Akita Linux, Beta 16 ISO

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#1066 Post by musher0 »

Mike7 wrote:Hi, musher0.
Yes you can create a swap partition on a USB flash drive, the usual way,
as you would on any hard drive -- using gparted.
I've never created a swap file, on hard drive or otherwise. Is it done by
creating a new partition and choosing "linux-swap" as the file system?

What about the "mkswap" and "swapon" terminal commands? Do these
need to be invoked if a partition is created with Gparted? Inversely, if a
swap partition is made with mkswap, does anything need to be done using
Gparted?

Below is a screenshot of Gparted showing the partitions on my 16Gb USB
flash drive containing Carolite-1.2 (in sdb1).

Could I simply make a 1Gb swap partition in the unallocated 1.24 Gb third
partition (using linux-swap)? If so, would I then have to add the bootcode
"swapon" in menu.lst?

Thanks very much for your help with all this.

Mike
Hello, Mike.

Thanks for your questions. Answers in no order:

Judging from your screen shot, yes you can create a swap partition in the
space you have left on your USB drive, by specifying the "Linux-swap"
format for that swap partition in Gparted. It's ok to use the remaining 1.25
Gb, but 512 Mb would be enough.

A swap partition is recognized and made operational automatically by the
Linux system at boot time. With a swap partition you don't need to use
any additional commands.

Different story with a swap file. As I said in the other thread, you need to
put some commands in file rc.local at /etc/rc.d, like this:

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# (...)
# swap file 
mkswap /mnt/home/pupswap.swp # mount it 
swapon /mnt/home/pupswap.swp # activate it 
echo 30 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness # makes swapping less agressive 
# (...)
Important: Don't touch anything else in file rc.local.

And then you save, and you reboot your Puppy to make the new swap
file operational.

Once you have re-booted, to double-check, you can see if the swap file is
operational by typing "swapon -s" or "free" in a terminal.

I hope this answers your questions. I'm here if you have more.

BFN.

musher0
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#1067 Post by Mike7 »

musher0 wrote: Judging from your screen shot, yes you can create a swap partition in the
space you have left on your USB drive, by specifying the "Linux-swap"
format for that swap partition in Gparted.
Okay, I'll try that and see if it helps speed things up. (I doubt it will, but who knows? :-( )
I hope this answers your questions. I'm here if you have more.
Much appreciated.

M.
Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD.

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#1068 Post by Arguser »

Mike,

How was that with swapfile???

Here are portable apps, go well with akita except google-chrome and clamav that are not working, i don t know the reason

http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt/


Would be good to put last version of some packets like pburn, will try to do it.. Any help will thank in advande

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#1069 Post by Mike7 »

Hi, Arguser.
How was that with swapfile???
I succeeded in creating a 1Gb swap partition on the unallocated 3rd partition of my pendrive. It is being used infrequently, only when RAM becomes totally occupied (which does happen if I have more than one or two browser windows open to youtube).

OTOH, I doubt it does anything to speed up the computer (still running Carolite-1.2, now with Firefox 38.0.5). I am trying all sorts of other things to increase speed, like reducing caches and keeping personal files out of the boot partition.

Carolite is still slow relative to Puppeee and Akita, but manageable. When I feel I have done all I can and Carolite is usable and stable, I will begin exploring ways to make Akita useful to me.
Here are portable apps, go well with akita except google-chrome and clamav that are not working, i don t know the reason

http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt/
Thanks for the URL. These portable apps are one of the things I intend to try, in both Carolite and Akita. However, I have been told that, as regards Carolite, adding them now will not reduce the size of my save file even if I delete the old apps. I don't really understand why this would be so.

BTW, I don't see any google-chrome on that webpage. The only portable there that could interest me is Firefox, but it doesn't give the FF version number.

I did find a google-chrome portable on http://shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt ... eSFS/pup5/. Is this the one you meant?

There are also Opera portables on that page of the repo, but, once again, they do not say which version of Opera they are based on. I won't download and install large files like these just to find out what version they are.

Shinobar's repo is extremely confusing to me. Not only are app version numbers missing, but I see no indication of why certain files are in certain folders.

Can you explain any of this?
Would be good to put last version of some packets like pburn, will try to do it.
Do you mean in the Akita repo?

Mike
Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD.

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#1070 Post by Arguser »

About portable apps

Download:

Extract then on a flash usb memory

Then you will have a directory firefox----extracted

Go in, will have a strante icon, make click. Will offer to start download the last version diretly from firefox webpage. Put yes.
You will have in some minutes a new directory, also something like firefox-portable
Then, entry, press the firefox icon, and will open firefox!!

About pburn, it seems the official package is working in akita also!! And no, i have not acces to the repositoty, just open a yandex disk and put there some pets
I hope you can understand my answer

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#1071 Post by Mike7 »

Hi, Arguser.
About portable apps. . . Download. . .Extract then on a flash usb memory. . . Then you will have a directory firefox----extracted. . . Go in, will have a strante icon, make click. Will offer to start download the last version diretly from firefox webpage. Put yes. . . You will have in some minutes a new directory, also something like firefox-portable. . . Then, entry, press the firefox icon, and will open firefox!!
You seem to be saying that the version updates from Mozilla create new portables. Is that really true?
About pburn, it seems the official package is working in akita also
What do you mean by "the official package"?
I hope you can understand my answer
I hope so too <grin>.

