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libertas

You can indeed use Bootflash by editing /usr/sbin/bootflash, just replace grep usbflash with cat . It will then show all drives and allow you to choose a drive to repartition (erasing all data on it) and install on. It offers choice between efilinux and syslinux, depending on UEFI or BIOS.

I ...

libertas

Hi Wiz57 ,

The CPU is 64 bits. The RAM amounts to 4GB.
It's intended for seeing videos, youtube or other platform or via USB stick.

By logic, I would guess that s savedirectory would be faster when saving because only the modified contents needed to be saved.
With a savefile, the whole size of it ...

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Would also help to know what type of computer this is...judging from only an 8gb internal drive I would guess it is a chromebook of some sort. Does it use legacy BIOS or the newer UEFI? If older legacy BIOS, I'd try to install grub4dos first, or see if Vanilla DPup has a different installer ...

libertas

@libertas The puppy version of grub is not like other distros.
It's just a boot stanza that points to the folder you put puppy in.
The manual install is just coping files from the .img file or usb into a folder on the hard drive.

Do you have a way to install grub or is it already installed?
What ...

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Hi,

To try Devuan dog, do I have to use the mklive-daedalus script? Or is an ISO available?

libertas

Hi,

I tried Vanilla Dpup following some suggestions and liked the system, but when I tried to install to the 8GB disk that comes with this computer got surprised.
It seems that the installer only wants to install to usb flash devices.
Is there a way to install it to the computer disk or this is not ...

libertas

I used mtPaint for the first time some weeks ago, though it would be easy compared to gimp, but I took a long time to be able to copy, paste, repaint in some color, etc.
Thanks for the tip.

libertas

Thanks to all for the insights, I'll try some of the suggestions.

I used to compile lots of software for Slackware, but now, when I look at gscan2pdf, for example, with many perl dependencies, it's discouraging. Even with some kind of third-party package manager like sbopkg and sboui.
Many times ...

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Jasper wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 2:41 pm
VoidPup

I still have an install of VoidPup, but somehow the package manager VUP (if I remember correctly) couldn't resolve hostnames, although the system could do it, from CLI or web browsers.

libertas

I use Slackware for server and also desktop, Devuan on laptop.
Also use Fatdog occasionally that has some goodies I like.
I searched, but didn't find a comparison table between all Puppies and derived ones.
Is there any?

I have much less available time now than twenty years ago, so to have a ...

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But I'd like to keep both Seamonkey and ungoogled-chromium, both at the quick launch.
And remove Chrome to free space.

libertas

Hi,

I'd like to add ungoogled-chromium to the quick launch bar at the bottom left of the screen.
Couldn't find a way to do it.

I'd also like to wipe Chrome from the system. What is the best way to do it?
Just remove the binary?

libertas

@jamesbond, just to add that there are two tools that are named in a similar way but are different.

There's https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ and https://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/.
Each has some advantages.

libertas

I came across this other clipboard manager Qopy that says to be simple while supporting images.
Qopy - https://github.com/0PandaDEV/Qopy

I couldn't install it in a Slackware systems.
Had to install a packet manager pnpm for javascript libraries.
The installation requires 612(!) packages (although ...

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HddSuperClone has been released as open source https://www.hddsuperclone.com/hddsuperclone/purchase in 2022.

From the author

I no longer have the time to maintain this project. I am planning on ending major support for HDDSuperClone, so I am making the PRO version free. I has also been made open ...

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I recomend a few things:
1. Mount the filesystem read only. Which is it?
2. Can copy from there with a tool like fsarchiver https://www.fsarchiver.org
3. Or in block mode using dd_rescue that doesnt stop at bad sectors.
4. In case of need after the backup, you may try photorec to salvage some ...

libertas

A local PXE boot server (unbreakable).
+
A network partition with read-only qemu-kvm images on it (unbreakable).
Users create relative images and work on it (they can break, it, but you can regenerate the relative image in 1 second).
+
A network storage for the qemu users to save on it (never use ...

libertas

Hi Neo_78 ,

Some years ago, some user describe a way to to deal with qemu images that may be of interest to you.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/nx-or-vm's-850038/
A read-only qemu image for the base install customized with programs and a running image that can be ...

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Sure, here it is, now as sdd2:
# dumpe2fs /dev/sdd2 | grep features
dumpe2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index orphan_file filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg metadata_csum_seed sparse_super large_file huge_file dir_nlink extra_isize ...

libertas

Doing rEFInd manually is working fine.
Loading SFS it's not.
Still searching for a way to do it since the hyperlink I posted suggests it's possible.

libertas

Hi,

I've already setup a SFS file comprised of some software and can load it successfully from the control panel/menu | System | System SFS Loader.

It would be even better if I could load the SFS file in the boot process.
Tried two entries in refind.conf using the parameter extrasfs as mentioned ...

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The system is 64 bits:

# getconf LONG_BIT
64

I don't have data about the filesystem of the second partition as it was formatted with btrfs, but from the third inside LUKS, it's this:

# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/dmcrypt0
tune2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on ...

libertas

As promised, I formatted the second partition of the USB stick to btrfs (from ext4 previously) and could boot from all of the rEFInd entries (Linux0-Linux4):
Entry Linux5 is for the first partition (vfat).

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux0" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume PUPPIES
initrd ...

libertas

The two locations provide different sets of drivers.
While the first one has no ntfs driver, the second one has a ntfs driver.

Indeed. They're from different versions. The ones from efiboot.img are usually older, but when I remember I update them from time to time. You can try either ones ...

libertas

@libertas it really has me stumped as well. As per your first option I have it working this way on an old and a new laptop from their internal hard drives. The same setup on a flash drive will not work. It's like it doesn't recognise the volume, label name, of the second ext4 partition. Like you ...

libertas

I asked a question some posts before that got forgotten.
Is it possible to load a savefolder or save file after the boot has been done?
Since this is the upper layer, it probably is.
So, to rephrase, is there a tool to do this?

libertas

I tried all these options:

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume PUPPIES
initrd /FD901/initrd
loader /FD901/vmlinuz
}
menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux1" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume PUPPIES
initrd \FD901\initrd
loader /FD901/vmlinuz
}
menuentry ...

libertas

If you're running Fatdog64, copy /usr/share/refind-bin-0.13.3.1/refind/drivers_x64/ (the entire folder) to /EFI/Boot (in your vfat formatted partition), then try again. If you're not running Fatdog64, you can find the same drivers_x64 folder inside efiboot.img.

The two locations provide ...

libertas

Another question.

I could boot from rEFInd as suggested by smokey01 using the FATDOG_LIVE uefi vfat formatted partition, like so:

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume FATDOG_LIVE
initrd \FD901\initrd
loader /FD901/vmlinuz
}

Then, I tried to boot from the ...

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Forgot to say that as of now, when shutting down or rebooting, there's no option for me to choose between saving or not saving to the savefile/dir.
When using the default ISO this option used to prompt me.
How can I enable this?

Fatdog will not ask this question when it thinks that the ...

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