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Airdale

I just wanted to post and say that I've really enjoyed using this distro. I've been using Barry's distros for many years and EasyOS has come a long way. Scarthgap is a rock solid nice little distro and is quite polished.

Excited to try out Easy Daedalus! Now with all the added app managers it's ...

Airdale

I've made some progress.

It looks like the kernel provided in the EasyOS image does not detect the default hard drive controller that VMWare uses (SCSI):

https://people.freebsd.org/~patrick/EasyOS-VMWare-SCSI.png

It does work with the SCSI controller that Qemu uses however.

I have verified ...

Airdale

I've done this before.... But its been awhile. I can't remember a detailed step by step instructions, but think I remember the overall gist.

After a few false starts, I ended up downloading one of the old easy pyros that was still available as an iso format

I mounted the iso file as a CD and ...

Airdale

dmsg with no output at all

That's good, this probably means that the driver is both installed and loaded. Can you reboot and share dmesg output?

Also, you might want to check rfkill , maybe WiFi is blocked through software (shouldn't be) or hardware (most laptops have a key combination for ...

Airdale

@Airdale My bad, it should have been /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start .

I see the driver is installed, let's see if it's loaded and no firmware is missing:

/usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start
dmesg -c > /dev/null
modprobe wl
dmesg

No problem!!!

~$ /usr/lib/dkms/dkms ...

Airdale

@Airdale Please share the output of

uname -r
find /usr/lib/modules | grep dkms
/usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller

~$ uname -r
6.1.85
~$ find /usr/lib/modules | grep dkms
/usr/lib/modules/6.1.85/updates/dkms
/usr/lib/modules/6.1.85/updates/dkms/wl.ko
~$ /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller ...

Airdale

I'm running Vanilla dpup as a frugal install on an old Dell Latitude laptop. Typically I have to install the proprietary Broadcom drivers for the wifi to work.

I'm currently running the 10.x series (not xwayland). I installed broadcom-sta-dkms a long time ago, and wifi has always worked well ...

Airdale

I tried to install the kernel source sfs from sfsget.

Unfortunately, it tries to install the Kirkstone devx as a dependency so the install fails.

Screenshot.png

error.png

It seems you use the EasyOS Kirkstone. The topic for Kirkstone is here : https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t ...

Airdale

I tried to install the kernel source sfs from sfsget.

Unfortunately, it tries to install the Kirkstone devx as a dependency so the install fails.

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Airdale

Tried this out tonight. Booted right up without any problem at all. So far so good, most things seem to be working!

I like the cockatoo wallpaper :)

Just had a quick question. What would be the best way to install the wl module for broadcom wireless drivers?

With dunfell and kirkstone I guess I ...

Airdale

There is something wrong with the devx for 5.5.3. It is only 164K.

Airdale

I upgraded to 5.4.5 from 5.4.3 using the update script.
However, I had used the download latest firefox to download firefox and make it default when using 5.4.3.
After the update the menu entry for firefox was gone, and chromium was default again.
I was going to add it back to the menu, but it ...

Airdale

I upgraded to 5.4.5 from 5.4.3 using the update script.
However, I had used the download latest firefox to download firefox and make it default when using 5.4.3.
After the update the menu entry for firefox was gone, and chromium was default again.
I was going to add it back to the menu, but it seems ...

Airdale

dimkr wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:16 am
Airdale wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:19 am
Maybe going from 9.3.7 to 9.3.15 is too big a jump?

Which Firefox do you use? Is it the preinstalled one?

Debian sticks with Firefox ESR so updates should be smooth even if you skip some updates like this.

Yes. I haven't changed it.

Airdale

I upgraded from 9.3.7 to 9.3.15. Seems to be working pretty well, but when I tried to run firefox I get an error message.

Error: Platform version '102.9.0' is not compatible with
minVersion >= 102.7.0
maxVersion <= 102.7.0

I thought maybe it was a problem with 9.3.15..... so I rebooting using ...

Airdale

Updated to 5.2 from 5.1
The update was seamless.
The difference file worked well and was only a small download.

