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#21 Post by Q5sys »

Went to install this for a friend today and the installer failed. Just passing along an FYI.

Just-Lighthouse Universal Installer - go through the process as one should do. Selecting a USB Hard disk, click through to install to sdc1, etc. After selecting the disk the installer crashes.

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<root> ~
bash-4.4# puppyinstaller
/usr/sbin/puppyinstaller: line 986: 17105 Terminated              yaf-splash -close never -icon gtk-harddisk -bg goldenrod1 -text " Please wait, scanning /dev/$DRVSEL... "

** (gtkdialog2:18810): ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 2, near token '<wtitle>': Unknown tag.

<root> ~
bash-4.4# 

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#22 Post by Dry Falls »

This may help, but might also break something else. Personally, I don't recommend any other than manual frugal install. I tried lighthouse installer recently and didn't fail till "fixusb'. The alternate installer (using the install icon in Desktop) is from woofCE a few years ago. I should probably get rid of it, particularly as JL64 no longer supports f2fs.

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Can't download today

#23 Post by Pete22 »

Hello Dry Falls

I wanted to redownload JL64-706 today, but the link does not
work. Can you check to see what the problem is?






Thank you for all your hard work.

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The link to download

#25 Post by Pete22 »

I tried this link twice. But the download failed both times.

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#26 Post by ally »

it's working for me, albeit slowly

try wget followed by the address from terminal

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wget http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Lighthouse64/Just-Lighthouse64-706.iso
:)

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#27 Post by Dry Falls »

uploaded Just-Lighthouse64-706a3.iso
This replaces Just-Lighthouse64-706.iso & Just-Lighthouse64-706a2.iso

also up/reuploaded:

5_JL64-706.sfs (on iso)
DepSoLibs-706.sfs (on iso)
Devx-JL64_706.sfs
DOC_JL64-706.sfs
NLS_base-JL64_706.sfs
Parole-0.9.2-x86_64-JL64.sfs (on iso)
Xfce-4.12.1-1-x86_64.sfs (on iso)
ffmpeg-3.4.1-x86_64-3.sfs
gtk-doc-reference_706.sfs
k4.14.12.txz
man_tools-14.2-6.sfs
mediacenter-13.sfs
mozilla-firefox-57.0-x86_64-4.sfs
perllt-5.26.1-x86_64-4.sfs (on iso)
samba-4.7.4-x86_64-2.sfs

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#28 Post by don570 »

Is defaultaudioplayer a GUI app?
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#29 Post by Dry Falls »

don570 wrote:Is defaultaudioplayer a GUI app?
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Hi Don. Yes. Audacious. Not sure how this is going to end up, since it isn't even on the base file, but neither is parole. The logic, I guess is that the ISO is "Mariner" and every sfs on the iso autoloads at first start. So it IS available. I could have used parole for both mediaplayer and audio, but I prefer audacious. May be subjective, but I think it sounds better. It streams audio better, and that's not subjective.

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#30 Post by Q5sys »

Dry,

This is not related to 706, but instead 605. I'm continually impressed with what you were able to manage with that release. It has worked on every machine I've attempted to run it on.
I've run it on Intel NUCs all the way to my eight socket beast, which I've attached output from. I would never have expected it to work out of the box on such complex enterprise gear.
I really look forward to what 706 shapes up to be.

Image

inxi output: http://dpaste.com/1ZC5W9G#wrap

dmesg output: http://dpaste.com/1KKXXNT#wrap

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version upgrade

#31 Post by Dry Falls »

version upgrade. Maybe beta quality. Seems stable (for now)
Issues: PPM needs work, although gslapt is the prefered package manager;
rox starting to freeze up with heavy use. go to menu|Desktop|applets|RefreshDrives;
Almost gtk3 ready.

Base file got fat. now contains webkit-gtk, python, perl and qt4-lite. 291M.

Just-Lighthouse64-801.iso | md5: 57c53c29eb866a26459de1b16c0b90c6
Devx-JL64_801.sfs | md5: 05938efcb896207378e7b47fe89cf5cd
kernel_sources-4.16.5-JLx86_64.sfs | md5: 06d3404b4ff53ac1c4ec6b1106fcf324
NLS_base-JL64_801.sfs | md5: 8dfaba8e3e39bfcf0d30d3ad0ec669f3

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#32 Post by Dry Falls »

new iso uploaded:

Just-Lighthouse64-801B2.iso 345M see opening post.
Last edited by Dry Falls on Fri 01 Jun 2018, 03:46, edited 1 time in total.

