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Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 02:05**

Thanks very much to kirk and jamesbond for this amazing distro!

I'm still using the rc but will upgrade, I'm running my remaster on a
fast 4gb flash drive with a 1gb savefile, no problems

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 04:33**

Just downloaded the new distro and so far it's working great except for one thing (please excuse my noobness)...

Can anyone tell me how to open a file from firefox in fatdog64-600? I have read the manual and faqs and spent a few hours trying to figure it out. I tried the spot thing suggested, didn't work, I also tried changing the config file from firefox -spot to just firefox with the exec parameter, that doesn't work for me either. Other programs seem to load files from my data drive (internal) on my laptop, but not ff.

I have just burnt a live cd and loaded that so not using any sfs or save files yet. All I want to do is to read the file, I'm not trying to write anything and I put it in the suggested location for spot and copied it to the desktop, so I know it's there, but it won't give me permission to read, when I use the open file command from the ff menu.

I don't know what else to do or where else to look for information, so if someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction, I'll go and spend another few hours trying to figure it out. Is it really this difficult?

Also the forum did not remember my change of password and blocked me out for half an hour. So I've spent about four hours just trying to upload some files to you and log in to the forum.

Anyway, you FatDog64 users, hope you like the wallpapers I made, and thanks to the chaps for taking the time to do the distro.

I'm a little bit frustrated to say the least, so apologies if I sound a bit cranky, but it's been a long session and the last thing I needed was having to reboot back into windows (where I had just rebooted from into FatDog, coz that's where I did the graphics).

And sorry if I posted things in the wrong section, feel free to move, now I'm going to catch some sleep.

Anyway, this was just my way of saying thanks for the new distro - enjoy!

I've got a few more that I'm working on, so if people like them, who knows, I may upload some more

.

Cheers.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 04:56**

Has anyone attempted the older virtualbox build script found here in 600Final?

And has anyone build the latest truecrypt (7.1a) for any of the recent FT Betas or RCs?

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 06:33**

rcrsn51 wrote:...the equivalent DVD command looks like
Code: Select all
dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0

Thanks...
I now have that recorded in my "Commands" text file on a Flash Drive, for possible future use.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 08:47**

Q5sys wrote:Has anyone attempted the older virtualbox build script found here in 600Final?

Still works.

And has anyone build the latest truecrypt (7.1a) for any of the recent FT Betas or RCs?

I haven't tried, others?

Ruff-Boy wrote:Can anyone tell me how to open a file from firefox in fatdog64-600? I have read the manual and faqs and spent a few hours trying to figure it out. I tried the spot thing suggested, didn't work, I also tried changing the config file from firefox -spot to just firefox with the exec parameter, that doesn't work for me either. Other programs seem to load files from my data drive (internal) on my laptop, but not ff.

I don't get it, what exactly are you trying to do?

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 09:09**

Ruff-Boy maybe one need to mount that drive that the file is on.
And even add it as a file for Firefox to open in case that is not obvious?

I apologize if I have misunderstood what you talk about.
As JameBond indicate in his answer above maybe try
to describe where you are at that moment and what you click on?

My experience is that sometimes one need to do mount first.
Either using menu Files and Mount or using the Terminal some
CLI code that do such mounting,

If this "All I want to do is to read the file" is how you boot then
one most likely has to mount the partition that the file is on.
Or maybe even move the file to the spot directory?

Haha it took me some 30 minutes to find my old post from June 15 about it.

Is this what you talk about?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 442#634442

The easier way for me where to move my html file from home to spot!

I had a html file on my HD that I wanted to use as a bookmark page
that could be loaded in the Browser and the only way to do it where
to move it from / or /mnt/home to /spot

If I talk about something entirely other you have to describe it in other
words so somebody get what it is all about

Older text explaining it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 422#634422

Quote:
Nooby says:
that simplified html file that I use as my "home page"
lies on my sda2 file and have tested it on some 25 different
OS and many many puppies and only fatdog with this SM
failed to read it. So that where odd.

JameBond says:

Fatdog runs the browser as spot. Spot does not have access to your sda2
(by design). If you don't like this, edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser and change "seamonkey-spot" to just "seamonkey".

So that could explain why you could not use that file. Or none of us get what you talk about?

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 10:49**

Ain't over till the fat dog sings

Thank you very much indeed for the hard work put in this long-awaited Pup
Very good it is so far too, well done guys !

Any chance of a compatible Thunar or SpaceFM pet available somewhere?
Santé !

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 14:25**

nooby wrote:Ruff-Boy maybe one need to mount that drive that the file is on.
And even add it as a file for Firefox to open in case that is not obvious?

I apologize if I have misunderstood what you talk about.
As JameBond indicate in his answer above maybe try
to describe where you are at that moment and what you click on?

My experience is that sometimes one need to do mount first.
Either using menu Files and Mount or using the Terminal some
CLI code that do such mounting,

If this "All I want to do is to read the file" is how you boot then
one most likely has to mount the partition that the file is on.
Or maybe even move the file to the spot directory?

Haha it took me some 30 minutes to find my old post from June 15 about it.