The appimage installer is a great feature.
I like that now it is easy to install ungoogled chromium and update it.
In the past I have used Mike Walsh's portable ungoogled chromium on Easy ...

Airdale

Kind of strange. Not sure what the problem was. Bootflash gave me an error... saying "This is not a hybrid ISO, refusing to continue....."

I though maybe if the iso was not a real hybrid iso with partitions maybe it would work on a DVD.

So I pulled out an old USB optical drive and burned a disk ...

Airdale

dimkr wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 5:05 am
Nothing has changed. Are you sure you're flashing the right file?

I think so. It is vanilladpup-10.0.144-xwayland.iso

Airdale

I saw that there was a similar thread to this one earlier (trouble creating a bootable usb with Rufus) and Etcher and Bootflash were both given as acceptable ways to flash a new bootable usb. I have been trying to flash a new bootable usb with the latest 10.x.144 xwayland version. I've tried to ...

Airdale

I have noticed some unusual behavior when trying to change themes in 9.3.5

When switching themes in 9.2.x I get the following dialog box, which is what I would expect:

themes9.2x.png

However, when trying to change themes in 9.3.5, I get at least four windows open at once:

themes93x.png

Not ...

Airdale

This is probably due to differences in the cryptsetup version between initrd and /sbin.

Maybe you should try to put the static cryptsetup from https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/initrd_progs/releases/download/20230105/initrd_progs-static.tar.xz in /sbin - that's the one used to load the save ...

Airdale

You can create a SFS which contains /sbin/cryptsetup and name it ydrv_vanilladpup_whatever.sfs. It will get auto-loaded.

I tried that and it worked well. The yrdv sfs did indeed autoload and now it asks for the password for the save file on boot up now for the first time!

However, after ...

Airdale

Oh well....
Not so fast :)

I got the option to make an encrypted save file after installing cryptsetup.
However, when I tried to boot up the system and select that savefile there were errors.

I think it is because when I install cryptsetup, it actually gets saved to the savefile, of course.
So ...

Airdale

That did it. Now I get the option to encrypt when creating the save file.
Thanks!

Airdale

What kind of save did you make?
File or folder?

I think the save has to be a save file to be able to encrypt it.

When you made the save it should have offered to you option to encrypt or normal.

If you choose normal it will just be a normal save file.

If select encrypt, it will require the ...

Airdale

This probably has been addressed somewhere else, but I have looked and was unable to find it. Is it possible to encrypt the pupsave file on a frugal install? I realized that on a full install OR a frugal install with a "save folder" that probably wouldn't be possible. But on a frugal install with a ...

Airdale

mikewalsh wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 2:02 pm
@BarryK :-

Perhaps something like this?

Keeps your idea of a circle, with a more "professional-looking" thumbs-up..... 'Only' a PNG, I'm afraid; never could get the hang of vector graphics.

Mike.

I think its great!

Airdale

Audacity audio editor available -- audacity-easy_2.2.2_amd64.sfs
-version 2.2.2
-I took binary from slack package originally then added fatdog64 packages
including libjpeg-turbo which is substitution for libjpeg
https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/packages/810/libjpeg-turbo62-1.5.3-x86_64-1.txz ...

Airdale

EasyOS has a jdk sfs -- click "sfs" icon on desktop.

Isn't 'jdk' the development toolkit , Barry.....for those who want to code/build their own Java apps?

Mike. ;)

True. But correct me if I am wrong..... I think..... Jdk CONTAINS jre ... So should work. It just will have some extra stuff ...

Airdale

Got this to boot from internal drive using grub4dos with:
title EasyOS 4.2 dunfell
uuid 2cc6c518-d1b2-4866-90a5-bcb48a11f80d
kernel /EasyOS-dunfell/vmlinuz wkg_dir=EasyOS-dunfell wkg_uuid=2cc6c518-d1b2-4866-90a5-bcb48a11f80d
initrd /EasyOS-dunfell/initrd

Here is an example!
I am using ...

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