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DMcCunney wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:

DMcCunney wrote: This sounds like an incomplete installation of some sort. I can't see how running Puppy from a live CD should do this.

Did this persist after a power cycle?

Thanks for answering, Dennis;

Yes it did. There was no installation; I took the CD out of the drive and tried to boot from the hard drive as usual, with this result.

I can't see why it might have happened either, but it did. According to our expert, a couple of pointers went missing from the Windows XP boot loader (NTLDR) and one of them linked to the hard drive. It's worrying me somewhat because I've always used Puppy on public computers on the understanding that it's completely "safe" to run it from a CD-ROM and a savefile on the hard drive, as I did in this case.

Weird. If something trashed the Master Boot Record, I can see something like this occurring. That's not hard to fix, but is a bit tedious.

I'd be very startled if a standard Puppy CD did that. I can't say for sure about a custom Puplet. It might have been coincidence, or it might have been an improperly housebroken Puppy, making a mess where it wasn't supposed to. Give a copy of the CD to the tech at the community center, and ask him to look at it. You want a second opinion to rule out Puppy being at fault.
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Dennis

Hi I am new to the forum and to Puppy.

I bought this computer recently because I am a wannabe writer (never published) who needs a machine exclusively for word processing, so I didn't care that the laptop was old. I was appalled, however, at how slow XP Professional was running on it, I formated the HD and I installed Puppy 5.1 on it to speed it up. It worked great and I am very happy with how fast it is .

However, when I went to reboot for the first time "NTLDR is missing" error came up so everytime I boot I have to insert the Puppy CD twice, once to get the error, second to boot the system.

I was very happy to see this post and that there was a fix, but I am sorry that it is tedious .

Dennis, could you share the fix with me?

Liam
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Gateway 9550 Laptop: Pentuim III - 1066MHz with 254MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive

" I formated the HD "

Should have used DBan.
No way that should show after format.
Or do you have 2 partitions??

Chris.

I just have the 1 partition. I don't have a problem with reformatting the drive again, so what is DBan and how do I use it?

Thanks for replying!

Liam

http://www.dban.org/

5 Minutes would do for your purposes.
Under no circumstances boot this with another drive
which has important data..

Chris.

Thanks for your advise Chris, after many adventures I was able to get rid of the error message and got Puppy installed again.

Liam

Liam:

Good result - thanks 4 posting back.

Chris.

pulp 0.1 file for rapidshare is no longer there?
good found a link that worked.

i really like the speed of pulp but i would like to go back to rox as the file manager.
Need to edit pmount and is there any other apps. need to mod for that?

EDIT found pulp download at http://flusslinie.wordpress.com/category/pulp/

rapidshare dl not working

thanks!

i really like the speed of pulp but i would like to go back to rox as the file manager.
Need to edit pmount and is there any other apps. need to mod for that?

Hm, don't think anything else, apart from pmount, calls the file manager. You can open pmount in a text editor and do a search for emelfm and replace it by rox- this schould work. If all fails just copy pmount from another puppy iso.

I'm glad that so me of you like my little project. I found that puppylinux.asia is no more- so sad...

any plans for an new pulp?
seamonkey and rox gtk1.2 ?


if you do:
have rox there for the non-emelfm users.
some of the gtk1.2 themes look better than most gtk2.0 ones.
great work!!!!

PIII 512M 750MHz
10G HD
I'm using it right now. Minimalist and FAST.

Thank you

Dave

harii4 wrote:any plans for an new pulp?
seamonkey and rox gtk1.2 ?

Nope, so far pulp does what I want it to do.
It's all free software- so feel free to roll your own. Personally I'd love to see what people can do with GTK 1.2 apps. So far all filemanagers for GTK 1.2 are not ideal (IMHO).
Emelfm is a bit awkward to use for someone who is used to GNOMEs Nautilus, and to be frank I never liked rox very much.
Something more standard - like pcmanfm or nautilus would be great, but they are all gtk 2.0 or gnomish or heavyweight.

if you do:
have rox there for the non-emelfm users.

Rox is still there. Just start it via terminal.

some of the gtk1.2 themes look better than most gtk2.0 ones.
great work!!!!

Unfortunately the better looking themes are slow as well- it seem as if you can't have yur cake and eat it.

Hi Zenfunk, on my old laptop (Tosh 2180cdt) pulp 002 works well, but I have a problem with pulp003. The browser will not start.

Have you heard anything similar from others?

I've tried lots of live distros but am very much a beginner and don't really know where to start troubleshooting for this problem.

Pulp003 looks nicer so I'm keen to get it going if I can. cheers.

Strange problem.
Could you tell me what happens when you type firefox in the shell?

Christian

Strange problem.
Could you tell me what happens when you type firefox in the shell?

Christian

I'm excited

At last it downloads (may simply be my newish dialup isp). Always did like p412 and looking forward to the different appset. FF2 is ok by me (although I'll probably ruin it with extensions, haha) but maybe I can use a few sfs to more-or-less instantly get a comfy overstuffed armchair. Should be interesting trying ede out in this.

Won't miss the roxpin at all and yep, jwm themes are fair easy even the 'hard' way (will punch one up especially on/for pulp and add it here later, one of these days jwm will lose the bevels on the menu) .. don't feel too bad about busting jwmconfig, in some instances it'd do odd things anyway

@greengeek - definitely 'ask' the console, it'll output some troubleshooting hints usually and is the 'lite' way to go..

`f00 wrote:I'm excited

Always did like p412 and looking forward to the different appset. FF2 is ok by me (although I'll probably ruin it with extensions, haha)

Won't miss the roxpin at all and yep, jwm themes are fair easy even the 'hard' way

don't feel too bad about busting jwmconfig, in some instances it'd do odd things anyway

f00, not to take away any attention from Pulp, ut it sounds as though you may enjoy Puplite as well... In the Derivatives section on this thread.

If nothing else, you could apply some of the Puplite JMW desktop stuff to PULP, and steal the working jwmconfig from Puplite.

(Just in case you'd like to try it)

Withdrawn from rapidshare and the other link is broken. Where can I download pulp 0.10?

I have computers with 96 and 128MB RAM.

Hi Sindi,

I just tried this link and it was working -

http://flusslinie.files.wordpress.com/2 ... -1-iso.doc

Good Luck and have fun,

Jay

remember to change doc to iso after the download