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wiak · #406 Post by **wiak** » Thu 02 Aug 2018, 10:14

Re-uploaded wiagit version 0.0.2 since I had made a minor mistake... oops

Hope you are not the person who downloaded previous 0.0.2 Fred - best to wait a day maybe before committing to repos (just in case...)...

wiak

ITSMERSH · #407 Post by **ITSMERSH** » Thu 02 Aug 2018, 12:36

fredx181 wrote:
ITSMERSH wrote: I made some testings on the 64bit kernel..
Typo? I thought you used 32-bit.

Yes, typo.

I wrote this after doing a post in Music2Go topic about testing the 64bit rt kernel Smithy created (at least it says x86_64 at boot).

wiak · #408 Post by **wiak** » Sun 05 Aug 2018, 01:07

deb package for wiagit 0.0.3 uploaded (includes wiagit-mini: wiagitm).

Changelog here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 41#1001241

I would be grateful if you could check if the Git_icon appears in the Dog Start->Development menu and on the wiagit application gui.

EDIT: Note that tcl/tk is installed as dependencies for gitk visualiser. The main wiagit/wiagitm programs don't themselves need that, so if you don't want tcl/tk included just remove gitk as a dependency (only the otherwise optional gitk visualiser button wouldn't do anything then of course).

wiak

fredx181 · #409 Post by **fredx181** » Sun 05 Aug 2018, 11:47

Hi wiak, thanks, added wiagit 0.0.3 to repos.
The icon appears in the menu and also at the gui (top left)

Fred

wiak · #410 Post by **wiak** » Sun 12 Aug 2018, 09:43

New gtkwialog version 0.8.6 debs and details of changes here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 37#1001837

Didn't effect any apps I've tested previously, but as above link details document, FatDog's findnrun app had a problem with junk appearing in its initial input entry box (I discovered that it was caused by findnrun using uninitialised startup variable resulting in echo of empty string - legacy gtkdialog ignored empty strings for input, gtkwialog didn't but I added if statement so that it does now).

wiak

wiak · #411 Post by **wiak** » Tue 14 Aug 2018, 03:05

Sorry Fred, I was on a roll. Debs for even newer version 0.8.7 gtkwialog already released:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 98#1001998

wiak

fredx181 · #412 Post by **fredx181** » Tue 14 Aug 2018, 06:03

wiak wrote:Sorry Fred, I was on a roll. Debs for even newer version 0.8.7 gtkwialog already released:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 98#1001998

wiak

OK wiak (you are very productive these days:)), I'll add to repos soon.

Fred

ETP · #413 Post by **ETP** » Mon 20 Aug 2018, 08:17

Hi Fred,

A touch of Cinnamon spice Sir ?

https://goo.gl/aT4W3Y
.

ally · #414 Post by **ally** » Mon 20 Aug 2018, 11:47

I like the lock state sound

Moat · #415 Post by **Moat** » Mon 20 Aug 2018, 13:39

ETP wrote:A touch of Cinnamon spice Sir ?

Gorgeous!!

Any plans to offer this remaster up to us poor, drooling, panting masses?

Although fairly "heavy", Cinnamon is a wonderful, full-featured and solid desktop.

Bob

fredx181 · #416 Post by **fredx181** » Mon 20 Aug 2018, 18:31

ETP wrote:Hi Fred,

A touch of Cinnamon spice Sir ?

https://goo.gl/aT4W3Y
.

WoW !! Pure Art, great work ETP !
Almost couldn't believe this in based on my little "doggie"

Very nice demo also, btw.

Moat wrote:Any plans to offer this remaster up to us poor, drooling, panting masses?

+1 , would be nice if you share ISO, maybe as project with your own custom name or share here and I can put a link on first page.
Is it done with all changes in save storage or did you do a remaster ?

Fred

fredx181 · #417 Post by **fredx181** » Mon 20 Aug 2018, 19:56

Hi d_vineet,

Continuing from Xenialdog64 thread here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 15#1002515

Here's for testing, package SNS -simple network setup- by BarryK for BionicDog 64-bit
As the program is made specifically for Puppy, some options won't work, e.g. checkbox for starting firewall after successful connection doesn't apply.
Install from right-click menu of Pcmanfm > "Install deb"
The network_tray icon will show after restarting X.
I'd recommend to reboot after install (with changes saved), but for me it worked by running "Simple network setup" from Menu > Network (but sometimes needed to try two times until it connected from my tests).

To make things work properly, I modified some scripts, e.g. replaced "ifconfig" by "busybox ifconfig", because these scripts expect that ifconfig is a symlink to busybox (as it probably is on most Puppies).

Hopefully it works for you, indeed SNS is a nice program.
Works OK for me, except sometimes delay at shutdown (systemd message stopping service, taking more than a minute).

