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Is this the solution ??

#101 Post by rsksmiles »

Hello I am installing puppy 431 on a fujitsu siemens ltc 500.

I have puppy 431 running from the internal ide hdd and I have used the utilities to create a bootable usb flash drive. I have then plugged in the cf card into and ide adapter and replaced the hdd with the cf.

On rebooting I had exactly the same problem. puppy had set the pmedia to be usbflash, I set it to be idehd and everything works fine.

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Re: Is this the solution ??

#102 Post by Béèm »

rsksmiles wrote:Hello I am installing puppy 431 on a fujitsu siemens ltc 500.

I have puppy 431 running from the internal ide hdd and I have used the utilities to create a bootable usb flash drive. I have then plugged in the cf card into and ide adapter and replaced the hdd with the cf.

On rebooting I had exactly the same problem. puppy had set the pmedia to be usbflash, I set it to be idehd and everything works fine.
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same symptoms and it was the Windows CD issue for me

#103 Post by robaer »

Hi, I am replying to this thread because it was one of the top hits when I was googling for an answer to this same problem I was having (the cant find sfs file message) and another linux forum had linked to this thread too for their users experiencing similar issues... ao I am hoping to save someone else a lot of digging.

My symptoms were the same... and it was first time burning an ISO image for linux on a non-linux system for me that was source of problem. My windows 7-64 system is where I grabbed the ISO for a 5.2 Wary Puppy install that I wanted to do on an old Pentium III laptop I had kicking around. I noticed that when using a good ISO viewer on the source ISO (which I checked with MD5 etc to ensure it was good) that the filenames were properly mixed case and full length (ie puppy_wary_5.2.sfs) but when I would burn the ISO to CD it would change to PUPPY_WA.SFS
(ISO 9660 standard that converts to 7.3 for backwards windows compatibility I assume)

I tried a bunch of different ISO burners I had (from freeware like IMGBURN to a licensed Nero) and could not figure out how to get the "take existing ISO and create a CD with long filenames" thing to work. I could take and extract the ISO to a directory and then burn the CD from a build of that directory (and some allowed me to specify UDF to store long filenames when doing a build... but not a burn from ISO) and I figured I could get that to work... but it bugged me that I couldn't take the source ISO file and simply tell windows to make me a CD without it messing up the filenames.

I then tried to just use the CD with the "pupsfs=" parm to over-ride the sfs to use (keying in the path and capitols) it would get farther and try to load but bomb on a kernal exception... and after a good 4 hours and at least 10 CD's now as coasters I gave up trying.

I switched to plan B and did the following.
1 - extract the puppy_wary_5.2.sfs file to disk (which I could do with the ISO viewer and even some of the ISO burners I had as part of their other features... and have it keep the long filename)
2- I then copied that properly named sfs file to a USB drive.
3 - I plugged this USB into the laptop I want Puppy to work with and used the same CD that was always failing before
4 - it actually booted.... because boot found a properly named sfs now one of the volumes it could read

I didnt even need to turn off ACPI or mess with any extra parms at the boot... just let it do its thing with defaults.

The old Sony PCG-505 laptop is up and running again and working great on Puppy now. I used the same USB stick to store my session info the first time and am happy with the results... (but still po'd at Windows not having the integrity to natively preserve the long filenames and my own inability to find a solution that would allow me to make it work) :?

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Pup_Rescue2.5

#104 Post by krankypuppy »

The sfs file was incorrectly named as puprescu.sfs on my copy of Pup_Rescue2.5. The system was looking for Pup_Rescue2.5.sfs so I renamed it to that in a folder that I had extracted from iso using winrar. I then dumped the files in with the mounted iso that "Yumi" live usb creator had made. I tried making an entire new iso but the config file wasn't found after.

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#105 Post by Semme »

KP, browsers have a way of corrupting your dwnld. I suggest you grab it with wget.

After install, set this up. Then from the directory where you want the file to dwnld to, rt-clk for your prompt and enter:

Code: Select all

wget http://smokey01.com/CatDude/ISOs/PupRescue/2.5/PupRescue_2.5.iso
Kick back.. Let wget do its thing.
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#106 Post by 4sevener »

I have the same Problem on a client.

On a bootstick works Linux live creator with a program very well.
But if I Do the Same on the compacflash inside IT Do Not work.
Butter is the Same data one both.

Pic with error in attach.

Tanks for your help.

REGARDS

Christian
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#107 Post by Ananda98 »

Hai, 4sevener

Welcome to puppy linux group. Could you please tell your computer specification? Eg processor, RAM, etc.

I also use Puppy 4.3 too

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#108 Post by 4sevener »

Ananda98 wrote:Hai, 4sevener

Welcome to puppy linux group. Could you please tell your computer specification? Eg processor, RAM, etc.

I also use Puppy 4.3 too
IGEL UD3- M300C

Product No.:

M300C

Prozessor Typ:

VIA Eden

Prozessor:

800MHz

Arbeitsspeicher:

1GB

RAM Typ:

DDR2 SO-DIMM

Chipsatz:

VIA Chrome9

Festplatten:

1 GB Compact Flash

LAN:

10/100MBit onboard

Grafikkarte:

onboard, Dualview 1920x1200 max.

VGA Schnittstellen:

1x DVI

Soundkarte:

AC97 Audio Ctrl. onboard

USB Schnittstellen:

1x vorne, 4x hinten

Kartenleser:

nicht installiert

LAN Schnittstelle:

1x RJ-45

Soundanschlüsse:

Mikrofon, Kopfhörer

Serial Port:

1x

PS/2:

1x

Betriebssystem:

nicht vorhanden

Netzteil:

extern 230V, 50/60Hz

Abmessungen (BxHxT):

82x 231x 227 mm

Gewicht (kg):

1,44

Lieferung:

Thin Client (wie beschrieben), Netzteil

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#109 Post by Ananda98 »

Hm... I never get same problem, but I hope I can help.

Did you install Puppy by removing the compact flash and install it using another computer (Windows)?

Maybe you can try to install Puppy to your compact flash from your computer. Run Puppy in your computer using USB stick, using live mode, then install a copy of Puppy to your compact flash.

Reboot and try again.

Using another version of Puppy may be helpful. Try higher version. In my opinion, your hardware can handle Wary Puppy 5.5

You can download it here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.5/

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#110 Post by 4sevener »

Ananda98 wrote:Hm... I never get same problem, but I hope I can help.

Did you install Puppy by removing the compact flash and install it using another computer (Windows)?

Maybe you can try to install Puppy to your compact flash from your computer. Run Puppy in your computer using USB stick, using live mode, then install a copy of Puppy to your compact flash.

Reboot and try again.

Using another version of Puppy may be helpful. Try higher version. In my opinion, your hardware can handle Wary Puppy 5.5

You can download it here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/wary-5.5/

I install IT with Linux live creator and a ISO image.

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#111 Post by Ananda98 »

Hello, 4sevener

Sorry, I still don't understand. What I tried to told you is install puppy on your USB Stick. Then plug in your USB to your desktop. Boot your desktop from USB.

After that, try to install Puppy to your PC, without removing your compact flash out. Then, reboot to see it works or not.

Also, I beg your pardon. Probably, Linux Live Creator doesn't support compact flash. If I not wrong, Puppy has ability to make boot able compact flash. You can find it in Puppy Universal Installer (click Install icon on your Puppy desktop)


Thanks

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#112 Post by bigpup »

Also, do not have the Puppy USB flash drive plugged in when you try to boot from the SD card.
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