I switched to Puppy and now i need help

[Alucard_the_dex]

Hey how do i prevent having to config my ethernet port every boot>?

[Pizzasgood]

Well, I don't know how to configure an ethernet port period, but if you know how to do it from the command line, you can add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is a script that runs after startup. For example, I have mine set up to mount my filesystems and set up my wireless network.

[Alucard_the_dex]

would anoyne mind telling me if this is good mem offa clean fresh pup001 file

# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 70 56 14 80% /
tmpfs 70 56 14 80% /
/dev/hda1 4016 3014 1002 75% /mnt/home
/dev/loop1 248 3 232 1% /root
/dev/loop0 45 45 0 100% /.usr_cram
none 293 49 232 17% /usr
#

[Alucard_the_dex]

i wanna make a blank hard drive for puppy on my other computer now but idk which format i shouldmake it nor how

[rarsa]

/dev/loop1 248 3 232 1% /root

this particular line shows the space in your pup001 file.

you have 248 MB in total from which you have used 3 MB and have 232 MB still available. which means that you are using 1% of the space

I don't know why used + available does not match the Total, I guess that the difference is for the file directory. I haven't been curious enough to investigate.

[Alucard_the_dex]

alright

[rarsa]

i wanna make a blank hard drive for puppy on my other computer now but idk which format i shouldmake it nor how

It all depends how you want to install Puppy.

If you have enough RAM and prefer to run Puppy in RAM, you can do an type 1 installation. Then you can format the HDD as FAT32 or as ext2 before installing puppy.

If you prefer to do a standard HDD installation (Type 2) where you have the directory structure in your HDD, then you just need to create the partition. (I'd recommend to create a swap partition too), The install script will format the partition and install to it.

To create the partitions you can use cfdisk in an rxvt console.

[Alucard_the_dex]

320mb of ram but id prefer running off the HD and I got a 6 gig hard drive that good enough>? (tho i cant figure out how to set the jumper off of slave)

[Alucard_the_dex]

i also got like 3 other hard drives one of which is about a gig and change which i htink i know how to configure

[Alucard_the_dex]

now i got puppy on my other comp and everythignbut now im angry my sound isnt working right for soe reason i have to put the volume knob up all the way which normaly would well ya i got shweet speakers but the knobs upall the way and i can stil lbarely hear why ish this? hardware problem>? or is there like a manual Volume on puppy that i got to put uplike windows IDK im lost

[rarsa]

Did you increase the volume in Puppy throught the Mixer? It's under the multimedia menu.

[Alucard_the_dex]

THANK YOU! XD

[Alucard_the_dex]

how do i uninstall icewm>???????

[MU]

Delete /root/my-applications/bin/ice*

and /root/.icewm/

Mark

[Alucard_the_dex]

Delete /root/my-applications/bin/ice*

and /root/.icewm/

Mark

My trach bin doesnt seem to be working >< it never shows that its full and eventho it says its empty i go look inside it everything still there

[Alucard_the_dex]

nvm

[MU]

If you choose "look inside", the files of the trashcan itself are shown. These must not be deleted.

If you choose "empty the trash", and click it once then, the folder that opens should be empty?

Mark

[Alucard_the_dex]

tanks

[Alucard_the_dex]

K new topic Media My comp freezes when trying to play a CD and i need to knowhow to stream video in firefox without realplayer cuz aparently quicktime isnt made for linux yet

[danleff]

Actually, I just added Quicktime and RealPlayer 8 codecs to my Debian Sarge installation for Mplayer. I wonder how difficult this would be to do in Puppy?

But, keeping in mind that Puppy is designed as a small efficient distro. People keep wanting to make it bigger!