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#1231 Post by edoc »

I created the bootable USB stick with Fluppy010 and copied Grub4DOS to it.

I tweaked the MSI's BIOS to boot from a USB Hardisk, which it did.

I am now looking at Fluppy010 in RAM on the MSI.

Since Grub4DOS runs with the MS and not the Linux OS I am not sure why I want it since I am in Linux.

Normally, from a CD, I would use GParted to reconfigure HDD usage, then run the Puppy Installer.

WDYT?
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#1232 Post by magerlab »

of course, i looked on ibam page
but do not understand what the word adaptive means here:)

in win7 it also showed about six hours with 100% battery but it's written it can hold up to 8

for me it would just enough if wifi could be turned off and brightness adjusted

also for newer versions can i use my save file or upgrade will be critical?

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#1233 Post by magerlab »

two important things I've noticed :
Gparted does not work
(couldn't create swapfile and lost partition -got a message that kernell can not read disk table)
booted from old Boxpupeee and everything worked there

also there are a lot of modules in /lib/modules inlike in other puppies i used before
60mb of modules
so had to make pupsave bigger

is this normal ?

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#1234 Post by maxpro4u »

jemimah wrote: You can read about the battery thing here: http://ibam.sourceforge.net/
according to the website
http://ibam.sourceforge.net/README
there should be 3 rc files in the ibam folder-ibam.rc, battery.rc and charge.rc, there is only one in mine- ibam.rc. The other ones are the battery profile which I guess must be created-right?
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#1235 Post by edoc »

I am booted from USB on the MSI netbook.

gparted does not see the MS version of windows called "7" and describes the 149GB it sees as "unallocated". It is actually NTFS.

There are two partitiions, the first is 100MB, the second 149GB, both NTFS.

Grub4DOS was recommended to load Fluppy but I don't see how to use it and I seem to need to create a proper partition for Puppy and to put MSW7 in a much smaller doghouse ...

I tried Puppy Universal Installer but it appeared to want to wipe everytihing!

How do I proceed, please?

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#1236 Post by nooby »

You only need a new partition for Fluppy if you have to do Full install.

I use Fluppy on a netbook with three partitions that the manufactor Acer out there all in NTFS and the Sda3 or (hd0,2) is the one I use for many frugal installs.

I made use of Shinobar's describtion on how to use grub4dosconfig to get a dual boot going.
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#1237 Post by James C »

edoc wrote:I am booted from USB on the MSI netbook.

gparted does not see the MS version of windows called "7" and describes the 149GB it sees as "unallocated". It is actually NTFS.

There are two partitiions, the first is 100MB, the second 149GB, both NTFS.

Grub4DOS was recommended to load Fluppy but I don't see how to use it and I seem to need to create a proper partition for Puppy and to put MSW7 in a much smaller doghouse ...

I tried Puppy Universal Installer but it appeared to want to wipe everytihing!

How do I proceed, please?

Thanks!
Don't know if this applies to your version of Windows 7 but.......

I run Windows 7 Ultimate and it has a built in disc partitioner to shrink the Windows partition.

Control Panel/ System and Security/ Administrative Tools/Create and format hard disk partitions.

You could shrink the Windows partition and leave the rest unallocated........then use Gparted to format for Puppy and install.

Good luck.HTH.

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Testing Fluppy on Toshiba Satellite L305

#1238 Post by tlcstat »

Greetings,
Thanks for a great disto (fluppy 10). I don't have a netbook but it runs better than any puppy I've tried so far. Currently using it on a Toshiba Satellite L305. Thing that got me to testing Fluppy is the fact that it had bluetooth and I like using my bt mouse. At this point I have loaded the OpenOffice.sfs, the Google Chrome Stable.deb off of their site (I had to copy a link to the desktop from /opt/google/chrome, Kompozer, Nero Linux 4, medibuntu, gpfind, firefox (pet). My Motorola Quantico tethers just fine using the PupDial and of course I preload the modprobe usbserial instructions for internet. Still trying to get DVD95Converter to run (library problem). And I haven't tried bluetooth dialup with my phone yet. Will keep you posted. O' yes I'm booting puppy from my Ubuntu Maverick ext4 partition. Puppy is the first linux system I was able to get working until I found Ubuntu over a year ago. Ubuntu let me get weaned from M$. I've been 100% Linux for over a year. My wife is all Linux except for Quicken running in wine. Anyway its nice to have a really great Puppy to work with. If I can get all of my apps going I may just switch full time.
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#1239 Post by tlcstat »

