Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Thank you to Greg and Mike.

When I next boot up the machine I am working on - not posting from it right now - I should be able to follow that.

I take that I was right that Settings>General>Make Default from within Firefox is not the way to do it in this case?

Thanks again
Will

Hello

I'm sure I should know how to do this but...

In BionicPup can I set MikeWalsh's portable Firefox as the default browser eg. so it will open instead of Palemoon on clicking a website link in an email or similar situations?

I know that Firefox has options on the lines of "set as default" but ...

Thank you for going to that length.

If you can't see exactly what the driver install is trying to do I think I'll pass on this one.

You also say the printer uses passwords. What do you mean by that and where did you find the info? This is something new to me that I might need to know if looking at ...

Hello all

It's a long time since I've posted but only because everything as been going well computer wise. Now I need some help.

I've spotted a Dell B2360dn laser printer at a realy keen price but wanted to check on the chances for getting it printing in Puppy before buying.

Thre is a Dell ...

Hello Mike

Here's an update as requested and for reference if anyone else finds this.

As of 28-9-2022 Eurosport player in the UK plays 'on demand' video with Firefox ESR91.9.1 32bit .

Version 101.xx fails with an error something about failing to connect to the server. It also has other problems ...

Hello Mikewalsh

Is there any way you could make that V.91.xx package available for a time? If not I'll try what Mikeslr suggests.

I am trying to use the Eurosport sports TV player and it was working on Sun in Firefox 91, then I succumbed to Firefox's nagging to update and now it isn't. They must ...

Hello Mike

Do you still have any older versions of your Firefox portables?

I had one of your portables of the ESR version that had gradually updated itself to the low 90s, 91.xx I think, on my Taha install mainly for sites that need DRM as Firefox seems to be the last 32 bit support for that. I ...

Hello -- to follow up

I've now had chance to try this. Used Windows defrag then rebooted to Puppy, used the Pupswap tool to make a swapfile then made a savefile on shutdown. A 'cold' reboots finds and uses both so all seems well.

Also, thanks for the heads up about the Linux 5 series kernels and ...

Thanks to all

Wiz57 -- That's pretty much the setup I've got so I should be good to go though I'll take the tip to boot Windows and run defrag straight before.

Bye
Will

Hello

If I want/need to set a swapfile does it need to be on a Linux formatted partition eg ext3, or can it be put on ntfs?

I'm currently trying Puppy on an old laptop and there are several partitions from Dell's system recovery stuff so it would be nice to avoid trying to resize things.

Thanks ...

Hello
An update here. I found a spare 1GB pen drive and used gparted to delete the FAT32 partition that was on it and make and format a new ext2 one using all the space. I've freshly unpacked the portable Chrome files onto the pen and it starts up fine from the LAUNCH script - I'm posting from it ...

Thanks williams2

I will have to try and digest what you've posted but it sounds as though you might have found the root of my trouble.

Should it work as a test if I were to format a spare pen drive to an ext file system and put the portable Chrome folder on that? Which ext version would be ...

Hello, I'm back

Mike
I've now tried your very latest Chrome95

On Xenial64 I still get the same permission error as all along.

Tried booting Bionic64 v8 from a CD and it runs. There were a load of errors in the console that I managed to loose while trying to copy and paste to this post :oops: but ...

Hello

re. No option for USB boot.
Something I've seen on a couple machines that sort of age is that the USB boot option only appears in the BIOS if a USB drive is connected at power up. eg plug pen drive in, press power button, enter BIOS and low USB drive is there in the list of boot drives ...

Hello MIke
Do you never sleep?

I've downloaded your very latest effort and tried it.
Both versions of the Launch script still leave me with the permission denied error. I realized the the PROFILE directory and it's subdirectories are made so it seems to run as far as the mkdir lines at least. I ...

Hello
Reporting back.

I have now tried LAUNCH-NL. I get the same permission error as before, I have not seen the 'symbol lookup error' that baraka is getting.

