1. I could be wrong, of course, that's just the way it looks to me.Flash wrote:I'm surprised that a multisession Puppy disk will look for anything but swap memory on the hard disk when it boots, much less modify anything on the hard disk without asking. I'd consider that a bug and report it as such.
In any case....
2 SUCCESS!
I now have 2 fully functioning DVD+RW disks...
1-off Precise-5.7.1 [for general work?][spoke too soon, now not booting, see note below]
1-off Precise-5.6.1 [for online banking?]
I deleted the previous filepair for the CD-RW->Precise-5.6.1= precisesave+SFS.
That appears to have eliminated the problems.
I then copied [into the folder where I deleted the previous files] the SFS files for the 2 above DVD+RW's.
This does indeed speed up the loading of the Puppies quite noticeably.
a. Burned a DVD+RW->Precise-5.7.1, configured it and installed various packages.
Installed Firefox-16.0.1-i686-up; typing this using it.
SaveMyModem [smm] and Thunderbird both functioning.
Xfe, WINE, Foxitreader, PupClockset, Pupsnap, Pwidgets, Netsecurity,
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Uh-oh...
Rebooted to save all those session changes...
Save seemed good.
Then the BIOS took longer than usual before it began to boot the DVD...
As soon as the boot began, it went to a flashing cursor on a black screen.
No text displayed.
Here in DVD+RW->Precise-5.6.1, the 5.7.1 DVD won't display on the desktop.
The DVD's LED flashes as the Precise-5.6.1+hardware tried to read the DVD contents, but it never succeeds.
Screwed-up filesystem on the DVD?
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b. Re-burned the DVD+RW of the misbehaving Precise-5.6.1, configured it and installed various packages.
3. Not too keen to mess with anything that might introduce problems with these 2 NICE DVD+RW's, but....
Is there any safe/easy test to see if it's possible to move [backup copies of] the 2 deleted files back onto the internal HDD?