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I am sorry bigpup but I find your latest post more than a bit insulting. What, in my posts, leads you to the conclusion that am that stupid? I admit that I am no expert but, although old, I am not yet completely senile.

Of course cracking my WiFi encryption would not allow an attacker to damage my ...

Wiz57 said:

One method I can think of right off the top of my head would be to purchase your own WiFi router/access point, not from Huawei,
that allows YOU the user to adjust settings. Connect it to your ISPs modem, and set it up to use WPA/WPA2, and connect
your devices to it instead of your ISP ...

This thread has a lot of good advice on securing Puppy in itself. However, I can't see anything about securing WiFi here. I am no expert but is it not possible that, if you are connecting to the internet via a WiFi link that is insecure, then the very best security of your computer will not prevent ...

Hi Mike,

I got a bit confused after reading about util-linux on your start post. I couldn't find it in the Fossapup repositories. I spent some time blundering around in other threads of this forum and finally found out that most of the newer Pups already have it built in, so only older Pups need ...

What do I need to hack to change the default closing-down option in Pupmode=13 from "save" to "nosave"? This would be useful when running off a USB stick as well.

The SSD is nearly 9 years old, even though it's not been used. When the T400 HDD died, I was about to replace it with this SSD when I ...

OK. it looks like an all-ext3 setup is the way to go. Is there any reason to have two partitions then? In Windows it makes sense, since the OS is an enormous pile of expensive, over-complicated poo that needs to be backed up in a similarly complex way. Puppy software is simple and easily replaceable ...

Wizard, at your suggestion, I downloaded HDSentiel and ran it. It reports a Kingston SV300S37A120... in perfect condition. As it should be, it's never been used!

Thanks for your suggestion.

Wizard, do you have just the one ext3 partition on your SSD? Is that preferable to ext4 on an SSD? Is my unallocated space at the end of the drive helpful, or just a waste of space?

Actually, since you know what you are doing and I don't much, might I ask you for a bit more info on how you actually ...

Thanks. I didn't realise Grub4Dos doesn't need a dos-formatted filesystem. I am sure that I have read that it does on this forum. Glad to know that's not the case.

I am still curious about extlinux but, if there is no advice on that, Grub4Dos will do fine.

I am resuscitating an old Thinkpad T400, which has a completely empty SSD as the only internal drive. It will never run Windows again, so there is no reason to have a non-Linux filesystem on it.

I have noticed that the discussion on the Fossapup pages regarding boot only seem to mention Grub4Dos ...

I have noticed that the discussion on the Fossapup pages regarding boot only seem to mention Grub4Dos and Grub2. In the distant past, I used syslinux/extlinux but there is little mention of it here. Is there a reason to avoid the syslinux ecosystem?

The reason that I ask is that I am resuscitating ...

Hi Zigbert,

cdrecord --version
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02a09 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Joerg Schilling


Sorry about the delay in responding. Part of the reason for the delay is that, after much fussing around, I have finally realised that the DVD writer was dying ...

In /usr/local/pburn/func_exec I found this code:

#verify md5sum if burnt iso-image to CD, else no verify
if [ $BURN = iso ] || [ "$COPY_BURN_ISO" = "true" ]; then
if [ ! "`grep -F 'nrg2iso' $WORKDIR/exec_preburn`" ]; then
TEXT_VERIFY="<text use-markup=\"true\"><label>\"$(gettext 'Note! <b ...

OK, I reported 3 "bugs". #1 is minor and just needs the menus fixed. My memory of how to do this in Rox has evaporated. I'll have a go though.

#2 is definitely a bug. I think that the fix was identified in the discussion about it in Bionicpup , that I referred to in my first post.

#3 is also I bug ...

I think of an .iso as a file that can contain many files. A sort of wrapper if you will, like a burrito. So when an .iso is burned, only the files it contains are burned on the disk, without the wrapper that made it an .iso. Thus the MD5 sums won't match. Your disk is safe to use.


Thanks Flash ...

EDIT While the minor issue with the Fossapup menus still stands, the other issues may be related to my DVD drive seemingly in the process of last gasps before dying.

