MediaPup

[battleshooter]

Not sure what to say but MediaPup is fantastic!

Glad to hear it.
Is that recommendation available as a video on youtube?

Shucks, no thanks Lobster, my voice isn't quite as soothing as yours or melodic as Headfound. I think I'd rather think about other ways of promoting it

[Lobster]

no thanks Lobster, my voice isn't quite as soothing as yours or melodic as Headfound.

If you ever change your mind
http://cepstral.com/demos/

[battleshooter]

no thanks Lobster, my voice isn't quite as soothing as yours or melodic as Headfound.

If you ever change your mind
http://cepstral.com/demos/

*Grin* Not a bad idea Lobster. I'll keep it in mind However, it unfortunately didn't get on well with my browser and Firefox crashed everytime I tried it.

[vtpup]

Sorry I didn't thank you -- I've been away for a month. Thanks kindly!

[battleshooter]

You're very welcomed Thanks for making it.

Bringing me back down to earth from my rapturous praise, , I've come across a queer bug. All the programs you've installed into 4.12r detect the DVD drive with no problems. However, all the preinstalled multimedia programs that come with Puppy 4.12 eg. Pburn, can't correctly detect my drive, I'm not sure what's causing it.

K3B, detects the drive as scd0, and the drive works as that. Pburn, detects the drive as sr0, and the drive doesn't work.

It's not really life or death to me as I use K3B for just about everything (I think I prefer it to Pburn anyway), but I thought I'd just mention it.

Battleshooter

[drongo]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index. ... 9ad326fb08

[battleshooter]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index. ... 9ad326fb08

Not sure Drongo, the link only leads to the Puppy Derivatives forum.

Thanks for the interest anyway,
Battleshooter

[colabear]

Hello I'm having a problem booting the MediaPup CD.

I've double checked md2sum on multiple CDs of multiple downloads. Was able to install Puppy Linux 4.12 and 4.2 on the same machine, but MediaPup will not load.

I get the same error:

Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA.

[drongo]

Battleshooter,

Sorry, I was in a hurry, hope this works better.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41271

If not look for "fatdog 112 can't read dvd" or recent postings by jamesbond (funny, I always thought Q was the technical wizz)

drongo

[battleshooter]

Brilliant Drongo! Thanks so much! It works great. I'm glad it was such an easy fix. I made a script out of it and stuck it on the desktop. It's just kind of odd pmount didn't get it.

If not look for "fatdog 112 can't read dvd" or recent postings by jamesbond (funny, I always thought Q was the technical wizz)

Yeah, odd about that eh? I guess 007 must've picked up a few tricks of the trade

Battleshooter

[battleshooter]

Hello I'm having a problem booting the MediaPup CD.

I've double checked md2sum on multiple CDs of multiple downloads. Was able to install Puppy Linux 4.12 and 4.2 on the same machine, but MediaPup will not load.

I get the same error:

Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA.

Hi Colabear,

Did you check the md5sum on the actual download? Maybe you could also try:

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puppy pfix=ram 

on start up

Battleshooter

[puppyluvr]

Hello colabear,
Try "puppy pfix=ram irqpoll" at the boot prompt...

[colabear]

Yup,

puppy pfix=ram
puppy pfix=noram
puppy pfix=ram irqpoll

All with the same error msg mentioned above.

[puppyluvr]

Hello vtpup,
See:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41455
Good Idea??? Hope you don`t mind...

[battleshooter]

@ Colabear

Could go to the folder the MediaPup download is and press `, then type:

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md5sum 	MediaPup1-0a.iso

And post the results?

The code should be the same as this:

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34584d1dc22c610db645e2a8139cc927

[colabear]

That's the check sum I get.

$ md5sum MediaPup1-0a.iso
34584d1dc22c610db645e2a8139cc927 MediaPup1-0a.iso

[puppup]

do all puplet derivatives work as multisession discs? (once iso is burned on dvd-r) I'm interested in trying puppy linux or a puplet.

what's a recommended program? something similar to grafpup (intended towards graphic imaging). along with basic user programs like firefox, music player, pdf foxit.

[battleshooter]

@ Colabear

That's the check sum I get.

$ md5sum MediaPup1-0a.iso
34584d1dc22c610db645e2a8139cc927 MediaPup1-0a.iso

Sigh, and I was hoping for an easy fix. Well a bit of searching around the forum, and it this seems to be a problem for the 4.12 series with no easy explanation. Some say it's needing a battery change (CMOS I'm assuming) others say it can be got around by booting from grub. Other than that and giving you a link to further your searches, I'm afraid I'm of no help.

In case no one's introduced it to you, this is the search engine most forum members use: http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

@ Puppup:

I'm sure most derivatives work fine as multisessions as most of them are built directly on the main Puppy releases. So unless someone deliberately changes some scripts (which I doubt) multisessions on puplets work fine.

The latest graphics editing puplet is now PAW (Puppy Artists Workshop)

Puplet page here and main thread here

Battleshooter

[colabear]

Thanks BattleShooter.

Yeah, this was driving me nuts. The standard 4.1.2 and 4.2 work fine on all my machines but I can get MediaPup, which of course is the one I really want to test, working on any. Thanks anyway, I guess I'll have to wait for the 4.2 version of MediaPup.

Its all good. All good things to those who wait. . .

[vtpup]

Hello I'm having a problem booting the MediaPup CD.

I've double checked md2sum on multiple CDs of multiple downloads. Was able to install Puppy Linux 4.12 and 4.2 on the same machine, but MediaPup will not load.

I get the same error:

Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...pup_412.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA.

Sorry, I've been away again. This looks like a problem relating to the previous installs interacting with mediapup in some way -- the error message seems to be referring to an sfs file which is not mediapup. You haven't indicated whether you are simply tying to run mediapup from CD or from an install you did beside your other installs.

Sorry I can't help more, but if I were troubleshooting, this is where I'd start concentrating.

Generally when Mediapup can't boot on a newer computer, you get the classic "kernel panic" message right away -- I found this happened when I tried a mixed PATA SATA drive machine with an unusual bios setup. So your message looks different than the "new machine, old kernel" problem.

In fact if you can boot a standard 412 retro disk, you should be able to boot Mediapup. If you can't, there's the problem.

If you can boot the 412 retro puppy, then I'd focus my interest on the installs, and if frugals particularly the sfs and support files.

Sorry I'm on the forum so infequently these days.... hope this helps