Fred

d_vineet · #418 Post by **d_vineet** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 04:59

Hi fredx181,
Simply great work. Thanks.
Tested in BionicDog 64bit.
Everything works correctly as you said.
(I needed to rename "sns_2.2.3_amd64.deb.gz" to "sns_2.2.3_amd64.deb").
Otherwise no install option (of course) by right clk from PCManFM.
Xarchiver also didn't recognize it.
After renaming, everything worked as you said (by right clk).
Restarting X brought up tray icon.
wlan0 connected after 2 attempts.

Problem solved.
Thanks again for your valuable time & effort.
In fact, the support I received for puppy & dog s/w (in spite of being free & open source) is even better that that for other licensed s/w).

d_vineet · #419 Post by **d_vineet** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 14:15

Hi !
I had Win8 installed.
Already I had a separate logical partition (/ext4) for Bionic Dog 64bit.
Booted from USB stick (option selected was no save, only RAM).
Using BionicDog Installer, tried to frugal install.
Steps taken--
Selected .iso file (from /sda5 partition which ntfs).
Selected partition /sda6, (which is /ext4).
Clicked 'install'.
Chosen 'grub4dos'.
Installation successful.
Now, when rebooted, only Dog entries are there in bootloader, and not Win8 entry.

Tried boot-repair utility.
error msg--
FSCK detected. Please use Boot-Repair-Disk-64bit (www.sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd) which contains a FSCK-compatible version of this software. This will enable this feature.
Second retry-- Msg says repaired successfully. Now you can rebbot the computer.
But no Win8 entry in bootloader.

Maybe I have done something stupid but don't know what

Pl. help me fixing the MBR.
Thanks.

fredx181 · #420 Post by **fredx181** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:02

d_vineet wrote:Now, when rebooted, only Dog entries are there in bootloader, and not Win8 entry.

Ooops... yes the installer doesn't support dual boot with windows.
Although it's possible to add entry for Windows in grub4dos menu.lst.
(tell me if you want that, and I can help (or someone else)
My entry for Windows 10 is:

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title Load BOOTMGR of Windows 10
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /bootmgr

Not sure if it's the same for Windows 8, I think it is.

If you want to restore the previous (windows) bootloader this may work:
At the end of the bootloader install from Bionicdog installer you may have seen message (see screenshot below)
In my case it was installing to sda2, for you sda6, so if sda6 is mounted for you as /mnt/sda6:

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cat /mnt/sda6/sda.63s > /dev/sda

Hopefully that will restore, check first if you have a file "sda.63s" on sda6.

Fred

d_vineet · #421 Post by **d_vineet** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:13

@fredx181,
Yes. There is a file sda.63s and I had seen a msg as you said.
Restoring the Win8 bootloader would take me back to the 'win only' area (not desired).
So pl. help me adding entry for Windows in grub4dos menu.lst.
Thanks.

fredx181 · #422 Post by **fredx181** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:36

Hi d_vineet

So pl. help me adding entry for Windows in grub4dos menu.lst.

Ok, find the file "menu.lst" probably it's on sda1 and edit it by opening with leafpad or geany.
Add above the other entries (if you want as first, default) the Windows entry, so becomes something like this:

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title Load BOOTMGR of Windows 8
root (hd0,0)
chainloader /bootmgr

title BionicDog - porteus-boot Always Fresh
 uuid <UUID>
 kernel /casper/vmlinuz from=/ nomagic base_only norootcopy
 initrd /casper/initrd1.xz
 
title BionicDog - porteus-boot in RAM (no save)
 uuid <UUID>
 kernel /casper/vmlinuz from=/ copy2ram
 initrd /casper/initrd1.xz

.....
.....

And save the file.
Again, not sure if it works for you, but nothing to lose by trying, for me it worked for earlier Windows 7 and now also for Windows 10.
EDIT: Above Win entry assumes that Windows is on sda1.

Fred

d_vineet · #423 Post by **d_vineet** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:49

Win8 is on sda2.
sda1 is 'system reserved'.
Which option should I change then? maybe like this --
root (hd0,1) .....assuming the index is zero based.
(the file is named lickmenu.lst because I had used lick bootloader for xenialpup. But it has been uninstalled before BionicDog installation by using its own 'uninstall lick'). Still the name of file is lickmenu.lst

fredx181 · #424 Post by **fredx181** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:54

d_vineet wrote:root (hd0,1)

Yes, that should be it then if on sda2.
EDIT:

(the file is named lickmenu.lst because I had used lick bootloader for xenialpup. But it has been uninstalled before BionicDog installation by using its own 'uninstall lick'). Still the name of file is lickmenu.lst

I don't know about lick installer, the file to edit is "menu.lst" as created by Bionicdog installer.

Fred

d_vineet · #425 Post by **d_vineet** » Tue 21 Aug 2018, 15:58

rebooted after making change in file.
But still no option of Win8 is listed.

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