Lucid 525 lite + experimental Lucid lite 2.6.38.4 - v004

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#61 Post by scsijon »

nooby wrote:Ahh so that is what it does?
I suspect that on first startup the Chromium12 was creating and building your personal config files and directories,
Can one find such easily then to see what is left when one shut it down?
Have a look under root for a hidden file (usually starts with a . (dot)). It may not be called chromium depending on what chromium is based on. I don't use it as i'm happy with firefox.

regards
scsijon
p.s. I will have a look at Iron for you, but it's BIG and has some dependancies not in puppy, may be a sfs only 01micko project.

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#62 Post by nooby »

I will have a look at Iron for you, but it's BIG and has some dependancies not in puppy, may be a sfs only 01micko project.
thanks. I guess if I make use of the working SRwareIron.pet that I aldready have then Ishould be able to make a normal iron.sfs out of the pet?

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pet2dir then dir2sfs
just my wild guess


Are pet and sfs that different?

what if TCL have Iron.tcz then I only need to rename that one to sfs and it is an sfs for some version of puppy?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

stu90

#63 Post by stu90 »

Here is a .pet to download and set National Geographic or NASA image of the day as your desktop wallpaper.

http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... ll_0.1.pet

To run:
Menu Entry in Graphics > Graphics Processing > NGOwall - NASAwall

Or via terminal NGOwall or NASAwall (case sensitive)

Images are downloaded and saved in /root

Video of NGO-NASA-wall in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiNS2WWzBy8

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#64 Post by petihar »

@ stu90
Hello stu90,
Excuse my bad english, i'll try my best.... would you please give me the umplayer.pet you made with full language as you propose it in your message.
Many thanks for your lite version, i'am working to translate ( i try !) it in french language.... it's a fine but big job !
Thank you stu, petihar

stu90

#65 Post by stu90 »

petihar wrote:@ stu90
Hello stu90,
Excuse my bad english, i'll try my best.... would you please give me the umplayer.pet you made with full language as you propose it in your message.
Many thanks for your lite version, i'am working to translate ( i try !) it in french language.... it's a fine but big job !
Thank you stu, petihar
Hi petihar,

here should be the link to full language version of umplayer.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... svn138.pet

requires Mplayer:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... cid51x.pet

stu90

#66 Post by stu90 »

Here are some terminal application .pets for testing:

Sakura - tabbed terminal:
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... _2.3.7.pet

Dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager (like tiling windows manager but for terminal)
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... .5.2-2.pet

Rtorrent - terminal torrent client.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... .8.6-1.pet

Moc - Music on the console audio player.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... _2.5.0.pet

Snownews - Text mode RSS reader
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... .5.9-1.pet

Ncdu - Disk usage analyzer
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... _1.6-1.pet

Yacpi - acpi monitoring program.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... _3.0-2.pet

W3m - Terminal web browser ( with image support) think this might require the feh.pe below to display images.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... .5.2-2.pet

Feh + Scrot - image viewer and screen shot taker.
http://smokey01.com/stu90/lucid.puppy.p ... _1.3.4.pet

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#67 Post by petihar »

@stu90

Allo , Thank you for umplayer, it works fine :D
petihar

stu90

#68 Post by stu90 »

clau wrote:Hi stu90,

I decided to register to the forum, to thank you for the Umplayer pet that you just made. I love it! I've been using Puppy Linux for about a year, learning through this forum. And let me tell you, if a computer illiterate like me can learn about Puppy, anybody can do it. Thanks a lot!
Hi clau - yes lots of good information, ideas and help available from the members on here. thats what makes Puppy Linux forum one of the best on the internet! 8)
petihar wrote:@stu90

Allo , Thank you for umplayer, it works fine :D
petihar
Thanks for the feed back petihar 8)

stu90

#69 Post by stu90 »


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#70 Post by nooby »

Thanks for latest flash pet.

Can I ask. I have now tested what Seaside came up with a fast sfs loader.
Lucid 525 lite being that stripped off would be a practical testing ground for teh sfs-exec-pupsave solution he suggests in his thread on it.

