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[shinobar]

[pemasu]

Okay...I tried to find out what test [ -z ] means but got sidetracked and I removed the whole stuff.
My principle. What you dont understand....remove it.
It has lead really interesting life...consequences are sometimes really fantastic....
Well...I have managed to avoid court room though...

I included yours script of firstrun-2.0...just /root/Startup/firstrun and delayedrun will be the really cut down...mixed up soup....which should work though....with flash download offer until first internet connection has been established and once offered....but just once....2 barks ok, your firstrun script call in delayedrun and after it..../root/startup other content will be launched.

The 2 barks problem was noticed and I made circumvent to fix it...my cut down way...

[shinobar]

[pemasu]

In fact I thought about it...well...now I go the lake ice skating with trekking skates and have nice spring sun shine with long peaceful skating...and think about bootmanager sfs offer. There might be people who just wants to do it old way....not sure about that. Things change...I havent used bootmanager for sfs loading in eons...

[shinobar]

sfs_load-1.4.pet contains the script extrasfsfind works with the firstrun and pupsaveconfig, offers to install packages found in the live cd or in the folder where the pupsave to be saved.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354

[pemasu]

Great. Good improvements. They need real test. I will add this sfs_load-1.4 to the 5.X.3.2.11 build now.
And I remove the bootmanager sfs checking from the delayedrun.

[ETP]

[pemasu]

Oops. Havent noticed that. Need to fix the flash downloader.

[pemasu]

Luckily there are indeed several getflash available. Also Shinobar`s getfash-0.8.pet /usr/sbin/getflash shows the version and even better....it shows the available version before downloading.
I removed the flashblock downloading offer...since Firefox has it preinstalled...you just need to enable it in Firefox.

[jpeps]

TrayManager 5.2 posted

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58957

[pemasu]

Jpeps. Thank you of info. Will test.

[mikeslr]

Hi pemasu & all:

Greendome has recently made available wine 1.4. As I use wine in all my Puplets, I downloaded it to a folder on an Ext3 partition (not /mnt/home) in which I store pets generally usable in all puplets. And as installing wine is one of the first things I do, I attempted to create a symlink to the new wine pet in a folder named "usual" on the same partition. I used the standard technique: drag & drop, select "link relative." It generated the following error: "File doesn't exist, or I can't access it /mnt/sda1/Usual/wine-1,4-i486_v1.pet."
See attached:
Note, the folder in which the pet is stored is 3 levels deep -- /mnt/sda1/PuppyFiles/PuppyStuff-- while the folder "ususal" is two levels deep: /mnt/sda1/PuppyFiles/Usual. This seems to make a difference. Symlinks could be created with that technique if a file at the 2nd level to the 2nd --for example /mnt/sda1/PuppyFiles-- was used.

Otherwise, 5x3.1.10.1 seems like it will be another great puplet.

mikesLr

[pemasu]

Hmm. I created 4th level test directory to the ext4 formatted laptop hdd and created another 4th level directory to ext4 formatted usb hdd, then I copied a pet into laptop hdd 4th folder and symlinked it to the 4th level folder of the usb hdd. It worked fine. Pic of the result.

[mikeslr]

Hi pemasu:

Perhaps there's something wrong with the partition I was using. Had the same problem with Exprimo 5x3.2.11. But after I read your response, I successfully created symlinks on a different partition. One nice thing about having lots of partitions is I can move everything off one and reformat it. That's what I'll do. My apologies for sending you on a wild goose hunt. Unless, of course, you like wild geese.('')

Edited after reformatting. After reformatting, the symlink problem persisted. It also showed up in 3-Headed Dog. Then I remembered that being particularly lazy, and using the pets I had symlinked in the "ususal" folder often [you, 01micko and playdaz having been rather busy of late generating new puplets to test('')] I had created a symlink to the entire "usual" folder --which is at level 2-- at the top level. If I open "usual" by clicking its symlink at the top level and try to create a symlink within it to a file, I'll receive the error I reported. However, if I browse to the "usual" folder and open it, I can create a symlink within it to files elsewhere.
I thought a symlink to a folder was just a "shortcut" and that clicking it opened the folder with all permissions given that folder. Either I misunderstood, or something about symlinks in Exprimo, and 3 Headed Dog is amiss. I haven't yet tested Slacko. (A permissions problem?).
I should note the following addition to the puzzle. Once a symlink is created, if I access the folder by clicking its symlink at the top level, clicking the symlinks within the folder "opens" the symlinked file.

mikesLr

[jpeps]

Somethings happening that I never noticed before. When I unplug a device, such as a printer from my USB port, the computer will sometimes crash, or go into hibernation mode (screen goes black, but comes back on with the switch). I only have one available port, so I remove it when finished printing to plug in a cooling fan. Today when I unplugged it the computer froze, and after a hard reboot I lost everything on my main hard drive partition. I tried everything, from fsck, e2fsck gparted, even some windows recovery programs...nothing worked other than reformatting. Without reformatting, it would hang up on the boot. Fortunately, I had some fairly recent backups on an external server.

Seems like it needs some kind of a safe eject tool that it never needed before.

I see there's an "eject" command available. Wonder if that works with a printer.