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The current layout (and ya, I know I have 'issues' with 'cable management' but it's still all clear and pretty-much untangled... and the air can circulate around everything Ok):-
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Sure, I can't plug-in anything else that's USB-based... but if I DO need to, I have ...

I'm trying to work out the 'best' way to specify that I want a certain GRUB (v2.03) menu entry to look for its savefile in a specific location... and while I have an answer, it's often suggested as not being the' best' or 'most reliable' way...

The menu entry:

menuentry "Puppy Linux: grumpy ...

Many Win7 machines had early UEFI implementations that were pre-SecureBoot and came from the factory in legacy mode. Switching them now to UEFI can be an adventure. They will often make their own decisions on how to boot depending on what they see on your drives.

After a few months of mucking ...

Just had the 'terms and conditions' thing now...

I'm guessing there's something with the 'Internationalization' ... and (certainly in Oz,) there's a greater push for ISPs and 'others' to provide info to governments and 'others' about what is posted, who posts it, etc in the interests of 'security ...

Please, share your experiences about how it works out.

I haven't done too much with the 'file server' functions per se just yet... other than seeing yes, I can get to the drives on the Mini PC remotely from Windoze/Puppy/Android/other Linuxes all Ok when it's booted under Windoze or F96-CE ...

I'll add my two penn'orth into this..


This looks like a bug to me. It says, "Tick apps to run as spot." What apps? They seem to be missing. I also tried Fossapup95 yesterday and the selection of apps is there. F96 doesn't have it.

I've also observed that under 'some unspecified conditions' (too ...

Quick OT sojourn...


Regarding VAX-VMS, do you still use? It was the first system I used that was connected to the Internet, ca. 1993/4/5.
I know there's a personal evaluation copy (or something like that) that we can use, but never tried it.


Haven't used VMS in maybe 10 years... but have a lot ...

wizard ,

Most PCs are mult-boot (multi-Windoze and multi-Puppy variants) and I don't use all PCs every day, so I am re-working my Windoze-side backups to deal with that usage a bit better... but for the everyday PC, I am using a commercial Windoze application which has been working well for me for ...

Please, share your experiences about how it works out.

Just a quick note..

I've spent a good bit of time getting Windoze to a 'backup-able' state.. so I have a couple of full/image backups of the internal SSD disk Ok... but I use a lot of stuff'n'nonsense on my Win PCs... and I just can't be ...

Question What are you using for a monitor (VGA/HDMI/DP/USB3)?

I have a weirdo arrangement... but it all works well.

I'm using an old Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW (24-inch) @ 1920x1080 via a HDMI->VGA adapter that's connected into an HDMI KVM unit. The video into the HDMI KVM unit is coming from ...

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley."
--Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785.

The Beelink unit(s) ended-up being unavailable (in Oz), certainly at a good price point... and not with the configuration I wanted... so I ended-up going with a GMKtec G3 Uncbox for something over AUD200 ...

Footnote:

I can't be bothered bending my brain any more on this... but even with using '--newer-mtime' , directories are still included in the archive (I understand tar doesn't care about directories so much with respect to '--newer-mtime' - it's about files )... even though NO files (and ...

--newer-mtime ?


The ‘--after-date=date’ (‘--newer=date’, ‘-N date’) option causes tar to only work on files whose data modification or status change times are newer than the date given.
...
If you want tar to make the date comparison based only on modification of the file’s data (rather than ...

Hi, again...

Silly question, that I can't get my head around, even with going through the 'tar 1.35' manual ( see https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/tar/manual/tar.html )... and fiddling about with Linux for too many years... and doing experiments like the following...

* Check out our ...

Brother.. This has been a mess to deal with... and manufacturers and sellers are hopeless with specifications. You'd think the manufacturers would include everything in their spec docs.. but noooo ... and they're never consistent so you can A-B them... but I guess it's been that way since the year ...