I have also tried the xxREADME scripts in Mike's package and they don't work either - lots errors along the lines of commands not found. I ...

Hello folks
Is this supposed to work on Xenialpup 64 bit?

Situation as follows:
New hard drive frugal install of Xenialpup7.5 64bit, downloaded from the Xenialpup thread here.
Pet get > update Xenial
Update Pale Moon to currant release.
Nothing else done with Xenial install

Downloaded Mike's ...

Hello AstonX

Which of the Puppies I have were you interested i. I've just remembered I set up a Dropbox account one time and it seems to be still active so I could use that. I'ts good for 2GB so I could put a couple of Pup ISO on ther and PM you the link.

Reply or PM with what you were wanting and ...

Hello

I've been looking to have clear out and free up some drive space and found some older Puppy ISOs. If anyone is interested in any of them reply or message with somewhere to upload to and I'll share.

I have got:

raring-3.9.9.2-SCSI
wary-5.5
lupu-528.005
retroprecise-5.4.3
precise-5.7.1-retro ...

Thanks Mike

That confirms what I was thinking from reading lots of other posts and starting to get somewhat confused :lol:

Thanks also for the info about the speed governor - it explains why never seemed to do anything regardless of how I set it!

I'll have a bit of a hard drive tidy, check where ...

Hello Mike

PupSysInfo output as requested

—— CPU ——◀

Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
Socket Designation: J3E1
Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
Voltage: 3.0 V
External Clock: 200 MHz
Max Speed: 4000 MHz
Current Speed of Core 0:3000 MHz, 1:3000 MHz

Frequency governor : performance
Freq ...

Hello

I know that the only way to say which Puppy is best is to try some out in particular situation but I'd like to narrow the field a bit before starting.

I have a P4 duel core 3Ghz and 4GB RAM that I am currently using Tahr 32 on and am happy with it.

The way browsers are going I'd like to ...

Hello

May I jump in here with some odditites I'm still having?

I'm using Taha 6.0.6 32bit

In the built-in PaleMoon updated to 28.16 (the last 32bit update) things are as follows:
www.puppylinux.com works OK
The link from there to the forum reterns "server not found"
Going directly to https ...

Thanks

I have been all through the BIOS settings and there are no user options to allocate memory to anything. Also, when I had 2GB installed that's what was reported in all OS without any being "creamed off"

All I can suppose is that the memory controller can only address 4GB and this shows up ...

Hello Bigpup

Thanks for replying, I'll answer in reverse order as I thing it will be clearer.

Taha version is 606 but looking again at pup-sysinfo I think has answered my question
Linux Kernel: 3.14.79 (i686)
Kernel Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 13 19:32:40 GMT 2016
PAE Enabled: No

pasted ...

Hello

I am trying to understand this for interest really as things are working OK.

I have recently scored some RAM modules for my P4 box to fill out all the m'board slots.

The BIOS agrees with what's physically there - 1GB in each of 4 slots, 4GB total.

I try booting a Bionic 64 CD so I can see ...

Hello

And the prize goes to .............. Jafadmin!!!!

YASSM worked nicely. No need for a username or password but with vers=1.0 in the options box, thanks for pointing that out as it was the trick I was missing to get this to work.

I've had another look at Pnethood and can't find anyway to ...

Thanks for the suggestions - they give me something to try when I next have chance to play with this.

Don: the command line tools look a bit beyond me at the moment, although I might come to it. I might try booting the "destination" PC with Tarha from a pen drive and seeing if the 3.xxx kernel will ...

Hello

This seems to be harder than I'm sure it ought to be!

I've been given an old laptop running Windows XP home. I want to save some of the user files from the hard rive and they're too big for a CD and I don't have a spare USB drive so I thought I should be able to copy over my LAN to the hard ...

Hello

Folks here will be getting sick of me but here goes...

I have used POP to collect e-mail for years, since dial-up when when having mail locally seemed better than having to dial-in every time to refer to something.

I now have an ipad so have looked into how best to manage mail on two ...