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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 18:01 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | BHINTZ wrote: | and don't want to destroy windows. |
Then you need to be very careful about letting Grub4Dos mess with your bootloader mechanism.
On many Win7 machines, the first partition is for emergency recovery. You shouldn't be touching it.
Quote: | but the boot files are on sda2 |
Whose boot files? Windows or Puppy? |
This should be reported as a bug in the grub4dos thread. As a work-around, you could install it to a usb stick.
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mfilmore
Joined: 10 Oct 2012 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 20:11 Post subject:
Slacko 5.3.6.0 Beta on Toshiba Satellite Subject description: Mostly Working |
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I installed on a Toshiba Satellite laptop L355-S7915 and most everything works well.
I was able to install slackware 14 packages and got OpenDNS (via dnscrypt-proxy) working fine.
I use sylpheed email and was able to migrate seamlessly after adding the sylpheed 3.0.3 package.
The one PROBLEM I noticed was that the Opera browser does not play video.pbs.org videos, but SeaMonkey plays them fine. Opera seems happy with YoyTube. I am not a big Opera fan, so no real problem for me. I would appreciate Iron, however.
FYI, I had updated the flash player to 11.2 r202 .
Thanks a bunch!!
-Mike
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 20:28 Post subject:
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mfilmore,
Hello and welcome.
I'm playing some of those pbs videos now but using flashplayer10-10.3.183.23. Could be a hardware issue with Opera. It's on the chopping block anyway, I'm thinking firefox/sylpheed (16.0 and 3.2). I'm a bit sick of seamonkey, see earlier rants.
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By the way, Slackware have just released the first "patch" to 14.0 (FF-16.0) so I will have to enable the "patches" repo too, actually want to build from that one so will require some experimentation.
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mhanifpriatama
Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 60
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 21:16 Post subject:
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Just report :
Using Inkscape from ppm slacko 5.3.3, need libpopler.so.1.13 (I think). So, copy from puppy_slacko_5.3.3.sfs, can run.
Still problem with crapy vt6656 via wireless usb, and no problem with my new usb wireless TL-WN721N.
Using libre from ppm, no problem.
Using virtual box, problem. Because different kernel, so must use resource.
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BHINTZ
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 144
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 22:42 Post subject:
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I do have a working usb slacko. The only issue apart from not being able to install on the hard drive is that I am unable to reduce the brightness of the screen on an aspire one 756 64 bit machine.
The files on sda2 are windows files. I attempted to install lubuntu, but it also wanted to put the boot files on sda1 and could not access them. It offered to put them on sda2 or sdb1 as that was the location of the installation disc as this machine does not have a cd rom. I choose to abort as I didn't want to take a chance on making the hard drive unbootable.
Lubuntu is also unable to reduce the brightness on this machine. I have searched for the standard menu list that grub4dos creates as I know it exists because I see the screen it creates so that I can boot windows. It is no doubt on sda1, which I can no longer open.
bob
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 23:05 Post subject:
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Hello BHINTZ
I would tread carefully here.
The first thing I would do at this point is backup your Windows installation. Create a full image that can recover the OS and your files and probably do a separate backup of your data only.
Second, I would attempt to make the install media from the hidden partition if you haven't already done so. There should be software included in your windows installation to do this. This usually creates a couple of DVDs so I don't know how it would work without a dvd burner, maybe it can make a usb recovery drive? If not, complain to the manufacturer!
If you still want to install linux on your hard drive you can use EasyBCD. I know WhoDo (Puppy 4.2 series developer) swore by this method. It involves altering the Windows bootloader configuration and chainloads grub, grub4dos or lilo.
Quote: | Linux
EasyBCD can boot into Linux by one of two means:
Chainloading GRUB/GRUB2/LILO/etc.
NeoGrub
The traditional chainloading method creates an image of the GRUB/LILO bootsector on the local disk and loads this image during boot-time in order to chainload the second bootloader which should already be configured to boot into Linux or BSD.[12] EasyBCD has profiles for and officially supports the chainloading of GRUB (Legacy), GRUB2, LILO, eLILO, and Wubi (for Ubuntu).
EasyBCD also ships with NeoGrub, a customized build of Grub for Dos, which can be configured by editing C:\NST\menu.lst with the standard Legacy GRUB syntax for directly booting into the needed Linux or BSD partitions, or chainloading another bootloader to load the OS in question. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyBCD
That's the best I can offer for the moment.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 00:25 Post subject:
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Another repo patch, this time adding the "patches' repo from slackware.
You have to update PPM, then configure PPM to show it, avoid updating the Slacko repo.
It looks bare (as in nothing shows) but this is another shortcoming of PPM. The only thing in there at this stage is mozilla-firefox-16.0, which you can find by typing "firefox" into the searchbox of PPM, then scrolling to the bottom of the results list. The list shows it's "already installed" if you have firefox-15.01 installed. . It installs fine and runs fine.
Looks like I am going to have to make a lot of patches for PPM. The "already-installed" bug is PPM's inability to handle versions. It thinks gtk+1, gtk+2 and gtk+3 are all installed when in fact only gtk+2 is installed. All 3 can co-exist happily.
Hmmm.. justed noticed that firefox-15.01 directory still resides in /usr/lib .. . I think I better get out my hammer...
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01micko

