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[trio]

Hi,

If you drag and drop v 3, it will autodetect and convert to v 4, vice versa

Thanks

Actually, it seems that you can install and use the new squashfs tools in an older puppy (4.2 and under). Get them from here: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/squashfs-tools4-4.0-pup4.pet

Updated - v 1.4-1: Version Info now also tells you compatibility of your sfs with your kernel
Updated - v 1.4:
- Fixes reading .SFS extension (thanks disciple)
- Fixes reading spaces in paths (thanks disciple)
- Now can run from terminal, example:

[mikeb]

Could you also make a squash 4 to squash 3 convertor so when an existing sfs has been converted and worked on it can then be converted back to squash 3 so that it is useable in all the previous and some current puppies? Or simply to convert a squash 4 so that it can be used in puppy 1, 2, 3 and 4
I foresee confusion....
mike

[Jim1911]

trio,

Thanks for this great little converter. I'm posting using an opera10.sfs on Pup 4.3.0 after using your converter. Also operating are OO3, FF3, and KDE358 whose sfs were converted with your program. Naturally, FF3 crashed after an update to 3.0.13 but that's a characteristic of 430 with firefox.

Thanks again for this and your many other useful contributions. I hope that a .pet converter will be next. EDIT: Just showing my ignorance concerning .pets.
Jim

[Lobster]

Good job trio

Works
How long did the coding take you?
I now have Openoffice and XaraLX
in Puppy 4.3 Beta 1

Cyber Life is sweet

[trio]

Hi all, cool reports

@Mike
It already does that, v 3 to 4, and v 4 to 3 (you didn't read carefully). Sfs v 4 works for 430 and sfs v 3 works for 421-under (4 series). I don't know 3 and 2 series.

@jim1911
Aaah Good that it;s useful. Pet converter? Why do we need that? 430 and 421-under (also I think 3 and 2) dot pets are compatible (the pet itself). BUT the applications inside the pet is a whole different story. It just depends how you compile/make the apps. There can't be a converter for that, you just need to compile again from source

@Lobster
It took me about 2,5 hours, and yeah, I decided to make this, one of the reason is you when posting in bugs thread about incompatible sfs files you have

Thanks all

[mikeb]

[trio]

updated to v 1.1 - added sfs version check button
updated to v 1.2 - added help button & tooltips


see main post

[esmourguit]

Bonjour,
I like very much this little app.
When you want to mount a SFS file (bad version) in ROX, may be is it possible to modify /usr/sbin/filemnt to launch SFSconvert and convert the SFS file and then mount it.
Cordialement

[trio]

[trio]

Updated - v 1.3 :
- Simplified GUI (the notes now in tooltips)
- Option to choose working directory - default /mnt/home
- md5.txt will be created afterwards

See main post

[esmourguit]

Bonjour à tous,
Thank you very much for your answer. This has been very useful
Then, could you possibly provide the part of script to add up for automounting the SFS file after processing?
Cordialement

[trio]

Esmourguit,

I made this one especially for you, commandline converter called sfs3to4:

same function auto detect v 3 to 4 and 4 to 3, usage: sfs3to4 xxx.sfs, after that directly auto mount the new sfs

To have filemnt auto mount the v3 sfs file, you have to edit /usr/bin/filemnt:

line 78 to 84:
xmessage -center -bg '#FFC0C0' "NOTICE: This is an older version 3.x squashfs file, not usable.
All Linux kernels 2.6.29 or later require version 4.x squashfs files."
sfs3to4 $imgFile &
else
xmessage -center -bg '#FFC0C0' "NOTICE: This is a newer version 4.x squashfs file, not usable.
All Linux kernels 2.6.28 or earlier require version 3.x squashfs files."
sfs3to4 $imgFile &

Please test.

Cheers

Edit: this is only to mount, not LOAD on the fly

[Lobster]

[trio]

No problem Mr. Crustacean

I only want to help out.

Note to all:
if you are using USB/Hard Drive with FAT partition, sfs containing symlinks (like devx) will not be converted. It will fail.

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