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To make sure the USB is truly not needed anymore. After it fully boots to the working desktop. Look at the desktop drive icon for the USB stick and make sure it is not indicating it is mounted. It is not mounted? The drive icon for the location of the save should be indicating that it is mounted. Is...

Are you saying that Fossapup64 9.5 is a frugal install on a drive and you boot it from that install? The drive is locked and you cannot write to it? Are you sure the download drive is mounted? That should be all that is required to read and write to it. Mount the drive partition(s). Frugal installs,...

Usually for Puppy Linux. A bug fix is offered in the Puppy version specific topic. Or a newer version of the specific named Puppy version is posted. This newer version will have the updates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

using synaptic, I installed emacs, but there appears to be a problem where it cannot compile some pieces of elisp Is this errors when you tried to install emacs? I will assume emacs downloaded and installed with no errors? If you are trying to compile, bookwormPup64 needs it's devx.sfs loaded. It h...

How much RAM is in this computer? The ability to be able to remove a USB drive you are booting from, depends on having enough RAM, to completely load the BookwormPup64 OS into, and still have enough RAM to do stuff. The boot process checks this and may not let all of the OS load into RAM. (default i...

Under Linux everything is a file including symbolic links. Fat32 can not handle symbolic links. If an application employs a symbolic link, transferring it to a Fat32 partition will break it. This is why a save file can work placed on a fat32 format location. A save file is a Linux file system insid...

If the fat32 format is already fragmented. Fat32 format's file system can fragment over time. Fragmentation is when a files data is not in a continuous location. Parts of it are in different locations, thus fragmented. Files could be corrupted, when placed on a fat32 formatted partition if fragmente...

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. Just read a post, of someone exactly wanting to be able to unplug the USB stick booting BookwormPup64 from. The save is on the internal drive. If they unplug it. Reporting...

There has been resent posts about removing the ability to remove a USB drive you are booting from. Still needing the drive plugged in to get stuff from. All of Puppy is no longer going to be completely loaded into memory. Not sure, but BookwormPup64 may now be using this new change to booting proces...

I chose to boot from /mnt/nvme0n1p4, but fossapup is loading a file from /mnt/nvme0n1p3. First time you booted this install on nvme0n1p4. Did you do a shutdown or reboot and make a save for it? When asked, made that drive the location to put the save on? If you are going to have Fossapup64 9.5 inst...

If the save file is stored on a partition formatted fat32. The max size a save file can be is 4GB. That is the max file size for fat32 format. You can keep from putting everything in the save file. Documents, videos, downloads, pictures, etc.... can be placed at locations outside of the save. /mnt/h...

:welcome: To Puppy Linux well it really depends on the other operating system you want to dual boot with. In general the method is to first install whatever the other operating system(OS) is. Then do a frugal install of Puppy Linux.(frugal is the name it is still the complete Puppy OS) Then you need...

I thought programs were supposed to vacate themselves from memory when they shut down? Should do that! Key word should! :roll: You say you are running in RAM mode, so Puppy has to use a save ramdisk to store anything that changes. The save ramdisk is only going to use more and more RAM. Unless you ...

Always give the specific Puppy version being used. People can read my signature which includes my OS specifics, right? Yes if that is the Puppy version you are using. A simple: see signature, makes sure we understand what Puppy version. But you would be surprised how many people make posts and the ...

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 or 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. ...

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