Fatdog64-600 Final and 601 (July 2012)

[jamesbond]

I'm not sure how you prevent 32-bit compatibility.

Choose no when asked whether you'd to install 32-bit libraries.

When I run the script like:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.59.run

The screen is quite messy and it's hard to follow the prompts.

Yes, very messy. Same here too.

Previous attempts with 32-bit, not problems at all.

Because there aren't multiple libraries involved.

What special things did you do to make the the pet?

Nothing, I already informed you how I did it: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=450.

cheers!

[Barburo]

I run many different puppies and other distros on my laptop, but FD601 just hangs - it finds and identifies the vmlinuz file, but just hangs on initrd. I downloaded Fatdog64-601-Firefox.iso from the Greek mirror and checked the md5sum (OK).
I have tried all sorts of parameters like waitdev and various pci parms but nothing happens and there are no error messages. Has anyone else encountered this?
I think it' could be a kernel problem but I have never had any kernel issues with this machine.
Through Grub I run Windows 7, Lighthouse64, Mint 11, Mint Debian, Macpup 528v2, Saluki 021, Racy puppy, which covers many kernels.
I have set up and run with no problems FD600 on my regular 64 bit desktop..
I'm stumped on this one. Any suggestions?

My laptop is Acer Aspire 5810tz-4775 and Hardinfo gives:
Processor: 2x Genuine Intel(R) CPU U4100 @ 1.30GHz
Memory: 3987MB Resolution: 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
SCSI Disks: ATA Hitachi HTS54505 MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ862AS

I use grub to boot everything, and my preferred method for adding a new distro is:
- download the .iso, check md5sum
- open the iso and copy the required files to a directory.
- Add an entry for the new distro to menu.lst
- reboot and test

My existing menu.lst entry for FD601 is:
title Fat Dog 601 (on /dev/sda5 - ext4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /FatDog601/vmlinuz waitdev=3 pci=nocrs loglevel=7
initrd /FatDog601/initrd

sda5 is an extended partition formatted to ext4, and the two files in /FatDog601 are vmlinuz and initrd.

[smokey01]

What special things did you do to make the the pet?

Nothing, I already informed you how I did it: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=450.
cheers!

So you did, but I couldn't find it, Sorry.

Thanks again.

[rcrsn51]

but FD601 just hangs - it finds and identifies the vmlinuz file, but just hangs on initrd..

This sounds like the same behaviour I get when trying to boot FD600 off a flash drive - it's a BIOS issue. My solution is to use the small-initrd version from here.

I don't know if there is a small-initrd release for 601.

[duke93535]

I have JWM working fairly well on Fatdog 601, I like using xcompmgr (for shadowing). The last JWM snapshot that works with it for me is 523. I had to compile it myself.

I have also modified the /usr/bin/jwm_menu_create, first I removed the corner tags (line #353 and #359) and then corrected one line about #391 for the pager styles foreground (This fixes the color tag error).

Reads.

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<Foreground>'${PAGERG}'</Foreground>

Should be.

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<Foreground>'${PAGERFG}'</Foreground>

This fixes the errors listed with “jwm -p

[smokey01]

Has anyone managed to compile the latest Filezilla for Fatdog-601?

It needs xwWidgets to be installed. So when I try to compile that I get more problems.

[jamesbond]

but FD601 just hangs - it finds and identifies the vmlinuz file, but just hangs on initrd..

Since you use grub, do you ever get to see the message of initrd being loaded? If not, then like rcrsn51 said it's probably because of your laptop doesn't support big initrd.

I don't know if there is a small-initrd release for 601.

There isn't one yet, but I'll make one for the seamonkey iso.

EDIT: 601-small-initrd is now available in the mirrors:
- http://puppy-linux.org/fatdog64/ (thanks to Q5sys)
- http://www.smokey01.com/jamesbond/fatdog64/ (thanks to smokey01).

corrected one line about #391 for the pager styles foreground

Thank you, fixed.

blinky_tray-0.8.1 is from here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... /source/b/

You can also get blinky from jwm_applets pet.

Has anyone managed to compile the latest Filezilla for Fatdog-601?

It needs xwWidgets to be installed. So when I try to compile that I get more problems.

I haven't tried that. Did you use the wxWidgets from the package repo, or did you roll up your own?

[smokey01]

Has anyone managed to compile the latest Filezilla for Fatdog-601?

It needs xwWidgets to be installed. So when I try to compile that I get more problems.

I haven't tried that. Did you use the wxWidgets from the package repo, or did you roll up your own?

I did try to roll my own but I was unsuccessful.

I then tried the ones in the repo but had no luck either. When compiling filezilla during the ./configure process the xwwidgets could not be found after both pets were installed.

