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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

I found this one on another forum.

I fail to get what he is doing. But it is a kind of rebuild of iso
to be able to boot it from usb and he see that as more practical?

Would it still be able to make use of save file or is it always fresh.

If it is always fresh can one build into the new iso the changes one needs like Swedish keyboard, Adobe Flash player and so on?

http://reboot.pro/5041/page__st__50

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

The reason I found it interesting where my latest attempt
to have a computer without a hard disk and boot it using
a small USB with just Lupu-528-005 on it and Firefox
and Adoble Flash Player and some other things like Geeqie
and VLC and so on. And the most important to me is that
it has the Swedish keyboard setting.

As it is now I need to go through set up each time I boot.

CD/DVD allow for Puppy set up as multisession and
each time I read Flash and others tell about their way
of running it then that sounds interesting.

Placing sfs in initramfs is that what Iguleder has done too?

I failed to get how to set up his OS so I dropped out of that thread.
But remember something vaguely but maybe misunderstood.

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1184 Location: New Zealand

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes I should try it but I get so sad when I fail doing things that goes wrong.
I tried to boot a LM12 recently and spent hours on it and it refused to boot.
Luckily Puppy could install itself and that allow me to boot LM12 through
the grub4dos that it installed. G4D find LM12 and privide a boot link to it.

But it should had worked with grub2 too. So I have not licked the wounds
enough to dare a new failure. But I most likely try it out next week.

linuxbear · Posted: Tue 10 Apr 2012, 15:38 Post subject:

If you look for ways to optimize the filesystem so that Linux runs more efficiently on an SSD, you will also find some options which when turned off will increase read/write times to a pendrive. This search will tell you that SSD works best with an ext-2 format. That is the base system format of a solid state disk. I am not sure if ext-2 would be more efficient on a USB device. If you use something like unetbootin to create the USB pendrive, it will most likely force a FAT 32 format as the base system. When you are saving your sfs files, you should probably choose as you normally would for a Puppy frugal install since puppy-foo.sfs is a squashed file that the base format will not care about.

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Nooby,

i think best way to lead you to success would be to make a remaster, only working for your computer - as a first stage.

All you have to do, is to click OK or YES at every GUI that wants to be clicked by you - after you have installed the needed applications and setup your system (swedish keyboard etc).

It probably doesn't run on other computers (because of the different hardware settings), but surely on the yours.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9389 Location: SwedenEurope

Yes it is supposed to run on that computer primary but if I add a
pfix=ram boot in the menu.list it will allow it to start up fresh on
any computer but then I will have lost the Firefox with bookmarks.

But maybe one an do like Beem and others have done.
Do symlink to the /mnt/home and that way be able to use it anywhere?

Or one have Firefox as a sfs load on fly? I have Opera browser
as sfs fast to load but have not experimented with bookmarks
I cheated and made html page of the bookmarks. Slower but better
than nothing.
Thanks for telling about the remaster. I doubt I am intelligent enough
to use it but I should give it a try for sure.