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[sneekylinux]

will give that a try before the next video,ta mate

[Guest34]

Hello,

It seems if I choose to create the savefile on a hdd partition, at next boot it will copy the pup-430.sfs file from the cdrom to the same partition, for faster booting. But it will not copy the zp430305.sfs file, and won't read it from the cdrom either, so no more modules, no more network. If I copy it manually all starts working again.

[prehistoric]

@ guest34

From the description you give, I'm assuming you have been booting off the CD, not installing Puppy to the hard drive. That second sfs file has not been standard in recent Puppies, so it won't be copied either by the shutdown script or the universal installer.

Barry will probably do away with the separate file at some point where the issues behind this are sorted out. In the past, we had a zdrv.sfs file that went away in later versions.

[kjoe]

Hello,

I am running puppy in frugal mode. As usual, after installing some pet-packages I tried to rebuild a new pup-430.sfs. But this time I was unable to do so. After haven chosen the ramdisk as the working area, puppy next asked for the CD/DVD drive. I have 2 drives (/dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1; both can be accessed), but only my DVD drive (/dev/sr0) showed up in the dialog box. When I clicked on the yes button the script stopped immediately.

When I've tested Puppy 4.3 beta 3, everything worked fine. I think, the remasterpup2 scripts in 4.3. beta 3 and 4.3 final are identical. So there must be another reason...

By the way, the remaster script once offered to choose between the CD drive or a directory that kept the puppy files. I miss this feature as I always have to use a CD to remaster puppy.

kjoe

[tlchost]

k2.6.21.7 burned to usb bootable

Desktop does not appear on bootup.....need to enter xwin at prompt. In lieu of fix, what can I do to beat Puppy into submission to bring desktop up automatically.

Thanks

Thom

[prehistoric]

My previous problems with Sylpheed 2.4.7 went away after I uninstalled it using the PPM, and then downloaded and installed Sylpheed 2.6.0 pet from Puppylinux.ca pet_packages-4. I suggest making this the new standard Sylpheed. Once again, I installed by clicking on a downloaded pet and had the entry appear in the menu without problems.

@ tlchost

Your description leaves a big question about what you're trying to run 4.3 on. If there is a problem with video, that might have some relevance. I also wonder if you checked the md5sum on your ISO and got a good burn. I'm not a guru on this, but I can guess what experts will want to know.

Added: Just as I was about to report complete success with 4.3 final, the wireless network gave me trouble on a new boot. This time eth0 and eth1 were correct, but the connection did not take place automatically. I was able to go through the wizard and bring it up quickly, but it looks like it did not go through the DHCP configuration by itself. This is using the Intel 2915ABG mini-pci card (ipw2200 module).

[rjbrewer]

[Lobster]

Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MER7q728aM4

Why am I dancing?
Well my configuration is now sticking between boots.

What was the problem?
Gunk!
The HD were my save files are stored had all sorts of
files. Beta stuff. Testing stuff. Config files. Two empty tins of sardines, who knows what.
Got rid of the dead fish . . . and I can now run 4.3 (was thinking of reverting to 4.2 or beta 3 of 4.3)

. . . and now back to the dancing

[Lobster]

When I started using Puppy, it was one of the only Linux that had easy comprehensive and comprehensible notes

Click on Menu / help / Release Notes for Puppy 4.3
continues that tradition

[ttuuxxx]

[drbongo]

Hi the prodigal drbongo here! In have been away from the kennel (AWOK?) for a while but I am very impressed with 4.4, nice looks, plenty of really useful new apps and the same lightening fast response. The only thing I am confused about is that fact that Barry said he was going to upload the new version and I don't know which one I have, given the time zone difference etc, I might have downloaded it just before or just after he uploaded it. So the question is this, have the md5sum's been updated or not? Because I just downloaded it again and the md5sum don't match - it could be that the download was corrupted or that the md5sum hasn't been changed from the first iso which I seem to remember was about 110MB, and this one is only 105MB, could someone confirm what the md5sum of the new and slightly earlier versions should be?

drbongo

[Iguleder]

Unable to boot with 4.3 final, from an ext4 partition and a fat32 flash drive.
It says "unable to locate pup-430.sfs" or something similar, or shows some weird kernel panic.

I tried loglevel=7, it shows error messages that have something to do with USB, when booting from the flash drive. If I haven't mistaken, it's something with the "usbcore" module.

Beta 3 worked just fine for me ... also recognized my ext4 partition. That's weird, same kernel after all. I tried both with the extra sfs in 4.3 and without it, same result. 4.2.1's good ol' kernel .25 also works, of course, but without ext4/smp support.
I'm currently Woofing a set of custom 4.3's with .21, .25, .29and .30.5 (and other modifications) ... I gotta check this. It's easy to reproduce this so-called bug.

Clean root, clean Puppy subdir, no old saves, no old sfs's ...

I've noticed one topic with a problem booting from USB ... a kernel panic. Maybe it's something serious, and people will face this problems in the upcoming week or so, when they update to 4.3.

I use 30.5 on Arch (64 bit, matters?), in parallel to Puppy. It works perfectly.
Is it possible that my modern Core 2 Duo, 2 GB system won't work with Puppy's 30.5?

First time Puppy misbehaves like that. Grrrr.

EDIT: downloading 430-small too ... gotta try that too.

[aarf]

puppy430small, the first official puppy to support wifi out of the box on eeeepc701. hallelujah
unpacked iso and copied to folder, removed pmedia=cd from isolinux.cfg, grub boot with menu.lst edit as:

[Aitch]

Barry

For some reason this version, 4.3 final, large version, liveCD, not installed, doesn't find my network card Realtek rtl8111/8168B PCI-E, which I'm now posting from UPup 466 using r8169 driver, ....
[which although it's working, I wish you could sort out what I think is a timing issue, or some sequence of events which isn't quite right, and is common to many puppies, IMHO.....
- I nearly always have to run the network wizard twice before I can get on the net & have been posting this as a 'fix' for noobies for some time....which is off-putting for some of them...]

both 4.3 & 4.3scsi same problem - no network driver, even clicking load module, does nothing

in hardinfo, benchmarks don't give any results....was trying to check smp performance on this P4D dual 2.6ghz box

otherwise, 4.3 seems good, - usb drive icon appears plugging in my 16gb key, but peculiarly, my CD drive icon shows as sr0....is this a designed change? both sata hard drive and ide dvdrw show under scsi devices, in hardinfo

Suggestion: Is there any chance of adding a bluetooth wizard, as usb bluetooth devices don't seem to be usable?

Ah, just spotted, Alcor microcorp usb2 web camera shows in hardinfo, but no camera in gtkam camera manager - oops upup466, will check 4.3 and update you on this issue

thanks

Aitch

[DaveS]

Two small things:
In all Puppies in 4.2 series, hitting the power-off button on my laptop induced a controlled shut down. Not in 4.3
In all Puppies I ever tried, the 'wifi active' lamp on my laptop works EXCEPT in 4.3, though it flashes on and off as it logs on to the network.