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p310don

As above, Puppy linux user group is working fine, but, I tried posting a link to distrowatch, and an immediate rejection for "going against our community standards".

I put in a claim to say that's not right, which probably won't go anywhere. I would love to know what's the cause of this flagging ...

p310don

Strange to see that report. The Puppy Linux Users Group on Facebook is working fine:

https://facebook.com/groups/105376249522117

Maybe it's just the other linuxes that aren't as good as Puppy....?

p310don

Awesome that it worked. Now, make back ups

p310don

Grant, try the details here:

https://rajind.dev/2017/04/27/recoverin ... /#more-710

It is for recovering an accidentally formatted drive, but it may have a similar solution

p310don

BUGGER

Do you have spare drives to copy data to?

A few suggestions....

Run testdisk to copy files - it's good, but gives jibberish file names
I think photorec is better for recovering the files themselves

Perhaps you can use dd to create an image of the drive, and then try to recover the image ...

p310don

I have recently purchased a cheap USB-C dongle that I can control TVs and Air Cons and whatever via an app on my android phone.

Having it hanging out of the phone is clumsy and awkward, but otherwise works surprisingly well. I wonder if there's an app / program that can command the usb dongle in ...

p310don

I recently purchased a new PC with two real USB ports and a bunch of USB-C ports. So I purchased a couple of USB-C to USB hubs. They work great. The USB-C bandwidth makes the hubs work a full speed, and I have a whole bunch of USB ports now.

p310don

F-Droid is an alternate app store, having mostly open source stuff on it.

It's amazing the speed difference in apps from F-Droid versus the official google Play Store.

I recently had to get a new phone, the old phone's battery was dying. Android does a great job of copying old phone data to the ...

p310don

This question probably needs a new topic, but in relation to google's tracking and moreso the abundance of ads we're getting, is there a good list for ad prevention via using the hosts file?

I used to use it years ago, but have been using Ublock or AdBlock, and haven't utilised the hosts file for a ...

p310don

I got 62 - @Wiz57 how did you get so many ads? Did you leave it on for 24 hours or something?

p310don

I got home today to find my PC turned off. I assume there was a power failure. After turning it back on, it ran through the auchk on the savefile, but I cannot get a desktop. Instead it only gets to a prompt.

The image attached is what I get to. If I press enter it gets me a prompt. If I run ...

p310don

From my discussions with jamesbond the problem lies from and issue with EXT4 partitions and grub4dos bootloader. For a normal initrd grub4dos works fine, but Fatdog uses a humongous initrd, which causes issues with slow boot.
Switching to the initrd-nano solves the problem. My PC boots in about ten ...

p310don

I saw it this morning.

Pretty standard stuff in it. There isn't anything that stamps out my freedoms in there. I took it as basically don't be a dick on the forum, and you can stay to play. If you want to talk about stuff that isn't nice, be it about others or illegal activities etc, then this isn ...

p310don

menuentry "Fatdog64 Linux FATDOG_LIVE no save dir" {
icon /EFI/boot/icons/os_fatdog.png
volume FATDOG_LIVE
initrd \FD901/initrd
loader /FD901/vmlinuz

title FD9.1 (sda1/)
uuid abcd1234efgh5678
kernel /vmlinuz mergeinitrd1=local:/initrd
initrd /initrd-nano

The top is your boot stanza ...

p310don

That looks very reminiscent of an issue with Fatdog doing the same thing.
grub4dos on an EXT4 partition with a big initrd has a super long boot time. It is sorted by using the initrd-nano in Fatdog. Not sure about Fossa 96 and a solution.

Fatdog info can be found here:

https://distro.ibiblio.org ...

p310don

Can confirm, the link works and donating is easy.

Thanks

p310don

I was just going through some stuff from the archives and realised that this forum turned 5 the other day.

December 2 2019 the forum's first member joined, rockedge ! Also the forum's creator, admin and main man.

Followed a few days later by the first early adopters of this renegade forum, me ...

p310don

I vaguely remember this. I can't remember any further detail than that, but it was in the heady, early days of Puppy.

p310don

I mean, I wrote abandoned on the title. Should I re-open my endeavours?

jamesbond you know if I figure out how to run a new kernel (which I'm already doing on my new machine) then I'll have to compile the nvidia driver to suit the new (old) kernel. To do that, I'd need the kernel sources & devx ...

p310don

mikewalsh yep, that's the one.

I was foolishly thinking that because it worked before, it'd work now. How silly of me.

It works kind of ok with Nouveau, but runs like balls when playing HD video. I know it worked in the past with HD video, like I said, running Pup5.25. Back in the good ol' days ...

p310don

So further study has another theory....

My old card is just crap

Seems new kernels and old drivers don't mix. This is an Nvidia ION, basically 200 series card built into the MoBo. This might have to become abandoned.

TBH, I'm surprised FatDog worked on this PC, it is very ancient, so getting ...

p310don

Nothing works....

I suspect I know why

Following Clarity 's tip to follow don570 's instructions, I selected the Nvidia driver SFS for my machine. It doesn't work. I suspect it's because the driver in the SFS manager is for Kernel 6.1.46 and FD903 runs Kernel 6.10.2

Booting with the SFS loaded ...

p310don

@mikewalsh the default install has a boot option to blacklist nouveau. That's not my problem. I don't really know what my problem is, but that's not it

p310don

Is there a link to a step by step to get proprietary Nvidia graphics working in FD903?

I keep either getting no desktop or Nouveau. I'm sure I'm doing something super simple wrong, but I just can't get it to work.

p310don

Everyone's buying Intel....

https://techspective.net/2024/09/30/the ... ing-intel/

Let's get a gofundme together and Puppy can buy Intel

p310don

Are the colours right?

I had a similar problem with an old eeePC. It wasn't always noticeable, but the colours were slightly off. My problem started on a flight overseas. The laptop got jolted around in my bag. A good hit on one side of it and everything came good. Loose connection somewhere.

Hard ...

p310don

wizard for me, cloud does two things. Mostly it is a sharing / collaboration medium, easiest to share cloud based stuff with others. Then it is a backup system, backing up stuff that is already physically backed up.

For work, I run a routine every 24 hours that backs up the day's efforts (about a ...

p310don

crond is the task scheduling service I believe.

p310don

I pay to get 100gig of google storage. It's pretty good, also used for work and photos and stuff. I'm half full.

I have been thinking lately about bit torrent as a protocol for sharing files / repositories. With servers going down (archive.org) and DDoSes etc, a decentralised system for sharing ...

p310don

Thought I'd drag up this thread, for more "fun".

For the past 5 months, I've been using the script mentioned in my previous post for all my PDFs. Work flawlessly. The el-cheapo chinese printer is turning out to be a fantastic little workhorse, which somewhat surprises me. It has printed just shy of ...

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