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measter wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:28 pm

In EasyOS & Ub-based Puppy I've used a Debian package for xkbset to use for enabling sticky keys, but I don't know what to use for S15Pup 64.

Well, I'll be 'doggone'

The xkbset .deb installed and works just fine, as is.

In EasyOS & Ub-based Puppy I've used a Debian package for xkbset to use for enabling sticky keys, but I don't know what to use for S15Pup 64.

I see the it has an accessibility toolkit installed by default, but that isn't what I'm looking for.

measter wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:14 pm

Ventoy problem
Current Ventoy 1.0.79 (Jul 28) + either EasyOS 4.3 or 4.3.3 boot fails after kb layout option then creating a snapshot results in error: Cannot find easy.sfs

Any advice on how to get Easy to work w/ Ventoy? No help so far from the Ventoy forum.

halpad wrote: ↑Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:56 pm

Do I(can I) skip many versions to the latest, or should I do other versions first(pain)?

I'm not particularly experienced w/ Easy OS either, but based on what experience I have, I would start from scratch; brand new install.

There's too much difference from the past.

Ventoy problem Current Ventoy 1.0.79 (Jul 28) + either EasyOS 4.3 or 4.3.3 boot fails after kb layout option then creating a snapshot results in error: Cannot find easy.sfs Previous problem w/ 4.0 was related to 'size' and resolved w/ a truncate command expansion. The error report was different, but...

measter wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:22 pm

Error cannot find easy.sfs.

Oops. I just realized that this thread is for the 32bit; I'm talking 64. I'll take this somewhere else.

Ventoy again. Using my previous v. of Ventoy and Easy 4.3.2 -- Error cannot find easy.sfs. This is not the same as the size problem, but I tried the truncate command anyway. No joy. Repeated for a different stick w/ Ventoy. Same. There was a newer Ventoy 1.0.79 released Jul 28 so I updated. Same can...

BarryK wrote: ↑Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:20 am

I have just discovered something: in Pup-Advert-Blocker, the checkbox "Mvps.org" does not work.
It is supposed to populate /etc/hosts, but nothing there.

There is still a mvps.org hosts file. It was last updated 2021 Mar.

It is at https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

Most linux distros fail to recognize that BCM wifi 'out of the box' on a live boot which I can most easily solve by connecting to ethernet and installing a BCM package from the repo/s.bcmwl-kernel-source which package when run accesses other related packages to aid its installation with the resultan...

Ventoy 1.0.76 + tweaked Easy OS 4.0:

# truncate -s 2G easy-4.0-amd64.img

... works.

Thanks.

That report of Ventoy 1.0.76 + EasyOS 4 could have been more complete. Populating: /mnt/ventoy2/easyof/release/easy-4.0 initrdcp: write error: No space left on device This copy failed: cp /mnt/ventoy1/initrd /mn/ventoy2/easyos/releases/easy-4.0/initrd Attempting to copy again... cap:write error: No ...

Ventoy live boot problem again. I don't know what the first screen said, but the second screen starts about mkmod -m then finding drives can't read '/etc/fstab' no such file or directory. Error: BOOT_FS=' ' Boot filesystem is incorrect I don't know if it is a Ventoy or EasyOS vs Ventoy problem. My ...

BarryK: I was wondering if anyone still wants an email client. I use a mail/news agent to communicate on usenet where it is useful to help resolve problems by being able to C&P from such as Easy into a usenet msg. I recently resolved a difficult problem w/ the current LXLE focal and Claws compat...

Ventoy live boot problem again. I don't know what the first screen said, but the second screen starts about mkmod -m then finding drives can't read '/etc/fstab' no such file or directory. Error: BOOT_FS=' ' Boot filesystem is incorrect I don't know if it is a Ventoy or EasyOS vs Ventoy problem. My '...

If you want to do it without writing the img file to a usb-stick... more complicated, it is going to tax my brain right now. let's see... Increase the file to 2G, then increase the second partition to fill the img file: # truncate -s 2G easy-3.4.7-amd64.img # WKG_PARTNUM=2 # Wstart=1310720 # echo -...

