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RetroTechGuy

Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2852 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri 13 Feb 2015, 11:11 Post subject:
Re: Downloaded devx_tahr_6.0.2.sfs, how to proceed with sfs-file Subject description: Should I use some other version than Quirky Unicorn 6.2 ? |
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fossiili wrote: | Thank you both for the information given. But I have two basic questions before I can proceed:
1. I have used an iso-file when installing Linux-distributions. Ones an other type of file to get a usb-flash installation. What shall I do with sfs-files |
SFS files go with the rest of the boot files. If they are additional, you will need to add them (I'm assuming that you are doing a frugal install). Bootmanager will let you add and remove SFS toolboxes,
Since my eee didn't have a CD drive, I plugged my SD card into a SD/USB adapter, and installed on a different machine, then plugged it in.
I have also done the install using an internal CD drive, plugged into a ISE/USB adapter (plug the DC drive into the USB and boot from that drive). I have one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119152&
On my 900eee, you can only boot from the right side USB, and I have also used a bootable USB thumb drive, and then installed onto the SD card.
Quote: | 2. Or would you recommend me to use some other version of Puppy than "Barry's Quirky Unicorn 6.2"
If I find any modern Pyppy version I can handle, I prepare a Puppy cd. I have a separate movable cd/dvd-drive (burner) which I can easily connect to my EeePC and proceed to install Puppy on "hard disk", in this case to a sd-card ready in the slot of the EeePC.
So, some kind of answer to my questions 1. or 2. or any opinion or hint, but no video's please, I have a slow line and can not follow the English spoken in them  |
There is another discussion of the 701eee here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97380
I have a 900eee (1GB RAM), and have run 5.28 on it, loading from the SD card in the side... And on low memory machines, have run LupuMini (333MHz, 256MB RAM). It looks like you have 2GB RAM, which is plenty.
Current 5.28 family:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461
My newer machines are being upgraded to LupuSuper1.
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fossiili

Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Oulu, Finnland
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Posted: Sun 15 Feb 2015, 08:50 Post subject:
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Now I understand more than when starting to use Puppy again. I found an iso-file for Puppy 6.2.1.91 it's Quirky Release by Barry.
I used the cd starting one of the newest of my computers. That Puppy works well, but:
- I think I have read that Quirky needs a x86_64 processor what my old Eee701 do not have
- I could not find any method to install Quirky permanently for ex. on hard disk, it probably is possible, but not for me
But Puppy Tahr 6.0.2. PAE or nonPAE versions seems to be easier for me to use. I am now running it and writing this text. And the best thing is that I have found from this living Puppy from Install-icon the method to install Puppy to some media. That was lacking from the version Quirky, for reason I do not understand
So I think I can proceed now
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tigersong

Joined: 24 Jun 2015 Posts: 132
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Posted: Wed 08 Jul 2015, 16:56 Post subject:
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Almost done following the Lin'n'Win instructions. Too bad there's not much chance of more Puppies being added.
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mikeslr

Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 2346 Location: 500 seconds from Sol
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Posted: Wed 22 Jul 2015, 19:48 Post subject:
Note to Moderators & rcrsn51 |
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This thread is a sticky, among the first posts intended to help beginners.
rcrsn51 started it 7 years ago, long before Windows boxes were sold with Windows 7 installed, before Windows boxes came with Windows 8.1's travesty called "secure boot", before shinobar posted his How to "Keep your savefile slim and healthy" and before jpep's posted his How to "Remove automatic pupsave for frugal installs."
The thread still contains valuable information. But now Beginners may have to read through 11 pages of posts, and probably read thru the threads resulting from shinobar's and jpep's posts. And, frankly, many will also need to be aware of the instructions Barry K provided regarding "secure boot".
Isn't it time for the thread to be edited?
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mikeslr

Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 2346 Location: 500 seconds from Sol
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Posted: Mon 03 Aug 2015, 15:49 Post subject:
Windows 8/8.1 Prequel to Installing Puppy |
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Hi All,
If your computer came with Windows 8 or 8.1, before it will recognize Puppy Linux as a bootable OS you'll have to take some steps to prepare it.
Barry Kauler discusses what you have to do to boot Quirky. Except for the last part of the post, which deals specifically with using Quirky's installer, everything he wrote pertains to booting any Pup. http://bkhome.org/quirky/uefi.htm.
For an alternate How To with Pictures, follow the links on this post.[url] http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=858159#858159[/url]
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Pelo
Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Posts: 12591 Location: Mer méditerrannée (1 kms°)
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Posted: Tue 01 Mar 2016, 21:09 Post subject:
Puppy maker provides his tutorial (non english versions) |
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What i can say here, is that more and more each (professionnal) Puppy maker provides his tutorial
France :
Triton 5.7.3
Toutou 4.3.1 and 436 (developers are not wireless connected, so information about connection is... poor, poor is the word, but you can ask for help inf the francophone section of this forum.
Slaxen : a try to do a successful Toutou based on Slacko 5.9.3 : Tuto is included in the Slaxen, written with notecase.
Spane : they are the best, really. Not only Tutorials are fully documented and updated, but they are so nice. It would be worth to British Puppies to translate them.They have their own forum and several Facebook sites, and many videos for help on You Tube.
Italian : Not so pro as spanish, but they exist.
Tutorial Pupjibaro You Tube, easy to understand by our Puppy Lovers from South America, even by french and italian citizen. Spoken explanations fit the numerous screens describing step by step installation.
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peterw
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu 09 Jun 2016, 17:45 Post subject:
Installing Puppy Subject description: No grub |
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Hi kylerickards
Slacko Puppy is a very good distro using Slackware files and not Ubuntu ones. I think you need to give us a bit more information if we are to help you. Hardware information and more details on the steps you have taken so far. I am guessing that you are trying to do a full or frugal install to the wiped hard drive? I suspect that you have been able to boot Slacko and used the installation process? When you have done this you need to install a boot loader. I like to use grub4dos since it works for both full install and frugal installs: it is in the menu near gparted if that is what you used to format the hard drive. grug4dos is easy to use and for a first use just go with the default values.
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kylerickards
Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 14
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Posted: Thu 09 Jun 2016, 18:31 Post subject:
Re: Installing Puppy Subject description: No grub |
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peterw wrote: | Hi kylerickards
Slacko Puppy is a very good distro using Slackware files and not Ubuntu ones. I think you need to give us a bit more information if we are to help you. Hardware information and more details on the steps you have taken so far. I am guessing that you are trying to do a full or frugal install to the wiped hard drive? I suspect that you have been able to boot Slacko and used the installation process? When you have done this you need to install a boot loader. I like to use grub4dos since it works for both full install and frugal installs: it is in the menu near gparted if that is what you used to format the hard drive. grug4dos is easy to use and for a first use just go with the default values.
peterw |
Thanks Peter. I have now got TahrPup on but I cannot get the wifi driver working
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peterw
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2016, 02:23 Post subject:
wifi on Tahr Subject description: connecting with wifi |
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Hi kylerickards
Just to make things clear, you are using an Ubuntu compatible distro with Tahr. I say this because in an earlier post you mentioned Slacko. I have an installation of Tahr64 and will use that as my reference although most Puppy's will be similar. There are various network managers used by different versions of Puppy.
Take the following steps:
1. Go Menu/Setup/Internet Connection Wizard
and up will pop a gui. On the "Connect to Internet by" box select "Wired or wireless LAN" and up will pop another gui giving you 3 options for a network manager: "Simple Network Setup", "Frisbee" and "Network Wizard".
2. You can go with any of these and follow your nose. Explore which ones works for you. Network Wizard is the oldest of the three and if you use that you have to take a few extra steps to get a connection, involving scanning for wifi ssid and selecting which type of security it is and saving details, etc.
3. However, if you are still having problems, we need to see what wifi card you have in your laptop and know that it is recognised by Tahr so go with "Network Wizard" and up will pop another gui listing the network interfaces Tahr knows about. Take a note of the wireless interface devices and descriptions and tell what they are. Also tell us what type of security you are using WPA2?
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kylerickards
Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 14
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2016, 12:11 Post subject:
Re: wifi on Tahr Subject description: connecting with wifi |
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peterw wrote: | Hi kylerickards
