Posted: Fri 06 Apr 2012, 21:05
Booted Racy-5.3 final frugal on SD-micro card 8Gb :
HOW I installed :
Installed via Puppy 4.3.1 mkfs.vfat which is a link to busybox there (now had upgraded BB to 1.18.3), used gparted to set bootflag and grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sdb1 /dev/sdb to install legacy grub and made the menu.lst manually .
About the boot ;
The boot worked from a USB-Card reader - not from the card slot of the USB-modem because the bios did not recognize this slot.
I had probs to boot directly for file not found , but exec switch after more than once mounting proc and rerunning ./init from rdsh finally ended to desktop .
I will have to investigate because it seems, that UPPER and LOWER case is not the same as usual on FAT-32 . Former i had a directory named /OS for the .sfs + initrd.gz and the entry in grub menu.lst had to be lower case ...
FWIW : from bootkernel.log :
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: video=640x480 vga=ask pdev1=sdb1 psubdir=os
[ 15.950263] usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
[ 16.035635] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6335
[ 16.035639] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 16.035642] usb 1-1.4: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 16.035645] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 16.035647] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 058F011111B1
[ 16.035972] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 16.035990] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
[ 16.036040] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 17.037563] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SD/MMC Card Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 17.283402] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB)
[ 17.285393] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 17.285397] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 17.287392] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.287395] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.289542] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 17.296016] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.296019] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.305532] sdb: sdb1
[ 17.313266] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.313269] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.313273] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 652.064876] FAT-fs (sdb1): codepage cp850 not found
[ 657.079374] FAT-fs (sdb1): codepage cp850 not found
a) sdb sdb1 was not listed first time in /tmp/ALLDRIVES0
b) I was having similar problems with mtools not being able to add a label because of not being able to transform somethings from/to codepage 850 which i could not solve for now .
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I haven't had the need to replug the USB modem a long time, so had been surprised by the yaf message ..configuring. Took quite a time without any progress messages .
*
Selected 1280x1024 but xorg restart by quicksetup did not forced that resolution .
*
LOOKING forward for the new LANG experience in initrd and that the new kernel reboots my dell optilex 745 without the reboot=f kernel parameter .
*
I made an .xpm from the logo picture using mtpaint and added
splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/logo.16.xpm
to grub/menu.lst .
Racy has got 'lss16toppm' and 'ppmtoxpm' installed in the main .sfs so would be a nice addon feature to grubconfig I think .
Despite this, does anyone know something about to compile grub with other keyboards by default ? Had looked into the Caps file in ncurses but found only descriptors for the special keys like F1 or multi-media keys . I am using setkeys but it appears that mapping z to y and y to z leaves me two y and no z keys .
*
Flash dl and installation worked for me .
Seamonkey plays Youtube nicely but i am not able to determine where the 20MB download is cached .
Dl it with my customized you2pup which seems to need a downloder installed in the browser to get the needed strings from the html page including the tags of the downloader in the original code .
mplayer plays the video and music great .
*
Keep on Rolling, Puppy Linux !
HOW I installed :
Installed via Puppy 4.3.1 mkfs.vfat which is a link to busybox there (now had upgraded BB to 1.18.3), used gparted to set bootflag and grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sdb1 /dev/sdb to install legacy grub and made the menu.lst manually .
About the boot ;
The boot worked from a USB-Card reader - not from the card slot of the USB-modem because the bios did not recognize this slot.
I had probs to boot directly for file not found , but exec switch after more than once mounting proc and rerunning ./init from rdsh finally ended to desktop .
I will have to investigate because it seems, that UPPER and LOWER case is not the same as usual on FAT-32 . Former i had a directory named /OS for the .sfs + initrd.gz and the entry in grub menu.lst had to be lower case ...
FWIW : from bootkernel.log :
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: video=640x480 vga=ask pdev1=sdb1 psubdir=os
[ 15.950263] usb 1-1.4: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
[ 16.035635] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6335
[ 16.035639] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 16.035642] usb 1-1.4: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 16.035645] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 16.035647] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 058F011111B1
[ 16.035972] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 16.035990] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
[ 16.036040] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 17.037563] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SD/MMC Card Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 17.283402] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB)
[ 17.285393] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 17.285397] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 17.287392] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.287395] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.289542] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 17.296016] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.296019] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.305532] sdb: sdb1
[ 17.313266] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 17.313269] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.313273] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 652.064876] FAT-fs (sdb1): codepage cp850 not found
[ 657.079374] FAT-fs (sdb1): codepage cp850 not found
a) sdb sdb1 was not listed first time in /tmp/ALLDRIVES0
b) I was having similar problems with mtools not being able to add a label because of not being able to transform somethings from/to codepage 850 which i could not solve for now .
*
I haven't had the need to replug the USB modem a long time, so had been surprised by the yaf message ..configuring. Took quite a time without any progress messages .
*
Selected 1280x1024 but xorg restart by quicksetup did not forced that resolution .
*
LOOKING forward for the new LANG experience in initrd and that the new kernel reboots my dell optilex 745 without the reboot=f kernel parameter .
*
I made an .xpm from the logo picture using mtpaint and added
splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/logo.16.xpm
to grub/menu.lst .
Racy has got 'lss16toppm' and 'ppmtoxpm' installed in the main .sfs so would be a nice addon feature to grubconfig I think .
Despite this, does anyone know something about to compile grub with other keyboards by default ? Had looked into the Caps file in ncurses but found only descriptors for the special keys like F1 or multi-media keys . I am using setkeys but it appears that mapping z to y and y to z leaves me two y and no z keys .
*
Flash dl and installation worked for me .
Seamonkey plays Youtube nicely but i am not able to determine where the 20MB download is cached .
Dl it with my customized you2pup which seems to need a downloder installed in the browser to get the needed strings from the html page including the tags of the downloader in the original code .
mplayer plays the video and music great .
*
Keep on Rolling, Puppy Linux !