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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Is this the thread I am supposed to post in?

I am testing dpup-494beta4-2.6.30.5.iso

and it lack the codecs for the mplayer.

I had them in other puppies but packet manager don't find them for this one. The mplayer plug in is lacking too.

Is this not the dpup I am supposed to use. Are there another one that has access to the usual 431codecs?

Hm I guess the D stand for Debian and them maybe are purist and dont' allow codecs that are proprietary? Is that the reason they lacks in rep?

Béèm · Posted: Sat 20 Feb 2010, 08:39 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Not sure. I had it on my usb pin too. I must have used the google search on puppy.
And there I wrote pup nop and a lot of answers and I read and read and then gave up and clicked on a link and installed first with unetbooin on an usb and then when I got upset of Stardust failing to mount usb then I searched for a puppy that could mount usb from internal hdd and this one could and also could do mplayer plug in
but sadly it has Opera instead of Firefox and it take up more of the RAM too.

Stardust let me have 1.5 to 1GB free mem wile NOP let me have only 485 to 190 free.

so what is taking up so much space?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 20 Feb 2010, 11:41 Post subject:

[quote="nooby"
Stardust let me have 1.5 to 1GB free mem wile NOP let me have only 485 to 190 free.

so what is taking up so much space? [/quote]
hmmm have you tried 2.14X, it should give you about 2GB free ram.
ttuuxxx

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

I am not used to that numbers series did they not have four files while three and 4 has only three files. I don't remember how one make use of them in a subdirectoru. As I remember something of them need to be root and only one or two files can be a subdirectory. All my puppies are in a sub.

The 214x is that the one with latest kernel from 2009 instead of some kernel from 2008?

Is this the one you have newly taking out and modernized. You gave no link to the thread presenting it. I am very bad at searching.

why do you want me to test it. I want a 431 that works out of the box.
Stardust could not mount an ordinary usv flash mem so can not use that one.

edit

I guess you refer to this one then

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 20 Feb 2010, 12:44 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Can you confirm that it need to have initrd and vmlinuz on the root but allow to have the sfs in a subdir? but what shall I write in the grub4dos?
I test it now within 20 minutes so tell what I write in menu.lst please

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 20 Feb 2010, 13:03 Post subject:

hi never tried grub4dos just burn it to a cdrw and test it live with
puppy pfix=ram

ttuuxxx

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

But what am I supposed to write in a menu.lst
even if you have not somebody else may have
and does the wmlinux and initrd need to be in root?
or can they me in a subdirectory. Do I have to do a pmedia something.

It tried to boot but got into kernel panic at Usage init.

I try this one
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=311479#311479

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 20 Feb 2010, 14:00 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

That is more correct and polite yes.

I try some of the menu.lst examples and see what happen. Almsot two hours now. This one is not as easy as the pup431 series. I failed using it 2008 too.

the easiest menu.lst text worked right away. I guess I test the other one also just in case but write on the thread you linked to

musher0

Hi, nooby.

Here's my entry for dpup 484 in grub's menu.lst. It's basically the same for grub4dos or other version.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Hi Christian,

oops maybe we derail the thread, strictly it is for reporting bugs and experiences of how it works?

your menu.lst is like this

musher0 · Posted: Sun 21 Feb 2010, 06:45 Post subject:

Hello, again, nooby.

Terribly sorry, my "kernel" line should have looked like this:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9472 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks, now I know more.

I must have donesomething wrong when I tested pulp it got into kernel panic and then this also made dpup to go into kernel panic but both NOP and stardust did survive. So not sure what I made wrong that the first two malfunctioned at same time.