INFORMATION WE NEED TO HELP YOU

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bigpup
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INFORMATION WE NEED TO HELP YOU

#1 Post by bigpup »

Do Not Post Problems In This Topic.
This Is Information On what We Need From You, To Help You!!!

Make your own separate topic about your problem or question.
The Beginners Help section of the forum is a good place for questions to be posted by new users.



First try this Puppy search web site:
http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html


Take a deep breath and calm down. Your explanations will be a lot clearer if you are not panicking.

Some clue as to your ability with Linux and/or computers will help us target our replies more appropriately.

To understand your problem and possible solutions. We need the following information.

Specific information about your computer.
What is it?
Hardware specs if you know them.
Make and model if nothing else. (We can look it up)

What Puppy version?
There are 300+ versions.
All slightly different.

Examples:
Precise 5.7.1
Slacko 5.6
Wary 5.5
Tahrpup 6.0.5
Tahrpup64 6.0.5
Bionicpup32 8.0
Bionicpup64 8.0
Etc......


How Puppy is installed?
(Full, frugal, live CD/DVD or USB flash drive etc...)

If you used a specific program to install Puppy,
What program?

Describe your question or problem with the idea that you are our eyes. We only know what you tell us.
You do what?
You see what?

If you talk about a language package say which one.
Nobody can guess your language.

Please reply that our help works or does not work.

If a suggestion does not work.
You do what?
You see what?

If we find an answer to your problem or question.
Please change the topic subject and add solved.
This will help others who may have the same problem or question.

This statement is proven every day.

The things you do not tell us are usually the clue to finding the answer :shock: :D 8)
Last edited by bigpup on Tue 31 Dec 2019, 15:56, edited 23 times in total.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#2 Post by cthisbear »

Amen to that mate.
Some people make your head spin.
Get's me into my Mandrake moments.

Even as I speak.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78687

Chris.

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#3 Post by ardvark »

Thank you, Bigpup, I agree and have found this to be an issue, too, even if I've not been great at it myself when asking for help. :lol:

Regards...

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#4 Post by puppy_user_01 »

X'mas Bigpup, thank you for your help, I've made up my USB with language pack installed for puppy boot. But I haven't download the language .pet module for Slacko but instead a smaller .pet ~ 10M to tune my language. Thank you very much for all your advices. Merry Christmas to all.

Newbie

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#5 Post by Burn_IT »

Two additions to Bigpup's advice:

1) Take a deep breath and calm down. Your explanations will be a lot clearer if you are not panicking.

2) Some clue as to your ability with Linux and/or computers will help us target our replies more appropriately.
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett

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#6 Post by bigpup »

Burn_IT,

Added your suggestions to topic post.

Thanks!
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#7 Post by L18L »

Another addition to Bigpup's advice:

If you talk about a language package say which one.
Nobody can guess your language, even if your Location is empty or anything funny like "between screen and chair"

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#8 Post by watchdog »

The link:

http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

is not working for me from some days. DNS do not resolve this address. I use open DNS. Is it still available?

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#9 Post by bigpup »

watchdog wrote:The link:

http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

is not working for me from some days. DNS do not resolve this address. I use open DNS. Is it still available?
I think the web site is down.
We will see what happens in a few days.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#10 Post by bigpup »

L18L wrote:Another addition to Bigpup's advice:

If you talk about a language package say which one.
Nobody can guess your language, even if your Location is empty or anything funny like "between screen and chair"
Good question!

Added to topic post.

Just hope this is not getting too big and too much to read and answer. :shock: :D
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#11 Post by rokytnji »

watchdog wrote:The link:

http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

is not working for me from some days. DNS do not resolve this address. I use open DNS. Is it still available?
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=0159956439 ... #gsc.tab=0

http://puppy.b0x.me/psearch.html

from

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 216666e3bd

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#12 Post by bigpup »

rokytnji,

Thanks for the info about Puppy search web sites.
I added the ones I felt would be the most help, to the topic post.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#13 Post by bigpup »

Wellminded.com is working again.
http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#14 Post by rokytnji »

bigpup wrote:Wellminded.com is working again.
http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

Sorry 'wellminded.com puppy pupsearch.html' does not exist or is not available.

Maybe my ISP Windstream is at fault is all I can figure.

