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geo_c

@Governor, it looks to me like the top sets of stanzas in this menu.lst are the ones designed to boot KLV-airedlale from a cdrom. I took them out, removed the comments and left only the one stanza you should need to boot Airedale from the USB pendrive, ASSUMING that the UUID in the stanza below is ...

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@Governor The way to make a boot-able USB with KLV-Airedale using Fossapup64 : Start Fossapup64 mount the USB drive then with GParted create the partition table and format the drive to ext4 and set the boot flag on the USB drive create a directory for the distro using the running Fossapup64 open ro...

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Thanks everyone, I will be trying out all these approaches in the next few weeks.

geo_c

@Governor :- As for the 'Up' arrow taking an mtPaint 'screenshot', curiously I have the same issue in an install of Xenialpup64 on the old Dell laptop......but the same install of Xenialpup64 on the big HP desktop rig doesn't have this problem. Mike. ;) Now that's what I'd call a bug. I don't know ...

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I had planned on having a bootable thumb drive with Airedale ready by now, but I was unable to reach that in time. Booting on the internal drive did not work because I had moved files to a different partition. another thumb drive that I thought would work, didn't. And the Puppy thumb drive that had...

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Try these: title KLV-airedale-multi-RT find --set-root uuid () [partition UUID] kernel /KLV-airedale-multi-RT/vmlinuz w_bootfrom=UUID=[partition UUID]=/KLV-airedale-multi-RT initrd /KLV-airedale-multi-RT/initrd.gz ############################# title KLV-airedale-multi-RT (RAM2) find --set-root uuid...

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Ok, I arrived at step #9, and I am unsure about this step. It looks like there are several options in menu.lst that are not in grub_config.txt. For example: set distname=KLV-Airedale set revision=sr12 set savepart=Persistence set savedir=Sessions set bootlabel=QEMU # # menu.lst # #color NORMAL HIGH...

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ctrl-c will stop a running command in a terminal session ctrl-d will end the terminal session typing bash opens a new shell in the session, but does not end something running in the existing shell Yes, ctrl-c and d work to manually close the terminal, but what I'm trying to figure out is the way to...

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I've been doing a lot of scripting and improved my skills quite a bit, but one problem I'm running into is understanding the differences between exiting a script vs exiting a terminal or shell. I've written a nice set of bash functions that test input from read commands and use return to exit the sc...

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SHALL WE PAUSE A MOMENT........ Ah, now that I've taken a deep breath. Let me share a few thoughts. 1) Governor must answer a few questions before he does anything productive. -What is his goal? 1 Save fossapup settings? 2 Install a KLV on USB? (as rockedge is advising about.) 3 Install a pup? (as b...

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@fernan What kind of backup are you talking about? The pupsave files, or data folders in your computer? I was thinking of the pupsave files backups. In windows I used SyncBack to keep local network files in sync. It's good to know that Linux has a similar apps. Thanks The pupsave-backup routine nam...

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Available now is a Void Linux kernel 6.9.1_1 with the initrd.gz, vmlinuz, 00modules-6.9.1_1.sfs and 01firmware-6.9.1_1.sfs ready to use in any KLV variant. Download -> KLV-void-6.9.1_1 I'm starting to do some more experimenting with kernels, having been going to the 6.1.38-RT for so long, I found i...

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If you can boot Fossapup64 9.5 and run programs from it. I suggest you install BookwormPup64 10.0.6 to a USB stick. It has the latest changes and updates. One of them being fixes for support of nvme drives. If bigpup says BookwormPup64 can handle the nvme drive, then that's a known quantity and pro...

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I heard recently that ext4 is not as problemfree as ext3 (?). In any event, I do not expect to be able to avoid having to re-configure all of my settings when I re-boot, no matter what I boot into. Thanks. I've heard that ext4 has issues also, but I have never encountered any, and all my partions a...

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[I would love to be able to re-boot and not have to reconfigure all of my settings every time, but it has not happened yet, and I have tried dozens of times. So far, savfile and savfolder have not accomplished anything as far as I can see. I can fiddle more with it when I get more time. I've follow...