I have tested it on your lupu and on the official and and on Fluppy 13 and on Snowpup 5 and LightHouse pup too. Just now I write from it in Snowpup5 which is a Lupu513 variety.

I want to test it in Lupu 525 Lite again.

But not sure how to get SRware Iron browser going in it. Is it relatively easy to get a pet made into an sfs instead? I only have a pet version of it.

Or is the better approach to place the .Chromium outside of pupsavefile on the mnt/home hdd? I am doing frugal on NTFS HDD.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

stu90

#71 Post by stu90 »

nooby wrote:Thanks for latest flash pet.

Can I ask. I have now tested what Seaside came up with a fast sfs loader.
Lucid 525 lite being that stripped off would be a practical testing ground for teh sfs-exec-pupsave solution he suggests in his thread on it.

I have tested it on your lupu and on the official and and on Fluppy 13 and on Snowpup 5 and LightHouse pup too. Just now I write from it in Snowpup5 which is a Lupu513 variety.

I want to test it in Lupu 525 Lite again.

But not sure how to get SRware Iron browser going in it. Is it relatively easy to get a pet made into an sfs instead? I only have a pet version of it.

Or is the better approach to place the .Chromium outside of pupsavefile on the mnt/home hdd? I am doing frugal on NTFS HDD.
Hi nooby,
If the .pet works you could try converting the Iron browser .pet to an .sfs

I will use the name iron_browser as an example the name you use should be the exact same as the .pet name

1. make a copy of the iron_browser.pet

2. right click on the iron_browser.pet > rename - now in the name text delete the .pet from the end and replace it with .tgz click rename.

3. now click on the iron_browser.tgz file to extract it.

4. You should now see a iron_browser directory - right mouse click on the iron_browser directory > window > terminal here.

5. in the terminal type dir2sfs iron_browser then click enter.

if all has gone well you should now have an iron_browser.sfs

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#72 Post by nooby »

Jay that sounds like the right way to do it on my level of practice. Give me a week or two to work up courage and I just do it :)
Much appreciated.
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not an ideal solution though

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Hard disc install

#73 Post by gaz1965 »

Has anyone managed to install 5.2.5 lite onto a hard drive?

I have tried using the universal installer, but it does not appear to copy the files to the hard disk.

The bootloader creates the boot folder ok but the actual installer does not copy the files from cd to disk.

Any one else had this problem.

The full version of puppy installs fine but that uses the install Icon on the Desk.

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#74 Post by nooby »

While you figure it out you could use Shinobar's grub4dosconfig to add a frugal install of lupu525 and many others on the hdd and play with them?
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#75 Post by gaz1965 »

The problem appears to be after the following points:-

select the internal (IDE or SATA) hard drive option
choose sda ATA VBOX HARDDISK, size 1GB

It then does a SANITY CHECK which comes up with the following:-
cannot be unmounted!
currently mounted read-write
does not have lupusave.3fs file in it.

I have tried un-mounting the drive at this point which does nothing
I cannot seem to be able to get past this problem.

If I do continue it says that the target drive is , which has an ext2, of size 800m
if I ok this nothing is copied from the cd onto the drive

stu90

#76 Post by stu90 »

Hello gaz1965
Im afraid i can't be of much use her as i have no experience of VBOX virtual box? running from CD or full installs as i only use puppy via frugal installs.

By full version i presume you mean official lucid 525 ?

Maybe this has something to do with Gparted 0.8.0 not being installed? - you can install it through the puppy package manager.

After you install Gparted to stop it returning an error paste or type this command into terminal and hit return (that is an none capital "L" at the start and not a capital "i"):

ln -s /usr/bin/gpartedbin /usr/sbin/gpartedbin

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#77 Post by gaz1965 »

Thanks spot on.

The problem was gparted not being installed.
Currently coping the files from cd to sda1

Cheers

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#78 Post by gaz1965 »

I am setting this laptop up for the missus.
I want her to be able to just switch it on so that puppy-525-lite loads & all her drives are accessible.