Is this what you talk about?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 442#634442
The easier way for me where to move my html file from home to spot!
I had a html file on my HD that I wanted to use as a bookmark page
that could be loaded in the Browser and the only way to do it where
to move it from / or /mnt/home to /spot

If I talk about something entirely other you have to describe it in other
words so somebody get what it is all about

Older text explaining it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 422#634422
Quote:
Nooby says:
that simplified html file that I use as my "home page"
lies on my sda2 file and have tested it on some 25 different
OS and many many puppies and only fatdog with this SM
failed to read it. So that where odd.

JameBond says:

Fatdog runs the browser as spot. Spot does not have access to your sda2
(by design). If you don't like this, edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser and change "seamonkey-spot" to just "seamonkey".
So that could explain why you could not use that file. Or none of us get what you talk about?

I have the same problem. I cannot import the bookmark.html file to firefox even the file has been copied to the directory /root/spot/. I also cannot open the bookmark.html file from the menu:file/open file/.

Is there any other methods to import the bookmark file to firefox?

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 15:51**

winwin wrote:I have the same problem. I cannot import the bookmark.html file to firefox even the file has been copied to the directory /root/spot/. I also cannot open the bookmark.html file from the menu:file/open file/.Is there any other methods to import the bookmark file to firefox?

Because Firefox is running as the user spot, you must make your bookmarks file owned by spot.

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chown spot:spot bookmarks.html

Then it will import.

I had better results saving my bookmarks as a json file, then using Restore instead of Import.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 16:30**

rcrsn51 wrote:I had better results saving my bookmarks as a json file, then using Restore...

(a) How should I do that?
I don't know how to import bookmarks using html file, or restore either.
I have a bookmarks-2012-06-03.json backup file.

(b) I had "Firefox sync" in use, but lost the "Recovery key" for my sync account...
[Old PC hardware failed, and don't have a recent backup of my password vault, that includes the Firefox sync Recovey key].

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 16:39**

Sylvander wrote:(a) How should I do that?
I have a bookmarks-2012-06-03.json backup file

Use the same procedure.
1. Copy the .json file into /root/spot.
2. Run: chown spot:spot bookmarks-2012-06-03.json
3. In Firefox, go to Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Restore > Choose File

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 16:53**

I'm working as root...

But your instruction = "3. In Firefox, go to Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Restore > Choose File" did the trick.

Thanks you so much.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 17:01**

Use the same procedure.
1. Copy the .json file into /root/spot.
2. Run: chown spot:spot bookmarks-2012-06-03.json

Or you can put your bookmarks file in the Downloads folder and start Firefox/Seamonkey. When Firefox/Seamonkey starts it chowns everything in Downloads to owner spot.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 17:10**

Kirk thanks
I guess the FAQ tells it or you have told us in other posts?
This

Or you can put your bookmarks file in the Downloads folder

Does that goes into the savefile then? While if I have such files on /mnt-system
then it is only on the HD and not in savefile?

Thanks to rcrsn51 for explaining the cown thing. Not that I can use it
I am not that clever but that where what I thought that Ruff-Boy needs to know.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 18:41**

rcrsn51 wrote:
Sylvander wrote:(a) How should I do that?
I have a bookmarks-2012-06-03.json backup file
Use the same procedure.
1. Copy the .json file into /root/spot.
2. Run: chown spot:spot bookmarks-2012-06-03.json
3. In Firefox, go to Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Restore > Choose File

ThanksI Follow your instructions, I can restore the bookmark file.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 18:43**

I put the bookmarks file in Downloads then I try to edit it with composer then save the file in spot. Then I import the bookmarks file easily .

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 21:00**

Some of teh problems and missings still exist with the GA version.

Anyone else noticed the "mount command in bash for CIFS resources" problem? Is there a circumvention?

Here to help

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 21:21**

I installed 600 final to the hard drive.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8167MB (153MB used)
Machine Type Physical machine
Operating System Fatdog64 [ae14ad5e68]
User Name root (root)
Date/Time Sat Jul 7 17:12:44 2012
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version
Kernel Linux 3.4.4 (x86_64)
Version #1 SMP Sat Jun 23 18:31:59 GMT 2012
C Library GNU C Library version 2.13 (stable)
Distribution Fatdog64 [ae14ad5e68]
OpenGL
Vendor VMware, Inc.
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300)
Version 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
Direct Rendering Yes
# glxgears
2943 frames in 5.0 seconds = 588.432 FPS
3066 frames in 5.0 seconds = 613.009 FPS
2845 frames in 5.0 seconds = 568.966 FPS

No problems.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 21:24**

gcmartin wrote:Anyone else noticed the "mount command in bash for CIFS resources" problem? Is there a circumvention?

Please describe the problem.

Posted: **Sat 07 Jul 2012, 22:16**

I had three lockups last night when using FD64-600, seamonkey version. It didn't actually stop working but it did slow down so much that it almost did. It also looked like it was driving the processor pretty hard too.

I think I may have been using seamonkey each time this happened. I have placed all of my profile files outside on /mnt/home/profiles/sm210 then created another profile in seamonkey to access them. Might this be the problem?

I'm not into this spot thing, I'm a root man that's why I use Puppy. I run as root and run seamonkey as /usr/bin/seamonkey not /usr/bin/seamonkey-spot

Edit: It appears it may be my new 3TB USB HDD. It doesn't seem to have the same problem with Saluki 012. It's a NTFS drive. Ctrl+Backspace and a restart of xwin cures the problem for a while, anyway. Any ideas?

Bugger, this is a show stopper.

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