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Hi GusCE6 and Keef . I probably shouldn't butt in (Keef knows a lot more than I do), but I am a bit paranoid about laptop batteries, partially because I don't have much knowledge, and have been caught out with something like this in the past. First off, I realise that you don't have a hard drive, bu...

Hi rcrsn51 . As I was mixing things up too much in the other thread https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=94056#p94056 , I thought I should report this here. Once again Baldrick presumes something, and he is wrong. I thought I should check how Debian 11.2.0-amd64 went with booting Fatdog64 on...

Hi jamesbond . Thank you. It is good that you have such a clear head, and knowledge to see through all this. I should have realised, as you had already mentioned this in earlier threads (and in the Users forum area, even emphasising the specifics of the situation), and I had already been checking fi...

Hi again. More pain and suffering for you, I'm afraid. I was going to post about this last night, but, after my error with the tune2fs -l effort, regarding Debian 12's ext4 filesystem, I thought I should check things again first. I thought I would try accessing a Debian 12 encrypted LVM, and other, ...

Hi rcrsn51 . I was using the normal humongous initrd. I have a suspicion that I might have unsuccessfully tried a nano-initrd approach on one occasion with Debian 12, before I cleared the system, yet again, and started over. As I have thought about it more, I don't think it is a reflection on Debian...

Hi. First a number of apologies, and thanks. jamesbond please accept my apologies for the distraction of the ext4 filesystem questions at a time when you and the rest of the Fatdog Team are concentrating on Fatdog900Alpha. I hope I haven't "dropped you in it" with respect to the extra work...

Hi. Thankyou mikewalsh (also for providing the link), bigpup and geo_c . Please accept my apologies for your, and maybe others, suffering, in reading the first post. I'm not the best one to be posting about this since I don't understand a lot, and still don't really have a clear idea in my head abou...

[Edit- Although there might be some info in this post that may, or may not, be of use, the post is all over the place. I wasn't thinking clearly. It might be best to skip this post and avoid some suffering.] Hi. I don't want to sound like Chicken Little, but it seems best to mention that there may b...

Hi again. I feel it is important that the point is made that this problem is not a bug in, nor in any other way a reflection on, Fatdog64-900 Alpha. It is just that this the first time I have personally come across this (others are probably more advanced, and I am behind the times). As had been poin...

Hi. Thank you jamesbond for your reply in the ext4 query thread, and the info that it contained. [EDIT- The result regarding this has been given in the next post, since both posts are overly large. Please let me know if most of this post should be culled. Thanks.] I am making this post a bit too ear...

Hi jamesbond . Thank you for the info in your reply. Please accept my apologies for the delayed response, and for that response being tangential to Fatdog64 900 Alpha. Out of curiosity, I thought I would try to get an idea of the bounds of the puppies that could access the newer ext4 filesystems, us...

Thank you to the Fatdog Team and all involved in the release of both Fatdog64-814 and Fatdog64-900 Alpha. Your efforts are very much appreciated. Thanks again. Unfortunately one of the items in the Release Notes is leading me to show both my ignorance and paranoia, once again :) . Is the LFS patch r...

Hi. Apologies if this is not really the correct place for this, but it does relate to booting Fatdog, and I intended to reference the info in the first post in this thread. I ended up downloading EasyOS Dunfell 4.3, and using Limine Installer from that to install Limine bootloader/manager on the lap...

Hi superchook . Thank you for the info (including the limine.cfg data). I have copied the text of your posts, and downloaded the limine.txt file, for future reference. I hope this is OK. (As an aside I take it that the 13 MiB partitions are actually 13 GiB ones- and, no, I am not trying to be smart ...

Hi superchook . I hope the eagle eye of Dr Dan has provided the solution to the savefile problem. I suspect so since you have marked the thread "(solved, I think). On a another read I have noticed that you have edited the first post. An apology should also be made by me for posting in a thread ...

Hi BarryK et all. Following some posts made in the thread superchook had started ( https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=6396 ), I thought I would make a half-baked attempt at installing Limine Installer in Fatdog64-812. It seems best to give the initial result first to save you having to suf...

Hi superchook . I am butting in where I probably shouldn't, but following on from Dr Dan's post, if you are using a savefile rather than a save folder, does that savefile end with an extension (e.g. ".ext4")? If so, might adding that to the end of the "fd64save-someone_local" par...

Hi jamesbond and Flash . Please accept my apologies for wasting your time. The problem is one of operator error somewhere. I also should have edited my previous post, rather than just the first one, to note my suspicions regarding this. Some checks done by changing the /etc/hosts file on some Fatdog...

Hi Flash . Please accept my apologies. I had tried to cover the info, but messed it up (as usual :)). The boot medium is a USB drive. With the multisession saves and the save interval set to zero, I can use it to boot and then remove it, only needing to insert it again if I decide to update somethin...

Hi, EDIT- please ignore this post. The problem was with me and not with Fatdog64. For explanation please see edit below. Thanks. When attempting to modify a Fatdog64-812 set up, using multisession with a zero save interval, I have noticed that the /etc/hosts file seems to be automatically overwritte...

Hi superchook . Cool. It is good that you have it working. It probably won't help, but is there a timeout setting option in the GRUB2 config for the Mint on the second laptop? It may (I am running off the top of my head again, which is always unreliable) be under /etc/defaults/grub (or something lik...

Edited to remove incomplete, misleading and unhelpful info. Please go straight past this to the posts by Superchook and Davids45. The following is being left here as it relates to TerryH's post. The "tag" symbols are meant to be text, ":label" followed by another separator "...

Hi Stauro . I don't know if any of the following might help, but sometimes a fool asks a question that leads others to something. With respect to the debug info, I am not advanced enough to be able to interpret such things. a) Which filesystem is being used for the Frugal Bin partition? b) You indic...

Hi Spright . I think I can vaguely recall running 2.14X by ttuuxxx on a Pentium 2 laptop a long time ago. The laptop is no longer with me, so I cannot confirm. It was also only a test run, and I didn't pursue using the laptop much, but I think it worked. 2.14X might still be available from smokey01....

Hi daBee . I apologise for making a post here, I realise that you have "moved on". However, something came to mind that may, or may not, be relevant in a wider sense. You describe the Shuttle as an "Atom" box, but the listing you provided indicates/suggests that the processor is ...

I don't know how to help, and the following may not be relevant, but I thought I should mention it just in case. When I had tried installing (i.e. not upgrading) MX21, the new installer didn't seem to want to know about extended partitions. I can't remember the exact messages (and I might have misin...

Hi. This is redundant, but I thought I should mention it. The screen lock up issue, (after X has loaded and the Quick Setup screen appears), that I had reported earlier in this thread, actually appears to relate to Genius X-G200 mice. I hadn't even thought of the mice when trying to think of things ...

Hi JakeSFR. It is probably redundant, but I thought I should let you know that I have finally attempted to emulate your LVM-LUKS test, as well as trying a separate one, with a LUKS partition on an LVM spanning two physical partitions (well, semi physical, as it was on an SSD). (I cheated and used th...