Hi, Rolf. Thank you very much for your help with this stuff.
You wrote:
Pendrives and sd cards are much slower than HDs and live time will decrease with many write cycles.
That's interesting. I didn't know that pendrives are slower than HDs. Maybe that explains why a few Puppeee programs, like editors, are running slower than I expected.
What exactly does "live"mean? I've seen that word used a lot in connection with Linux distros and never understood it.
allways have a backup of your save file
I've seen that, but I couldn't figure out where to put the backup. Another folder or a different partition on the same pendrive, or a different drive altogether?
By the way, since Puppeee seems able to read all the files on my hard drive regardless of their format, I assume it can read any file on any filesystem, right?
Yes, but not in Puppeee (shouldn't make any difference).
I'll try that, then. I did go into the Drive Icon Manager and change the interval to 120, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Maybe putting a zero there instead will. If not, I guess I'll have to modify /usr/sbin/eventmanager, although I have no experience of changing configuration files and it looks scary. Would I do it using Geenie or the terminal?
Re Isobooter, I plan to try it again as soon as I have the time. Now that I discovered that for some boot loaders I need to press Escape instead of F2, maybe I can get it to work. (My current Puppeee loads without having to do anything at power on, as the BIOS is set to load from "Removable Media" and that's enough for it. The installations I made with Isobooter wouldn't do that.)
I found your description of installing a new Puppy very helpful. A few questions about it:
I build a new folder on the pen drive with the name of the desired Puppy, e.g. slacko-5.4
Would that be a folder in an ext3 partition that you created especially for that installation using Gparted?
I mount the ISO by left click on it. I copy the content of the ISO to this folder
It isn't necessary to use Isomaster to extract the files?
Then I run Grub4Dos config, installing Grub4Dos to the pen drive and it shall only search the pen drive.
I'm not clear on this. Do you copy grb4dos into the folder where the iso is before running it, or run it from whatever folder it's stored in (root, for example)? Or do you run it from the terminal? (My Puppeee 4.4 didn't come with grub4dos, but rcrsn51 gave me a download address for it and I put it in the "Downloads" subfolder of /root. Will it run in the terminal from there, or is there a special place it needs to be in order to run as a terminal command?)
the boot menu of Grub4Dos. Here I can select the fresh installed Puppy (or others, if installed).
Grub4dos gives a boot menu of all the iso's in the folder, is that right? I take it, then, that it composes the menu from them, so they need to be in that folder before you run grub4dos on it?
This question of where to put the various iso's is confusing. If they're all in the same folder, then you only need one copy of grub4dos, right? If they're in separate folders or separate partitions, you need grub4dos in each folder, and the same for separate partitions, right?
But if there are various copies of grub4dos on a pendrive, how does the BIOS know which one to boot from? If the BIOS selects the first one it finds (the one in the first folder or partition), then how can you boot iso's in another folder or partition?
Installing more Puppies is the same. Copy the content of the ISO (or at least the important files) to a new folder and rerun Grub4Dos config or add a new entry in the menu.lst manually.
Does this work if menu.list is in a different folder (the folder where the first iso was put)?
I'm going to give Isobooter another try, and if I still can't get it to work for me I'd like to try your method. That's why these details are important to me.
Thanks again for your help.
Cheers!
Mike