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[Rope]

Hello, I tried to make a bootable CD but failed.

I burned Puppy Slacko 450 in a DVD, then used remaster Puppy Live CD.

The result is that it does not have a savefile.

Also, when I run the DVD on another computer I selected to save a file to CD but it failed. I get this screen which I don't know how to interpret:


Anyone can tell me if it is possible to record the savefile on DVD?.

Also how to get the savefile on remastering?

Can I put the savefile in a pendrive, boot from the DVD and read the savefile from the pendrive?

Thanks

[musher0]

Hello, Rope.

The way Puppy is structured, you cannot save its savefile to cd or dvd.

I don't want to get technical, but

if, on first exit, you ask a Puppy to save to cd, it will burn additional sectors under today's date and time as a folder name and save the session in that folder on the CD. One of the features of this save, is that the saved files are clearly visible from the outside of Puppy.

I you choose to save your session on a HD or a thumb drive, it creates a squash file on that disk and saves your session in it. The difference here is that you have to be in a Puppy to see what the squash file contains.

Of course you can put a squash file in a ISO and burn the iso on the cd. But saving to a squash file on a CD in real time is impossible, you'd need UDF format for that.

In Puppy, it has been decided that you cannot mix the two procedures.

I hope I have not been too technical, but it was just to explain "why a fish doesn't grow horns and a cow doesn't have fins." Two very different procedures on two very different media.

Best regards.

musher0

[Flash]

Rope, I'm confused about what it is you're trying to accomplish. When you save to the DVD the first time you shut Puppy down, that turns the DVD into a multisession Puppy. Thereafter, it remains a multisession Puppy which means it saves onto the DVD all the settings you've changed and the programs you've installed, but only if you tell it to.

So far so good. Multisession Puppy is the practical equivalent of remastering. This is what confuses me. You don't need to remaster if you're going to use Puppy from a multisession DVD or CD. Just go ahead and make the changes you want, then save them on the multisession DVD. Every time you boot the DVD thereafter, Puppy will be as it was the last time you saved.

[Rope]

Thanks all. I will try to clarify:

I burned an ISO and then remastered and the remastering did not put the savefile in the DVD.

How do I Remaster Puppy live CD so as I get the savefile included? There must be something I did wrong.


I used the DVD and tried to save the config to the DVD but failed, I get the screen I put above.

It seems this does not work.

What about putting the savefile in a pendrive and boot from the DVD. Will it read the savefile?

[R-S-H]

Usually you'll get a message at remastering, at a stage where you can "add files to the iso" - this the the point for you, to put files into the directory containing the new remastered puppy files. After you have added the files to the iso directory, just continue remastering. Everything should be then on cd/dvd after burnig this iso - but a save file surely will not work ---> because of "SAVE"... - I think...

[Rope]

[Ted Dog]

Rope, You hit upon my preferred way of using Puppy, Download new iso, collection of pets and sfs I really must have included. Burn iso into re-writable DVD, practice changing this or that, patch my host file, load all the browser add-ons and then remake the sfs and reburn on final DVD.
I then reuse same basic resulting sfs setup on DVD's each geared to what ever project I'm working on. Fill up those DVD with multisession .

Instead of going into the whole official remaster process, I do it all in RAM and construct sfs from a live system and reburn. If you have slightly over the size of RAM that the original sfs its a fast system.

Will post my sloppy remaster methods next post.
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[Rope]

[Ted Dog]

[Rope]

Thanks. How do you run the script? Do you create a file script.sh? Where, in /bin/?
Do you put the result sfs in the CD with the other iso files?
What about the savefile?

[Ted Dog]

Cut and paste script into a textfile, save whatevernameyoulike.sh is not needed mine is called.

mainsfsremake

no .sh used (the first line of text tells the rest of world its a script)
if you click on it and its not set for execute rox will ask if you want it to be answer y and your set to click again.


Since it does not require being run from a terminal, just a mouse click on the file works, The file can be located anywhere, mine is on a usb drive with fat32. All work is done in /tmp

(usb mounts are not captured via snapshot sfs)


Now with the redone sfs you have a few options
frugal install just locate boot directory and copy new sfs file over same named sfs,
DVD
fresh DVD copy all files into a directory in /tmp and overwrite sfs with the new improved one. use bBurn tool with boot option checked.
(or use my sloppy two line script file, copied into same directory. again a future post.... sorry need to find a non-UDF, non-hybrid UDF/ISO script, nor BluRay script)

I haven't built a normal DVD in months, been trying to debug getting multisession working for BluRay...

There is one strange issue, and Rope you may have stumbled on it re-mastering using the official method, that I noticed with my above sloppy remaster, I thought BarryK 'fixed' in the true method.
If you start a savefile, a file flag is set forcing puppy to expect a savefile forevermore, Since my sloppy methods just takes everything it see, the savefile flag is set as well. The way I get around that is to force a multisession or copy a blank directory using the same format a directory found in multisession. Those get loaded before the flag for savefile is checked.

[Ted Dog]

Savefile is just an overlay of changed or added files, when you remaster none of the extra unused space is used, Also changed files are fixed in the new remaster, and all the extra stuff added is compressed, a 512M savefile will never result in a 512M sfs file. Typically a customized remaster will only be a few M larger, and in some cases my sloppy remaster will actually be smaller due to the extreme compression (much slower, but run in RAM, not that much) But if you added much and the Megs added is far less than the sum of the pets or sfs added that would be a problem.
If You really wanted to save your savefile, boot puppy with

puppy pfix=ram

locate and copy savefile into directory /archive choose save to DVD option on shutdown or better force a multisession burn using icon on desktop.

the /archive is special in that it will be saved in a multisession but NOT reloaded next use. Very helpful for large sized files that you just wish to store on disc but not reloaded into RAM each time.



I'm sorry if I'm not as good a typer today, I swear the soda I got is not diet and my body is not used to a sugar rush... Please forgive typos and poor language skills today, hope its not a stroke..

[Rope]

I tried to copy the sfs (the script worked) to the DVD I made before but I get an error

'/mnt/sr0/puppy_slacko_5.4.sfs' already exists - overwrite? Yes
ERROR: Read-only file system

I don know why it says it is read only if I did not close session when I burn the DVD.

Should I burn another iso and then copy the sfs file? Sorry to ask so much questions.

[Ted Dog]

Skipped two steps, but you reminded me of something I wanted to add to multisession to more directly do that years ago, I got around that issue using re-writable DVDs.
I'll re-add finding a way to allow changed major puppy elements without having to use a new DVD back to my to-do-list

But do not hold your breath I'm neck deep in one final sticky point getting full multisession support in UDF/BluRay. Oh so close....

You need to copy all files off DVD into a folder in the main working section of puppy like /root /spot or best /tmp.

After that, copy, the new sfs over the other older file copied with the rest of the DVD. <again sorry sugar high, if that is confusing>

Use that folder in pBurn to burn a new DVD. or wait a few until I can find the simple script to easily burn new DVD from the folder it is included in.

[Ted Dog]

Recommended rw-dvd brands
imation DVD-RW (longest lasting one I still use since 2007)
Verbatim also good long lasting but color versions burn slower, and hard to tell if damaged visually

Not recommend Sony branded RW
Sony works great new (fastest burn) but in storage they seem to self destruct (2+ years). bits lost without visual damage.

You will not need many DVD-RW but they make playing with puppylinux multisession less expensive, until you learn the new fangled tricks.