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[Terryphi]

[don570]

I tested on precise 5.4.90 and it worked perfectly right away.

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[nooby]

Is this a script that one can edit so it does not ask so many questions
it wants to move files and deal with save file and so on.

I need it to load the sfs and not make me go into dialogs all the time

I don't have a save file so all these questions are only annoying Sorry

Now I am using sfs-exec in Slacko despite it does not work properly
for slacko. Would be better to be able to use the built in sfs on fly
but a version that are less nosy all the time.

[sunburnt]

nooby; Did you try sfs_load --help to get the CLI list for use without the GUI.?


shinobar; I just needed an SFS loader for the first time for AppPkg development.

It works great except for what seems to be a Puppy messup of both the dirs. /lib/i386-linux-gnu and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
They are links to the parent dir. and sfs_load can`t union dirs. on them. I doubt any union can be done on this type of setup.

Is there a work around fix for what appears to be a Puppy hack.?

( I`m guessing apps. must be modified to work, meaning they`ll only work in Puppy. )


# Suggestion for sfs_load: Why limit it to SFS files,?

# Please also make it load ext2, ext3, and ext4 image files as well.!

And of course add "Load RO" and "Load RW". ( Separate buttons is good. )
Have the buttons disabled when a SFS file is selected to be loaded.
If the image file`s mounted RW and unioned RO, then the normal Save file is the union`s only RW.
Then changes to the image file can be made through it`s mount point.
This will allow new app. package development ( SFS and AppPkg ) to be done quite easily.
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[R-S-H]

Hi.

To use sfs_load from command line use option --cli. I do use this inside the RunScripts from LazY Puppy's SFS P.L.U.S. to get the SFS loaded without the GUI.

Full command I do use:

[nooby]

Thanks for sharing that way to do sfs load.
I should test it ASAP but just now I am into other things.
I make a bookmark here so I can find it again. Thanks

[Karl Godt]

Works good to load a dpup_devx_007.sfs into a ram boot of a dpup-005.sfs without annoying anything about wrong version and whatsoever . Has some much text about what and what not recommended is, but that is personal taste .

Nevertheless ( latest /root/Downloads/sfs_load-1.9.6-2.pet ) :
Dragged the _devx_ into the input box of the gui and got this later :
Seems some '\n' jumped into the $VARS and copying failed (crappy mrxvt, encoding or LANG mismatches possible ?)

[Karl Godt]

Have not investigated the above further, but while running a Puppy with unionfs.ko instead of aufs.ko
I figured to mount devx with that line :

[watchdog]

Perhaps I posted in a wrong place so I give a link here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=86068

I use frugal precise 5.5 with light-encrypted precisesave.

[simargl]

Hi

sfs_load is great little program, very useful, opens new horizons

... but now that gtk3 is becoming new de facto standard, I'm interested

what are your plans: will it be ported to new gtkdialog versions and work with gtk3?

Cause, if yes that would be great...

Also I need to report one bug: with util-linux version 2.23 sfs unloading seems to be broken - it reports success but module is still loaded, and if I run sfs_load with -d option (debug) it shows something like "cannot disassociate /dev/loop6"

Cheers!

[sunburnt]

simargl; Perhaps the branch is in use so it can`t be removed.

Try unmounting it and see if you get the usual error: Device or resource busy

[simargl]

I remember that manually unmounting /initrd/pup_ro6 worked, I wanted to fix sfs_load script but could not so went back to util-linux 2.22.2. I think script could not find mount point, so it tried to unmount wrong directory and that is the reason why it reports success, even though file is still loaded.
Changes in Util-linux 2.23
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/7503

[shinobar]

[shinobar]

Download: http://shino.pos.to/linux/puppy/
Updatet: sfs_load-1.9.7.pet (2013-05-14)

#14 May 2012 v1.9.7: fix was faild more than 7 after reboot (thanks to nonki3476), fix was failed cleanwhite on flash, support util-linux-2.23 (thanks to simargl) , debugging log

[simargl]

Thank you shinobar, I confirm that latest sfs_load 1.9.7 works great with util-linux 2.23.