CatDude was working on it too so I'm not sure what progress he has made.

I really like filezilla as it lets you copy between directories on websites, something gFTP can't do.

Regards

[maddmike]

Fatdog 600 works great for me. There is just one weird problem I've found. The taskbar entries for open windows don't show the icons for each application; they all look the same. Screenshot attached.

Does anyone else have this behavior? Does anyone know how to solve it? I've seen the same thing on two PCs with every version of Fatdog I've tried, which goes back to 500.

Thanks.
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[Barburo]

Thanks to rcrsn51 and jamesbond.
The fd600 version with a small initrd did work for me - I was unaware of that option. Thanks again.
B.

[DC]

Hi J & K,

Whilst testing DVB with my old twinhan I found the file "dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw" was missing. I'd just like to know was it left out / old /not required etc.

FYI I found the file in Fatdog 511 and it works fine.

dc

[WillM]

Hi madmike,

Lxpanel-0.5.9 in the Fatdog64-600 repository will display program icons in the taskbar. It will also change the main menu icons.

[rcrsn51]

My favourite feature is the ability to boot the iso directly from grub.

title fatdog64
kernel /memdisk iso
initrd /Fatdog64-600-firefox.iso

I wonder if memdisk is less demanding. I believe that this is a fairly new feature in syslinux.

I finally tested this using an ext3 hard drive partition. I copied memdisk out of FD600 from /usr/share/syslinux and booted with legacy GRUB. It worked fine.

[Edit] For people using the GRUB2 bootable flash drive method, this should work:

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menuentry "Fatdog ISO" {
 loopback loop /Fatdog64-601-Firefox.iso
 linux (loop)/vmlinuz
 initrd (loop)/initrd
}

[Fishy]

Fatdog is working flawlessly with the exception of Firefox occasionally shutting down on its own.

Wondering if there is an up-dated transmission compatible with the over-sized dog?

[jamesbond]

I then tried the ones in the repo but had no luck either. When compiling filezilla during the ./configure process the xwwidgets could not be found after both pets were installed.

Ah, I see. That's because FileZilla requires that wxWidgets is compiled with unicode, the one in the repo isn't.

Whilst testing DVB with my old twinhan I found the file "dvb-usb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw" was missing. I'd just like to know was it left out / old /not required etc.

Not sure. Linux-firmware doesn't seem to have a copy of that file anymore. Does your DVB work without it? If not, I'll try to find that in my old copy of 511, or better yet, send me that file and I'll put it in. If you do, tell me which directory I need to put it in, too. Thanks.

I wonder if memdisk is less demanding. I believe that this is a fairly new feature in syslinux.

Yes, because when it loads stuff to memory it can assure that they are all contiguous. Glad to see it work.

Wondering if there is an up-dated transmission compatible with the over-sized dog?

Not that I know of, still waiting for volunteer ...

[smokey01]

Jamesbond,

CatDude managed to get FileZilla 3.5.2 working. It is the previous version and one that plinej had compiled. It needed some work but it works fine.

It can be found here:
Http://www.smokey01.com/software/Fatdog64-600

[01micko]

Wondering if there is an up-dated transmission compatible with the over-sized dog?

Not that I know of, still waiting for volunteer ...

If I get some time tomorrow I might take a look. Many torrent sites now only offer magnet links which don't work in older transmission versions. Also you need to tweak seamonkey/firefox settings, I wrote something about it somewhere

[Fishy]

I tried to make a pup that would work but my skills only are to the level of screwing up the pup.

[rcrsn51]

Here is the 64-bit version of PeasyPort for Fatdog. The release notes are here.

[01micko]

I tried to make a pup that would work but my skills only are to the level of screwing up the pup.

Anyways .. here it is:

Transmission

transmission-2.60-x86_64.pet 752k .. (I love this xz compression!)

Note, 2.60 is the last version that compiles against gtk+-2.0 (4th July, 2012, so still recent). I guess these developers are going to force us into gtk 3 one day eh?

REQUIRES:

libevent

libevent-2.0.19-stable-x86_64.pet 161k

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Sundries

dev, doc and nls are in this folder


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Appendix

You will likely need to set up Firefox or Seamonkey to recognise the magnet protocol as many links to torrents are now magnet links. Ordinary .torrent files are unaffected by this procedure.

In about:config add the following as a new bool:

network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet

Set it's initial value to false.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi ... ssociation

When you try a magnet link Firefox/Seamonkey will pop up a box asking you what program you want to open the link with. Navigate with the file selector to /usr/bin/transmission-gtk then click open. Transmission will open where you can set your download folder and start downloading the torrent. Tested working.


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Have fun!