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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 08:45 Post subject:
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Just set up my USB again with Spup1. All fine.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 09:57 Post subject:
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In some new Puppies, the default behaviour is to NOT load the sfs file into memory when booting from a hard drive. So when you convert a flash drive to PUPMODE=12, you will get the same thing.
This means that the flash drive will boot faster but may run a little slower. You can fix this by adding "pfix=copy" to your syslnux.cfg file.
The original instructions state that you must format your flash drive as ext. This is because the editinit procedure cannot be done in a FAT32 environment. However, you can copy the initrd.gz into your home directory or another ext environment and modify it there. Then copy the file back to your FAT32 flash drive. It will work fine.
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 10:04 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | In some new Puppies, the default behaviour is to NOT load the sfs file into memory when booting from a hard drive. So when you convert a flash drive to PUPMODE=12, you will get the same thing.
This means that the flash drive will boot faster but may run a little slower. You can fix this by adding "pfix=copy" to your syslnux.cfg file.
The original instructions state that you must format your flash drive as ext. This is because the editinit procedure cannot be done in a FAT32 environment. However, you can copy the initrd.gz into your home directory or another ext environment and modify it there. Then copy the file back to your FAT32 flash drive. It will work fine. |
Have it formatted to ext . Will try pfix=copy, but it seems fast anyway. (actually extlinux.conf)
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 10:16 Post subject:
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DaveS wrote: | but it seems fast anyway. |
It probably doesn't make a big difference. In the case of your web browser, all the content that is stored in your profile has to be read from the pupsave file regardless of how the actual program code has been loaded. The former may have a greater impact on speed than the latter.
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2011, 12:21 Post subject:
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Question: does the desktop 'save' icon have any effect in PUPMODE 12?
FWIW, just set up a cheapo tiny tiny USB this way with slackobeta to see how it goes. All good so far.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2011, 14:13 Post subject:
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DaveS wrote: | Question: does the desktop 'save' icon have any effect in PUPMODE 12?. |
I just delete it. I don't even know what would happen if you clicked it.
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2011, 14:19 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | DaveS wrote: | Question: does the desktop 'save' icon have any effect in PUPMODE 12?. |
I just delete it. I don't even know what would happen if you clicked it. |
LOL... Nothing!
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 12:49 Post subject:
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A funny thing happened on the way to the show: I set up a USB drive this way for Slacko, and when it booted, sound was missing. Running Alsa wizard returned no soundcards detected. Reverting to original initrd restored sound!
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 14:09 Post subject:
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WFM. I created a standard PUPMODE=13 Slacko flash drive. The sound was working and I made a save file. I verified that sound was still working after a reboot, then switched to PUPMODE=12. I inserted the line after line 806. Sound still worked in the new setup.
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DaveS

Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 15:03 Post subject:
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rcrsn51 wrote: | WFM. I created a standard PUPMODE=13 Slacko flash drive. The sound was working and I made a save file. I verified that sound was still working after a reboot, then switched to PUPMODE=12. I inserted the line after line 806. Sound still worked in the new setup. |
Haha.. moral of story... 'don't do this from within the Puppy you are modifying'. Booted from HD, modified initrd on USB from within a HD install, re-booted from USB, all fine. Off for a glass of wine now
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 09:43 Post subject:
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Forgive me for thread-dredging, but I have to give a shout-out to rcrsn51.
I frugally installed a puppeee to an ssd partition and could not get out of the pupmode=12 state until I found this thread and the great init editing tool.
Put a pupmode=13 in the init and now I have a true frugal install on an ssd partition with no need to boot off usb/sd card.
rcrsn51--many, many thanks,
Jake
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 09:56 Post subject:
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There was a suggestion from jemimah that "pmedia=ataflash" would also get you a PUPMODE=13 environment. Did you try that?
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 11:32 Post subject:
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I did. And for my specs: working w/ puppeee installed to sd card, then once in puppeee on the sd card, using Universal Install to /sda7, I could not get pupmode=13 no matter which handle I jiggled in syslinux.cfg
Jake
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jakfish
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766
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Posted: Wed 06 Feb 2013, 03:57 Post subject:
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Oh, dear, this didn't work out as well as I thought.
While I am running in pupmode 13, I'm unable to save manually. The cpu goes to 100% and no changes are written to pupsave.sfs.
I thought of a corrupted save file, but even with starting fresh, I wasn't even offered a choice to make a save file at the end of the initial startup.
If I run this puppeee, fresh, with the original init file, then I am offered a chance to save at the end of the first session.
Changing the syslinux.cfg file to pmedia=ideflash, or ataflash, or usbflash does not help.
Jake
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Monsie

Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 633 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
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Posted: Wed 06 Feb 2013, 04:40 Post subject:
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jakfish,
How about: pmedia=satahd
Have a look at this thread here.
Hope this helps,
Monsie
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