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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

@Whodo - are you keeping track of the DEV packages as well or should we start a separate thread to compile all the DEV packages for the new programs and new versions of old programs??? It would be nice to have a devx_420.sfs...

SouthPaws · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 84

Hey, WhoDo there's a flurry of NON-STABLE release announcements on distrowatch...
Will there be one of 4.2RC4 (to possibly draw in more testers) before the awesome final?

http://distrowatch.com/

jamesbond · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1537 Location: The Blue Marble

RC4 (and I believe RC3,2,1 down to puppy 4.1.2) cannot mount CIFS share (aka "Windows share" or 'Windows Network Drive"). While we're talking about Windows here, unfortunately most of personal NAS storage also use the same protocol (e.g. my WD MyBook World Edition).

1. mount -t cifs doesn't work due to lack of helper mount.cifs program
2. mount -t smbfs doesn't work because of missing symlink from /opt/samba/bin/smbmount to /sbin/mount.smbfs
3. Even if pt 2 above is fixed, I found that smbmount doesn't do it's job properly --- I can mount, but doing directory listing doesn't work.

This wasn't a problem in 2.15CE because at least smbmount works fine there.

The fix?

Download and install mount.cifs to /sbin.

I have prepared a dotpet, and if you like you can get the source itself, from here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=288811#288811

I compiled that in Fatdog but I've already tested in RC4 and it works.
It's 7.9K compressed, 18K uncompressed, and in my opinion, is really necessary.

Then you can do things like:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

This is just an observation concerning hidden errors and a place to check for them.
Fire up Puppy RC4 with pfix=ram
Go to /temp with ROX.
Open the xerrs.log file.
It shows a number of things.
One was not being able to load tray icon nothing.png
There are others that are interesting as placement parameters being wrong for the screen size.

capoverde · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 03:35 Post subject:

sasaqqdan · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 06:18 Post subject:

if you use chinese or japanese etc. you will view Garbled character in /mnt /home at ntfs or fat drive:

please test this way followed:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40448
or
http://puppy.cnbits.com/software/initrd%E8%A1%A5%E4%B8%81

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 07:07 Post subject:

Further update on Remaster Express (EDITED): Technosaurus suggested I should set the write queue for mksquashfs (by default, a whopping 512 MB) at only slightly more than the estimated size of the squashfile. If it worked, it would mean Remaster Express would eat up, e.g., maybe only 110 MB of free memory for an estimated 100 MB squashfile. Unfortunately, I tried it and it didn't work; mksquashfs ate up the same huge amount of memory as before (but thanks for the suggestion, technosaurus!).

Would somebody please direct me to the source code and/or the compression/decompression algorithms for mksquashfs, so I can see if it's possible to fix this problem for a future version of Puppy?

Béèm · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 08:44 Post subject: Puppy Package Manager.

I worked a bit with upup-015 and specially the package manager.

In one word: fantastic.
It detects the dependencies, calculate the space needed for every thing, verifies if enough space is available and then only proposes to proceed with the install the whole thing, dependencies and package in one go.

Any chance to see this beauty in 4.2X?

rheya · Joined: 24 Mar 2009 Posts: 80 Location: Barcelona - Spain

can I try it as a live CD first ?
I work with puppy 412 live CD and I saved a multisection with it in my hard drive...
I just wish to "taste" puppy 42 before , so I fear it could recognize my stored FS files and mess it all...
I think that it's the kernel version that count and I saw that in puppy 42 it's exactly the same that in my puppy 412 but I am not sure....
please help

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 09:42 Post subject: Re: Puppy Package Manager.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 09:48 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 10:13 Post subject:

Béèm · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 12:42 Post subject: Re: Puppy Package Manager.

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 18:33 Post subject: Re: Cannot mount CIFS share

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009, 18:48 Post subject: Re: Puppy Package Manager.