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jamesbond

Can I simply use this guide? https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/kernel.html "Preferred method - Replace the original kernel-modules.sfs in the initrd with the one you downloaded: This works, but it assumes that your initrd is located in read-write media (e.g. in your harddisk, flash dr...

jamesbond

(loop-mount the main puppy .sfs and chroot in) # set path to puppy sfs SFS="/mnt/sda2/bwormp/puppy_dpupbw64_10.0.6.sfs" ### change this ! In terms of FD901 - Where is this sfs? or rather can I make one? It's inside the initrd. Open the initrd (click / double-click on it), and you will fin...

jamesbond

@fredx181, mount -o loop $SFS /myChroot makes /myChroot read-only.
bash will complain when you finally do chroot /myChroot.

jamesbond

Indeed. Before the days of PackIt and UExtract, it was second nature for me to drop to CLI and the compression programs from it. But now I wonder how I survived that long without these two

jamesbond

Could you explain the exact difference between vmlinuz-6.1.90 and vmlinuz-6.1.90-debconfig? The 6.1.90 kernel is configured using Fatdog's kernel configuration, the same configuration that has been used in earlier Fatdog kernels and releases (the addition being the enablement of the SND_SOC_SOF dri...

jamesbond

Updated kernels are available: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/kernels/900/ The kernel sources are downloadable using SFS Manager. Changes: - 6.1.90 added SND_SOC_SOF needed for certain intel platforms. - 6.1.90-debconfig is the same kernel configured using Debian kernel configuration, suitably mod...

jamesbond

First thought, use f2StickPup and a "savefolder" instead, if 4GiB limit is your only concern. But it's a reasonable request, I'll put it on my todo list to investigate exFAT. I've never used exFAT. As far as I know, UEFI won't boot off exFAT. If you need exFAT, then you'll need two separa...

jamesbond

Not at the CPU level, not that I know of. But I know you can split the jobs and hand them to different machines (e.g 10 files and 5 laptops = 2 files per laptop).

For compiling, use distcc.

For other things, there is https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

Perhaps others can say more.

jamesbond

./scripts/diffconfig -m config.amd64_none_amd64 .config > config-diff diff -up config.woof.bookworm config-diff Ah, so that's how you genereated config.woof.bookworm in the first place. I was wondering how you got the diff. I actually did that manually (did a manual diff -u and then used geany to e...

jamesbond

Great, thanks :thumbup: That clarifies everything. ------- To summarise (for everyone else): the manual process to build Debian-based Puppy kernel ("debian-based" means "debian-patched" and "using debian kernel config as the base"). 1. Linux kernel source from here: htt...

jamesbond

Regarding size, the size increase is very likely to come from debugging symbols. Without them, the size difference compared to a 'Puppy kernel' is small and even smaller after compression. Yes, this is it. By default apparently debian enables DEBUG_INFO. Once I set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_NONE the size s...

jamesbond

The dpup kernel is built by applying a small eelta (https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/blob/testing/kernel-kit/debian-diffconfigs/bookworm), with the Debian configuration as the base. Ok, I see that the delta is just to make certain drivers built-in (usb, sata, mmc, squashfs). But where ...

jamesbond

Thanks, I will check it out.

I don't compare the firmware size yet, but I will. Which firmware package do you use? firmware-free or do you use firmware-nonfree as well?

jamesbond

Run this magic code and efibootmgr should work.

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modprobe efivarfs
mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/

jamesbond

This question is more for dimkr , but others with interest, please feel free to join. Dima, you advocate for using the Debian kernel configuration to build the Puppy kernels, modified for Puppy's specific configuration (e.g. like aufs), because in your opinion Debian kernels are built with larger su...

jamesbond

Copying SFS to RAM has value if the boot device is (very) slow. Example: CD/DVD (=almost extinct), cheap USB flash drives. Not everyone can afford SSD, or choose to run from internal disk. One of Puppy's value propositions is that you can run (decently) it from any media (=even slow/bad ones), witho...

jamesbond

@jamesbond I tried changing from 98 to 100 - still nothing. The processing since... in CUPS/jobs now shows as "finished" rather than loading XX%, but the printer doesn't do anything. Ah, too bad it doesn't work. That line forces cups to use gstoraster (from ghostscript) instead of pdftora...

jamesbond

I just tried installing ghostscript in FD, didn't make any difference to printing success for PDFs. Some other changes to the CUPS config would be necessary. This should do it: Edit /usr/share/cups/mime/cupsfilters-poppler.convs and change application/vnd.cups-pdf application/vnd.cups-raster 98 pdf...

jamesbond

Most probably planting for spam, Mike. I have had this kind of new user + first post with this kind of post (or odd question) in Fatdog threads, and after sometime, it was edited to contain ads + links to irrelevant sites. I ended up deleting the whole thread. Nowadays, when I see post like this, I ...

jamesbond

BarryK wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 3:52 pm
More utilities compiled for Kirkstone:

https://bkhome.org/news/202405/lots-of- ... stone.html

Nice list, thanks.
dhex is an interesting find.
I've been scratching my head to find a "binary diff" and dhex is exactly what I need.

jamesbond

OT: Thanks BarryK for your blog post about Gittyup. It's a nice tool. I previously only used "gitk" and "git gui" but nice to have something a bit more integrated. I built version 1.4.0 (the latest git master), and it can use system's openssl 3.x. Still need to use its own (patch...

jamesbond

Good find

jamesbond

I don't know if I have shared this before, or if you all already know this, but this tool can help you to download files from Google Drive directly if it is shared properly as the @fredx181's instructions.

https://github.com/circulosmeos/gdown.pl

Perl required.

jamesbond

3. hardinfo can be replaced with hardinfo2 which was GTK+3 port The stock dpup built by woof-CE already includes hardinfo built against GTK+ 3, but for some reason BookwormPup64 uses the Debian package for hardinfo and it's still using GTK+ 2. +1 hardinfo2 has all the symptoms of the problem that h...

jamesbond

Ah, I think it needs libsoup3 too.
I don't encounter problem because I already have libsoup3.
@smokey01 needs to update the dependency list.

jamesbond

smokey01 has a repository for Fatdog64 900 series. By default this repository is disabled, as at the time of release, it was empty. Smokey01 has since started to fill his repo. The first application is Homebank, and more will follow. To install Homebank and other applications from smokey01's repo, ...

jamesbond

A nonsense to call distro Puppy Linux when it is not Puppy Linux. Surely Puppy enthusiasts want actual Puppy Linux distros to continue to be developed in line with ever advancing Linux technology? (Emphasis mine). Which begs the perennial question: What is a "Puppy Linux" distro? What qua...

jamesbond

Posting this from FatdogArm beta5, using Seamonkey 2.33.1, running inside qemu, using this instruction , just for nostalgia purposes :mrgreen: Despite not very keen on ARM platform anymore, I remember FatdogArm fondly, because modern Fatdog64s (from 700 onwards) inherited so much from it. Many thin...

jamesbond

and now there is Asahi linux that maybe could provide a usable kernel for FatDog on Apple silicon (just for kicks) I just checked what Asahi Linux is all about. It seems to be an overarching project to get Linux running on Apple Silicon Macs, with promises that changes will be upstreamed / mainline...

jamesbond

Posting this from FatdogArm beta5, using Seamonkey 2.33.1, running inside qemu, using this instruction , just for nostalgia purposes :mrgreen: To make the old browser recognise HTTPS website, one needs to download this CA certificate , and then import it as Authorities in Seamonkey's Privacy/Securit...

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