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williwaw

Could you please explain what/where is the ...../root directory and how can you know which direction you are viewing in the file (manager). rox has many nice features, but leaves something to be desired for learning your way around the linux filesystem below is a screenshot of mc, an orthodox file ...

williwaw

you should be able to boot the acer with the fossa, once you have turned off some stuff in windows and changed some settings in bios. I am not that familiar with fossa, but a question about how to boot an acer r11 with windows from your usb would be a good topic to initiate in the fossapup section. ...

williwaw

It's kinda like IRC, but more updated and stuff Chase, thats a pretty nominal description of what you got going, and maybe the server section is not the easiest place to find an announcement of sorts. Maybe a post up top like the user section? you are going to have to sell the idea a bit I would th...

williwaw

In no way is Puppy a cut down version of Linux! +1 you may have a save file of limited size that is causing the error about space available. Others may be able to confirm if you can create a save folder with fossapup. This might necessitate a linux filesystem on your usb instead of fat32. A savefil...

williwaw

Firstly where are the files written when you install software. they will be saved in the savefile or savefolder with the usb install, were you presented with an option to create a save file or savefolder at shutdown on the first boot? the size limit may be associated with the size of save file you ...

williwaw

Can I make it run from the hard disk? yes, the essential files unetbootin wrote to your usb can be copied and ran from the harddisk also. this is referred to as a frugal install. it can co-exist with the operating system already on the disk. you will have to configure the existing boot loader to al...

williwaw

hoping to see something straight forward like sysmem yes, a bit more info than you need. The first line on mine is "MemTotal". The sys spec woof 32 indicates you are running the 32 bit version of Tahr. This does not mean you have 32 bit hardware. However, I looked up pup sys info and it s...

williwaw

while you were posting, I updated my previous post with a command you can run from the terminal to find the memory amount. Is your 6.0.5 the 32 or 64 bit version? If 64 bit you have more options. If 32 bit, your atom may be limited to running a 32 bit pup.

williwaw

Lots of stuff there at guru99. One of the challenges to running older laptops with modern browsers is that browsers are constantly changing, and the older pups need fixes. Newer pups might work out better for you. If you want to see what might be a good choice, you could mention if your laptop is ca...

williwaw

welcome Tex, if you have a running puppy, you are already learning about linux :) puppy does not include many man pages as it seeks to keep the install size down. This is a bit of a throwback to the "fit everything on a cd" days. I assume you are typing "man appname" at the comma...

williwaw

:thumbup2: there are a number of ways to get puppy installed. If you want to put it on your hdd, it can easily live alongside the mint install. We prefer what is called a frugal install, just a few files in a single folder that can be booted. In fact you can have any number puppies installed frugall...

williwaw

Using mint, look at your disks. presumably the usb is sdb. it should be if there are no other disks except for the main disk on the laptop. examine sdb1 and see if it is still formatted fat 32 or ext4. click on sdb1 and see if you have folders and files or fossapup64xxx.iso your error in the pic sho...

williwaw

what is the file type on sdb?

does unetbootin give you a choice to write the iso to the disk or a partition

does this thread help?

viewtopic.php?p=12506#p12506

williwaw

sometimes the stalls are various timouts that can be adjusted in the bios settings. I have had to add time to the post to make things easier. often the post timeout can be missed if the monitor does not come up fast. Usually it will tell you about a few different f options.

williwaw

My PC has a 1 GHz CPU, 2 Gb of RAM, and a 80Gb hard drive. I have two printers, a plotter, and an EPROM programmer, all of which need the parallel port. How can I tell which Puppies will work on it? Is the puppy you are using now still getting the job done with the older PC and the parallel port ac...

williwaw

You can still uninstall offline packages from the PPM, so I don't yet grasp the benefit of sfs loading (i.e., how unloading an sfs is different from uninstalling from the PPM). a sfs loads a read only copy of the app. a sfs is not kept in your savefile. An installed app increases the size of your s...

williwaw

rufwoof

one of the appeals of puppy is a simple gui for those users who don't feel confident at a cli.
looking at the gui offerings when right clicking, what might mikeslr do to close some of the holes?

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williwaw

Yes, 6 and 7 pups support multiple pupsaves, but I'm not going to start rebooting for apps. I am not suggesting you reboot to use an app. Use a different savefile to install the app so that you can create the sfs, or do it in ram if you wish. you can load and run the sfs with your slim and permanen...

williwaw

I think more about remasters than save folders. Ideally I want static setups with flexibility for minor adjustments. Closest I am is pupsave files set to never save (always manual). for static use, I have moved browsers and email out of the save file/folder. sometimes it is easier to let small conf...

williwaw

Do you know of any operating system which won’t allow a web-browser to? EasyOs allows you to run a browser in a container. The only access it has to the main filesystem is through a shared folder. In your example of uploading, you would have to move the file to be uploaded to the shared folder befo...

williwaw

hi williwaw keeping everything that pertains to an app in one uncompressed folder in home is useful for running multiple instances of and app and testing and modifying things when this is not desired one can always make it into an sce (compressed) and run it normally fredx firefox is a perfect exam...

williwaw

it also does not have to go through the normal loading process so you can directly symlink it with cp -ais I made a directory with cp -ais that contains sub directories with links. In this case it is for a portable browser, and I can run this browser by navigating to and clicking on the link to the...

williwaw

wanderer wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:25 am
i use it to symlink an uncompressed app directory stored in home
that way i do not have to make a compressed file extension
and can modify the app without decompressing and recompressing it

Hi wanderer

what benefit does this have over just running the app normally?

williwaw

are the extensions recompressed with configuration changes to replace the original? or are they static and changes handled in a different manner?

williwaw

This will not make a bootable install, that will boot on a UEFI computer, with secure boot enabled. It does not provide the Puppy security key needed for secure boot enabled. In the UEFI setup. Secure boot must be disabled, May also need to enable legacy boot or CSM. was it supposed to? I thought i...

williwaw

this system has many interesting features it uses extensions symlinked to a ramdrive and is able to make extension bundles from debian stretch debs which contain both the app and all its dependencies Extensions contain the application and all the needed dependencies? similar to a flatpac or an appi...

williwaw

Puppy hasn't always supported multiple desktop environments as well as it has in some some more recent releases. If you are constrained to 32 bit and looking at older releases, would you not be ahead of the game to look at the more solid Jwm options. jwm is the puppy way by and large and some feel i...

williwaw

wanderer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:52 pm
this system is far more simple robust and flexible

simple enough for the less accomplished puppiest to jump the hurdles from user to developer ?

williwaw

BUT if you attach a usb ... that does become visible, such that you can, as you say/indicate, run a save. Barry describes the functionality as such, when using (or possibly reinserting a usb), but when booting from a frugal install in lockdown mode, its always there, and seems to work when ever it'...

williwaw

Barry's EasyOS has a nice feature that uses the recent kernel lockdown addition. You can boot the main system, configure it as you like and then reboot into the lockdown mode where the HDD's aren't even visible, and any changes made are lost at shutdown, so you boot the exact same system time after...

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