"pup_301.sfs not found" on booting Cloudy Skies Live distro

[Karl Godt]

Hmmm .. I like the init ram disk shell .

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pmedia=usbflash /init

- perhaps two times
and

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exec switch

?

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Privately am running xephem
XEphem 3.7.6 - Clear Sky Institute Inc. http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/

version 3.7.5rc11
that I compiled myself .. had it on Win Sky Drive .. not anymore .. they had reduced sizes ..

[liro]

Okay, I just give up on this... I've tried everything mentioned in this thread several times and none of it works, producing the same errors on both my laptop and the desktop computer. Maybe I'm just cursed? :/ I dunno, but it seems like I'm just not destined to use Cloudy Skies Live, for the time being at least.

Thanks for the help anyway.

[Karl Godt]

What I could think of is to use the initrd.gz from other later Puppies , just changing the DISTRO_SPECS file inside of these .

Have not dl Puppy Cloudy Skies for its huge size of 450MB .

[liro]

What I could think of is to use the initrd.gz from other later Puppies , just changing the DISTRO_SPECS file inside of these .

Have not dl Puppy Cloudy Skies for its huge size of 450MB .

Thanks Karl, I tried that but it didn't work. I think I'll just forget about it for the moment, wasted too much time on it already .

At least I've got Stellarium to work now on Slacko 5.6 (just upgraded today).

[jaje]

I know this is kind of old, but I might have stumbled on another answer. I was trying to use ISOBooter to boot Slacko Puppy (among others) from a USB. It kept using my save file from the Puppy installed on my hard drive, and on a computer with no Puppy installed, it came up with the same red text pictured in a previous post in this thread (not able to find .sfs file).

After reading some of the other solutions, I tried altering the menu.lst file in the root of the USB before I messed with anything in the .iso. Under the entry for Slacko Puppy, I changed the "pmedia=cd" to "pmedia=usbflash/slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso". I rebooted and it worked.

If everyone is way ahead of me on this, please disregard. - I don't know what I am doing, so this was a major breakthrough for me!

John

[rcrsn51]

Could you run a few more tests?

1. Set up ISObooter to boot off the splash screen. Does this help with finding the SFS file?

2. Set up ISObooter to NOT boot off the splash screen, but change the menu.lst entry to "pmedia=xxx". Does this work?

ISObooter uses "pmedia=cd" because it is Puppy's most aggressive mode for locating files, and usually works correctly. But it might also find a savefile on the hard drive, which you might not want.

[jaje]

Could you run a few more tests?
1. Set up ISObooter to boot off the splash screen. Does this help with finding the SFS file?

Booting it with the splash screen, it still found and used the savefile from the hard drive.

2. Set up ISObooter to NOT boot off the splash screen, but change the menu.lst entry to "pmedia=xxx". Does this work?

Yes, that worked! It found and loaded the SFS file from the ISO.

Thanks!

[8Geee]

I realize this is apparently solved, but one thing I noticed on the boot up

"pup_301.sfs"

An archaic thread about this problem revealed then that a line of coding
IN ERROR used an underscore to search the sfs file. It SHOULD be

"pup-301.sfs" with a dash

This goes back to 2008.

[jaje]

1. Set up ISObooter to boot off the splash screen. Does this help with finding the SFS file?

2. Set up ISObooter to NOT boot off the splash screen, but change the menu.lst entry to "pmedia=xxx". Does this work?

Okay, I did a few more tests - I tried the above two methods on:
precise-5.7.1-retro.iso and
racy-5.5.iso

Neither worked either way (couldn't find SFS file), but the Slacko Puppy works fine with the pmedia=xxx method. Something's different about Precise and Racy...

[jaje]

1. Set up ISObooter to boot off the splash screen. Does this help with finding the SFS file?

2. Set up ISObooter to NOT boot off the splash screen, but change the menu.lst entry to "pmedia=xxx". Does this work?

Okay, I did a few more tests - I tried the above two methods on:
precise-5.7.1-retro.iso and
racy-5.5.iso

Neither worked either way (couldn't find SFS file), but the Slacko Puppy works fine with the pmedia=xxx method. Something's different about Precise and Racy...

Nope, I am wrong - it is finding the SFS file from the hard drive with the Slacko. I installed Precise on the hard drive and now it too boots from the USB.

It is reading the SFS file from the HD because when it shuts down (after running from USB) it says something like "Unmounting sda5" where Slacko is installed.