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#33 Post by step »

Dry Falls wrote:new iso uploaded:

Just-Lighthouse64-801B2.iso 345M see opening post.
The link name says *B2, but the target file name is *B1, and so is the name+link in the opening post. I guess B2 is a typo.
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117546]Fatdog64-810[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/hqZtiB]+Packages[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/6dbEzT]Kodi[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/JQC4Vz]gtkmenuplus[/url]

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oops

#34 Post by Dry Falls »

Thanks Step! fixed link. B2 is right - now 324M
md5sum:
a80d7f22b354f3cc83ef5ccaa186f527 Just-Lighthouse64-801B2.iso

Edit: Oh, It was a typo. Just hadn't posted the most recent till now!

df

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64-801B2 Not working for me

#35 Post by Pete22 »

Hello Dry Falls.

I want to thank you for keeping lighthouse pup alive. It is my favorite puppy.

I downloaded this new version 801fB2 and did a frugal install. Perhaps I did the frugal install wrong,
because, I am not having a good time with it. I redownloaded it and checked the md5 to see if that was the problem, but it was not.

So maybe you could give me a walk through on a frugal install as a first step in solving my issues.

Things I seeing.

1- Xfce desktop. I like to add my own icons, but it does not allow that. I don't mind using the other desktop but I need one that I can add
icon links to without too much geekiness.

2- I cannot get most of the 801.sfs' to work. For example firefox. i had to go and find a deb for firefox. It worked, but it said it was missing
some files. Now it only works in Spot and refuses to be the default browser.

3- Could not get the libreoffice pet and others to work at all.

4- I get no sound.

I am typing this from another puppy right now. This evening I will get back in to Just lighthouse and give you more details.

I know that Just lighthouse is really for folks who are more geeky, but I would love to have it work for me.

All this could be user error. I am hoping that with a little help, I can get it going to my liking.

stemsee

#36 Post by stemsee »

Hi Dry Falls

Downloaded, and installed manual frugal and running well.

Here is some hopefully useful feedback.
I installed my Wifi-TrayNet app and connected to network perfectly!
opened browser and foud webpage using duckduckgo homepage. My laptop is 1920x1080, normally I zoom in, geany/browser, using ctrl++ or ctrl and two fingers on trackpad, but no go, could be keyboard layout, I will try others, mine is GB. I also use pinch to zoom on touchscreen, in browser, geany and image viewers, no go.

I was editing a script, which gained full executable permissions, I was not able to change permissions using the properties gui nor in term.

On shutdown I created save file using simple encryption, it seemed to complete, but it didn't ask for password and no file was created, in sdb2 (ext).

I will have a play around, see what I can find!

stemsee

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LH64-801

#37 Post by chrabak »

Hello Dry Falls.

how to get a full install on LightHouse64-801? the live CD runs
fine (well, no trackpad and cannot read the sd card slot) but the
full install fails misserably. the install runs, and i get a few
files copied to the partition. my grub2 menu boots it into a kernel
panic. even a frugal install on my Acer VX 15 fails. any ideas?

here is the inxi report...


System: Host: Mariner18014 Kernel: 4.16.8 x86_64
____(64 bit gcc: 7.3.0) Desktop: Openbox 3.6.1
____Distro: Just-Lighthouse64 Linux Linux 4.16.8 [ arch]
Machine: System: Acer (portable) product: Aspire VX5-591G v: V1.03
____Mobo: KBL model: Wish_KLS v: V1.03 Bios:
____Insyde v: V1.03 date: 01/26/2017
Battery BAT1: charge: 42.9 Wh 95.6% condition: 44.9/46.0 Wh (97%)
____model: COMPAL PABAS0241231 status: Discharging
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-7700HQ (-HT-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
____flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
____bmips: 22464 clock speeds: max: 3800 MHz 1: 1306 MHz
____2: 3167 MHz 3: 3189 MHz 4: 2953 MHz 5: 3215 MHz
____6: 3307 MHz 7: 3290 MHz 8: 3169 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 591b bus-ID: 00:02.0
____Card-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
____bus-ID: 01:00.0
____Display Server: X.org 1.20.0 drivers: nouveau,intel
____(unloaded: nv,vesa) tty size: 124x24
____Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel CM238 HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
____bus-ID: 00:1f.3 Sound: ALSA v: k4.16.8
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network
____Adapter driver: ath10k_pci bus-ID: 02:00.0
____IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
____Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
____Ethernet Controller
____driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
____IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 516.2GB (5.4% used) ID-1:
____/dev/sda model: HFS512G39TND size: 512.1GB
____ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: USB_Flash_Drive size: 4.1GB
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 16.78GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
____fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 38.0
____Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 193 Uptime: 7 min Memory: 347.3/15906.8MB
____Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
____Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.0


ubuntu 18.04 installed and runs fine on my hardware (after i loaded
the nvidia drivers cause it could not even shutdown without it). i
tried bionicDog64 (based on 18.04) and it has simmilar challenges
on frugal and full install on my hardware.

i have always run puppies on old hardware. this year i treated
myself to a new machine - the cheapest gaming i7-7700 i could find
- and i cannot get a puppy to run :( xenial64_7.5 does run but i
have not been able to get the track pad or sd reader working.

puppy with jwm and rox has been my development system since 2009.
i cannot even think of doing it any other way. thanks "Dry Falls"
and to everybody who has ever had a hand in puppy creation. i love
it.

