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venn

No need to apologize, as I somewhat thought I wouldn’t get a response at all because I finally figured out that getting a reply notification is not the default setting in this forum and looked like you marked this thread Solved about a week before I came upon it - so I figured you weren’t checking ...

venn

Ah, I see what you are talking about now + why I didn’t catch how that was a solution. My hunt for an answer to my problem ended on Pg. 2 of this thread when Jasper wrote the reply that started with “Woo Hoo!!” Everything after that I glossed over pretty quickly, b/c it was all in reference to his ...

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The basic answer that worked in the end:
It appears the issue was with using USBimager.exe to burn the USB, despite USBimager creating a perfectly bootable ZorinLite USB. I finally remembered Puppy has an internal USB installer, which created the working boot USB. The USB works on computers that ...

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Thanks williams2 for the attempt, although I don't know how that could be what he did since Jasper said hibernation wasn't used + I didn't see any1 give that answer above (but I AM new this, so possible I just didn't recognize it when I passed by :? ). I figured out the solution to my issue though ...

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Hi Jasper,
I just wanted to check that I'm understanding the solution you found, since it appears I'm having the same issue you originally posted about, except with Tahrpup. It looks like you gave up the idea of booting from USB and moved to booting from the optical cd drive, correct?

venn

To answer your question: Yes, I can still boot from the Optical Drive. I can have the bootable Tahrpup DVD + USB put into the laptop that I have Tahr boot off the Hard Drive, where I can see they both have the same 12 files on them.

In pulling up Gparted + Grub4dosConfig windows, I’m not seeing ...

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Hi all,
In reading this, please keep in mind I’m new to Linux and debated with myself if I should actually put this question in the Beginners area. So while I tried to follow the above solution, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it - so am not even sure the below may be a different problem.

I ...

venn

Hey Mike,

I get the same message as Greengeek now too.

RE: not expecting newer versions on NewMoon
I guess I didn’t super expect a really official spot to download new versions (like SourceForge or Distrowatch), just thought there might be some dedicated corner of the internet where folks like me ...

venn

Ah, ok - that's fine then don't spend too much time digging. I thought you were going to answer something like the accouncement area. It was just that I did a quick search for newmoon 29.4.1 thinking I'd be directed to some official download site, but basically kept only getting references to ...

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OK, 1 wrap-up question for Mikewalsh, since you are the 1 that provided the NewMoon download in the 1st place. How do I know when I'm supposed to be downloading the latest version, in case there is an update down the road? Is there some place I should be checking on some regular basis?

venn

:thumbup: YES, thanks so much for mentioning it vtpup! I was worried about so often booting from the optical drive in all this testing, so am glad to finally settle the browser issue so I could install it on the hard drive finally to start booting from there. But definitely appreciate having the ...

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I cannot tell you how absolutely TRILLED I am to be able to say I am transmitting this message via a ThinkPad T20 running 32bit Tahrpup 6.0.5 + a fully functioning NewMoon 29.4.1 browser! :P I followed Janugsa’s instructions on going to the Palemoon32 folder to click on palemoon-bin to pull up the ...

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JANUGSA!!! You have given me new hope for Newmoon! Definitely will give it a try! Thank you so much for replying!

venn

I’m so sad to say AntiX 21 simply is not a serious contender, Puppy is lightning fast comparatively. It sounded so promising I had such high hopes a final release would be the answer I was looking for. I’d go as far as to say 21 is worse than 19.b3 in terms of speed, which I never would’ve predicted ...

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Ok I can definitely say: my originally choosing ext2 in formatting the partition was the problem for Opera 12.15. Once I reformatted to ext3, Tahr works exactly the same as it does off a DVD. So Bigpup’s assertion (pg. 2 of this thread) + Williams2’s (pg. 3 of this thread) was correct regarding the ...

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I did try AntiX 19.b3, which I coulda swore I downloaded b/c 21 was for 64bit only or there was some specific reason I didn't think it was going to work on the Thinkpad - I wouldn't have dug into older versions for no reason. However, upon reading you ran 21 in 32bit made me look at it again. In ...

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After creating a 2.5gb Primary NTFS Partition in XP with #8 (IM-magic resizer) on the following list, b/c programs that said they support XP actually don't (I tried #1 minitool, #3 easeus, and #6 macrorit):. https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/windows-partition-manager/

Small side note:. For some ...

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I'm going to be super duper cautious at this step b/c I don't want mess something up so things don't work, even though I suspect I could just reformat the partition if necessary. In reading:. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/swap-partition/

And a search of "OS on primary or logical partition" returned ...

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Ah I learned something new in visiting this thread after so long - after some amt of time the editing ability goes away. So to continue along the lines of where I left off above - on the 3rd pg of this thread it was recommended that I create a Swap partition. Since I think I have found a software ...

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Your reply made me want to check the swapfile thing again, now that I had deleted all the extra save-files of all the Puppies I had tried, which got my freespace up to 3gb. Oddly, Xenial now recognized the boot as non-initial - so my settings were there. However, only on the 3rd boot, every boot ...

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After assimilating the info gathered from this forum, more research about LICK, + the various ways of installing in general from
https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/install.html

And this video showing what looks to be the official Puppy website at 1 point in time used to endorse LICK, stating in ...

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I was on my way to creating a swap partition via Gparted when I came upon an issue with it – it doesn’t want to resize/move around anything in the hard drive, either graphically or by typing in the numeric values cells. In the hunt for a Puppy User Manual to figure out why I can’t change the ...

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Greengeek :.it sorta sounds like you're asking me a follow-up question to my last post RE: my frozen mouse. That issue was solved over on this thread:. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=61134#p61134

Sorry, I tried to delete my last post on this thread, but it looks like if some1 replies ...

venn

I usually don't un/plug the mouse ever from its socket. I did, just to try to reestablish it anew...that's not it. I've also read somewhere ps2's are to be plugged in before booting.

I suspect mikeslr is correct. I plopped in the Bionic DVD: the mouse works fine from the getgo; it also recognized ...

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On my initial run of Tahrpup I was able to get the mouse working, created a savefile for it + Bionicpup, along with a swapfolder, and had copied files for the Newmoon browser. I then deleted these items (deleted anything that said "tahr" in it) in preparation to do a defrag before creating a swap ...

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Well I've gone + broke Tahrpup somehow. My mouse no longer works, even after doing the same things I did to get it to work in the 1st place. I did attempt to find the solution in other threads, to no avail.

In preparation for creating the partition, I thought I should delete the files I had created ...

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The swapfile hasn't made a difference for Newmoon. Creating it in Bionic brought up a couple of odd things tho:

(1) It says Total RAM: 365mb (when XP was telling me it's 348) w/ Total swap: 63mb, which I set the swap size to 2048mb b/c I have 2.45gb free space on the hard drive.

(2) it said the ...

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While rockedge's suggestion seems like it would be the easier thing to do, I have hit a snag in attempting it.

1. If Tahrpup has this function of creating a swapfile, it's hidden + not nearly as accessible as shown in the posted pic. If some1 knows where to do this in Tahr - PLEASE reply.

2. So I ...

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Williams2 : "pfix=nocopy should allow you to run Puppy with about the same free ram as a full install".

This is what I was afraid of, but since I have the 2gb to spare that greengeek spoke of - I'll give the swap parton thing a try.

Steviepup : Yeah I hear ya! I tried over a dozen distros, from ...

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Stevie Pup: Thought you might be interested -

After coming across this: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Light-weight_Linux_distribution

and https://techlog360.com/best-lightweight-linux-distributions/

and https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-distros-with-32-bit-support/

I checked out a few more ...

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