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retiredt00

I looked around and could not find a way to login as root.

Currently, there's no such option, and it requires very extensive changes to allow this.

You might want to reconsider.
Puppy started its life as root so the users can avoid to keep typing their password to do anything. And with ...

retiredt00

I understand that vanilladpup is now defaults to login as user spot.
I looked around and could not find a way to login as root.
I was wondering what needs to be changed to be able to login as user root or at least as a new user with root privileges so it will resemble a bit the traditional puppy ...

retiredt00

I tried 181, which it would appear it is using erofs for the SFSs. If I understand correctly it provides faster and aligned reads being nicer to the drives with the cost of increased size over squashfs.
Booting from my old laptop (2GHz i7 with SSD) did noticed maybe marginally faster boot (less than ...

retiredt00

Hey guys, did we bring distrowatch to its knees yet, or is still resisting our wisdom?

retiredt00

I tried dpup 11.0.177 installed in a HD, in an ARM machine under qemu emulation! (so I can get the wl/dkms packages I need for another machine)
It boots fast and is responsive under the correct display driver (virtio-ramfb-gl GPU supported). Gets to Desktop in 35 sec and populates it in 40 sec. For ...

retiredt00

@retiredt00, thank you for the feedback. I will look into it. How did you get the small initrd, did you use the BIOS Fatdog Installer, or created it yourself using fatdog-split-initrd?

Dear jamesbond thank you for your response.
Yes I used the FD902 BIOS Fatdog Installer. The initrd is 19MB and ...

retiredt00

Dear fatdog team
I was wondering if there is an easy way to update to 903 but keep the 902 kernel.
While in the huge initrd the usrespace sfs and the kernel sfs are distinct, when you install using the small inirtd, as in my case, you only have one sfs with everything in it. I do not know if there ...

retiredt00

Interestingly if you take pupsave folder out of the dpup11 folder at the root of the partition and you specify psave=UUID it does not work. The savefolder is not loaded.
It would appear that the psubdir= take precedence and everything is expected to be there or that all files are expected in ...

retiredt00

So title Dpup 11
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /dpup11/vmlinuz
kernel /dpup11/vmlinuz pupsfs=ad9e0ce4-3466-4ebd-9967-271aaf2cf789 psubdir=/dpup11
initrd /dpup11/ucode.cpio /dpup11/initrd.zst
boot
were everything is in the same folder (dpup11 in this case) in the specified UUID partition, works ...

retiredt00

I see. So the drive specification accepts UUID and label but not device node
Thx

Since I'm away from this old clunker for few days, assuming sdb1 UUID=ad9e0ce4-3466-4ebd-9967-271aaf2cf789, should the entry below suffice?
title Dpup 11
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /dpup11/vmlinuz
kernel ...

retiredt00

Tried to boot vanilladpup_11.0.169 in a Pentium4 machine along other puppies using LICK windows installer and it fails to find the partition where the vanilladpup files are

Similar to other puppies the menu entry in the windows partition where LICK resides is
title Dpup 11
find --set-root --ignore ...

retiredt00

A comparison of some certification alternatives is touched upon here:
https://www.tealhq.com/certifications/linux-system-administrator

Really!
Not to mention the failure in Large Language Model Certification!

No sysadmin at all, eh?
I was hopping to supplement my pension with lille bit of ...

retiredt00

Finally this thread is getting somewhere!
Nice work!!
Thank you

retiredt00

Which failures exactly. I develop for my family's use

Dear wiak
apologies if I misunderstood that in 4000 posts in the new puppylinux forum and as many or more in the old puppylinux forum (under both your handles) you are just developing for your family and giving to the community.