Greetings,
Thanks for a great disto (fluppy 10). I don't have a netbook but it runs better than any puppy I've tried so far. Currently using it on a Toshiba Satellite L305. Thing that got me to testing Fluppy is the fact that it had bluetooth and I like using my bt mouse. At this point I have loaded the OpenOffice.sfs, the Google Chrome Stable.deb off of their site (I had to copy a link to the desktop from /opt/google/chrome, Kompozer, Nero Linux 4, medibuntu, gpfind, firefox (pet). My Motorola Quantico tethers just fine using the PupDial and of course I preload the modprobe usbserial instructions for internet. Still trying to get DVD95Converter to run (library problem). And I haven't tried bluetooth dialup with my phone yet. Will keep you posted. O' yes I'm booting puppy from my Ubuntu Maverick ext4 partition. Puppy is the first linux system I was able to get working until I found Ubuntu over a year ago. Ubuntu let me get weaned from M$. I've been 100% Linux for over a year. My wife is all Linux except for Quicken running in wine. Anyway its nice to have a really great Puppy to work with. If I can get all of my apps going I may just switch full time.
Thanks
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#1240 Post by tlcstat »

Greetings,
Thanks for a great disto (fluppy 10). I don't have a netbook but it runs better than any puppy I've tried so far. Currently using it on a Toshiba Satellite L305. Thing that got me to testing Fluppy is the fact that it had bluetooth and I like using my bt mouse. At this point I have loaded the OpenOffice.sfs, the Google Chrome Stable.deb off of their site (I had to copy a link to the desktop from /opt/google/chrome, Kompozer, Nero Linux 4, medibuntu, gpfind, firefox (pet). My Motorola Quantico tethers just fine using the PupDial and of course I preload the modprobe usbserial instructions for internet. Still trying to get DVD95Converter to run (library problem). And I haven't tried bluetooth dialup with my phone yet. Will keep you posted. O' yes I'm booting puppy from my Ubuntu Maverick ext4 partition. Puppy is the first linux system I was able to get working until I found Ubuntu over a year ago. Ubuntu let me get weaned from M$. I've been 100% Linux for over a year. My wife is all Linux except for Quicken running in wine. Anyway its nice to have a really great Puppy to work with. If I can get all of my apps going I may just switch full time.
Thanks
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#1241 Post by tlcstat »

Greetings,
Thanks for a great disto (fluppy 10). I don't have a netbook but it runs better than any puppy I've tried so far. Currently using it on a Toshiba Satellite L305. Thing that got me to testing Fluppy is the fact that it had bluetooth and I like using my bt mouse. At this point I have loaded the OpenOffice.sfs, the Google Chrome Stable.deb off of their site (I had to copy a link to the desktop from /opt/google/chrome, Kompozer, Nero Linux 4, medibuntu, gpfind, firefox (pet). My Motorola Quantico tethers just fine using the PupDial and of course I preload the modprobe usbserial instructions for internet. Still trying to get DVD95Converter to run (library problem). And I haven't tried bluetooth dialup with my phone yet. Will keep you posted. O' yes I'm booting puppy from my Ubuntu Maverick ext4 partition. Puppy is the first linux system I was able to get working until I found Ubuntu over a year ago. Ubuntu let me get weaned from M$. I've been 100% Linux for over a year. My wife is all Linux except for Quicken running in wine. Anyway its nice to have a really great Puppy to work with. If I can get all of my apps going I may just switch full time.
Thanks
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#1242 Post by tlcstat »

Greetings,
don't know what is going on here but I was getting an error message when I clicked on "submit". hence the multiple posts. I'll let the moderator fix it since I don't have a delete option.
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#1243 Post by edoc »

James C wrote: Don't know if this applies to your version of Windows 7 but.......
I run Windows 7 Ultimate and it has a built in disc partitioner to shrink the Windows partition.
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This is the second occasion that I have received a suggestion to use a MS app to solve a problem in Linux - and it irks me.