An interesting bit of exploration today... and the pricing is pretty rank, really... given what I was expecting compared to, say, a refurbished laptop.. or even a (refurbished) 'standard profile' desktop/tower.

The used items are not much different to new prices; many brands are simply too ...

I've gone through the 'setup' process on a spare PC... and Puppy is certainly going to work well enough for what I want to do, I think.. and I can use a VNC something to get to the unit Ok, once it's running and is on the local network... and Windoze is being its normal silly self, in that I have to ...

The question has been dealt with in a few posts/threads, I guess ( for example, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12847 )... but I'm mainly writing this to see about folks' thoughts in terms of the hardware to use for the Puppy-based file/backup server.

See, I'd like to try and set-up ...

Just a quick non-update...

Everything is working as expected/usual.

I DID try the '-D nl80211' switch.. and have it in the 'test script' now... but things returned to stable/normal before I could properly test the effects of it... so we'll see what happens the next time the connections go haywire.

Well, this has been an adventure (as expected)...

First up, I tried the 'tethering' that is available in some of the Puppy variants... and it didn't work at all... probably 'coz I don't understand what it's trying to do.

I then went through some rigmarole of mucking about with 'hostapd' and ...

Here is a suggestion. Take a spare computer and connect it to the router by ethernet. Use some software to turn the computer's wifi adapter into an access point. Connect other computers to it and check the stability.

Ooooo.. more adventures in networking begin :mrgreen:

Having never done this ...

modem I have was supplied by Telstra

Getting the modem replaced is what I would do.
But you give reasons why you do not want to do that.

Hardware does not work forever.

Mebbe... Although.. I know 'planned obsolescence' is a greater issue these days... but is 4 years too much to expect for a ...

Many Win7 machines had early UEFI implementations that were pre-SecureBoot and came from the factory in legacy mode. Switching them now to UEFI can be an adventure. They will often make their own decisions on how to boot depending on what they see on your drives.


Yup.. The 'other' computer is a ...

Well, it's been more-or-less a year .. and the CrazIneSs has been less present.. but it still happens sometimes.. and the last couple of days have been particularly annoying.

Consider these recent attempts when trying different Puppy variants on the same PC with the same USB WiFi adapter (Updated ...

rcrsn51

I think 'frugalpup' only installs grub onto MBR partitions... but getting into the guts of frugalpup is 'beyond scope' (having had a token look).

Looking at the grub docs (see https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/index.html), it seems there's a probe command which ...

Next exploration:

Cold boot
setup: Boot order: USB, SSD
exit setup, save changes
boot
grub -> grub> ls ... GPT available
reboot
grub -> grub> ls ... NO GPT available
reboot
setup: (nothing)
exit setup, not saving changes
grub -> grub> ls ... GPT available
shutdown
cold boot
grub -> grub> ls ... NO ...

My first thought would be to scrap the (hdx,gpty) notation and use uuids. That avoids problems with the order in which the drives are enumerated. For example:

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root aaa-bbb-ccc
linux /vmlinuz ....

Good thought... and works as suggested when the boot order is ...

More mysteries to solve...

Considering my recent-ish PC: i5-12400, 16G RAM, 2T SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730...

'The shop' set-up the PC with Windows 11 Home in a 'standard' way with GPT on the SSD... and I've created some partitions myself:

sda1: TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition"
sda2 ...

Thanks for digging some more, rockedge ...

So, ultimately, it seems Hiawatha does not work 'out of the box' in F96-CE_4, unlike some other Puppy variants ... but no matter, we can establish a working configuration that isn't horrendous to set-up.

So, f'now, it can be added to the 'issues' list ...

Fanx!, rockedge ... 'tis a good explanation of things...

So, I set-up my 'clean' F96-CE ISO-only USB flash drive.. and booted into F96-CE.

I had 3 files in /etc/hiawatha :
hiawatha.conf.stock = a duplicate of the file in the ISO
hiawatha.conf.rockedge = your first modified version
hiawatha ...