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DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

Just set up my USB again with Spup1. All fine.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 09:57 Post subject:

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.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 04 Sep 2011, 10:16 Post subject:

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

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.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 06 Sep 2011, 14:13 Post subject:

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

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!

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 13 Nov 2011, 14:09 Post subject:

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.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 711

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

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 09:56 Post subject:

There was a suggestion from jemimah that "pmedia=ataflash" would also get you a PUPMODE=13 environment. Did you try that?

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 711

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

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 711

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

Monsie · Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 465 Location: Kamloops BC Canada

jakfish,

How about: pmedia=satahd

Have a look at this thread here.

Hope this helps,
Monsie