"puppy_slacko_6.3.2.sfs not found" error message

[Mike Walsh]

Hello, kobold. And 'Welcome' to the kennels.

Mm. Well, if you're missing those particular files, then you're missing two main things.

a) The 'zdrv_slacko_6.32.sfs' file contains most of Puppy's drivers!
b) With 'syslinux.cfg' and 'vesamenu.c32' missing, you're also missing the in-built bootloader (syslinux).

So it's hardly surprising you're having problems booting from it.

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As bigpup says, if you add to the kernel line pfix=fsck, you tell Puppy to perform a file-system check on your save-file every time, before loading it. This makes startup take longer, it's true.....but it does make sure the save-file is not corrupted, and is clean before it's loaded. This is something that ext2/3 have a habit of doing (ext2 being worse in this respect, since it doesn't have ext3's recovery 'journal').

I assume you're trying to get Puppy running from the 10GB ext3 partition, yes?


Mike.

[kobold]

Hi guys,
I think win7 64bit is the culprit. It does not boot the CD-ROM that boots fine in a 32bit XP machine. My plan was to use a Live Puppy CD/DVD to boot and use the ext3 partition for the SaveFile. Oh well, I will use the USB Flash drive for now. I will burn another DVD directly with Win7 file manager and see if it makes any difference. I will be away for a few days and report back upon return. Thank you bigpup and Mike.

[mikeslr]

Hi guys,
... I will burn another DVD directly with Win7 file manager and see if it makes any difference.

And if it doesn't, try BurnCDCC or DeepBurner. See, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 240#994240 and 8Geee's post just after it.

mikesLr

[bigpup]

I will burn another DVD directly with Win7 file manager

NO!!!!!
Us a CD/DVD burning program that will run in Windows.
They know how to properly burn an iso image.
Just make sure to select burn iso image.
Several out there you can download for free.
As suggested above.

Even better.
Boot with the usb of Slacko.
Use Pburn to make the live Slacko DVD.