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bigpup · Posted: Wed 13 Apr 2011, 06:58 Post subject:

I used the universal installer.
Installed Lucid 5.25 to a partition that had a full install of Lucid 5.2
Selected full install
Selected wipe not upgrade.
Install completed.
Booted new install of Lucid 5.25
All kinds of problems.
Biggest one, mouse would not work.
The universal installer seems to have problems with old Puppy files present when doing an install.

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 740 Location: de

This is not a specific 525 problem, but it does occur here and before posting to an outdated thread, I thought I'd do it here.

Any change, addition or deletion of an additional SFS file results in scrambled desktop icons at the first boot. This is an unsolved problem with all Puppies, as far back as I can remember and that was 217. The phenomenon even occurs when just the name of the pupsave file is changed from say pupsave-x.sfs to pupsave-y.sfs, or lupusave as it is now.

Somewhere in the forum I read that this issue will be taken up at some future development. Great!

However, for all those of us who can't program themselves, I kindly request a work-around for the time being.

My concept is a GUI that does this:

1. Copy /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin to /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin.copy and overrides any previous versions, if any.
This saves the current desktop arrangement for future needs.

2. Copy /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin.copy to /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin and override it. Restart Xserver.
This brings back the previously saved arrangement after the scrambling occured.

It does not seem to be a difficult programming task, but it goes way over my abilities.

Any takers? A lot of Puppy users will be ever so grateful!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2693 Location: Earth

bigpup · Posted: Wed 13 Apr 2011, 15:17 Post subject:

gcmartin,
Here is what is on my multi-session Lucid 5.25 CD with save file to CD.
It works with no problem. Multiple reboots and saves.

# ls -l
total 130420
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 2048 2011-04-12 17:09 2011-04-12-17-10
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 2048 2011-04-12 21:28 2011-04-12-21-30
drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 2048 2011-04-11 18:32 2011-04-12-21-55
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 2011-04-01 22:18 boot.cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 2011-04-01 22:18 boot.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1200 2011-04-01 22:18 help2.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1235 2011-04-01 22:18 help.msg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1902978 2011-04-01 22:11 initrd.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026 24576 2010-10-22 17:07 isolinux.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151 2011-04-01 22:18 isolinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19804 2011-04-01 22:18 logo.16
-rwx------ 1 root root 129359888 2011-04-01 22:18 lupu_525.sfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2228816 2011-04-01 22:11 vmlinuz
#

Where did you get your version of Lucid 5.25?
I ask because I had a lot of trouble with the one from the Diddywahdiddy site.
Mine I got from
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.2.5/

bigpup · Posted: Wed 13 Apr 2011, 15:31 Post subject:

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bigpup · Posted: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 01:15 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 01:22 Post subject:

desksetup templates for desk icons

This program comes installed in basic Lucid Puppy 5.25

Works very well at making a backup copy of the desktop icon layout. Can easily restore a messed up desktop.

If you select:
click this button to save your custom arrangement
It will save the present desktop as a custom saved profile.
(making a backup of the desktop)
To restore desktop:
select custom-choose your saved profile
click apply

tony · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 269 Location: Montreal.ca

Deskto setup 0.4

Where to find ???

regards tony

wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 740 Location: de

@ 666philb and bigpup:

Yes yes yes. That's it!
I tried it in Quirky 1.3 and Lucid 525. Works like a charm in both systems.

Thanks for pointing me to a "new" application.

@tony:

Link is in 666philb's post a bit up the page.

bigpup · Posted: Thu 14 Apr 2011, 12:17 Post subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Well I tried it again. This time I took the 511 version of puppyinstaller over to 525 to see if I could run that (there have been 6 changes of puppyinstaller since 511, and I was wondering if one of them were bad). I got the same result, unable to find lupu_525.sfs. However in order to get it to run, I had to edit it. Apparently the name of the sfs has changed, not only in the revision but also in that the dash has become an underscore. That is, lupu-511.sfs, became lupu_525.sfs (I just tried to bold the dash and underscore but I don't see that for some reason). I don't know if that is significant to this problem, but it makes me wonder why that was done since it must have broken a lot of scripts. I did try renaming it lupu-525.sfs but that didn't change anything; it still (now more reasonably) reported not being able to find lupu_525.sfs.

Which made me wonder: how exactly is it that it knows to look for this filename? Is that hard-coded into initrd.gz? Maybe initrd.gz is the problem...

It drops me at the prompt when this happens. I wonder if there is something I can check at this point? I did an "ls" but nothing is familiar.

bigpup · Posted: Sat 16 Apr 2011, 00:46 Post subject: