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Mike7
 Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391 |
Hi, All. Don't know if this is the right forum, my apologies if not. Query: What partition types can be used for .pet downloads? I'm running Carolite-1.2 from a 16G flash drive partitioned:
I've been keeping all my own files in sdb2 (vfat) in order to keep down the save file size and make saves quick. I've also been downloading .pets, ISOs, and tar.xz files to a directory in sdb2 (vfat). Is that okay, or do these files have to be downloaded to, as well as run from, an ext partition? Thanks. Miike _________________ Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD. |
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6781 Location: Auckland, New Zealand |
Download them wherever you like, but don't extract them there as FAT amd NTFS don't support symlinks. Also, if you have problems after downloading to a path with a space in it you have found a bug which you should report. _________________ If you have or know of a good gtkdialog application, please post a link here Classic Puppy quotes ROOT FOREVER |
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Mike7
Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391 |
Hi, disciple. Thanks for your help with this question. I will do as you suggest: download them to the sdb2/vfat partition, then copy them over to sdb1/ext2 when I want to extract and/or execute them. (That's what you are advising, right?) I have never yet seen this bug of the path with a space in it, but will report it if I do. M. _________________ Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD. |
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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 10318 Location: Charleston S.C. USA |
From any location, You can left click on a pet package to install it. All the pet installer does is read the package data and installs it into Puppy. All the operations of installing the pet package are done inside the running Puppy, which is an active Linux file system. Hope you understand you are doing this from a Running Puppy. _________________ I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected  |
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Mike7
Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391 |
I'm still a little unclear about this. Are you saying that I can download a .pet to a vfat partition and run it from there, to install it into the pup that's running from the booted ext partition (rather than putting it into the ext partition and installing it from there)? Sorry of I'm being difficult. I think I understand the logic of what you're saying (that as long as the .pet is installed by and into the same running system, it should work). It just seems a little strange that it can be read correctly from a vfat partition. Plus what you say doesn't jibe with what disciple wrote. M. _________________ Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD. |
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musher0
 Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 12095 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello, Mike7. There's no contradiction: to extract a file is not the same as to run or execute a file. You can extract a Linux package on a windows or dos partition. Problem is... important symlinks, if there are any, will be lost if you extract the Puppy package (or any Linux package) there. On the other hand, when you run a *.pet package stored from a windows or dos partition, it is immediately "gobbled up" by your running Puppy in the Puppy's RAM, it's not stored on any disk. A *.pet package is like a *.zip archive. It can be stored anywhere, you can list the contents, any inactive process is ok. But to run it, you have to run it from a Puppy. The same is true in reverse: you can store a Windows *.zip package anywhere on your Puppy, but you won't be able to run it. You can unpack it, but if it has windows-type links in it, they will be lost too. Linux and WhineDose both have a link function, but they implement it differently: links from one system are incompatible on the other. I hope this gets you un-stuck? 
BFN. musher0 _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "Logical entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." | | « Il ne faut pas multiplier les entités logiques sans nécessité. » (Ockham) |
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Mike7
Joined: 18 Feb 2013 Posts: 391 |
Okay, I guess that's why it doesn't matter where it's being run from. As long as it's being "run", it's being run in Puppy. M. _________________ Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD. |
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