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GKM · Joined: 03 Sep 2012 Posts: 2

Hi there,

Did anyone try the XLock lock screen from the Fatdog control panel? I tried it, but it does not appear to accept any password. I tried to set a root password, and it works with the logon screen, but not with Xlock. I also tried a few standard puppy passwords, and the cpasswd option from the command line, but to no avail. What do I do wrong?
Regards,

GKM

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1333 Location: florida

GKM,

Yes, that's a bug. James has fixed it for the next release. Not sure when that will be.

Smokey01,

Thanks for the fix.

RandSec,

Originally during Fatdog64-600 development, we had decided to drop support for multi-session saves. But, James found that it did seem to work, though I don't know to what extent. I haven't tested it my self. Maybe James will respond next time he checks in here.
Sound should be adjustable in ALSA Mixer, unless you're using digital sound to an external receiver, then VLC preferences should be looked at.
The new big initrd does have a faster boot for the most popular boot methods.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2640 Location: Earth

winwin · Joined: 01 Jul 2012 Posts: 4

Hi, I don't how to update the java in Fatdog64? Can anyone give me a help?

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: South Australia

Codeblocks-10.05 is available on my site for FD64:
http://www.smokey01.com/software/Fatdog64-600/codeblocks-10.05-fd64.pet

It does require wxWidgets which is available via the FDPM or here:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/fatdog/pets/600/wxWidgets-2.8.12.pet

It's a very impressive application for developing C & C++ applications.

Documentation here:
http://www.codeblocks.org/user-manual

Enjoy..

Hans · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 38 Location: The Netherlands

Hello all

First: Kirk, Jamesbond and all others contributing to this release, thanks!
It gets better and better every time, I'm happy!

But what to do when all was perfect, wouldn't be fun right?
So I am happy to report, I have an issue with my sound, first reported bij Billtoo in http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=79001
First time I had this problem was when I was playing around with this new release.
I followed Billtoo's instructions and deleted the savefile.
This weekend I decided to migrate permanently and again the sound issue came forward.
Not wanting to delete all the work I just put in to the new install I dug a litte deeper.
I compared the new install (on sda3) with the play-around-one on sda5.
In term on sda3:

joe0855 · Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 11:51 Post subject: Not able to create a savefile

Hello Gents,

It's been a while since I've last visited the Fatdog forum. I've been using Fatdog64 521 and have been very happy with it. Was curious in trying 601. For test purposes, I've created a quick USB boot version of 601 using Unetbootin (live USB).

For some reason, I can't get the OS to recognize the savefile. I've tried the Savefile Argument Builder.

Went into the 'syslinux.cfg' file and made the following change to the append line:
'append search savefile=ram:uuid:ECF6-A259:/fd64save.ext4'.

But after rebooting the system, the OS still doesn't recognize the savefile. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Joe

Hans · Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 38 Location: The Netherlands

So it does not work on syslinux? In the fatdog64 installer one can choose for syslinux though.

Works with grub, I used it twice

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 12:27 Post subject:

I don't think that you should be using both "search" and "savefile=".

[Edit] I checked this with syslinux using "search" and "savefile=" together. The savefile was correctly located.

Maybe you need the "waitdev" argument too. Start with "waitdev=10".

joe0855 · Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 14:41 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 14:48 Post subject:

Excellent. Now take out the "search" because it's redundant. And reduce the "waitdev" value to the shortest time interval that works.

joe0855 · Posted: Sun 23 Sep 2012, 23:18 Post subject:

Ok, so I removed the 'search' parameter and was able to reduce the waitdev to 1 sec (go figure).

Thanks again rcrsn51!

spandey · Joined: 20 Sep 2012 Posts: 47

I have Luppu 5,2,8 running of USB flash and booting with GRUB4DOS. It's working fine with no issues so far.
I just downloaded Fatdog 601 ISO and after mounting copied the contents to a Directory in same USBFLASH.
Using GRUB4DOS I am able to boot it. But when I like to download SFS files using it's Control Panel --> system--> SFS Manager
, there's an error that Fatdog is not installed !!!

I don't want to use Fatdog Installer as it might destroy my other content in USB. What parameters I need to change?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

spandey I would do a manual frugal install
so that no other OS get messed up? Those
active here would know how to and the FAQ
for FatDog knows how to do it too?

spandey · Joined: 20 Sep 2012 Posts: 47

Nooby, I did a manual install only. After rebooting it doesn't pick up the savefile and won't allow ant new pet to be installed.

I tried two options as per usr/share/doc/faqs/boot-options.html in the fatdog.

1.kernel /Fatdog/vmlinuz savefile=ram:usb

2. kernel /Fatdog/vmlinuz savefile=ram:device:sda2:/fd64save.ext4

The savefile is in root of sda2.