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#31 Post by Jim1911 »

kirk wrote:Jim1911,Make sure that you download the pet package and then click on it. If you try to run petget from Firefox, petget will be ran as user spot and won't be able to install anything. To use the package manager, you'll need to click on "Configure package manager" and then "Update now" to download a new package list.
You corrected me on installing pets on one of the earlier versions, and I had forgotten. :oops:

I did get ppm to update, when I finally noticed faint white characters against the yellow background. As you can see in the attached picture there isn't any contrast.

Thanks again,
Jim

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#32 Post by kirk »

Jim,

Somehow I missed fixing that petget terminal screen. Jamesbond posted a fix on page one of this thread.

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#33 Post by nancy reagan »

No announcement on "Derivatives' ?

(I am no 64 biter though just to remind you just in case.)

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#34 Post by Flash »

I agree with Nancy. Isn't it time for this thread to be moved to the Puppy Derivatives section?

oui

#35 Post by oui »

Hi

The last RC version of Fatdog64 that I did use, did work very well on my laptop Acer AMD64 emachines 2 Gb RAM 150 Gb HD.

The final will not work. No internet connection, nothing to do...

The choice of programs is really different of those of puppy. Ok, it is good for the satisfaction of the creator and his private point of view about the ideal software but not ideal for hard puppy lovers. Puppy is not as the other distributions.

At this point it is a real deception to read "final"... The signification is that a real Puppy for 64 bit machines will never come and that in houses where we use different computers because we did buy them at different time it will not be possible to have exactly the same but with the adequate software according to the type of processor to use it best?

Bye

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#36 Post by Lobster »

Used Openshot yesterday with FatDog64 final to produce this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SYeYt8buJw
Openshot is not stable but that is not to do with Fatdog but the programmers of Openshot. Come on guys how hard can it be (clue - very hard)

Fatdog 64bit seems stable and easy and familiar to use for Puppy users
Some menu icons are missing, for example under menu/desktop.
That was the only problem I could find in a day of heavy use. :)

At one point Firefox attempted to upgrade to a 'better Flash' - not sure if I should do that - have been caught by these 'improvements' before - will read back through the other posts - seem to remember this is mentioned . . . :roll:

To turn Fatdog into a 'standard' Puppy, Kino, Handbrake and Gimp could be removed. I would see no reason to change to JWM.
The Window manager is simple, familiar and works well. I barely notice the difference
JWM is available in Fatdog anyway.

This is a solid piece of dog food. A puppy with 64bit compiled code., able to compile Puppy with 64bit optimisation (using the devx add on)

When in a few years people are upgrading to the latest must have multicore 128 bit computers.
Fatdog or its decedents will be saving ye olde 64bit computer.

How wonderful to be using the futures retro computing. :wink:

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#37 Post by cthisbear »

Obviously this release was not important enough for some
turgid individual.

So I'll post it here fully because Bambos at Whirlpool
didn't like it.

"""""""""

My reply to him of course was diplomatic.

" And what the hell are you on about?

Some want this ability.
This is Linux.

A long term project realised.
If this is is your best call I suggest your name
needs changing from moderator to Mast.......

Idiot.

//////////

So here is a new post.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 094#bottom


" Good enough for the Puppy developer Barry Kauler
to post on his blog.

"A 64-bit Puppy!
Kirk and jamesbond have reached the first release version of Fatdog64, a Puppy built for Intel-compatible 64-bit CPUs:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57389

Kirk compiled the base packages in T2, and it needed a lot of work to recompile many other PETs for 64-bit.

Fatdog64 is hosted on Ibiblio, and qualifies as a separate Puppy distro. Kirk did not actually use Woof, just pulled many ideas from Woof, which is the same approach that Jemimah has done with Puppeee.

Kirk, you should put Fatdog64 into the waiting list at Distrowatch.."

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01709

////////

Of course I posted this before but Bambos decided
it was pointless.

Puppy a legit distro.
Fully independent distro.
Well recognised by other developers.
64 bit is important for some.

Just not some 2 bit despot.

Chris.

" Fatdog64 final released.

Your thread was deleted by Bambos « pointless
send whim to this mod

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#38 Post by jamesbond »

Lobster wrote:Error failed to download when trying to install Openshot
so went here http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /pets/500/
and downloaded manually - remember you will need the python pet too for Openshot
that worked OK
My bad, I uploaded a new package but forgot to edit the package-list file. Fixed :D
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#39 Post by 01micko »

Flash wrote:I agree with Nancy. Isn't it time for this thread to be moved to the Puppy Derivatives section?
I am grabbing Fatdog now.. haven't tried yet.

