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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 for ...

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 not...

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 have...

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 NTF...

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 for ...

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 no...

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 preferred...

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 it ...

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. Sorry ...

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 have...

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 co...

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 Google ...

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 I...

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 pre...

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 I'v...

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. scaling dr...

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 try mo...

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 sho...

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 from &qu...

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 the ...

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 specify...

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 ke...

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 dr...

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 machines ...

Hello
I've now had chance to try your portable Firefox and Seamonkey with youtube and they work fine, as you said they will.

Thanks
Will

Hello, Mike Thanks for your reply. It's that kind of know-how I thought I should tap before meddling with thinks I don't really understand and getting in a twist ;) So, your portables should work with sound as they come but if not, the easiest thing would be to try the alternative version that you'v...

Hello I know this subject in general has been done to death but I don't seem to have seen anything about my particular situation. I understand that to have sound working in the current Mozilla browsers eg Firefox, Seamonkey they have to be started with a command on the lines of. apulse BROWSER NAME ...

Thanks, Bigpup for the explanation. I take it that 'power save' would be the usual choice for a PC used for web browsing, e-mail etc? Intel_pstate is the driver reported as being used. Is there a way of seeing a 'live' view of proc speed, just for interest so I could start, say, some video recoding ...