Fatdog64-710 Final [4 Dec 2016]

[Pelo]

Fatdog 64 kernel 3,18,7 (Gnumeric Abiword) working to day. Really pleased, Xvidcap installed for test. Nothing bad. Everything working (audio recording too)
Seamonkey is enough for me.
VLC 2,1,5
Gnumeric and Abiword for homework, they are more HQ personal tools for remember, not for doing my accounting. The right size and service.
Fotoxx is really a very efficient tool photo editing.
Just some doubt about saving session.. To be verified (only a gnumeric file or test is still here at reboot).

[Pelo]

Session saved , my setting and files available at reboot.. I will test wireless to-morrow (very important, i just bought a battery to keep mobility, outdoor computing with my laptop in my car, with a dongle)
Of course i have enough Puppies available to get happy, it's being curious i try Fatdog, with a negative souvenir in the past. I was wrong. FatDog is Really easy to use.

I am still to be convinced about 64 bits necessity, because my Medion Akoya 64 bits never had the smallest trouble in running 32 bits apps with our tiny Puppy..

# Frugal installed Puppy

title Puppy tahr 6.0.2 (sdb1/puppybang)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /puppybang/initrd.gz
kernel /puppybang/vmlinuz psubdir=puppybang pmedia=usbflash pfix=fsck
initrd /puppybang/initrd.gz

title Puppy precise 5.7.3 (sdb1/MATE573)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /MATE573/initrd.gz
kernel /MATE573/vmlinuz psubdir=MATE573 pmedia=usbflash pfix=fsck
initrd /MATE573/initrd.gz

title Fatdog64 (sdb1/FATDOG)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /FATDOG/initrd
kernel /FATDOG/vmlinuz psubdir=FATDOG pmedia=usbflash pfix=fsck savefile=direct:device:sda3:/FATDOG/fd64save
initrd /FATDOG/initrd

# Windows

[don570]

I found a partial solution to the icons not showing in mypaint appimage.

I noticed that the perspective icon in newest version will show so I
investigated where the perspective icon is located...
/tmp/.mount_MyPainYJvjkc/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions

Most icons in this folder are colored grey ---> However perspective is black.

This is path to the perspective icon...
/tmp/.mount_MyPainYJvjkc/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/mypaint-tool-perspective-symbolic.svg

Here is my method.....
- I ran the mypaint image app

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./MyPaint-1.3.0-git.78e083f.glibc2.15-x86_64.AppImage

It mounts (hidden) in /mnt
and made copy of /tmp/. mount files
to /opt/mypaint-1.3/

- then ran in terminal (or just double click)

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/opt/mypaint-1.3/AppRun

Now I rename the svg files that are causing the trouble
ie I put the .bak extension on the end so the file won't be read.

Result ---> The file not found icon being used (see image)

This works nicely in layer visibility panel.

[art_]

Hi,
I'm very new to fatdog or puppy. I can't seems to mount nfs shares on my network. There is no mount.nfs in the sbin folder and my search of this topic or google didn't produce anything.

Could somebody let me know if mounting nfs shares is possible, if so how?

I just installed 710 version on my laptop's hdd.


Thanks,
art

[chiron²]

NFS is an issue in all puppies so far. You need the nfs-utils that I attached to this post. After converting it to FD710 txz package format and installing this, it usually works, maybe have to tweak some options.

Converting to txz format works straightforward by clicking on it, then FD recognizes old pet format and offers to convert. Then right click on the package and select 'install'. Sorry, got that wrong. Right click on the pet, in the context menu select convert. Left clicking on the pet does nothing.

[art_]

NFS is an issue in all puppies so far. You need the nfs-utils that I attached to this post. After converting it to FD710 txz package format and installing this, it usually works, maybe have to tweak some options..........

Thanks! That worked (almost) great, I got an error about
"rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking"
but an option "nolock" let me mount the share, I'll have to research that, when I have some time... Thanks again!

[chiron²]

Actually, I never got past that. But using nolock in a small LAN, where ever only one client accesses the share at the same time is no risk. On some machines I have to set the version of NFS, on some it just works (with nolock).

