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@rcrsn51

Have one on the way should be here on Sunday. Will let you know how it works.

@mouldy
Have you benchmarked the NVME in the adapter?

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wizard

@mouldy

Got the link, didn't know it would be such a hassle. Did watch the video, he kind of blew it there at the end when mixed the terminology.

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wizard

@mouldy

$12 shipped

And I thought my Lenovo for $15 (local pickup) was a bargain. Do you have a link to the adapter you used?

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wizard

mouldy Your Dell 3120 shows it has a Intel N2840 dual core. Passmark v9=970. It's about on par with my Lenovo 100s-ibr that has the Intel N3050 dual core. Passmark v9=874. Mine is adequate, but maxes out quickly on internet video streams. Should be fun though. My easiest Linux installs on Chromeboo...

ozsouth The way I see it we have 3 choices: 1. submit a newer Pup to Distrowatch 2. wait for the "perfect" distro to be built, then submit that 3. do nothing Really don't think the users care if it is WoofCE compliant. Distros like F95, F96ce_4 and BW64 that have been "polished"...

@rockedge

Here's a peasypdf I hacked to work with BW64:

viewtopic.php?p=109621#p109621

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wizard

@Chelsea80

Would it be safe to now delete cp-profile.sh.gz and ff108_patch.pet?

Sure, you can always get them again on the forum.

wizard

Chelsea80 There's no real simple way to fix the no Firefox audio problem, but this will do most of it. -run Firefox and backup any bookmarks you've saved. -close Firefox -install: ff108_patch.pet -run: cp-profile.sh (be sure it's executable) Restart Firefox and test the audio. You'll have to redo a...

Chelsea80 No audio from Boom Radio, a UK radio station (https://www.boomradiouk.com/) No audio from YouTube. Have no knowledge on Boom Radio, you might try posting in the User section to see if anyone else can help. Found the issue on Youtube audio and should have a fix in a day or so. Thanks wizard

Jasper Per my first post, the test are on a Intel mb, PCIe v1.0a from 2007. It's MBR only, so that's the lowest spec board. also tested: Dell 7010, 2012, PCIe v2 HP 5810, 2015, PCIe v1.0a Clarity adapter is in x16 slot. Power is not the issue since the drive can be accessed as storage without probl...

@fredx181

Nope, just wondering if you are using a NVME drive installed in a PCIe adapter and if so can you boot from it?

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wizard

mikewalsh I doubt modern nVME drives would be able to reach their full potential in such an arrangement. Yep, but looking at the test data, you can wind up with a really fast storage drive, a real plus if you're moving lots of data around or have a file server streaming content. Just another option...

bigpup Have tried the NVME adapter in 3 old computers, Intel, Dell & HP. BW64, F96, F95 and Bionic32, all of them: -show desktop icons -identify the drive as NVME -mount/unmount -Rox works normally None of these identifiy the drive as bootable. Currently looking at workarounds for that. Thanks ...

Added note that some bios will not recognize the adapter as a boot device

wizard

Recently while working on grub2config issues I realized none of my old computers had a NVME drive. This slowed the analysis and debugging process way down since I needed others to test code changes. Since buying a newer computer with a NVME drive was not in my computer budget, I opted to purchase a ...

@Flash

Would it work if the /mnt directory were removed? Just thinking in the dark.

Pretty good thought for in the dark and it is one of several things you can do to obfuscate and deny access to other drives, just depends on how hard you want to lock it down.

wizard

Added additional instructions to first post.

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wizard

Clarity The remasterpup2 program writes to whatever work area you choose, but remasterme2.sh has no way to know that choice. That is why you must choose the partition you boot from as the work area, which means remasterpup2 will create it's work area in /mnt/home. Have not tried remastering from Ve...

in this day an age of RAM abundance in today's PCs A mistake to equate our own good fortune and abundance to the rest of the world's users. There are still millions of low power computers out there and even the latest versions of Puppy can run adequately on a 15 year old system. That is made possib...

The answer is yes, but you need to better define "provide a secure platform" since there are different degrees.

Additionally, when you first boot Puppy, the drive icons will appear on the desktop, but only your boot partition is mounted by default.

wizard

Boot Puppy with your save file/folder that has all your changes and try this method.

viewtopic.php?t=11305

wizard

@galen

See this post for an alternate method to remaster.

viewtopic.php?t=11305

wizard

Remastering Puppy with remasterme2.sh Remastering is a Puppy feature that allows you to build all your added apps and customization into a new main Puppy .sfs file and/or ISO file. A Remaster can be a way to archive, distribute or increase security of a customized Puppy, Remasterme was first introdu...

Balena Etcher is the wrong tool and is not recommended. Using it with Puppy ISO's is hit and miss, mostly miss. You will have better success with Rufus or Unetbootin.

What method did you use to do the remaster?

wizard

pupuklok :welcome: Looks like you got off to a bad start. I have installed Puppy Linux on dozens of older computers like your Pentium 4 and it runs better than any other distro I've tested. Take a look at this section of the forum first if you want to give it another try. https://forum.puppylinux.c...

dellus One more option is to use MOUNT_drv. MOUNT_drv is a modified Pmount that mounts without opening Rox. You can put MOUNT_drv anywhere (I keep mine in /root/my-applications/bin) then put a symlink on the desktop or even in the JWM tray. In use you click MOUNT_drv, then choose the drive to mount...

@dellus
Here's another possible solution:

https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 884#p64884

wizard

Try menu>File System> Pmount, then click the down arrow on the drive and select: Mount partition at boot.

wizard

Check here for Ventoyl:

viewtopic.php?p=38449#p38449

You say you would install them, do you mean to a directory and frugal.

This is really use dependent. If you just want to try out, do Ventoy, if you want to run and have persistence, do installs.

wizard

how many could I have, As many as will fit on the drive do they need separate partitions and frugal installs or just different directories Just need different directories. You can: 1. choose to install them or 2. create a Ventoy USB and run them from their ISO (this method makes using a save file/f...