Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

Salix people got really upset when I whined about
them not allowing me to be root. If you can tell me
how to be root on Salix that would be great.

Haha When I tried being root then a Box popped up saying "Meh!"

[harii4]

Had to create an user
had to SU all the time.

Feels like AntiX without the Debian Bloat.
Midori works well - even has speed dial.
Everything Worked out-of-the-box

Miss using Pburn and other small apps like pfind, PWget and others.

[nooby]

I'm writing this from within Solus OS dl from DistroWatch this Monday.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07238

I booted it using the code in the iso from isolinux.cfg translated to grub4dos

But it does not allow me access to the NTFS HD it booted from in frugal install.

If any of you can tell me how to change it so it allow root or at least access
to NTFS sda2 that would be nice.
Loading of FF took a very long time so most likely it did an update before starting it.
[code]title SolusOS a Debian variant
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/solus/live/vmlinuz config boot=live live-media-path=/solus/live union=unionfs --
initrd (hd0,1)/solus/live/initrd.lz [/url]

Debian for Raspberry Pi seems to also ahve problem with root.
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Passwords

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/absolute-beginners/debian-admin-password/#p66659
User GizmoB73 says

[d4p]

Read/write root access:
-Plop Linux 422
-SlackelLive KDE 4.8.2-1


Swiftlinux 0-2-0-reg base on Mint can boot off very fast
Boot time comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdWCoOo8dE

[Colonel Panic]

I am posting this from Bloathi (Bodhi with additional apps - which I'm running live from a computer in my local community centre). I really like it but so far I've not been able to run it from my own machine at home because it boots from a DVD.

Great distro anyway.

[nooby]

Thanks, Surprise that that version of Bloathy produce ä and ö
on an English keyboard?

[kooliepup]

Being a twice-daily Bodhi 1.2 remaster-for-the-Net user for the last year, I tried 1.4 to see what was new.
Not much, so I still use 1.2.

Tried Bloathi 1.4 out of curiousity, and can't get anything but 1024x768 res. Strange.
And a missing lib for Envision. Sloppy.
Everything else is perfect (normal for Bodhi).

8 out of 10 for Bloathi.
9 out of 10 for Bodhi.
I have never given anything a 10.
Slacko may be the first 10.

[Colonel Panic]

[nooby]

I envy you. I want to try out SolusOS and SalineOS too
but like most Debian they either is very dependent
on that my NTFS HD is defragged by Ms Windows first
or that one make a linux partition or make use of USB
or DVD and I prefer to do frugal install on the HD.

I wonder if it is possible to "cheat" using PussyLinux
vmlinuz or initrd to do the boot and still end up loading
the Solus or Saline squashfs.sfs? something?

PussyLinux allow me to boot as root. Saline and Solus
do not.

But Solus OS let me boot as Debian "single" which maybe is a kind of root
but it does not start the Gnome Windows Manager.

How can one call up or load Gnome from the Command Line Interface?
Maybe one have to mount the sda2 before it works due to not running in RAM?
or how to get Firefox going or the File Manager whichever that is?


Ubuntu like distros almost all of them allow the following cheat boot.


title LM12 LXDE 2012 frugal iso boot of LM12 LM12LXDE
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /linuxmint-12-lxde-cd-32bit.iso
kernel /LM12LXDE/casper/vmlinuz rw file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/linuxmint-12-lxde-cd-32bit.iso ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram kmap=se LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 keymap=sv-latin1 noeject noprompt persistent --
initrd /LM12LXDE/casper/initrd.lz

While none of the Debian does allow it and if they do then they lock the HD
so one can not listen to the music files or see the picture files or read html either. No access.

So Ubuntu for sure is not Debian That LM12 allow me to write text files and html files so almost as good as a Puppy. But real slow to load programs not being in RAM

SolusOS link on DW
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solusos

[nooby]

Sorry me so annoying. I looked in the SolusOS forum
and the only post that looked like a description
where this one from UK Brian.

http://forums.solusos.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=434#p3553
He says

[Colonel Panic]

Yeah, sorry you can't test out Solus or Saline but there may be a clue in the fact that I don't have a Windows partition at all as I don't run Windows. Both my partitions are ext4 (apart from the swap).

[nooby]

I can test the live in so far that I can boot it to the Gnome Desktop like I have now
and I can write in the forum but I can not access my NTFS HD due to "HD is busy
or owned by boot" something.

So how did Sickgut do to make his debian allowed to be root.
How can one borrow that ability from him and put into SolusOS
and do a remaster or patch or whatever to name it. I'm writing this
using SolusOS now. But I am a restricted "Live user"

Why do they set it up like this? As a user one want to chose
if one want to be root or not. To not have root available is to
force us to skip that distro. Yeah I know he who made it is the Boss.

[Colonel Panic]

[nooby]

Firefox now has an extention that allow one to look at youtube
and other flash videos we have it in thread here in Murga forum
but I don't remember the name of it but got posted very recently.

[nooby]

I am downloading this one now.

Bridge Linux XFCE but have no idea if it boots on NTFS Frugal.
It is an Arch that have much more included from scratch
DW has a hint about it in the Weekly.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bridgelinux/files/Xfce/2012.4/bridge-xfce-2012.4-i686.iso/download