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Volhout

Dear Wizard (and others),

I did not want to leave you in the dark too long. Cloudpup Fossa is used every week (although the original requirement - remote teaching - has been revoked from the Dutch government) in the classroom. Kids like the laptops very much, and teachers indicate "this is so much ...

Volhout

Thank you for your suggestions. That is a nice feature for the new release.

I understand the need to adapt the host name, so I will do that before these machines leave the classroom.

I will stay on RC5 for the moment. It is faster to open quick setup menu and change the name, then to implement the ...

Volhout

@Volhout

but you can easily change the name using the internet connection wizard, right click the connection icon in the right side of the jwm tray.

wizard

I know how to do it from Quick Setup (through appfinder), but this method I have not been able to perform. Right clicking the icon ...

Volhout

We are live ....

Volhout

wizard

Just a quick update:
Yesterday afternoon replaced all images by RC5.
General remark from the teachers: this is so much simpler than what we where used to (other school tablets and laptops, we like it.

Observations during install RC5's
- 3 laptops would not connect, but after reboot they ...

Volhout

@wizard
That did it. Even after reboot it worked.
Added your fix for the pager, and have imaged the first 6 sd cards. Then it was time to bed.

Thanks, I am really pleased how they work now.
You should bee proud.

Volhout

Volhout

@wizard

I have something strange.

On ONE laptop (all have the same image on SD card), retrovol does not show up on the status in the tray (the speaker icon missing).
They are all identical laptops.

I checked in /root/Startup/autostart, and there is the retrovol.desktop . When I click on it ...

Volhout

Hi wizard,

Thanks, I did no know this.
Never to old to learn......

Volhout

Volhout

@wizard,

The laptops are in use with RC4, in class under supervision of the teacher (so they have not yet been handed out to the parents).
This is mainly because the feared "closure of schools" forcing to remote teaching was not commanded from the government.
So far no show stoppers.

In parallel ...

Volhout

Hi Wizard,

I hope you can download the wallpaper from this link:

Regards,

Volhout

P.S. I took the puppy logo, turned it into a 2 color BMP. Then placed it onto the original wallpaper in MS PAINT

Volhout

@wizard

The session takes around 10 minutes per SD card.
Here is the result from the first hour..

Volhout

Volhout

@wizard,

I think I have found a solution.

I ddéd the SD card to a file on disk (dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=file.img bs=1M)

Use gparted to EXT3 the SD card
dd the image (2Gbyte) to it (dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 if=file.img bs=1M)
Use Gparted to expand the EXT3 to fulls SD card size

This worked for me.

Puppy ...

Volhout

wizard

That does not work. Let me explain, I tried 2 things.
I used the USB drive formatted with Unetbootin.

1/ Take a brand new SD card, use gparted to format to EXT3.
Use your procedure, and I get to "wait for Puppy installed message". Instead, within 10 seconds I get a message "cannot mount ...

Volhout

wizard

Recovered the 2 SD cards. HP utility worked.
Tried copying the save folder from the 2Gbyte card to an Ubuntu system, and got report that some folders (4, I think) could not be copied
i.e. a folder called ".dbus", it has sub folders with very long names that looked like hashes.
There was ...

Volhout

@wizard

Thanks for this. It is exactly what I needed. The change per your instructions was clear. Only needed to make the script executable, and voila...done.

Im am done, and will start reading the image and dd'ing to other cards.I will let you know how it goes...

Regards,

Volhout

EDIT: dd did ...

Volhout

Hi Wizard,

Just noticed one thing.... When going to shutdown, there is menu that allows you to get to the terminal... and be root.
Have to look at this. Actually, the whole menu could be skipped, and shutdown directly. Maybe I could edit /root/.jwmrc_tray2 to fix this ?

Regards,

Volhout

Volhout

hi wizard,

I implemented your suggestions and removed some items from /root/Startup (move them to /root/Startup/disabled so I can put them back anytime I want).
Played all night yesterday, and it felt rigid and reliable. Tonight I'll add my "puppy" desktop and maybe some final tweaks, and then go ...

Volhout

@wizard,

I imaged a new 2Gbyte card, and all is working and dandy after some tuning (audio, video resolution, save button, save question, remove setup from top bar, but now I end up in the final phase and would like to come to putting the image in cement. The open questions are:

1/ I can monkey ...

Volhout

Oh, by the way, just to explain my stupid reasoning behind creating a 2Gbyte partition...

I was not sure if you can create a 14Gb EXT3 partition, install Cloud-Fossa in the partition, using only the first 1 Gb including save file/folder, and use dd to copy only 2Gb of that partition to a new blank ...

Volhout

Hi wizard,

This is what I did..

Boot from USB Cloud-Fossa
Insert SD card (16Gbye, 14Gbyte partition EXT3 on it)
Resize SD card partition to 2Gbyte (gparted) by first deleting it, and creating a new one size 2Gbyte (actually I made it 1.9Gbyte).
//When I tried resize 14Gb->2Gb I ended up with an ...

Volhout

@wizard,

WAUW, that is a nasty one... I will try to work around it but not sure yet.

OK, laptop with 16GB SD card
Use Gparted to remove partition, and create a new EXT3 partition size 2Gbyte.
Finish succesfull. Leave rest of SD card unallocated. So the SD card has an empty EXT3 partition in it ...

Volhout

@wizard,

Started out with the version RC3: nice icons in the bottom tray. Thanks.
Ten I saw at the forum there was a new version.

Downloaded RC3b. Unetbootin to used RC2 USB drive. Booted right to the desktop. Is it possible it used the RC2 save file ? It inherited settings from RC2 (-or- you have ...

Volhout

@wizard,

Will try the iso tonight....

Volhout

Volhout

Yip, forgot about that. Then I prefer RC1

Volhout

Volhout

Hi Wizard,

I hope I can answer your questions.

1/ The iconset. Well I see 2 options.
a/ The simplest option is to use the icons used in the upper taskbar. The green WIFI symbol for network, the loudspeaker symbol for sound volume.
But honestly the black loudspeaker with the pink sound waves ...

Volhout

Hi wizard,

Many of the cosmetic things, i may be able to fix myself (like replacing iconsets), but is there anything you can do about the network tool not being persistent?

And maybe you can hint what script to change to skip the save question. Simply always save.

Thank tou for your effort and ...

Volhout

You actually are a wizard.....

The SD card behaves identical to the USB now. Issue solved.
That is a relief....

Volhout

Volhout

@wizard, dacytron,

Under the hood there is something with pupmode 13 that is stragne.

The 16G USB stick was formatted EXT3, size on stick 14Gb. This is again confirmed by Gparted. Iso image put on to it with Unetbootin. Power up, select save to folder at power down. Power up again, and the ...

Volhout

@wizard,

Now I know why I got confused.

I remember seeing a save button on the USB drive version, but that save button disappeared. I thought that was intentionally, and that is why I was not surprised there was no save button in the SD card version.

But.... The USB version, I placed the save ...

Volhout

Hi wizard,

I will try, but usbflash is not the SD card reader. The sd card reader in my old acer netbook was connected to usb. But in this laptop it is a PCI device.

Just tested, set pmedia=usbflash does not change the behaviour. No save button...

Volhout

P.S. I understand you cannot boot from ...

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