No offense to either @measter and certainly NOT @BarryK: BUT, shouldn't Barry be the one addressing this. You may want to confer privately with him on this as it does affect his distro's design...this is not a Ventoy problem as I review this; even though I fully recognize that community's willingne...

Thanks for the replies by Clarity & jan Oops. When I was thanking Clarity & jan, I was 'missing' BarryK's input on the next page. Thanks much BarryK. For the time being, I'm just going to use the Easy 3.4.7 I have on the independent USB, not on the Ventoy multiboot USB. I'm carrying on my '...

Thanks for the replies by Clarity & jan For the time being, I'm just going to use the Easy 3.4.7 I have on the independent USB, not on the Ventoy multiboot USB. I'm carrying on my 'campaign' on the Ventoy forum in the Ventoy forum thread that solved the dax problem w/ the ventoy CI tweak. Ventoy...

It may be useful to someone to know how Ventoy works. It puts a little bitty linux on a USB and then the user can write .iso/s or .img/s or any number of different formats to the USB and the Ventoy boot gives a boot menu to multiboot whatever format has been written there. Here is one page where Ve...

I have a 4G USB stick that I wrote Easy 3.4.7 to w/ Win Etcher. That works just fine So, Easy is able to do whatever it needs to do on that little stick. The problem seems to be that on a stick w/ even more 'spare room', the 16G Ventoy stick, Easy can't find a place to do whatever it does. However,...

The error you see is very logical. As easy is made to write to a partition on an usb drive that is grown at first start. The initial partition in the .img file is very small and easy is not made to grow the image file . You could make the image bigger ( something like dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=20...

This is a continuation of the same Ventoy problem, now w/ a different stick, more room, different Easy 3.4.5 One-time only operation, creating a snapshot of EasyOS This will allow future follback with the Easy Version Control Manager Populating: /mnt/ventoy2/easyos/releases/easy-3.4.5 initrd vmlinux...

I tried a different boot method and got a different error. I don't remember the exact words of the boot option, but it was to copy easy to ram & disable drives Boot-partition: ventoy1 Working-partition: ventoy2 Copying easy.sfs to ram, then mounting mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /easy_ro/easy_sf...

This is one view of the Ventoy USB I'm using, using fdisk: Model: General USB Flash Disk (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 15.6GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 15.6GB 15.6GB primary boot 2 15.6GB 15.6GB 33.6MB p...

Since the ventoy problem has evolved for me, I'll start a new topic. From the earlier Ventoy problem thread: Easy OS wouldn't boot on the current Ventoy release 1.0.74 as described in the ./dax/dax.ko not found thread (I don't know how to link threads). There are evolutionary dev of Ventoy called 'C...

I can't figure out how to dl the Ci. I got this CI v. done. As advised in Ventoy instructions to get the CI: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_github_ci.html About Github CI release I found that in the logged in condition at git hub that I was able to find the expected packaging. The CI that claimed to...

the deb you linked to seems to install. I didn't know how to do that w/ Easy. So I dl''d xkbset_0.6-1_amd64.deb and clicked it and pkgget opened for an OK to install. it ran without error from a terminal didn't test it for function though After install I give two commands xkbset st which turns on s...

Easy OS 3.4.7 I like to use sticky keys; when alt or ctrl or shift is clicked it stays 'stuck' for one more keypress. Many DEs have a feature for enabling this w/ options; those which don't such as LXQt/DE or WMs, I just install the command line xkbset and configure it for sticky. Easy's mouse/kb wi...

I should have also posted this link to the Ventoy CI 760:

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/action ... 257350810

Fix a issue when booting easyos 3.4.3+ Ventoy CI #760

EasyOS would not start with Ventoy. It says file '/lib/modules/5.15.16/kernel/drivers/dax/dax.ko not found and kernel goes into panic. I am working w/ Easy 3.4.5 & 3.4.7 and Ventoy 1.051 upped to 1.0.73. The problem was presented in the Ventoy forum https://forums.ventoy.net/showthread.php?tid=...