That is a ...

retiredt00

Dear wiak
shooting the messenger is an old and tried approach to cover our failures, but only in the eyes of those that do not want to see and correct them.
Are you interesting in seeing and correcting anything or you would rather go with blinkers on you and your horse?

retiredt00

Dear all
It is interesting that people are getting upset when they taste their own medicine isn't it?
This knocking down (of better and way more extended) efforts went on for years with woof-CE and the people involved with it, presumably to make room for fresh new ideas and ended up where we stand ...

retiredt00

Puppylinux maybe the first one where the users in spite of their best intentions, will manage to bring it down!
Looks like that the "let a hundred flowers blossom" forum movement, as the original may be destined to fail. :(

If I wasn't Scottish I might have cried reading that. Lack of ...

retiredt00

a project with multiple websites that promote different releases, random version numbers ('jump' from 9.5 to 22.12 to 10.0.7), a new release that isn't featured in its homepage (puppylinux.com was updated after DW was contacted) and unclear 'ownership' (different lead developer for every version ...

retiredt00

Dear spiderman
maybe easier to have suggestions if we know a bit more
1) which macbook (x86 or Apple silicon)
2) is it still running macos too
3) which other linux was loaded in the 128GB internal partition
4) how where the Grub 2.12 boot loader was installed
5) which puppylinux in the external ...

retiredt00

My guess is that /mnt/sdb1/easyos is not as empty as you think. It may have hidden files or folders.

Thank you. That was it!
A hard shutdown in the first attempt due to qemu display setting incompatibility, generated the hidden files. Works fine now.

A little annoyance that I have is the ...

retiredt00

Dear BarryK
I am wondering what I may be doing wrong here.

I downloaded the Easy 6.1 image, mounted and copied easyos folder in an ext4 partition.
Added the stanza shown in the grup4dos menu (Geany has line wrapping as you can see from the line numbers) and I get the error showing.
Indeed there is ...

retiredt00

Well I have something else that I made that I found looking to solve my loop mount "issue" that may be be of more general used

Copy this little script, name it u_mount_img.sh , put it in your PATH and set it app as a default action for this kind of multipartition img files.
It will mount and ...

retiredt00

Found it!
In retrospect was a very silly mistake.
(I was emptying the partitions... :cry: )
Anyway here is v3 where you can build and rebuild the image to iso.
v1 and v2 above are removed, though do work fine if you use them (the first time with a newly downloaded image).
BTW are all the downloads ...

retiredt00

Dear puppy developers
I have a frustrating problem with this script.

Works very nice the first time, and every time with a fresh clean build after boot.
However the second time around if you keep the extracted image file, it fails.

In this second version attached here, I introduced some cleaning ...

retiredt00

I test new builds booting an ISO image in VM. However, lately ISOs are not provided.
So I patched up a little script to transform an IMG file to ISO and used the frequently changing vanilladpup 11 development builds as a test case.

To use expand the tarball (make sure img_to_iso.sh has execute ...

retiredt00

Is a pity that the puppylinux blog has taken down but I doubt that distrowatch is guided by google.
Is guided by trust to a developer. Barry Kauler and Mick Amadio (and maybe others, they should know who they are) have all been trusted in the past.
Maybe one of them can just send that e mail now!

retiredt00

Excelent!!!
So there is a github/woof-ce build code and action, a disto/version page provided by rockedge and all is missing is the developer's announcement page pointing to all these things so can finally settle the distrowatch story.
Hopefully we (radky/you/whoever is the puppylinux custodian ...

retiredt00

Dear dimkr
I can appreciate the size/usage concern but I think it does not hold a lot of water.
Kernel and firmware is ~200MB compressed and yet 80% is barely used by anyone (any specific personal computer can work with less than 10GB), and any special new peripheral comes with divers or dkms ...

retiredt00

Dear dimkr
broadcom module was installed in a fresh VM with apt-get install broadcom-sta-dkms and pulled the required dependencies. Is hard to see how installing a kernel module from source will have the compiler recommended and not required. If it is not a vdpup-specific issue is an upstream bug ...

retiredt00

Dear dimkr
I assume you are too busy too look at the details of the post but I think that when I installed 155 in a qemu VM in a wired machine and apt-get installed broadcom-sta, did not try to get gcc is a bug. The idea of apt-get (and its power over PPM claimed many times over) or any other ...

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