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the downside is that you can't unplug the flash drive you're live booting from

That is a feature that some people want to have.

My laptop was up and running for over 40 days, Most likely there is some program you have running, that has a memory leak, and even a swap file is not going to stop this. Even if you shutdown running a web browser. It could still be set to keep running something in the background. If you are not us...

In terminal: pupswap is program to make swap file. Puppy looks for a specific name for it, so use this program. Have you tried doing this ? You can put it anyplace. However, very important that you defragment hard drive before making a swap file on a (Windows) Fat or NTFS formatted partition. You co...

It is going to be impossible to give you info on multiple issues in a single topic. It will quickly turn into a big mess of posts, that will be hard to follow and to understand, what worked of did not work. So make a topic only talking about one specific issue. You can make as many topics as you wan...

We also need to make changes here: https://www.tecmint.com/linux-distributions-for-old-computers/ you will never find a review article about Puppy Linux, that will be very good. No one seems to really understand Puppy Linux. If they even get close to correct information, that seems to be about all ...

Getting too deep in the weeds. Again the statement on the Puppy Linux section needs to be general type info. Not the technical how it does it. What it can do not how it does it. Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite ful...

Please do this! Start a new topic for the specific computer and specific Puppy version. Do not keep talking about them in this topic. One computer one specific Puppy version in a topic is easy to read and provide help. Everything posted is only talking about one specific thing. when solution is foun...

Usually when this happens. The icon theme being used in the Puppy version, does not have the full set of icons. The icons that Pale Moon is wanting to use are not there for it to use. Icon themes, provided with a Puppy version, need to always be a full set of icons. I will assume you have GTK icons ...

No way can we give any good advice trying to talk in general what Puppy Linux does on this computer. You need to pick a specific Puppy version. Tell us the specific name and version of it. Full complete name. Example: BookwormPup64 10.0.6 This is BookwormPup64 and the 10.0.6 version of it. All Puppy...

What specific Nvidia driver package?

Have you tried in a terminal?

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fixmenus

That should update the menu.

Every Nvidia driver package from them, I have used, has also installed the Nvidia x server settings program.

It should be in menu ->Setup

The info statement that is at the top of the Puppy Linux DistroWatch section. Really needs to be generic and not about a specific Puppy version. Your statement seems to be better for the specific info about BookwormPup. If you clicked on the DistroWatch link to specifically BookwormPup. That pops up...

wizard wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:46 pm
@mikeslr

storage media --CD, USB-Stick

Suggest broadening this to include DVD, SSD and HDD.

Thanks
wizard

Also SD cards.
I boot from SD card installs on several computers.
As long as computer can boot from a SD card, it works.

If using the setup programs that are in menu ->Setup are not providing the setup changes you need. Your best option is going to be do a remaster with all the programs you want to have in the remaster. That is really the idea of making a remaster. First time you boot it on whatever computer. Setup a ...

The way I see ads is that I will never buy anything through an ad. It is a waste of resources to show me ads. So, you never buy name brand items in a store or online? :shock: You never look at the name brand item and think it is better than the no name item? If you ever think the name brand item is...

If there were no adds.

Then how would I know it is OK to go to the bathroom and not really miss anything I was watching?

Have you tried to use the programs that will allow you to select the sound device used? change it from the one that is stored in the save to use. If you use the save on a different computer from the one it was originally made on. The different settings programs should let you change hardware setup. ...

@mikeslr
Try adding to the linux line or kernel line of the boot menu entry

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nomodeset=0

That seems to work if you boot to black screen.

BookwormPup64 10.0.6 Frugal install using save folder. When Gparted is started it will scan all drives on the computer and all partitions. If you have several drives this can take a long time. In the older versions of Puppy Linux. When you selected to run Gparted a drive selection window would first...

So you want YouTube to have to shutdown, because it has no way to make any money to support it? They have to pay for it somehow! A lot of the time you only have to watch a little of the add, before it provides a skip option, that closes the add. Providing free multimedia, has been using adds to pay ...

Probably have the wrong sound device selected to use. If these other computers are newer than around year 2019. Xenialpup may not have hardware support for them. Any hardware newer than around 2019 was not around when Xenialpup was built. So hard to support hardware that was not there when Xenialpup...

If you get the latest version of Pale Moon the way it says here: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=112242#p112242 It offers 32 and 64 bit versions from Pale Moon. Tahr and Xenial are Ubuntu based. So the ones for Ubuntu should work. It will just install over the version that is in the dif...

Is it BookwormPup64 10.0.6 version?????? Need to know this so we know you are using the latest version? We have no idea where you downloaded it from and there have been several versions of BookwormPup64. To trouble shoot the issue, we need you to be using BookwormPup64 10.0.6, with the kernel that i...

If you used the mrchromebox.tech legacy seabios firmware.

You need to do what they say to do on their web site to remove it.

Exactly how you get to settings for hardware may be a little different depending on what specific Puppy version. So there is no general overall way to do it. Should be some programs In menu ->Setup. About sound setup. The Puppy versions you indicate. In menu ->Setup there should be something like AL...

Your guess is as good as mine. I would look on https://mrchromebox.tech/#fwscript This seems to indicate the mrchromebox.tech firmware utility script would do it. Maybe someone that has tried to do it will come along with better info. Most people here changed to using Puppy Linux on their Chromebook...

When BookwormPup shows up on the DistroWatch Puppy Linux section. I will make an announcement on the forum about it. So people who may not be reading this topic know about it. I will lock the topic, so all it can be is just an announcement. No one will be able to post to it. That should keep this to...

Give it a little time for someone to offer something new as a Puppy version. Who knows what may come along. I think in 4 to 6 months, there could be a Puppy version released by someone, that no one ever thought about doing. The ones that are compatible with Debian are moving along and who knows what...

Now you have found the problem with trying to use the same save on a different computer. The setup stored on the save is for the computer it was originally made on. It is storing settings for that computer. The save is not storing drivers, but is telling the OS what driver to use, and what settings ...

As someone new to Puppy Linux.

There are some good topics to read here:
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