I only recently acquired my AMD X2, so I have had no need.

Flash .. if you look at Barry's "woof-tree-official.png" file (~/puppy-reference/doc/woof-tree-official.png or ~/././svg .. in recent woof builds) Fatdog is "officially" sanctioned. As is jemimah's Puppeee.

IMHO, perhaps when a project such as this is up to release stage there could be a sub-section.. mainly such that the average user knows what is what.

Just a thought,

Mud in your eye, kirk and jamesbond :wink:

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How can I boot to FATDOG64 desktop as user 'root' instead of

#40 Post by gcmartin »

For some of the tests that I am running, it would be nice if I knew of a way to boot to desktop as user root. I do NOT want just the terminal as root, I want to be root user for all of my desktop applications until I can settle my testing down.

Can anyone tell me if
  1. there is a boot code that will do this for me?
    OR
  2. there is a script somewhere that will change this for me?
    OR
  3. there is a way to logoff of spot and logon as root for desktop?
Thanks for this fast FATDOG

P.S. I am fully aware of the security efforts that went into FATDOG. I am not suggesting anything except if there is a way that can be employ when I want to test things. I am not looking for debate. simply "can I ..."

Again, thank in advance for all of our good work thus far.

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#41 Post by kirk »

gcmartin,

You are auto logged on as root.

The goal for Fatdog was to have web applications run as a non-privileged user. Not in the traditional sense where you log in as a non-privileged user and all of your personnel files are accessible by that user as well. But we log in as root for convenience and in recognition that your personal files are just as important as system files, in fact much more important. Applications that access the internet, Firefox, Xine, Sylpheed, and Pidgin all run as user spot. Spot can only write to a few limited places.

You can run these applications as root if you want though. For Firefox you can open a terminal and type firefox or you can go to /usr/bin and drag firefox to the desktop. The other applications would be similar.

I'll edit the original post with some of this information.

gcmartin

Having problems with SFS file placement

#42 Post by gcmartin »

Much of the Puppy documentation guides me to add SFS by:
  1. creating a folder /mnt/home
  2. placing the SFS in that folder
  3. running the BootManager Utility who uses /mnt/home and
  4. adding that SFS to the right side
so that it will be selected at boot.

BUT, FATDOG seems to have taken a different approach from that documentation. With FATDOG I MUST place the SFSs in the system's root directory ("/"). Further, there are no instructions which indicate where the SFS files must reside on the boot media for selection at boot-time.

I'm wondering if the SFSs that I want added should be
  1. in the root directory before boot is to occur? or
  2. in /mnt/home before boot is to occur? or
  3. in both?
Anyone aware of this issue...Thanks

gcmartin

Update on some issues I've run into

#43 Post by gcmartin »

4 items found in LiveDVD testing.
Item
Problem: Missing documentation or solid implementation for adding SFSs to LiveCD.
Scenario: When BootManager is told to use OpenOffice SFS file, the system explodes when rebooted from LiveCD (no boot parameters are selected)
Circumvention: Boot with boot options Puppy pfix=1 in order to get back to desktop

Item
Problem: In LiveCD mode, when session is saved to LiveCD, subsequent reboot does NOT restore the LAN card settings. I was expecting the LAN settings to be saved in the 'session save to cd" that occurs on reboot.
Scenario: Boot system to desktop. Open Terminal and check for an assigned IP address. No address is there on the LAN's interface
Circumvention: Rerun Net-Wizard everytime you boot

Item
Problem: I was NOT able to shutdown and save my desktop data.
Scenario: Turns out that I had sda5 and sr0 mounted. The system would NOT save to DVD, unless I “unmounted
Attachments
DMESG_Listing.zip
TEXT Listing of system's state at latest boot
(15.11 KiB) Downloaded 954 times
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Re: Update on some issues I've run into

#44 Post by Flash »

gcmartin wrote:Item
Problem: In LiveCD mode, when session is saved to LiveCD, subsequent reboot does NOT restore the LAN card settings. I was expecting the LAN settings to be saved in the 'session save to cd" that occurs on reboot.
Scenario: Boot system to desktop. Open Terminal and check for an assigned IP address. No address is there on the LAN's interface
Circumvention: Rerun Net-Wizard everytime you boot...
I assume you mean a multisession DVD (or CD).
I haven't done extensive testing yet. I did save to the DVD when I shut down. When I rebooted, everything seemed to be as I set it before I shut down. All I had to do to get online was click on the Browse icon on the desktop.