Edit: Some more gems found by me. I don't know if I posted them or can give credit to the threads or sites I found them from also. I fi
nd these things and forget where I got them from. Sorry.

http://puppylinux.us/psearch.html

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl.rss/s ... Fpuppy&ql=



http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxSearchEngine

http://www.koulaxizis.com/pupsearch.html

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#15 Post by bigpup »

The site starting working for me earlier today.
Now it is down again.
Maybe they are working on it?

Thanks for the info on search sites. :!: :D
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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Re: Connecting to wi-fi with Wary 5.5

#16 Post by ardvark »

Never mind, the question I addressed was moved to a new section of the forum.

@Jackpot: If you've come here to find your post, go to "Advanced Topics," then to "Hardware," then "Networking," and finally "Wireless." Your question has been moved there. :)

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#17 Post by ardvark »

Hi Bigpup...

One problem that I'm seeing in the forum is that people will post their questions and not bother to post back even after one or more others post with solutions or ideas. It would be great if OP's would conclude a thread of what they did, even if nothing at all, so others would know. :wink:

Regards...

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Re: IF YOU NEED HELP

#18 Post by rayberau »

Hi, I used Puppy 4.2 a few years ago, then Puppy Wary - forget which Distro Number, then Lucid-528 on my old LG computer, but I had CD to install those, and I now use Mint 15 on the LG computer where I did manage to get Japanese language support.

I am now trying to install Lucid-528JP-en on my Japanese partner:s old Acer computer but the CD drive on this old computer with Windows XP on it does not work anymore and we had trouble getting Japanese multi-language support for our other old HP computer that has Windows 7 on it. We do have Japanese multi-language support on the Windows XP but it has become so slow and we have managed to install Quickset Wary Puppy Linux 511 on this Acer computer and now we can dual boot with Windows XP and Quickset Wary Puppy Linux 511

When the dual-boot menu comes up at start-up it also lists Lucid 528JP
too - which is the distro we actually wanted - but when I try to start it I get:
(hd00)
[Linux-bzImage, setup 0x3000, size - 0x21d090]
uncompression error0x1f617000, 0x1c8028bytes]
-- System halted


I downloaded Lucid 511JP as well as other distros that came with Windows Installers but the Windows Installer for Quickset Wary 511 was the only installer that worked for me.

I am writing this using Wary 5 that we got using the Quickset Wary 511 on the old Acer computer that we could not successfully get Lucid 511JP to load from the dual-boot. this Wary 5 would be fine if I could work out how to install Japanese multi-language support for the Quickset Wary 511.

If we cannot do that then I would like to find a way to repair the problem when we try to load Lucid 528JP:
(hd00)
[Linux-bzImage, setup 0x3000, size - 0x21d090]
uncompression error0x1f617000, 0x1c8028bytes]
-- System halted


Using Quickset Wary 511 I can access my memory stick on sdb1 on which I have the following (please excuse the = sign - the equal signs should all be under-dash but I can:t find it because I chose Japanese keyboard hoping that would help get Japanese Multi-lingual support and I can:t find under-dash or apostrophe on this US keyboard that Wary 511 thinks is a Japanese keyboard):
Puppy=Linux=528JP=Installer.exe
lupu=devx=528JP.sfs
kernel=src=1.4lupu-528JP.iso
goffice-lupu-528JP-1.sfs

I did download a lot of .iso/.sfs/.exe/.pup for Quickset Wary 511 but I will have to go back to Windows XP and put them on memory stick so I can access them for when I get a reply to this message.

Specific information about our acer computer:
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.4GHz
Memory: 506MB (332MB used)
Operating System: Puppy Linux 0.51


I did not work out how to start a new topic so I have managed to tag onto *IF YOU NEED HELP* (I cannot find quote marks on this keyboard now either!)

Hope you can help me, either to get multi-lingual support on this Quickset Wary 511 and sort out my keyboard problem, or else to find a way to overcome the uncompression error I get when I try to load Lucid-528JP from the dual-boot menu.

Regards from Ray Bergmann, Brisbane, Australia

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#19 Post by starhawk »

"...I did not work out how to start a new topic..."

See the Post Reply button? Look immediately to its left. You should see a button reading New Topic. That is the button to press ;)

Please copy your post into a New Topic, and then PM user Flash (our resident moderator) and ask him to delete your post here. That should work :)

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#20 Post by EdgarC »

Cant dual boot windows 8 and puppy.

Disabled secure boot and uefi, but still does not work.

What to do?

It keep telling me it did not find a file(which is present, but it like it cant see the the drive)

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