1/ In the Multimedia sub-menu there is an icon labeled Pburn. In the Rox-right-clicks menu for .iso files, there are two entries ...

I have an older desktop which was running Windows 7 Pro. My wife insists on keeping Windows. I find it slug slow. I have an old but unused 120GB SSD and I decided to try and copy the whole Windows setup to that SSD. Unfortunately I have broken Windows in the process. Help!

The desktop has an Asus ...

Thank you everyone for all your help. I tried the simplest fix, suggested by Buruduk:

mount sdc2/imgW7Aug1522.WinC NewDir

It works! At least as far as I need and can see. I was able to read down into the user documents and everything looks OK. I just needed to check that my DDing actually worked ...

I have DD copied my Windows 7 C: drive from the HDD in my desktop to an image file in a partition in a USB HDD device. The partition is formatted NTFS and the partition inside the image is also NTFS. The image is 466GB in size.

After a bit of internet searching, I tried to view the image file by ...

I downloaded NicOS utilities Pet that you pointed to Mikesir and made an sfs, according to your instructions. I then loaded the sfs and clicked FixMenus. Alas, there are no icons or menu items to be seen. I was able to find the utilities by digging down into the directory ~ /nicOS-Utility-Suite-2022 ...

Hi Mike,

I have just started playing with your V4 drive speed tester. Thank you very much for this.

I'm running V4 installed as a Pet on Fossapup-9.5 with Pupmode=5 on a USB stick.

I tested sda2, which is the Windows C drive on HDD. It's a Seagate-ST500NM0011-500GB on SATA 3.0. I got the ...

OK, now I have tried fiddling with the Bios CMS mode setting. There are 3 options: Auto;Enabled and Disabled. If it is set to anything but Enabled, neither the Windows HDD nor the Fossapup USB are even recognised, let alone booted. The comments in the Bios UI seem to indicate that Enabled is ...

Once again I am confused. I have just noticed that, according to GParted, my second-hand desktop's single HDD is formatted with a PCDOS MBR, which I understand is usually just called MBR. As delivered, Secure-boot and Fast-boot were both on in the UEFI Bios. That worked fine. I thought that that was ...

Now I have a REALLY basic problem. I have no idea how to install pets downloaded from anywhere except the repositories already set up in the Puppy Package Manager (ppm). I HAVE tried searching through this forum but had no luck in finding any help. Surely this info should be in a sticky somewhere at ...

Thanks for all the interesting and helpful comments.

From what I can gather so far, Mike's suggestion to make a new adrive sfs to hold the set-up customisation changes and installed upgrades seems to be a good idea. It would mean that all that stuff, which is currently most of the 200MB in my save ...

Running Fossapup on a USBFlash stick, I boot with Pupmode=13. I have set the automatic save interval to 0 i.e. Never. I also set the prompt to save or not on exit. I haven't been using this setup long but I often don't save on exit, especially if I have just been browsing. All this is to minimise ...

Hi Mikesir,

Not at all often that you are wrong. I am glad I gathered up the courage to challenge you in this one case, hopefully this will save some users a bit of time and wasted USB space.

Can you suggest anywhere I could get a definitive answer on direct accessing Windows NTFS from Puppy? As I ...

Hi Mikesir,

My wife is as difficult about letting her husband fiddle with anything she uses as yours! I don't even think that I have screwed up any computer by my fiddling (yet).

Rufus can and did make a persistent partition as ext3. As per your advice, I used GParted during my first run Fossapup ...

At the very bottom of his very useful post (Nov 01, 2021) on using Rufus to prepare a bootable USB Puppy,


There is one variation you may want to consider. OOTB Windows can not read Linux Formatted partitions. If you intent to use the USB-Key to transfer to a Windows system files you create or ...

I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the bios developers were "encouraged" to make it hard to load alternatives to the installed OS, namely Windows. I have a Samsung Series 9 Lite laptop. On that one, setting the bios order is not too difficult. As long as you continue to boot from the USB, the ...