Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[RSH]

Hi.

[drblock2]

TheAsterisk's VirtualBox installer virtualbox-4.2.4-x86_src.install.pet works magnificently in Slacko 5.4 PAE K3.4.17. You can get it here:

http://www.silverdollarsolutions.com/PuppyLinux/asterisk/VirtualBox/4.2.4/packages_guide.html

Install the Slacko 5.4 devx and k3.4.17 kernel sources and then run the pet.

Bravo! and Three Cheers for TheAskerisk!

I would strongly recommend against attempting to install VirtualBox from Oracle's run files. I tried several versions that had installed successfully on previous Puppies. The best you can hope for is simple failure (terminated signal -9) on launching the virtual machine, more likely is a complete freeze up requiring a reset with the hardware button on the box. This can lead to file system corruption (in the one case where this happened, I was fortunately able to use Windows XP's chkdsk to repair damage to my FAT32 partition).

See the VirtualBox thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63332&sid=cddffa90de465d47be6d7dd9e71b6768

for further information on this problem.

[Fishy]

I have devx5.4.sfs installed and have installed python separately as well. Python not found still appears when installing Calibre, an ebook management program. I haven't had this problem in a long time. Missing link somewhere?

Thanks for a very nice OS.

[jrb]

Hi All,
I'm sure I saw someone in one of the Slacko5.4 threads asking about keeping the packages that PPM downloads and then installs, but I can't find it.

Anyway here's a .pet with modified downloadpkgs.sh and installpkg.sh that will install the packages but leave the downloaded packages in /root. You just have to move them to where you want them.

Only briefly tested, so use at your own risk.

Cheers, J

EDIT!: If you're happy with this one, fine, but there's a better one down the page.

[tlchost]

[TheAsterisk!]

[666philb]

i made a .pet of gtk-youtube-viewer for the new slacko http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835

[mill0001]

@smokey01
Hi, just want to say thanks for an excellent version of Puppy. I'm using 5.3.3. I thought it would be cool to upgrade to new 5.4, but can't get my savefile from 5.3.3 to work with your newest version. Tried several different ways and will only boot to prompt. I was wondering if it would be possible to make like a delta-x file to upgrade my 5.3.3 to 5.4. I remember some of the earlier versions of I think Lupu had this feature when new versions came out. Could you do this with your Slacko versions? I think that would be really cool if you could and I bet there are a lot more folks out there that would love it also. I have other puppy versions installed on this box, but Slacko-5.3.3 is my daily driver and I don't want to change unless I can easily get the newest version. Thank you for your fine work.
Lee

[gcmartin]

[CatDude]

Hello gcmartin

[jrb]

In regard to the .pet I posted above I've had a request to build in a screen asking where the user wants to save downloaded packages. Unfortunately I'm not very good at building such screens.

But what I have just done is changed the .pet so all downloaded packages are moved into /root/Downloaded_Packages. This folder will be created with your first download. This folder can then be moved wherever you want (maybe /mnt/home) using ROX and then symlinked back into /root. Future packages will then follow the symlink into /mnt/home/Downloaded_Packages.

Besides I've found out with the first .pet that packages disappear if you choose "trim the fat". That doesn't happen with this one.

[tlchost]

[arcanis]

I just read the review of Slacko 5.4 in the news section of Distrowatch, and what a great review it was.
Great work, Micko1 and team! I have to admit, I agree with Jesse (the reviewer) that this is the smoothest experience I've had with Puppy so far, and I have always liked Puppy a lot more than he.
Also, I tried every version of Puppy I have in my collection of CD's, which may be all of them, and Slacko 5.4 is the only one that would boot into my wife's HP Pavilion G7 notebook with a graphical environment and wireless detection out of the box.

[ally]

@arcanis

I starting collecting puppy iso's and went a little mad and now have 993 builds

I too am a massive slacko fan and have found that it runs on every machine I try it on without complaint (IBM t21's, lenovo t61, amd dual core desktop, dell p4's and eeepc's)

I have had to migrate back to 5.3.3 but will be back to 5.4 if I can resolve the hdd hang

[8-bit]

ally,

Please explain further the "hard drive hang".
IOW, is this during the boot or later on?
And what type of install are you using as well as the type of partition you are installing to?