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@geo_c Thanks for more great advice. I'm enthused to do more as I get more used to this. I'm still a bit clumsy how I'm doing things, but I'm learning. For me I need to use it many times to help me get accustomed to using it. It looks like there really is a lot to learn. These forums are great for ...

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I really like the saving mechanism that Puppy has. I can make a backup for the current operation and then do any testing or trying something new. If it doesn't work, I can go back to what did -- such great power! I sometimes get myself into trouble by changing something and get distracted and goof ...

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geo_c wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 9:11 pm
You can do all kinds of development of your personal puppy this way.

And what I mean by that, is you can make a backup, shutdown and boot into the backup and experminent, break the system intentionally if you want, then reboot into your good copy, repeat and repeat until you get it right.

geo_c

I tried using BookwormPup <menu><Utilities><Pupsave Backup> This made a backup copy of the save. Then when I booted it gave 1. for normal save and 2. and greater for backups with a 0 selection for none. Is that the same that you mentioned? Thanks Yes, 0 will be a pristine boot, just like the first ...

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and fredx181 , I don't know if you tried using the linking script concept of tbox, but it definitely works. I've used it for years. You just locate that big complete tbox on the drive where the OS resides and run the KLV-CONTROL-PANEL gxmessage interactive message script. There are buttons to link t...

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Thanks @geo_c . I'm fond of gtk4 ChromeOS-Darker-Oceanic-Rounded, very easy on the eyes, deep green, not grey, not too dark, and everything works in it. In KLV you have to point your gtk2rc to it in /root/.gtkrc-2.0 As it's a gtk4 theme as you say, why it needs to point to it in /root/.gtkrc-2.0 ? ...

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... next KLV's rootfs release ... Can you also add a few themes ? (gtk3) (light and dark) in /usr/share/themes, e.g. from @geo_c's tbox (and @geo_c, maybe you can advice about which ones best for KLV ?). I'm fond of gtk4 ChromeOS-Darker-Oceanic-Rounded, very easy on the eyes, deep green, not grey, ...

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On dual monitors, here's a little playing around in gimp with backgrounds for KLV-spectrwm, and some gtkdialogue scirpts with realtime cpu and mem monitors, as well as some hotkey lists showing just how well you can operate KLV-spectr without a mouse. https://i.postimg.cc/FRDtkjVd/2024-05-24-3840x10...

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When editing the bootup files grub.cfg or menu.lst, what is the proper way to do this? I think I read that you shouldn't directly edit those files. If that is true, how should you edit them? Thanks I'm not sure where you heard not to edit menu.lst, but I think you'll find that a good majority of ex...

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I'm gonna chalk this up to a Void update, and I'm putting it here in the Airedale section, even though it's identical in my Spectr system. It appears that iso mounting is broken (fusemount?) and I think fusemount was recently updated. I simply get an error when trying to mount an iso either using Ro...

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I had used puppy since 4.3.2 when it soon was replaced with Lucid, great improvement. I adopted the early puppy-studio by lowt3ch, and enjoyed all of these distros. However, I never found them to be an all out replacement for Windows, as the linux world used to be, until recently, somewhat difficult...

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Kennel Linux's have in general both a xbps GUI using OctoXBPS and xbps via command line. Screenshot_2024-01-21_08-44-22.png We added in a program called xdeb in /usr/local/bin which will convert a Debian or Ubuntu .deb packages into .xbps packages. xdeb on GitHub I'm about to try and convert a Muse...

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Hi. I'm thinking of buying another computer. Either a new one or used but almost up to date. So, what's the best CPU to be used for doing music - Intel or AMD ??? I have one AMD computer with a six core CPU and another Intel Computer with four core CPU. Both of them producing XRuns - but the Intel ...

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In my day to day use of Bookworm64, it seems with the Floorp browser, total ram use averages around 3GB give or take. If I remember right, about 1.5GB no browser running. Not a puppy, but a Kennel Linux Void that runs at a base OS rate of about 300-400MB of ram is KLV-spectrwm, which uses a tiling ...

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fredx181 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 3:14 pm
The trick to support path with spaces is to add double quotes around all instances of $HERE (in this case $HERE is where the LAUNCH script is located)

And does this work for $variables in general? like one created by a read -p input?

EDIT: YES IT DOES!

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