Just to make things clear, you are using an Ubuntu compatible distro with Tahr. I say this because in an earlier post you mentioned Slacko. I have an installation of Tahr64 and will use that as my reference although most Puppy's will be similar. There are various network managers used by different versions of Puppy.
Take the following steps:
1. Go Menu/Setup/Internet Connection Wizard
and up will pop a gui. On the "Connect to Internet by" box select "Wired or wireless LAN" and up will pop another gui giving you 3 options for a network manager: "Simple Network Setup", "Frisbee" and "Network Wizard".
2. You can go with any of these and follow your nose. Explore which ones works for you. Network Wizard is the oldest of the three and if you use that you have to take a few extra steps to get a connection, involving scanning for wifi ssid and selecting which type of security it is and saving details, etc.
3. However, if you are still having problems, we need to see what wifi card you have in your laptop and know that it is recognised by Tahr so go with "Network Wizard" and up will pop another gui listing the network interfaces Tahr knows about. Take a note of the wireless interface devices and descriptions and tell what they are. Also tell us what type of security you are using WPA2?
peterw |
Thanks Peter.
I can't see wlan listed on any version of Puppy now, just the eth0 connection? I am using WPA2...
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peterw
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2016, 13:58 Post subject:
wlan missing Subject description: wifi connection |
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Hi kylerickards
If no wlan (or it might be another acronym) is not showing up then we first of all need to establish that you have a wireless card.
1. In a terminal type "lspci" without the quotes. You will get about 15 lines of text. If you can do a screenshot and post it. We are looking for a line with network controller in it and we need to know the details of the device it has detected if any.
2. In a terminal type "ifconfig -a" without the quotes. Do you see a line indicating a wireless device?
3. What is the make and model of your laptop?
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kylerickards
Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 14
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2016, 06:57 Post subject:
Re: wlan missing Subject description: wifi connection |
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peterw wrote: | Hi kylerickards
If no wlan (or it might be another acronym) is not showing up then we first of all need to establish that you have a wireless card.
1. In a terminal type "lspci" without the quotes. You will get about 15 lines of text. If you can do a screenshot and post it. We are looking for a line with network controller in it and we need to know the details of the device it has detected if any.
2. In a terminal type "ifconfig -a" without the quotes. Do you see a line indicating a wireless device?
3. What is the make and model of your laptop?
peterw |
Hi
Strangely I started up with an old Puppy disk and it detected the wireless and said it was using the R8180 driver?
However, booting with my PuppyTahr live cd, it says, after lspce, (I can't screen grab the entire text):
Network Controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8187SE Wireless LAN Controller (rev 22)
After ifconfig -a, I can only see
eth0 and local loopback
So I'm not sure what to do next
My laptop is an old Advent and I can't find the exact model number? It's a netbook.
Thanks for looking at this for me.
Kyle
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peterw
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2016, 13:30 Post subject:
driver for wifi Subject description: missing driver |
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Hi kylerickards
You have an old Advent from PC world. As it so happens I have an old one that I bought for spares of e-bay years ago. I repaired it and have used it for years with Puppy and my only copy of Vista. At the moment it is bits since one of their weaknesses is the hinges which goes stiff and break. This has happened to me. Mine is an Advent 5431. The wifi card is RTL8187SE and I suspect that yours is as well. Interestingly, this number refers to a usb dongle but never mind.
I am not sure why Tahr is not recognising your wifi card, but try this.
1. Menu/Setup/Internet Connection Wizard/Wired or wireless LAN/Network Wizard/Load Module/
2. Scroll down to rtl8180 and Load it.
3. Tahr will then attempt to load a driver for your card and if it succeeds you should be good to go.
NB. I can't remember the details of what comes next and I can't check it until I put my old Advent back together again. At the moment I am waiting for some araldite to harden and then maybe I can put it back together again in a usable state.
Let us know what happens.
peterw
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kylerickards
Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 14
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2016, 13:34 Post subject:
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Hi Peterw
Thanks for the help - I have loaded that module a couple of times and no joy, I will try again.
Interestingly, I have made it dual boot with Mint and Puppy, and the wireless works fine on Mint. I'm not sure why either version of Puppy won't see it...
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peterw
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 294 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2016, 13:51 Post subject:
missing driver for wifi in Tahr Subject description: 8180 |
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Hi kylerickards
For your information there is a web site that helps you identify your laptop. And it might also declare it in the bios data.
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/advidx.htm
Of course you will have to explore it to identify your precise machine but from a quick look they all have the same wifi pci card.
You might like to try loading the rtl8287 driver and the others roundabout it. Until I have reassembled mine then I can't try anything.
rcrsn51 owns this topic and he might pick up on this and offer more advice. His knowledge and abilities are much better than mine.
peterw
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