But you didn't reply to my questions about the lack of version numbers on Shinobar's portables, and the confusion I have in finding them in all different folders in the repo. These issues are keeping me from using the portables. Can you help me solve them?

Mike
Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD.

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#1072 Post by Arguser »

HJi
Portable apps always will download the last version of the browser. The same in Sea Monkey than in firefox.

From the shinobar page you must always took the last ,(it seems firefox portable 8-2) it will work better. But the portable apps always connect to mozzila site to take the last version!

The package version and the firefox version are diferent things.

Just probe it once and will understand! That s better than any explanation!

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#1073 Post by Mike7 »

Arguser-
From the shinobar page you must always took the last. . . But the portable apps always connect to mozzila site to take the last version!
I get it now.
Just probe it once and will understand! That s better than any explanation!
Okay.

M.
Carolite-1.2 w/FF38 on bootable 16G flash drive; Asus eeePC 1000HA, Atom CPU, 2G RAM, 160G HDD.

Pelo

Akita Linux me gusta mucho

#1074 Post by Pelo »

Akita Linux me gusta mucho . tested Virtual machine Windows 7.
Tested on laptop Acer Aspire 1640 512MB 2004 : added Firefox from ASRI repository then i remasterised ISO. I Don't understand why a decent browser is not installed as default. What a newbie will do when myself is unable to run elinks ! :(
Alsa 1.0.27 : i failed to install it.
Packages : failed to load... in spite of i am well connected.
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#1075 Post by Arguser »

Hello ledo,

you can t install packages? what iso are you using? what manager?

i think that browser installer is better than to have a default browser. what if i don t want firefor or something?

s i think they just must put newer browsers.

Pelo

People from puppy Facebook spanish are fond of AKITA too.

#1076 Post by Pelo »

Generally Firefox or Seamonkey make everybody happy, no ?
And if you care the ISO size, you can install an older version. We shall upgrate it if needed.
Those who don't like these two browsers know how to uninstall them, sure.
Better than newbies will know how to install one.

The iSO is bêta 16. It's a nice Puppy, sure. but package manager does not connect. Else, i would have installed it permanently on my old laptop Aspire 1640
People from puppy Facebook spanish are fond of AKITA too.
I did not say my last word. I shall try again. What sailor(browser) do you advise(do recommend) to me? Elinks is a.... :mrgreen:

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Re: Akita Linux me gusta mucho

#1077 Post by sc0ttman »

Pelo wrote:Akita Linux me gusta mucho . tested Virtual machine Windows 7.
Tested on laptop Acer Aspire 1640 512MB 2004 : added Firefox from ASRI repository then i remasterised ISO. I Don't understand why a decent browser is not installed as default. What a newbie will do when myself is unable to run elinks ! :(
Alsa 1.0.27 : i failed to install it.
Packages : failed to load... in spite of i am well connected.
Maybe open up /usr/sbin/pkg, find the check_net function

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check_net () { #110213,0.9.1  add ping here, if no net exit
	[ ! "$1" ] && URL="8.8.8.8" || URL="$1"
	ping -4 -c1 -q "`echo  ${URL} | awk -F/ '{print $3}'`" &>/dev/null
	REPLY=$?
	[ $REPLY = 0 ] && echo 0 || echo 1
}
Maybe delete its contents and make it always return 0 .. Or 1 .. I cant remember..

The 'Pkg' thing I did isn't too bad, you can do `pkg -H` to see all the options .. It's quite powerful..

It does have two problems tho:
- the net_check function doesnt always work as it should (as you know)
- the popup menu is a little slow when clicking on pet files in ROX, if you have 'search all repos' enabled
[b][url=https://bit.ly/2KjtxoD]Pkg[/url], [url=https://bit.ly/2U6dzxV]mdsh[/url], [url=https://bit.ly/2G49OE8]Woofy[/url], [url=http://goo.gl/bzBU1]Akita[/url], [url=http://goo.gl/SO5ug]VLC-GTK[/url], [url=https://tiny.cc/c2hnfz]Search[/url][/b]

Pelo

i will check that

#1078 Post by Pelo »

i will check that again. thanks for your help, Scottman
The 'Pkg' thing I did isn't too bad, you can do `pkg -H` to see all the options .. It's quite powerful..
...From the old browser problem, the best option is to take firefox from browser instal

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#1079 Post by Arguser »

Scott, is good to see you back!!

All ok? Any new plans for akita?

Regards

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AKITA Crashes Before Even Loading 2016-04-28

#1080 Post by duckguy »

... Akita Linux ... Latest version, Jan 4th, 2014:

Akita Linux, Beta 16 ISO: Download URL and information ...
Hi, downloaded the latest version. It crashed immediately before even loading. The loader screen itself looks elegant though!?!

I realize this release was over two years ago!

Hope this gets fixed soon. Thanks for the great operating system! I hope to try it out soon. Is this a case of "user error?"
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