I don't want to save

[eppoh]

Installed Macpup on a flash drive and it has been great. One thing is that it always ends the session with 'saving to sbd1 ( my flash drive). Thing is, I don't want anything saved.
Is there a way to keep this from saving the session?

It always asked me when running in RAM from the CD.

[nooby]

Wild suggestion. Look for the menu.lst on the USB and edit it to have a pfix=ram in the end of the line that says kernel in the beginning.

On my system it looks like this

title pup-431 linnwin

kernel (hd0,0)/pup-431/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=pup-431 psubOK=TRUE

initrd (hd0,0)/pup-431/initrd.gz

boot

so you change this one

kernel (hd0,0)/pup-431/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=pup-431 psubOK=TRUE


to this

kernel (hd0,0)/pup-431/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd PDEV1=sda1 psubdir=pup-431 psubOK=TRUE pfix=ram

And then when Macpup ask if you want to save you answer No! and nothing will be saved.

[nooby]

Ooops

if you have a save file that you want to keep then yopu can go into the mount and and find it and change its name and then only load it when you need it and most likely when it has nothing to say to the program will ask if you want to creat a save file?

another trick would be to rename it and move it several subdirectories deep?

[eppoh]

Ooops

if you have a save file that you want to keep then yopu can go into the mount and and find it and change its name and then only load it when you need it and most likely when it has nothing to say to the program will ask if you want to creat a save file?

another trick would be to rename it and move it several subdirectories deep?

I am a little confused. Wouldn't your first suggestion give me the option of saving it?

[Béèm]

This question has been asked several times and responded too.
I don't remember the answer.
But try the puppysearch link in my sig and you might find the related threads.

[nooby]

Thing is, I don't want anything saved.
Is there a way to keep this from saving the session?

It always asked me when running in RAM from the CD.

And my wild guess was to do as I first wrote:

And then when Macpup ask if you want to save you answer No! and nothing will be saved.

which I had hoped lived up to your wishes.

Then I thought. Maybe he have a save file that he wants to keep and not to save anything further so I wrote the oops

But you can do as Beem suggests.

Or you could tell me what was wrong with my first suggestion?

I am going to bed now.

[8-bit]

Here is another way.
Boot with pfix=ram.
Go through setting up keyboard, mouse, display, and be sure to set up your internet connection and any pets you might think you need.
Remember to keep additions small depending on ram you have.
Now that that is done, remaster using a blank cd.
When you boot from it, you should not have to go through the initial setup again.
Of course when you shut down or reboot, It will ask if you want to save your settings.
Since your remastered CD already has them, just decline.
You could also then install the custom one frugally to hard drive and run without making any pupsave file.

Those are my thoughts on it.

[`f00]

Me neither, sometimes. For a simple save/nosave option with a savefile on flash . . .

/etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown ~lines732-740 (Macpup-Op, lines671..) relevant section follows:

Code: Select all

 13) #PDEV1 and PUPSFS and PUPSAVE
  #/initrd/pup_rw has tmpfs, pup_ro1 has ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save.2fs file (PUPSAVE), pup_ro2 has PUPSFS file.
  #the above are in unionfs at /. # modified per pizzagood's shutdown save/nosave option for flash
  dialog --yesno "save2flash? (thumbdrive)" 0 0 >/dev/console
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Saving session to $SAVEFILE (${SAVEPART})..." >/dev/console
  /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy /initrd/pup_ro1 /initrd/pup_rw
  fi
  ;;

edit with care - at end of session, during the dialogue select yes so that lil' bit is saved (thereafter you have a choice)
works fine for me whenever I use a savefile - hth…

[nooby]

yes these two suggestions are way better than my wild guess.

1. How does one do a remaster? I want to learn. Sorry if hogging the thread.

2. Changing those line was way more easy even for me.

if later one want to save new things added one change it back?

Heheheh, I get how to find that part but not what I should change. Shall I comment out like this.

13) #PDEV1 and PUPSFS and PUPSAVE
#/initrd/pup_rw has tmpfs, pup_ro1 has ${DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX}save.2fs file (PUPSAVE), pup_ro2 has PUPSFS file.
#the above are in unionfs at /. # modified per pizzagood's shutdown save/nosave option for flash
# dialog --yesno "save2flash? (thumbdrive)" 0 0 >/dev/console
# if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# echo "Saving session to $SAVEFILE (${SAVEPART})..." >/dev/console
# /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy /initrd/pup_ro1 /initrd/pup_rw
# fi
;;

but is this not the first session thing and doesn't the OP talk about a session when one already have a savefile and don't want to change it?

I most likely get it all wrong. Care to give more hints?

[snowshaker]

If you don't save the session the first time, then it will keep asking you in subsequent sessions and you can say "no".

Another way to do it is to buy one of them real cheap SD USB card readers that look like USB sticks except you have to put an SD card in it. Puppy will write to the stick on poweroff, but if the SD card switch is slid over to the "lock" position, it can't save and at that point will not be able to complain about it. You will have to prepare the new card all over again. Maybe just make it bootable and copy the files over.