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#45 Post by Wognath »

To recap, on my Via Nano netbook, Fatdog64 loads until it reaches "loading kernel modules", then the screen goes dark. pfix=nox gives the same result. I guess I don't know enough to implement kirk's advice:
You can try booting with pfix=nox again, and then you can type xorgwizard-old. Fatdog64 doesn't have Xvesa, but you might want to try the vesa Xorg driver. You might have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Driver "vesa" #card0driver

You can do this from the terminal with mp or I think you can edit xorg.conf with the xorgwizard-old.
If there's a command prompt there, I can't see it. The /etc/X11 directory has several xorg#.conf files which I can see in the sfs (from puppy4.3.1) but can't edit.
Thanks for the ideas so far. I hope someone with this type of system will find and post a solution. I'd like to try Fatdog.

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#46 Post by Lobster »

Created a promotional video for Youtube
Using music from Creative Commons (ccmixter) and Openshot in Fatdog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjkBp1PIiM

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#47 Post by 01micko »

hiya kirk, 007

Been running for a few hours now.. nice!

One gripe, (probably already mentioned, but I have the wog, therefore an excuse), when updating PPM the white on yellow in rxvt is a bit crappy.

Other than that, runs like a rocket, :D

Great!

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#48 Post by kirk »

Gcmartin,

Sfs loading is like any other puppy, but I've only did basic testing with the multisession cd/dvd mode. I don't really know if multisession supports sfs files, Flash would know about that.


Wognath,

When you boot with puppy pfix=nox do you end up at a prompt?

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#49 Post by jamesbond »

Wognath, I'm shooting in the dark here, since I don't have any VIA graphics card.

1) Put this line into puppy's boot command line:

Code: Select all

nomodeset
and see whether you can get to the console screen. From there, run xorgwizard-old, which will likely fail. Then you can post the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log here.

2) Or, you can try this this puppy's boot command line instead

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video=viafb:viafb_mode=1024x768,viafb_bpp=32,viafb_refresh=60
Then run xorgwizard-old.

3) if this still doesn't work, try booting as usual. When you get to the blank screen, wait for a while until the harddisk activities settle down, then type this

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modprobe viafbp
and see if you get your screen back. If you do, then continue with xorgwizard-old.

gcmartin, I also don't use DVD-save mode of Fatdog (or any other puppies, for that matter). Let me try your test cases and we'll see what can be done about it, but no promises :)

01micko, what white-on-yellow stuff is fixed with the hotfix pet on first page of this thread.

cheers!
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Re: Update on some issues I've run into

#50 Post by jamesbond »

Ok I did some tests with DVD multisession.
gcmartin wrote:4 items found in LiveDVD testing.
Item
Problem: Missing documentation or solid implementation for adding SFSs to LiveCD.
Scenario: When BootManager is told to use OpenOffice SFS file, the system explodes when rebooted from LiveCD (no boot parameters are selected)
Circumvention: Boot with boot options Puppy pfix=1 in order to get back to desktop
It doesn't explode on my system. The likely explanation why it explodes on yours is, there isn't enough memory to load the SFS (because everything running in DVD-mode must be loaded into RAM). But the SFS is not loaded, no matter how it's configured - this is a bug.

Flash, do you have any idea whether this also happens in other puppies?

Meanwhile, the workaround is as kirk has explained it - merge the main SFS with the extra SFS you want to use.
Item
Problem: In LiveCD mode, when session is saved to LiveCD, subsequent reboot does NOT restore the LAN card settings. I was expecting the LAN settings to be saved in the 'session save to cd" that occurs on reboot.
Scenario: Boot system to desktop. Open Terminal and check for an assigned IP address. No address is there on the LAN's interface
Circumvention: Rerun Net-Wizard everytime you boot
Doesn't happen on my system. Network connection (wireless in my case) is restored properly. My guess is, this will happen if the network card is slow to initialise (this happens on my other machine with broadcom wireless).
Item
Problem: I was NOT able to shutdown and save my desktop data.
Scenario: Turns out that I had sda5 and sr0 mounted. The system would NOT save to DVD, unless I “unmounted
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