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#38 Post by Dry Falls »

Sorry to have taken so long to answer these.

@Pete (& TWIMC): Thanks for sticking with my project! I've had no problems using or making new frugal save-file installs. In fact, it seems to me better at finding the base sfs and save files than ever. Of course, I use grub2 and have no access to a 64bit legacy boot machine. It does work in qemu but that is no test for booting a save file. I'm assuming the problem you experience must be related to the isolinux.cfg. It probably needs tweaked. Remember that the install must be in the top of the partition or no more than One directory deep! If it is a usb partition, make sure the append line contains "pmedia=usbflash" and NOT "cd".

There is a section on boot parameters in Lighthouse faqs.

In xfce desktop, I've no problem changing the icon theme from the xfce-settings application (to an installed icon theme). However, there seems no option to change individual icons like there is in kde except for *.desktop files which can be edited.

Firefox is a whoops on my part (bad symlink in the sfs) fix it with

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rm -f /usr/bin/firefox
sleep .5
ln -s /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
What other sfs files have you had a problem with? The directory structure is basically unchanged since Tazoc created Lighthouse, which means most pets for woofCE puppies won't work in lighthouse without some editing. Always check the lighthouse repo first and slackware second. Also advise using *.txz packages and right-click 'install-txz' instead of petget. (It's on my todo list to change the default for .txz in mime-types)

On the topic of browsers, as has been the case for as long as I've been involved with lighthouse, browsers accessed from the menu run as spot. Root is accessed from wbar or the terminal. You can also edit the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications.

The easiest frugal install is manual. If it is to usb media, 'pmedia=usbflash' (or usbssd) is essential. Otherwise, open the drive/partition you want to use with rox-filer and drag the base, initrd.xz and vmlinuz files there and edit your pre-existing boot menu accordingly. Even more sure-fire is to install to a directory with the psubdir=myuniquefoldername. Extra sfs files can be located in that folder or on the top of the partition.

I've fixed the sound issues with

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chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa
. It was confusing pulse, which handles sound. Make adjustments with Pulse-audio volume control from the menu or 'Sound' from wizardwizard (setup) or right-click the speaker tray-icon (left-click in xfce).

@Stemsee: Greetings. Surf browser zoom-in is <control shift k> and out is <control shift j>. Keyboard shortcuts are found in /usr/share/doc/surf/surf.1 (also in the man directory). A location bar of sorts (dmenu) is called up with <control g>. Terminal is probably the easiest. Wbar "Surf" icon runs it as root. Surf is not multiuser friendly (spot can't download anything).

Can't replicate the permissions problem you described. Not sure what's up with that.

The encrypted save-file is something I've never played with, but I remember hearing it is restricted to ext2. Even so, the code is partially in both the init script and rc.shutdown and is untouched from the original. It may be broken since gcrypt has been upgraded several times since.

Thanks for testing. Soon I'll have an updated version uploaded with new sfs files. Having some problems with the devx since the gcc-8.1.1 upgrade.

@chrabak: Lighthouse is meant to run in ram. A full install is not recommended. The closest option which is supported is pupmode 6 (save to partiition). If you still want a full install, there is a good help file in the fatdog faqs, although I don't think they support it. I think you could make an install to partition and then delete the initrd folder. Unsquash the base sfs there and the system might read it as a full install, but I wouldn't count on it.

I think you've already discovered one issue: nvidia.

Below is a package (getnvidia) for lighthouse (click to unzip). It's built into the next release.

edit: Yes, encrypted pupsave is broken. Errors seem to point to losetup. fails to mount.
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#39 Post by BlueDog »

Just stopped in to say thanks man. I've always loved Puppy but what you've done with Tazoc's gift to the Linux universe, was to make it best of breed.

I'm kind of a Linux novice but I tossed JL on a USB stick and plugged it in to a Winmate tough book clone I got from work, and pretty much everything just worked. Drives, Ethernet, WiFi, touch pad, hell, even the touch screen was calibrated.

I'm sure there are issues that my novice rear hasn't noticed yet , but If I could only have one pup, it would easily be this one. Keep up the great work brudda, because like Michael Angelo, this distro really is a Puppy masterpiece.

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#40 Post by step »

Hi Dry Falls,

error 404 for the devx and kernel sources links in this post of yours http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 616#990616.
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117546]Fatdog64-810[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/hqZtiB]+Packages[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/6dbEzT]Kodi[/url]|[url=http://goo.gl/JQC4Vz]gtkmenuplus[/url]

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