[Yoliano]

@SFR

Sorry that I am a bit late in reporting back to you. But I just want to let you know that your second patched version of pmcputemp, which I installed, is very stable and working well. Since my last, previous post, I have been monitoring it's performance daily. In all sessions, the Temperature Icon has remained present in the tray from boot to shutdown. Also, the varying temperatures presented have all been in the range previously seen on this PC. Nor have I seen any pauses in the temp. display. So, everything appears normal. Your second patch has overcome my problem.

I appreciate very much your willingness to give attention to my minor problem and to provide an excellent solution. Thank you very much for your most kind help.

[Gobbi]

It's good to see new kernels posted in the repositories . I got new hardware lately and I liked the improvement I noticed from k-4.10.8 to k-4.12.10 on my iGPu . 3 months ago I installed an i7-7700 in my PC .
2 days ago I also put a new Nvidia graphic card and I wanted to install the proprietary module from Nvidia . I did not find the kernel-source-4.12.10.sfs in the repositories so I turned back to k-4.10.8 . The Nvidia module installed succesesfully .
Is there any chance to have the kernel sources sfs for k-4.12.10 in the repos

[step]

@Gobbi,

md5 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B932f ... DdhLUxwUmM
sfs https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B932f ... 2VzRWktZHc

[Gobbi]

Thank you step for the links
The NVIDIA module installed too with the kernel 4.12.10

[Wognath]

I recently discovered QEMU and have been enjoying it. Thanks to developers for including it in the devx and to jamesbond for the qemu-vm-manager.sh gui.

I have two questions. First, how to access an image assigned to SD Card slot in the gui? I can't find it in the VM. Second, where does the icon fd0 ("fd0 vfat 1M") on VM desktop come from, and what is it for? It can't be mounted or seen by gparted.

Finally, a suggestion: Advanced/Other parameters -drive file=/dev/sdc is useful to get files into the VM. Could this be added to the gui as an option?

EDIT: from QEMU user documentation:

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:
...
- 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- Floppy disk
...

There doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of fd0 or to make any use of it --??

[step]

where does the icon fd0 ("fd0 vfat 1M") on VM desktop come from, and what is it for? It can't be mounted or seen by gparted.

EDIT: from QEMU user documentation:

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:
...
- 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- Floppy disk
...

There doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of fd0 or to make any use of it --??

Give QEMU an image file for sd0 and you'll be able to mount and use it. For instance:

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# dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/imagefile.img
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.00254197 s, 580 MB/s
# mkfs.msdos /tmp/imagefile.img 
mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)

Start QEMU with some ISO file of your liking and boot the distro. While in the distro QEMU GUI press Ctrl+Alt+2 to enter the QEMU console and type

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change floppy0 /tmp/imagefile.img

Press Ctrl+Alt+1 to levae the QEMU console then mount fd0 in the distro desktop, i.e., double-click the fd icon as appropriate. Create an empty file "TEST" in the mounted folder.
Press Ctrl+G to free the cursor from QEMU and type in a Fatdog64 terminal window

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filemnt /tmp/imagefile.img

You should see a rox filer window with file "TEST" in it. Repeat the filemnt command to unmount the floppy drive image file in Fatdog64.

[step]

where does the icon fd0 ("fd0 vfat 1M") on VM desktop come from, and what is it for? It can't be mounted or seen by gparted.

EDIT: from QEMU user documentation:

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:
...
- 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- Floppy disk
...

There doesn't seem to be any way to get rid of fd0 or to make any use of it --??

