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mikewalsh thanks very much for a thorough and interesting reply. I'm pretty much of the same view as you and I'm also a stubborn old beggar, so I'm right there with you. To put it succinctly, I'll be perfectly happy to stick with Fossapup and do the two exFAT format jobs from the command line. My ...

OK, so, after rooting around in the forum and Googling the question, I'm still now wiser about how to upgrade my Gparted package to a later version, able to format flashdrives to exFAT. That's a first. Usually there are more answers than I can deal with. Nevertheless here's what I think I learned. I ...

bigpup Many thanks for your response. Of course you hit the nail right on the head. I have Gparted v1.0.0. I suspect that will be the version that's in the current Fossapup build. I have run the updater but that didn't change anything. I then got fixated on the slightly tangential question of why ...

Thanks for the steer dimkr , I'll keep that in mind. As it happens I'm not intending to use the Flashdrive for a puppy installation. It's storage for my Android tablet. So I could just format it as FAT32, especially as I probably won't ever try and put a file on it that's bigger than the limit. But ...

mikewalsh Hi Mike, it's been a while but you know how it is, life bites. Just today I wanted to use Gparted from Puppy to setup and reformat a 128Gb Sandisk Ultra flashdrive that I'd previously wiped. Of course I found the exFAT option greyed out. So far so just like you wrote. A little Googling ...

@ChrisH :- "... I mean, what harm can it do?" And that's the problem with being an aging newbie, I have no idea :D See, that's one of the best things about Puppy. Because she is SO easy to both back-up AND restore again, it gives you a much greater sense of freedom when it comes to experimenting ...

mikewalsh thanks and no worries. @ChrisH, try what you found and see if it works. :) Flash "... I mean, what harm can it do?" And that's the problem with being an aging newbie, I have no idea :D But that's what I plan to do. I'll let you know how I get on, assuming that I don't crash my system ...

Flash So, it looks like that particular driver was compiled for Ubuntu 16.04 (32bit/64bit), which is built on Linux kernel 4.4, whereas Fossapup64 is built on Kernel 5.4.53. So Fossapup64 is at least built on a later version of the kernel. Do you think that will be backwards compatible with 4.4 in ...

dogcat Thanks for your advice, I'll give that a whirl. I notice that the link you provided is pointed at what looks like a blog, so not the official Canon downloads repository. I presume the material is safe but in any case I've fortunately managed to locate the official Canon page for the same ...

Hello again. I've been continuing with my project to set up a Fossapup based system, as described here https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8985. So far I've had reasonable success, mainly thanks to a lot of help from many of you. Unfortuntely I'm now stalled with trying to find, install and ...

@ChrisH :- Heh. It's not quite as simple as it at first appears, mate. You need to understand a wee bit about how the Java eco-system is structured. I'm no expert on this subject ... mikewalsh Hi Mike, sorry to be slow to reply, we've been on holiday acting as unpaid babysitters for our grandson ...

mikewalsh Hi Mike, it appears that version 20 of Java is available for Linux here https://www.oracle.com/uk/java/technologies/downloads/. I'm not sure whether you didn't spot this (less likely) or I'm misunderstanding whether this version is in fact usable in Linux (maybe more likely). Maybe I ...

@ChrisH :- Mm. 'Kayyy... You might have trouble "breaking free" from Windows if you have to run Vassal. Although Java works just as well under Linux, it requires Java 11 OR NEWER.....and the newest version of the 'standard' Java runtime available for Linux is, I'm afraid, only Java 8. There's ...

I think it would have been best to partition the SSD as follows: Partition 1 FAT32 4GB (or whatever size you require to allow storage or transfer of the files you want to read across all OSes). FAT32 is happily read by either Windows, Mac or Linux. This partition holds bootloader files and data ...

mikewalsh Thanks for pitching in. Don't worry. I realise that the portables are the result of a collaborative effort. Mikeslr pointed me at your list in one of his posts to this thread so I went and read your notes along with the list. I've already got the Firefox portable installed and FreeOffice ...

Hi @williwaw. As requested, I formatted the last 1GB or so to NTFS (naming the partition "Styx", because I take a childish delight in that kind of thing), shut down, booted into Windows and inserted the USB. Lo and behold, Windows File Manager did indeed show both the FAT32 boot partition (which is ...

If I do find that I need to use a Windows app I'll dump the necessary documents into a FAT32 USB key and get at them from Windows that way. ChrisH that might be more reliable than expecting windows to see a partition on a disk formatted by gparted with mostly linux partitions. I have found windows ...

bigpup on Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:18 pm and mikeslr on Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:18 pm, thanks for those clarifications. williwaw on Thu Jun 22, 2023 6:54 pm, "Would you format that last 1.5 g space and let us know if windows finds it? also let us know if windows finds your 512mb fat32 partition at the ...

Hi bigpup , Thanks for your advice. mikeslr had made the same point earlier on in the thread. The 1.5Gb is actually the free space at the end of the 128Gib external SSD, which is now formatted as described. The "data" partition is nearly 100Gb and formatted as ext4, as I wrote. This will eventually ...

mikeslr Hi Mike, I managed to get the first stage of this completed tonight. I partitioned the SSD into 1 x FAT32 @ 512Mib (the size shinobar recommends in another post) for the boot files, 1 x ext4 @ 19Gb for the Puppies, save folders and portables, etc., and then another ext4 using the remaining ...

mikeslr Thank you once again for taking the time and trouble to give such a thorough reply. I think I know enough now to crack on and give it a try, so I'll go and do that and let you get back to what you were meaning to do :D. I will let you know how I get on and particularly what works and what ...

"Hi Mike, Tartube seems to work relatively glitch free in my current Fossapup 9.5 64bit installation but I'm very interested to hear that there are Puppy specific alternatives so I'll take a look at those when the time comes to include something like it with my new SSD installation." Your posts ...

Hi mikeslr , I've carefully read through your first block of advice and I'd just like to play back my understanding of it to make sure I've understood it, clarify a few of the points you raise and let you know what I intend to do going forward, in case that's of any interest or useful to know. I've ...

Just an update regarding your interest in Tartube. I just downloaded and unpacked the deb file. It' control file notes: Version: 2.4 .386-1 Architecture: all Maintainer: A S Lewis <aslewis@cpan.org> Installed-Size: 7013 Depends: python3-feedparser, python3-gi, python3-matplotlib, python3-requests ...

williwaw and mikeslr , thanks for taking the time to respond and for your advice. Especially, mikeslr , for taking the trouble to write such a detailed response :thumbup2: . The flip side of course is that you've given me a lot to think about so I'm off to do that but I'm sure I'll be back shortly ...

Hello. I've been a Puppy Linux enthusiast for over ten years but only an occasional user and, until now, only a lurker on the forums. I'm now intending to move to Puppy as my main OS for a number of reasons. I no longer need to use a Windows system for business and my aging, Acer XC-605 desktop is ...