Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Pete22 · Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 212 Location: Utah, USA

Hello puppy friends:

I want to use multipup. I am not a die hard geek. So I have some questions.
Is this still very experimental or is it more stable now?

The changes that are suggested for the pet for Fatdog by smokey 01,
do those still need to be done? Or has that been fixed by making the pet in fatdog?

<You also need to remove the .gz from initrd.gz in the menu.lst file. >
It needs to be changed to initrd.xz correct?

I do not know how to <change cpio to get the bootsplash working >
Can someone tell me how to do this?

I would like to use lighthouse. Would I add it when it wants the fatdog link?

I assume that I can create frugal installs from the dvd to a hard drive
and then use grub4dos to load them. Is that correct?

Pets and sfs; How do you keep the x32 and x64 separate in the mnt/home
file so they can be used by more than one iso. Or is that done by multipup?
That was not covered by the video.

Anything special I need to know about the savefiles?

Pete

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1642 Location: South Australia

Pete,

The Fatdog version on my site works quite well.
http://www.smokey01.com/software/Fatdog64-600/Multipup-FD64-4.2.pet

The changes that are suggested for the pet for Fatdog by smokey 01,
do those still need to be done? Or has that been fixed by making the pet in fatdog?

Most, if not all of those fixes have been applied.

<You also need to remove the .gz from initrd.gz in the menu.lst file. >
It needs to be changed to initrd.xz correct?
No, Multipup will do this for you when you select the Fatdog option.

I'm pretty sure I have included cpio in the package so it will build the image file properly. Most puppies only have the cut down version of cpio.

I would like to use lighthouse. Would I add it when it wants the fatdog link?
No, use Series 3,4&5.

I assume that I can create frugal installs from the dvd to a hard drive
and then use grub4dos to load them. Is that correct?
Yes

Pets and sfs; How do you keep the x32 and x64 separate in the mnt/home file so they can be used by more than one iso. Or is that done by multipup? That was not covered by the video.

This just allows you to put them on the DVD for convenience. They have to be installed/loaded separately. Once you have written a bootable ISO you can't normally, well not easily, add any additional files. This method gives you that opportunity.

Anything special I need to know about the savefiles?
I wouldn't recommend creating savefiles on the DVD, although it's possible. The latest Fatdog-620b allows you to save to a directory instead of using a savefile, very nice.

I will have to review the help video as I made it quite a while ago.

Let us know how you got on.