Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[mavrothal]

[stifiling]

@mavrothal

hmm...the snapmergepuppy script is returning the error "find: unrecognized: -mount"

would u happen to know the way around that?

I'm presently using:
rsync -avz /initrd/pup_rw/* /initrd/pup_ro1

[mavrothal]

[mrgreen]

Very interested to know how to get involved. Got linked to iso this morning on ArchBang forums. Currently ArchBang weighs in around ~571mb, imagine my shock at seeing a similar desktop at 78mb.

Are there any guides, link or tutorials to see how Archpup is created?

Am assuming you are running a custom kernel/udev and not running systemd

[oui]

Hi mrgreen

[simargl]

Just some quick notes to make thing clearer.
Arch Linux is rolling release, but ArchPup is not, it uses packages from rollback machine and
fixed date 2012/04/30. You could make it rolling release by changing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist,
but I would not suggest that, it could break your system, ask you to download 500MB of
packages etc.
New version will be 12.12, it's finished, but has some problems with udev (surprise )
not loading modules, that needs some investigating. For this release I had to recompile pango
and downgrade it to 1.30.1, to eliminate dependency on harfbuzz and icu or else it would add
7MB to iso. New openbox-menu package don't have option to hide menu icons, and sometimes
it just freeze openbox, mouse is not functional and only option is to change to tty2 and reboot.
For problems with save file on USB, I will need some help from experienced users, simply
because I can't fix it myself. You see that rc.shutdown in ArchPup is very different than in other
Puppy, my idea is to, from that file with if statement (PUPMODE=13) call other script and
make savefile (add data to it) only on reboot/shutdown, if someone needs to save on USB .
New version 12.12-alpha will be released when this is fixed, or maybe it will be 13.01, I'm not sure.
ArchPup 12.12 screenshot below.

[bark_bark_bark]

can you add an installer atleast?

[mrgreen]

As Arch uses systemd by default now updating is going to break it. Still think its amazing just for its sheer small size .

Going to sift through your git see if I can help.

Openbox-menu removed the option to turn off icons quite a while ago, I know the developer said it could be built with the option [not tried it!] Currently I use it as a daemon from autostart [due to recent menu-cache update]

[mavrothal]

[simargl]

Problem with loading modules is that modprobe somehow don't find libkmod.so.2 which
is inside /lib as symlink to libkmod.so.2.2.1. If I add ldconfig in rc.sysinit, then it works, but that
command should be run only once (not on every boot like now) if you boot with save file, but
always if not using savefile. Also I added grub4dosconfig so installation to hard disk or usb (it supports usb also) will
now be possible, and moved squash-tools from arch-dev to arch-base to make it possible to remaster without dev sfs or using pacman..

edit: If someone is having problems with pwireless2, is there alternative program you can
suggest. I don't need just its name, but also you to test that program, and if you think that
it is better, I will add it, instead of pwireless2.

[T_Hobbit]

[stifiling]

[phil66]

Downloaded archpup-1204-2.iso
Checked md5sum matched
burn't to cd/rw

Starts to boot then I get the error

"arch-1204.sfs not found
dropping out to initial-ramdisk console
Then I get a prompt

Where did I go wrong on this download ???

[simargl]

Hi phil,
I think it's probably disc-burning error, if you have windows os try to use unetbootin and
make bootable usb (that worked for me), or you can test iso in virtualbox.

@stifiling can you please do some more tests with Frisbee if you have time. I'm thinking to
add that instead of pwireless, because Frisbee is newer and it shows eth0 info correctly,
thats all I can test.

[anikin]

Hi simargl,

regarding frisbee, let me quote pemasu's introduction to his newly released Upup Precise 5.4.X.5: