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rudyt

PCmanFM and Midnight Commander are now in the "oe-scarthgap" repository in PKGget.

Even though Midnight Commander is THE text-based file manager, I much prefer 'nnn', another ncurses file manager. It's a single pane, but with 4 virtual desktops, which I find more natural to navigate. Easy should ...

rudyt

OK, right-click on one of the partition icons, choose "Desktop drive icon manager", then tick the "redraw and realign exsting icons", then restart X.

Thanks - that cleaned things up. Is it something I'll have to do every update, or just once on any new or existing installation? I guess I'll ...

rudyt

Does sda1 show up in /sys/block/sda/?

# ls /sys/block/sda/
alignment_offset discard_alignment ext_range power sda2 slaves
bdi diskseq hidden queue sda3 stat
capability events holders range sda5 subsystem
dev events_async inflight removable sda6 uevent
device events_poll_msecs mq ro size ...

rudyt

A picture is worth 100 words There is no Partition sda1 on my drive (confirmed by fdisk), but EasyOS thinks there is. There used to be a 100MB NTFS partition there many moons ago when this was a Windows PC, but it's long since been deleted (but never wiped).

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rudyt

I just updated from 4.3 to 4.3.3 using the Easy Update icon. Everything went smoothly; it detected the 4.3 image, passed the checksum (which failed last time), and proceeded to download just the delta file and not the full ISO like last time.

There is one minor cosmetic issue that could be ...

rudyt

I've been going waaaay outside the norms these days - I've been running Easy on QEMU virtual machines. While the 64 bit build of Easy 4.3 works perfectly, the 32 bit build of Easy 4.3.2 refuses to boot into X. I also tried with xorgwizard, all options including Vesa, but nothing works.

I'm not ...

rudyt

williwaw,
That is very odd. For me and Alfons, only the .delta file was downloaded, and the 4.2.7 img file created.
With my Internet connection, downloading the 800MB full img file would take a long time, so I would know if it happened!

I will need to study the easy-update script, see why it ...

rudyt

BarryK wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:02 pm
I am thinking of doing a 32-bit i686 compile in OpenEmbedded, and build EasyOS.

Woohoo - this is great news. I have a circa-1999 Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2 running Precise Pup that I'd love to dust off, plus an IBM Thinkpad T43 running NetBSD and BionicPup

rudyt

I have another request. I want to detect whether the computer has UEFI-BIOS or legacy-BIOS firmware.
I found that running this:

# dmidecode --type bios
...
UEFI is supported

But, do all UEFI-BIOS firmware return that string?
Would you mind running that command on your PC with UEFI-firmware ...

rudyt

Can't you keep your saves on the USB stick you boot with?

Sure, that's what I do now with EasyOS, but it's slow as molasses compared to the internal SSD.

With my traditional single file savefile puppies (BionicPup, FossaPup, Slacko, etc.), once I boot from the USB, the stick is no longer ...

rudyt

In today's blog posting, you wrote:

The installation of EasyOS, that we describe as a "frugal" install -- Puppy Linux parlance -- can be in any Linux partition, preferably ext4, in any folder or sub-folder. It has been a secret, but a save-file in an ntfs partition is also supported .

You can't ...

rudyt

For manual update, you open up easy-4.1-amd64.img and copy 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' to the boot partition, and 'easy.sfs' to the working partition (/mnt/wkg). That's it, then you reboot.

I confirm that the procedure above worked for me. I used the mount-img script to explode the img file, copied ...

rudyt

This is hinting to me that you have updated from a much older version of Easy.
Does the desktop label have "file" or "files"?
It is now "files"
The label "file" was quite a while ago, don't recall what version had that.

Anyway, if they are the only issues with upgrading, then you are good-to-go ...

rudyt

You are the first person to test updating!

I should have been the first, but ran into problems with the slow internet connection and rsync disconnecting. Then was busy with other stuff, so updating didn't get tested.

I'm surprised that trash and lock icons got overlapped. What version of Easy ...

rudyt

Why does the 'file' icon on the desktop open the /root directory rather than / path/to/wkg_dir/files

I know /root is the historical home directory for user root, but I like Barry's new scheme better, so I just change the Rox icon link myself for instant access.

Also, with Barry's new scheme ...

rudyt

I have a fixed 'easy-update' script. Place it at /usr/local/easy_version, and make sure executable flags set. Attached, with false ".gz" appended.

The update icon on the Desktop points to /usr/sbin/easy-update and not /usr/local/easy_version/easy-update . Should both locations be updated?

I ...

rudyt

Logos are like baby names. While any name will work, you need to hit the one that says "Yeah, that fits perfectly". This is only one man's opinion, but the box-in-a-box doesn't scream "That's the one" to me.

The others that were posted are beautifully done by someone who obviously has talent, super ...

rudyt

It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing. You'll need her laptop in order to create a savefile with her hardware profile.

rudyt

@rudyt
I did study that issue with cheap flash sticks, and decided that ext4 journal would be ok. I think that I set something somewhere to minimize journal writes.

A couple of my usb flash sticks are SanDisk Extreme, that do, apparently, have a SSD chip.

But I think that even the cheap flash ...

rudyt

I run EasyOS in frugal mode, sharing the sda3 partition with Slackware, TinyCore and VoidPup. EasyOS boot files are in /mnt/sda3/EasyOS, and wkg_dir is in /mnt/sda3/EasyOS/wkg_dir

Every time I Shutdown or Reboot from the EasyOS menu into another linux (ex: FossaPup64 on /mnt/sda2/FossaPup ...

rudyt

I run EasyOS in frugal mode, sharing the sda3 partition with Slackware, TinyCore and VoidPup. EasyOS boot files are in /mnt/sda3/EasyOS, and wkg_dir is in /mnt/sda3/EasyOS/wkg_dir

Every time I Shutdown or Reboot from the EasyOS menu into another linux (ex: FossaPup64 on /mnt/sda2/FossaPup), running ...

rudyt

Like my fellow Quebecois brother @BologneChe, I too had issues upgrading to 3.4. I'm running a frugal install in an ext2 partition booted by GRUB4DOS. My last clean install was around version 3.2 (can't remember the exact version), and I've done an update to every version since then.

Here's what I ...

rudyt

Barry, did you investigate using the latest version of Osmo (currently at 0.4.2) instead of 0.2.14? The Osmo webpage you linked lists the webkit2gtk library as Optional.

I'm guessing you have other reasons for staying with the older version (probably bloat) , but it doesn't hurt to ask

rudyt

Clean install of EasyOS 3.1.15 - not an upgrade

I launched PETget to install git-2.24.3-r6 and it shows as (ALREADY INSTALLED) but the package is not actually installed .

Yes, that's an awkward one. That happens because git is in the devx sfs. Most users would load the devx if they want git ...

rudyt

Clean install of EasyOS 3.1.15 - not an upgrade

I launched PETget to install git-2.24.3-r6 and it shows as (ALREADY INSTALLED) but the package is not actually installed .

I installed the package and git works fine.

I uninstalled git and it uninstalls OK, but PETget still shows it as (ALREADY ...

rudyt

Hi Barry, great release as always. I'm test driving the 3.1.13 release and noticed a couple of minor hiccups. I did an automatic update from 3.1.11 if that helps.

On your Developer Blog site, you posted on December 07, 2021 that " /root/my-applications and /root/my-documents folders have been ...

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