Can't load sfs files on boot

[bdika]

Hi:

I have a frugal install of puppy 301 on hda2 (hd0,1).

I have downloaded devx_301.sfs and openoffice-2.3.0.sfs.

My menu.lst parameters include:

psubdir=puppy301

I have tried placing the sfs files in /mnt/home, in /mnt/home/puppy301 and in / without any success (ie openoffice does not load nor does devx).

This seems to me to be a simple procedure but I am stumped. Am I missing something very obvious here?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Bill Dika

[JustGreg]

You may have to use the boot manager (under the JWM menu System, item Boot Manager configure bootup). It can be used to control the loading of sqs files at boot. I hope this helps you.

[MU]

On my system I must put them in "/" of the partition, that has pup_save.2fs.
Even if the pup_301.sfs is in a subfolder.
You also can try to pass in grub the option
pdev1=hda2

Mark

[bdika]

Thanks for the quick replies Mark and JustGreg.

JustGreg:

I've tried using the boot manager with every alternative that I could think of but without any luck.

Mark:

I put them in "/" of the partition, that has the pup_save.2fs and added the option

pdev1=hda2

to the grub options in menu.lst but it didn't seem to make a difference.

I also downloaded OpenOffice-2.3.1.sfs and checked the md5sum (which was correct, but no luck.

I tried adding _301 to the name of the file, also without any luck.

Thanks again for your replies.

Should I be looking at a script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to manually mount the files on boot?

1. I'm not sure how to do this.
2. It seems like a poor fix for something that should be relatively easy.

Any other ideas would be much appreciated.

I feel like I am missing something obvious.

Bill Dika

[bdika]

Hi:

You can ignore my last post as it just worked after my last post. I used all your suggestions in combination with a new file and it just worked!

Thanks again.

Bill Dika