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Makoto

Also, it should probably be noted that you can always change the desktop wallpaper.

Makoto

But I'm already not using a save file. 8-)

I used FrugalPup Installer to set everything up, and it's also supposed to do all the work for me if I want to set up a dual-boot with more than one Puppy. bigpup recommended it to me (with reference to this and this ).

As I mentioned, though, I think I ...

Makoto

But I don't have a save file. :)

I'd either have to add it as an option to the boot list, or - worst-case scenario - reformat the drive and start over, for it to be the only/primary OS. I'll keep it in mind as an option, but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle just so I can natively enter Japanese ...

Makoto

Oh, I agree (that it shouldn't be breaking anything). I'm just confused as to why .xinitrc is showing up as blank, when it doesn't seem to actually be empty, that's all.

I can't back up the save file this time around, though... when I decided to try FossaPup, I also decided to replace the system ...

Makoto

Clarity wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:50 am
Curious: Would HTTPS have any safety?

The forum's already using HTTPS. But that doesn't help against a DDoS attack, which is primarily bogging a server down with way too much traffic/connection requests to handle.

Makoto

What I was saying, is that /root/.xinitrc showed up as completely blank when I tried to edit it. I then tried adding the lines and rebooting anyway, and that's when FossaPup just kept crashing to the command line on boot.

Makoto

Sorry - ended up being busy pretty much the entire weekend. :(

Edit
There is a pet package to japanize fossapup64. It is a package which I made before making a japanized iso.

fossa64_lang_ja-r6a.pet
https://sakurapup.com/forum1/viewtopic.php?p=27138#p27138

If you unpack the pet package, you ...

Makoto

For now, I'd rather just install an IME myself. Even if it's probably more trouble than it's worth.

I'm currently using an old Win9X-era Japanese text editor through WINE for the purpose. Works okay, but it's a bit of a clunky process.

Makoto

I'm mainly just looking to be able to enter Japanese in my browsers, text editors, email, etc., at the moment. What would be the best/easiest/simplest setup to install? I can't recall what I was using under a special Japanese build of Puppy 4.3.1.

I've seen (recent?) posts where people are swearing ...

Makoto

I'm marking this with "Solved?" for the time being. It does appear that the reader will work properly under a more recent version of the kernel (at least 5.4.X?), but I haven't tested that with BionicPup, to be sure. I've since switched to FossaPup, where the reader does work as expected.

Makoto

I don't have any spare USB flash drives around to test. Even then, I'd prefer to have an SSD if I was going to start booting Puppy from USB. 8-)

Meanwhile, I've had the ISO for FossaPup 64 9.5 sitting on my tower downstairs for a couple weeks or so, so I decided to burn a CD today and test it. In ...

Makoto

bigpup,

I'm running from a savefile. bionicpup64save-<username>.4fs at the root of the system's hard drive. The ONLY time I use the CD is to boot to Puppy rather than Windows.

What I mentioned before, is that traditionally, every time I test a new version of Puppy, I'll boot from the new Live CD ...

Makoto

I've always set up frugal installs alongside Windows in the root of my Windows system drives (C:)
So is this a frugal install done by using the Lick installer program?

Not to my knowledge. I'll test the CD to see if everything works, and if it does, then I'll start setting up the savefile ...

Makoto

I've always set up frugal installs alongside Windows in the root of my Windows system drives (C:), so these days, it would be on an NTFS drive. Maybe that has something to do with it?

I didn't know offhand where to find the files, so I used pfind. :oops: Let me know if I need to look elsewhere ...

Makoto

I decided to try huge-5.14.1-bionicpup64.tar.bz2, from the archive first, since it's already set up for BionicPup.

But running change_kernels throws this error:

Does it not work with frugal installs, or does it think I'm running a full install?

Makoto

Doesn't changing the kernel run the risk of breaking something, though? I recall reading something a while back that said it risked breaking a few things, like anything compiled against the kernel, and probably shouldn't be done unless it was necessary.

Would it hurt to go with one of the most ...

Makoto

The icon doesn't go away. That's why at one point (when I'd booted with the card inserted?) I could click on the icon and get it to recognize the card again even though I'd unmounted and removed the SD card. The icon only goes away if the drive icons are refreshed, or (apparently, now) if I click on ...

Makoto

I think it was a one-time thing - although I haven't tried booting again with an SD card inserted in the reader. The system hasn't acted up again given time and the few reboots I've done since then.

You have to do this correctly as it says.
Do a normal boot with no SD card in the reader.
Run the ...

Makoto

I thought that was the case, and I did originally try it with sdd and sdd1 in place of device , but it didn't work - probably because it didn't specify the directory to mount to?

mount -o ro /dev/sdd1 /mnt/flash

Issuing that command worked after inserting a card (though only sdd is referenced in ...

Makoto

What is the exact make and model of the computer?
I want to look at the bios setup and see if there are any settings for the card reader.

It's an HP Pavillion a6847c, I think. But if something was set incorrectly in the BIOS, wouldn't that affect its performance under Windows, as well? I've ...

Makoto

Because it's a kludge, not a solution. And I don't want to leave anything sticking out of the tower - it's almost at floor level, and the pets might get at it if I leave anything inserted... they broke a flash drive halfway at the plug, once.
For this reader, about 75% of the SD card remains ...

Makoto

insert card = nothing
insert card after restarting graphical server = nothing
restarting graphical server with card inserted = nothing
rebooting then inserting card = nothing
rebooting with card inserted = same as above (the card reader shows up as sdd1)

I should also note that in the last case ...

Makoto

It works without issue under Windows (but then, it's a Windows OEM (HP) tower). I haven't tried any other distros with the tower, just Precise (Puppy) and XenialPup.

As far as I know, I should be running the default kernel for BionicPup 64 8.0. uname -r returns "4.19.23".

Makoto

Yes. I have no issues with getting USB flash drives to appear and mount, at any rate.

Makoto

If I boot with a card inserted, it shows up on the desktop as USB drive "sdd1." However, if I unmount it and refresh, it disappears and the system goes back to pretending it doesn't recognize the reader.

According to the var/log/messages excerpt above, the system appears to be designating the ...

Makoto

It's working just enough for the system to see it as an attached mass storage device and assign drive names to it. Beyond that...

I would've been happy to continue using my 'flash drive' card reader, if it hadn't decided to fail. It turned a simple file move operation (to the 16GB card) into a 90 ...

Makoto

No, I'm only working with a 16GB card and a 32GB card at the moment, so probably FAT32 at worst. I forgot to mention that I was using both cards just fine in BionicPup with a standalone USB reader (a small USB stick the same size as most of my flash drives, with a card slot), but that reader just ...

Makoto

What am I looking for with dmesg? I did do a straight textfile dump before and after inserting an SD card, though nothing changed. Nothing stands out on a quick glance through the text, either. :|

I did take a look through var/log/messages, but I'm not sure if it's actually referring to the memory ...

Makoto

BionicPup 64 (v8)

I have a memory card reader that's 'built-in' to the tower I'm using BionicPup on (a Windows OEM tower). It works fine under Windows, but so far has been unresponsive under BionicPup - it doesn't detect when I insert or remove an SD card, and doesn't show up as a mountable drive ...

Makoto

There are front-page links on the old forum to a memorial for John Murga, but they're a little 'buried.' The normal link is at the bottom of the page, and can also be found under Quick Links at the top of the page.

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