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If you want to write a new 'fdrv trimmer' that's better than kernel-kit's one, I recommend testing on a >= Skylake laptop, especially with an AMD or NVIDIA GPU. The missing firmware is often SOF (audio) firmware that's required since Skylake AFAIK, WiFi firmware (>=802.11ac) or GPU firmware.

BookwormPup64 is probably the only 'mainstream' Puppy that's new enough for this device. Others have an old kernel (which is swappable) but also old Mesa, and you need both to be new enough.

See viewtopic.php?t=9113, it sacrifices everything possible including hardware support and performance for smaller size.

For AppImages to work, you probably need to install libfuse2.

No, it really depends on the application.

peebee wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 8:58 am

dimkr wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 7:45 am

I think it's time to put F96-CE there instead of Fossapup64.

Just wish it had a more "meaningful" name...............

It's just as meaningful as "S15Pup", if not more

I think it's time to put F96-CE there instead of Fossapup64.

@wizard I'm not sure if there's any missing driver: as far as I see, all required drivers are built-in to the kernel (and nvme0 is detected before init is started, at a very early stage). Can you share the GRUB configuration file?

If you boot BookwormPup64 from a flash drive, does it recognize the drive? Or, is there any distro that boots fine from this drive?

Please share the output of these commands from any distro, where the drive is recognized (not necessarily at boot time):

lsmod
lspci
dmesg
fdisk -l

Vanilla Dpup 9.3.40 and 10.0.52 include https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/4278, to gather feedback. It works fine for me.

It's a writable image, it's not read-only. Maybe you moved the files out of it, so now it appears empty.

Maybe try to redownload?

Jasper wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 4:39 pm

The X directory does contain the boot files only.

What do you mean by "boot files"?

Jasper wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 4:39 pm

Is there a way to retrieve the contents?

The contents of SFSs? You can view their contents just like any other SFS.

Jasper wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 1:10 pm

One thing I did notice is that the initrd has a different extension in the latest build ie zst instead of gz.

Don't take initrd.zst from there! It won't work with 10.0.x.

Take only vmlinuz, ucode.cpio, fdrv and zdrv.

@Jasper In your case it's /dev/loop5, hence /dev/loop5p1 and /dev/loop5p2.

Clarity wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:02 pm

Additionally, I THINK, we should ALSO promote his Vanilla v11

I think we should NOT 'promote' early and incomplete development builds with many known issues, especially if the target audience is new users.

wanderer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:46 pm

but dont kill yourself

And for those who want to help test this PR and find more hidden changes in past Puppy releases that they want to see in future releases: please don't rest too much

For those worried about the longevity and sustainability of BookwormPup64 or Puppy as a whole, I opened this PR, which upstreams many changes and hacks I extracted from the 10.0.6 ISO. There could be more, it's hard to go file by file and find them.