Gparted (or perhaps it was a different Linux partition app) has *always* worked fine in Puppy - when was it broken and why?

I have always been able to view and manipulate MS partitions, create an ext3 partition, and load Puppy.

NTFS is slower and less reliable than ext3 so I have no desire to stuff a Frugal install in with MS junk and have them co-exist.

All of the computers here are Linux - it is rare to ever use MS for anything - and never online.

I'd like to minimize MS7 as much as possible, stripping out wasted space, then have it available in GRUB.

This never used to be hard in Puppy and never involved any app from MS ...
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#1244 Post by edoc »

I just read this:

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingPuppy/ ... 6+01:52:10
One can place a frugal install within a pre-existing Win98 installation; the save file (although it itself contains an ext2 file system) may reside on a FAT32 or NTFS partition. Which is why a frugal install is also called a "co-exist" install. Not so with a full hard disk drive install: one cannot make a full installation on a FAT partition because it does not support Linux symbolic links.
Is what "can" be done in Frugal what is *best* to do in Frugal?

I really like the strategy of sinple and separate - NTFS for MS and ext3 for Linux. And, therefore, different logical disks as well.

Really easy to see what is doing what.
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#1245 Post by edoc »

Is cfdisk unable to handle a ntfs partition?

gparted is not behaving and pdisk is apparently not in Fluppy, and I don't recall if it could handle ntfs either (I think it's just a shell for cfdisk and fdisk)..
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#1246 Post by edoc »

nooby wrote:You only need a new partition for Fluppy if you have to do Full install.

I use Fluppy on a netbook with three partitions that the manufactor Acer out there all in NTFS and the Sda3 or (hd0,2) is the one I use for many frugal installs.

I made use of Shinobar's describtion on how to use grub4dosconfig to get a dual boot going.
How did you create the third partition?

I cannot get gparted to show the two NTFS MS partitions so I cannot move things around.
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#1247 Post by magerlab »

ended up for now with scripts from archlinux wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_N150
fn keys are still not seen,but i use alt and arrows instead in xbinkeys

noticed that parole plugin starts but can not play anything

tried beryl sfs (from nov 17) just for fun :)
surprisingly it works (the wm) but cairo-dock crashes
played a bit with my daughter with cube :)

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New Microsoft Primary Partitions

#1248 Post by CLAM01 »

edoc,

When you buy a computer with a factory install single Microsoft partition on its disk the Microsoft operating system owns the disk (unless there is a tiny vendor's maintenance partition). The Microsoft operating system puts files in the first tracks and in the last tracks. It marks both to stake its territory.

If you do not want the Microsoft operating system at all, start gparted and re-format the whole disk.

If you want the Microsoft partition, but smaller, start Microsoft as Administrator and use Microsoft's shrinking tool. Instructions are in the MS help files.

If you want your Microsoft partition still smaller, shrink, then re-install the Microsoft operating system using the recovery disks, then shrink using the Micorsoft tool again. You can do this a couple of times, causing Microsof to eliminate space it reserves for file recovery.

With Microsoft shrunk, shut down, start with Linux, start gparted, or other, and do what you want with the free space.

Microsoft does not want non-Microsoft programs moving things in its OS partition, so it prevents them being able to. Microsoft does not want people to blow MS completely off their computers for not being able to shrink it, so they made their own tool. They compromised. Their tool is proprietary and MS-specific, and works great with MS. With it there is no need for Linux partitioner developers to waste time hacking MS to figure out how to set and unset MS space-markers.

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#1249 Post by maxpro4u »

magerlab wrote:ended up for now with scripts from archlinux wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_N150
fn keys are still not seen,but i use alt and arrows instead in xbinkeys
Try changing the keyboard using the wizard. What happened when you used bindkeys in the control panel?
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#1250 Post by edoc »

Thanks CLAM01!

I had never run into that with a MS install before - it is good info.

Shame on MS for being so monopolistic - and for hardware vendors selling-out to them - so much for user-choice. Sigh.

I will get about the business of relegating the MS-install to it's rightful corner and dunce cap ... if WINE were less of a nuisance I'd wipe the MS install entirely.
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