Also, it should probably be noted that you can always change the desktop wallpaper. 
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- Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: My impression of Fossa pup versus Bionic pup
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2246
Re: fossa pup versus bionic pup
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:59 am
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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'm g...
- Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:05 am
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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. :|
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:24 pm
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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 har...
- Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:41 am
- Forum: Forum Organization & Structure Council
- Topic: DDOS Attack - Huge thanks to Rockedge
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4101
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 6:19 pm
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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.
- Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:57 am
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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 will fin...
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:11 pm
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Re: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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.
- Fri Mar 25, 2022 6:41 am
- Forum: Fossapup64
- Topic: Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1773
Best Japanese IME (text entry) for FossaPup?
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 ...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:49 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
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.
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 2:55 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 Fo...
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 5:23 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 - a...
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:35 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 while in ...
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:05 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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. menu...
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:27 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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?
- Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:37 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 recen...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:43 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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...
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 8:14 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 com...
- Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:48 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 dme...
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:22 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 never h...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:11 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 stickin...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:51 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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, sdd...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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".
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 5:48 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
Yes. I have no issues with getting USB flash drives to appear and mount, at any rate.
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:31 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 ...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 2:48 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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+ m...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:10 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 fa...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:38 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Re: Getting a card reader to work
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 c...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:00 am
- Forum: Bionic
- Topic: Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4193
Getting a card reader to work [Solved?]
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 if...
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:38 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Back to Puppy Linux
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1067
Re: Back to Puppy Linux
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.