Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017

[mavrothal]

Did copy over pobepart from Tahrpup 6.0.5 ....

You may lose some functionality as some other scripts take advantage of the new options of probepart.
You may want instead to use the patch bellow (with the latest probepart) that should detect not partitioned disks

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--- a/sbin/probepart
+++ b/sbin/probepart
@@ -80,8 +80,11 @@
 	fi
 fi
 
+# Find partitions in DOS disks without partition table
+EXTRAPART="`blkid | cut -f1 -d ':'| cut -f3 -d '/' | grep sd | grep -v [0-9]`"
+
 PARTNAMES="`echo "$PARTITIONS" | cut -f 2 -d ' '`" #120602
-ALLDEVS=$(echo -e "${PARTNAMES}\n${OPTICALDRVS}" | sort -u)
+ALLDEVS=$(echo -e "${PARTNAMES}\n${EXTRAPART}\n${OPTICALDRVS}" | sort -u)
 
 #==========================================================================
 

(keep in mind that the forum may mess up the patch adding speces at the end of the lines, but is simple enough to even do with copy/past)

Regarding adding a partition table without destroying the data on the disk, I have no idea. What google says about it?

[backi]

Hi mavrothal !
Where to paste this text ?
At the end of ( new?) probepart script or in the beginning?

[bigpup]

Another question ....can i add now a partition table afterwards to my extern Hardrive without loosing my Data ?

NO!!!!!!

Gparted warning

note the warning message. Creating a new partition table will discard all information about existing partitions on the disk. It will not overwrite data on the partitions, but you still don't want to have to dig through and restore data afterwards. Therefore consider the old partitions gone and all data lost after you created the new partition table and backup your data before doing so.

[mavrothal]

Where to paste this text ?
At the end of ( new?) probepart script or in the beginning?

The text is a unified patch for the NEW probepart so it must be placed in the right place. In this case around line 80 as indicated by "@@".
There is plenty of tutorials about patching. Take a look. Will be handy if you keep on linux.

[recobayu]

You need wifi driver ath9k, which is missing from 7.0.8.6 (32-bit) even though it is present in the 64-bit version. Ethernet driver ath5k is also missing.

Thank you Rerwin.
How to install that driver? Can I only copy some file from 7.0.8.1 to this?

[backi]

Thanks a lot you guys !

[Pete22]

I am late coming to this nice puppy, but can anyone tell me what the administrator's password is?

I tried woofwoof but that did not work?

[666philb]

hi Pete22,

that looks like a different puppy ... possibly battleshooters xenial build http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=111885

[666philb]

Thanks everyone!

it's been a long time coming .....
xenialpup final is now available. new link on first post

[Keef]

Getting a 404 for the iso download link.

EDIT
This one works:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-xenial/32/

[666philb]

Getting a 404 for the iso download link.

EDIT
This one works:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-xenial/32/

fixed
cheers Keef

[Subito Piano]

PhilB -

Truly a labor of love -- and nobody knows how much time and energy it cost. The few like you who have the knowledge and who have - or MAKE - the time for this kind of effort in keeping Puppy up-to-date is a blessing to everyone. THANK YOU!

Marty

[davids45]

G'day 666philb,

Made a manual frugal install of the 7.5 iso (uefi version used, even though this is a 2005 computer with 2GB RAM) and loaded this with my applications and their configs (as sfs, pets, and links to my data partition).

Everything runs - prints, scans, wine apps, browsers (see screenshot).

Thanks for another excellent Pup.

David S.

[Sailor Enceladus]

I always found Xenialpup a bit slow to display the desktop and sometimes Palemoon slows down over time too (doesn't seem to happen for me using Walter Dnes builds in Slacko 5.7.x) but the build by musher0 seemed better. Maybe I'll try building a 3.18 kernel for this Xenialpup, and/or making a 7.5 in woof-CE later and see if it helps... and/or attempting to compile Palemoon with this devx (never tried this before, only building Firefox, could be an interesting experiment).

[s243a]

I can't find the kernal sources for the latest version:

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root# uname -a
Linux virtualXenial 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 25 14:52:38 BST 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Edit: I found the sources by going to the install icon on the desktop and then selecting "download an sfs from the repo".

However, I don't know where these are actually located on the web and I could not find a corresponding option in the puppylinux menu.

[bigpup]

The main Puppy repository is here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/

The files for a specific Puppy version are in two locations.

The Puppy version pet packages directory.
(usually kernel sources sfs is here)

The Puppy version directory.
(usually the Puppy version iso and devx sfs)

For sfs packages specific to a Puppy version.
Type this in a console can also get them, but not always everything is listed.

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sfsget

[s243a]

The following ISO would not boot for me from the virtual box "CD drive"
xenialpup-7.5-uefi.iso

**Note that I didn't use a phyical CD. Instead I set the CD drive on the virtual machine to the ISO.

To get around this problem, I attached the hard-drive to a virtual machine running tarpup, installed, YAPI and then used YAPI to instal Xenialpup-7.5 on the hard drive.

The same hard drive can be attached to more then one virtual machine but obviously I detached from the virtual machine running tarhpup when I was done.

Anyway first thing I notice is that I have the option to run many more browsers as spot. I like this I will copy some of these run-as-spot scripts back to tahrpup.

[ETP]

Hi 666philb,

Thanks for all the effort that you have put into these latest releases.
Of the two, I prefer this 32-bit version which seems quicker and gives the best
blowfish score that I have yet seen.

Install was a manual one to the 3rd f2fs partition on a USB3 stick. (sdc3)
Great to see Dougal back plus the inclusion of tree and wmctrl.

The screen-shot below shows the items so far installed the first of which satisfied an
unmet dep in both versions. IIRC the 64-bit version is also missing what looked like a
custom lib for ppm (libppmvga ?)

Full sized screen-shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... SdiwIb-j-M

Thanks.

[Billtoo]

@ETP

Was curious so ran the test on my HP desktop.

Dual core Intel Core i3-6100T (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 800/3101 MHz

I don't have the 32bit version installed yet but will do a comparison when I get it done.
_________________________________________

Hi ETP,

The 32bit version seems to be a tad slower on my HP.

Both installs the Frequency Scaling is set to ondemand.

[Sailor Enceladus]

I tried the CPU Blowfish benchmark too out of curiosity, on a Pentium M @75MHz, then compared with Slacko 5.7.1.

Here's the 3.18.84 kernel too if anyone wants it (though it was compiled for Slacko 5.7.1):
https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... NVtJEhf2w7