Give QEMU an image file for sd0 and you'll be able to mount and use it. For instance:

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# dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/imagefile.img
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
1474560 bytes (1.5 MB) copied, 0.00254197 s, 580 MB/s
# mkfs.msdos /tmp/imagefile.img 
mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)

Start QEMU with some ISO file of your liking and boot the distro. While in the distro QEMU GUI press Ctrl+Alt+2 to enter the QEMU console and type

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change floppy0 /tmp/imagefile.img

Press Ctrl+Alt+1 to levae the QEMU console then mount fd0 in the distro desktop, i.e., double-click the fd icon as appropriate. Create an empty file "TEST" in the mounted folder.
Press Ctrl+G to free the cursor from QEMU and type in a Fatdog64 terminal window

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filemnt /tmp/imagefile.img

You should see a rox filer window with file "TEST" in it. Repeat the filemnt command to unmount the floppy drive image file in Fatdog64.

[Wognath]

Sweet!! Thank you, step.

[Gobbi]

... Finally, a suggestion: Advanced/Other parameters -drive file=/dev/sdc is useful to get files into the VM. ...

Using and testing Wognath's suggestion I added to a Qemu VM in Advanced Settings -> Other parameters : -drive file=/tmp/imagefile.img .
I previously created with a script ( one can use the terminal instead ) the /tmp/imagefile.img , using the two lines suggested by step :

# dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/imagefile.img
# mkfs.msdos /tmp/imagefile.img

I only used mkfs.ext4 instead of mkfs,msdos and made it bigger with count=2048000 .
Once I booted an ISO with the Virtual Machine (Racy , Carolina ,TahrPup) there appeared a new drive sda which can be used to pass files by the Guest system .
From the Host , it can be accessed using in terminal the command :

# filemnt /tmp/imagefile.img

Thank you step and Wognath for the tips
It is wise to use this virtual drive one at a time by the Host or the Guest system . Modifing a text file with the virtual drive accesed by both Guest and Host turned that file into a corrupt one ...

[step]

Thank you, Gobbi, for sharing your findings.

Samba is another way to share files between the host and the guest VM. For simplicity, I'm going to assume that host and guest are both Fatdog64-710 systems.

Host

Start control panel, select the System tab, then Manage Server and Services and double-click it. The Service Manager window opens. Scroll down to the samba entry, select it and click the Start button. You've just started the samba file sharing server. By default, it shares folder /root/spot/Downloads. This is controlled in /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you change the shared path you need to restart the samba server from the Service Manager window.

Guest (QEMU)

Start control panel, select the Utilities tab, then YASSM Samba share search and double-click it. The YASSM share searcher window opens. You should see an entry field with qemu@HOSTNAME (your guest PC hostname) in it. You don't want that, not now. Enter "shares@HOSTNAME" (without quotes) instead and click Select. A login window opens. Enter "root" for Username, delete the Password, blank it out, enter "shares" for Share and "HOSTNAME" for Server, click Mount. A network share folder should open in rox. It should be the guest's Download folder.

QEMU can also do the sharing all by itself, with no need to run samba on the host. So, skip the steps for the Host above, and repeat the steps for the Guest. When you get to the part where you enter the Share, enter "qemu@10.0.2.4" and continue as before. A rox window on the host's /root folder should open.

When you're done don't forget to click Unmount in the YASSM windows.

[slackfan]

Hi

I did look at this page http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 845#801845 and mis some of my usual app's.

what would you recommend to do in such case?

[step]

I would recommend in order:
1. Read the entire thread you linked looking for such packages
2. If not found and if you have the skills compile the package yourself - ask questions if you get stuck
3. If you don't have the skills, post a request if someone would kindly compile the package for you.

Another option is AppImages (search the forum). More and more applications can be downloaded as AppImages from their websites, and they may work in Fatdog64.

Also, Smokey01's Puppy Newletter (search the forum) has a section on compiling programs. It's explained in very simple terms and may be a starting point.

[chiron²]

I fixed a small issue in the scanner-share script which prevented it from running in my FD 710. The script did not detect the ip adress, and thus would not find the sane server. Adapted one line in the script and now it works. Rename attachment to .txz for FD 710. Actually, should work in all other puppies, too. As long as sane is included.

EDIT: The script lets you share a scanner that is attached to your computer over the network, and gives access to a shared scanner. It uses the sane backend to do so. Very practical if you have an ancient SCSI scanner, and want to use it with a laptop. Script works in 64bit and 32bit alike.