I have no problem mounting my 7+ partitions.Colonel Panic wrote:I've found that most of the 4 series pups I've tried have a *problem picking up my partitions over and above about hda5; they simply don't get recognised and hence can't be mounted.
http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4
One very important thing to keep in mind is that there is NOT Ext4 GRUB support. Well, that wasn't exactly true: There is grub support, but it's not very spread in the currently available distros. There's ext4 support in the GRUB2 development branch, but since GRUB2 is not stable, most of distros are using the 0.9x versions.
There are available grub2 packages in Ubuntu and debian-derived distros as the grub-pc package. In the 0.9x branch, there's not official support, but there's a Google SoC project that developed support for it, and Google finds patches. So choose yourself. The next release of distros based in Linux 2.6.28 will probably have support in one way or another. The safe option is to keep your /boot directory in a partition formatted with Ext3.
Your information about the stability of Grub on an ext4 partition is outdated. I don't know about Puppy's grub, but I boot Pups daily without problems from a Kubuntu /boot/grub/menu.lst located on an ext4 partition. The pups are frugal installs located on ext3 partitions. I haven't tried them on a pup generated ext4 partition.edoc wrote:How will Puppy 4.3 handle Grub with Ext4, please?
Thanks for replying. I think the problem is that Puppy (4, at least) is very sensitive to errors in any of the partitions, and if it finds any won't recognise the hard drive at all (I confirmed this by checking the drive with GParted).Jim1911 wrote:Barry,
Your guess_fs-20090512.pet corrected the mounting problem with ext4 partitions on this pre-beta.I have no problem mounting my 7+ partitions.Colonel Panic wrote:I've found that most of the 4 series pups I've tried have a *problem picking up my partitions over and above about hda5; they simply don't get recognised and hence can't be mounted.
Jim
Thanks but when I boot 4.2 (I'm trying out ttuuxxx's 2.14X7 at the moment), I use a CD-R to boot from. If I type in pfix=fsck at the boot prompt instead of, say, pfix=ram, will Puppy still pick up my save file?edoc wrote:I was told to add "pfix=fsck" to the boot line in GRUB because I was having similar problems.
It slows the boot time but eliminates the hassle.
I gather from the description of Ext4 that this may no longer be necessary.
the defaulttexteditor script seems to be a blank file now (which is oki as I generally like to choose editor by intent and Zedit opens when I don't care) .. pictureviewer, meh (imo) .. 'aftermarket/unofficial' jwm2-enhancements work well .. wm-compatibility the same as P417 (AfterStep, Blackbox, Openbox and Jwm-beta) .. htop still needs start from console (just a flicker on menu/wbar launch) but urxvt options display as expected on the upgrade. not hardly any room for a savefile if that happened, eh?) a severely truncated (8192k) ppa-422.sfs was actually made (one would imagine a sanity check or something would have made that a non-issue, but stuff happens) ... so, possibly zip100 is not a good media choice for this pup (np, just not as expected having the unasked-for truncated copy messing with). Booted fine after I figured the issue out on the multisession-upgrade and copied the full sfs and 2fs to a thumbdrive. Htop starts fine from menu or wbar .. some oddnesses with urxvt and the -tr, shade and fade options (starts fully -tr including window decor with just -fg visible, rollup/down the window and it shifts the bg to I think the jwm active border color).
.. yah, it's a balance, but the menu looks better (if there's a lot of stuff in the 2nd tier, 16 still gives visual cues in compact form) .. pcd works fine, freememapp lifts off when jwm reloaded, pmount works but still? seems to have some issues with tabnames in that mode (mixed up optical/floppy/usb?) and the annoying yaf 2-step for driveicon-Roxwindow after the 1st easy .. plus it fails to eject CD on reboot/poweroff 
so the system-halt instead of full-down poweroff is actually a good thing , then thumb
Did you install dbus and dbusglib ? first and then Firefox?dejan555 wrote:Hi, first time trying this prebeta, not much to report, but I tried installing firefox 3.5 pet and when I wanted to execute it it froze whole system, I couldn't catch output, all i could do is ctrl alt backspace and it didn't even drop me to shell, screen blackened out and only thing i could do is hard reboot. Don't know if this happend to anyone, didn't follow thread, sorry!
I'm npt using 4.3 right now, too busy on 2.14X&Dpup01micko wrote:hi ttuuxxx
I tried with dbus and dbusglib to runfirefox-3.5 but no go.
I have the source for firefox 3.5.2 so will try a complile in 4.3beta1. See what happens
Cheers
buttt I figured that one out 4 months back,lol slow learner, lol (the source is 45 meg.. but you can compile seamonkey, thunderbird, xulrunner, firefox) . Certainly a learning curve involved, I hope i got my ".mozconfig" file right! 
) ) ... saved pupsave ... (:P ... yes razbrilla!).. why? I have no idea. 
