a FAT partition is mounted as a UMSDOS filesystem if will work, byt requires a little bit of setting up..

Do a google for umsdos

Here's a link http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html

BarryK · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2005, 03:21 Post subject:

yes, umsdos is supported by Puppy, but note that only with the 2.4 kernel.
The 2.6 kernel has dropped support for umsdos, and we will be moving up to the 2.6 kernel one day.

Mr Doolie · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 143

Oh wait, doesn't puppy mount a simulated Linux drive (the "pup001" file)?

Could I just mount one of those to use the Puppy-Maker stuff?

Uh....how would I do that? Please tell me in Dummy-speak. I have a virgin Pup001 file that I could easily rename to Pup002 but then how do I make that look like another partition?

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sun 11 Sep 2005, 00:36 Post subject:

mount /mnt/home/pup999 /mnt/tmp -o loop

Assuming you have renamed it to pup999 and you have a /mnt/tmp directory, that will mount it there. There is an easy way to make a partition image, though, but I can't recall it off the top of my head. I'm going to go find it, and I'll come back when I do. The pup file should work unless you need more than 256M (or whatever yours is). You can just delete everything inside it.

I don't know if this will actually work, but it should. I've been thinking about experamenting with filesystem images, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

FYI, the pupxxx file is a "filesystem image"
That's also what an ISO is. It's like an iso of a partition.

EDIT: Okay, here we go:

Mr Doolie · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 143

I'll give it a shot. Thanks

>school toilet paper does.

It *THAT* what that stuff was? We use to use it in Woodshop when we ran out of sandpaper. Remember those nasty brown paper towels? Did you ever try to wipe your nose on one? An experience you never forget. I had a bad cold one time and wore off 1/4 inch of my nose.