Currently have just two issues I need to sort.

1) grub. I set it up to load from sda1 MBR
When the pc is booted have to hit <Enter> to select sda1
Can this be amended so that sda1 is auto selected by grub?

2) I have edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local to auto mount sda3 as follows
mount /dev/sda3

Is there a way to auto unmount on shutdown without having to click on the drive Icon to unmount?

I just want to make the system foolproof. Switch on/ use /switch off

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#79 Post by scsijon »

gaz1965 wrote:I am setting this laptop up for the missus.
I want her to be able to just switch it on so that puppy-525-lite loads & all her drives are accessible.

Currently have just two issues I need to sort.

1) grub. I set it up to load from sda1 MBR
When the pc is booted have to hit <Enter> to select sda1
Can this be amended so that sda1 is auto selected by grub?

2) I have edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local to auto mount sda3 as follows
mount /dev/sda3

Is there a way to auto unmount on shutdown without having to click on the drive Icon to unmount?

I just want to make the system foolproof. Switch on/ use /switch off
1/ You can add under the timeout line a line consisting of :
default num

Set the default entry to the entry number num. Numbering starts from 0, and the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.

ie default 2 should startup /dev/sda2 if your menu has the first entry for /dev/sda1 and second entry for /dev/sda2

However I wonder if you really asking for it to autoload or start up, in that case uncomment (delete the #) at the start of the Timeout line at the top in your menu.1st (usually /boot/grub/menu.1st and make sure you save an uneditied copy before you start ammending (menu.1st.org)) and set the time at the end of the line to what you think suitable, remembering you still need to break it ocassionally for troubleshooting, don't put it at 1 or 0 as it's too short to react. Mine is 10, which equals 10 seconds so I can read what's there and choose, i've found a minimum of 5 is safe if you have only one partition to start for a novice, they don't get worried then and it counts down before starting.

and

2/ it should clear all buffers before it unmounts all partitions when it shuts down if your using the shutdown in the menu, just turning it off can be hazardous to your information and DEFINATELY NOT RECOMENDED. It will do a cleanup on restart if it accidentally dies from a power glitch, but any data not written out from cache to drive will be lost.

You can also check in your laptop bios that the hard drive is writing and not caching data on the write cycle, check for something like the word writethrough or cache as a setting. It's not always there though.

hope i've helped
scsijon

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#80 Post by Puppyt »

Cheers stu90 -
What with being Puppy5, and with all the recent association with lynxes, meerkats, narwhals and ocelots, I have been considering your Lite525 as a perfect base for a puplet aimed at impoverished Uni students in the field of - what else- Vet science!
The puplet will be aimed particularly at research functions and be loaded with sc0ttman's FireDog3.6 (plus the indispensible Zotero add-on), ImageJ, emil's 'R' statistics package, CowLog (deb), and the new Docear (coincidentally pronounced as "dog-ear", formerly "SciPlore"/FreeMind) PDF management and mindmapping tool (also deb EDIT: actually a zip file for the generic Linux structure, reports successful operation in Debian). Here I am just writing to let you now that Barry K's new Thunar pet (1.0.2-Lucid), viewnoir-1.1-p5, Xorg_High-1.1-Lucid, and radky's PupComboPlus1.1-Lucid and recent PupSnap - all work as intended, and seamlessly.
However, problems were encountered after I installed the patched-wBar using CatDudes instructions here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=135 - Firefox would not load by any method, instead throwing up the error dialogue that a version of FF was already running, when it wasn't. A full shut down and reboot seems to have resolved the issue.

I love the pared-back presentation, the ease of preference changes, the Win+D keybinding for clearing the desktop (but I must include some other Win key bindings for my mostly Windoze refugees).

Many Thanks!

[Testbed: Lenovo T60 (widescreen Raedon 1280x800 display), 2GHz, 2Mb RAM, wlan0 via 3G21WB router]
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