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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 07:32 Post subject:
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ETP
I think this is the fontwizard you have been talking about.. tweaked to show saved settings.
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Bill_Gates

Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Medina, Washington
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 08:52 Post subject:
Can’t connect to WPA2 encrypted networks! |
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I upgraded from Slacko 5.3.3 to the PAE version, k3.5.5 because 5.3.3 did not support the touchpad in my Dell e6420 and PAE k3.5.5 does. However now I can not connect to WPA2 encrypted networks. Connecting to Open, WEP and WPA/TKIP networks is no problem but not WPA2.
I tried using both Puppy Network Wizard and Frisbee running from either a Live CD or a USB install.
So back to 5.3.3 until I (with the help of the community) get this worked out!
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BHINTZ
Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 144
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 13:28 Post subject:
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Just a quick update
I installed grub4dos on the usb slacko and now I can boot from the hard drive win 7 and several puppies on a different partitions.
Now the only problem is how to reduce the backlight which seems to be always at maximum. The ability to reduce screen brightness is the main advantage of the windows OS as in the evening it is almost painful to look at anything on the screen.
Thanks for responses,
bob
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ETP

Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1053 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 14:45 Post subject:
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01micko
Thanks for the revised pet. It was simes who raised the issue in the 5.3.3 bugs thread but I habitually use it and have mentioned it in a recent "How To" ([How To] Tweaking Puppy for Poor Eyesight.)
I have sent simes a pm to draw his attention to your 0.0.1pet
Thanks once again.
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simes
Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 58 Location: Cheshire, UK
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 15:49 Post subject:
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Thank you to ETP for his PM. I have installed the new fontwizard-0.0.1 version on my Slacko 5.3.3 system(s) and confirm that it does save the settings now, which gives the user more confidence that it's working.
I think fontwizard is excellent and I install it on all my Puppy systems (all use LCDs). It makes old screens like that on my treasured ThinkPad T42 seem plenty sharp and clear enough, whereas without fontwizard, the screen quality seems poor.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 16:47 Post subject:
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well @<2k I think fontwizard can go into the build..
ETP, funnily enough I have the older tempicon on the laptop I'm posting from and after a reboot the font went small! (after tweaking with fontwizard)
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Bill_Gates
It is strange that WPA2 ebcryption is not working for you. I use it and am using the k3.5.5 version right now. However, this version is getting trashed (runs too hot) as I have compiled k3.4.13 (LTS) which still should work with your touchpad and hopefully solve your WPA2 issue.
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 17:14 Post subject:
Re: Can’t connect to WPA2 encrypted networks! |
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Bill_Gates wrote: | I upgraded from Slacko 5.3.3 to the PAE version, k3.5.5 because 5.3.3 did not support the touchpad in my Dell e6420 and PAE k3.5.5 does. However now I can not connect to WPA2 encrypted networks. Connecting to Open, WEP and WPA/TKIP networks is no problem but not WPA2.
I tried using both Puppy Network Wizard and Frisbee running from either a Live CD or a USB install.
So back to 5.3.3 until I (with the help of the community) get this worked out!  | I had a somewhat similar connection problem. I was able to get around ti by using "Network Wizard" (not Frisbee; not SNS) from the LAN button of Menu>Setup>Internet Connection Wizard.
This "may" get you on the air.
Here to help
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P.S. I was able to use Frisbee after I did a save-session, reboot.
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Thu 11 Oct 2012, 17:28 Post subject:
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MHHP
gapan has solved the depfinder issue on the Salix forum, so in future versions we can test out installing audacious and be confident that at least the database has the correct dependencies listed.
So that's one upstream bug solved out of.. how many?
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