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Can anyone point me in the right direction for this question?

“What then is the “correct” way to get bug fixed for an existing puppy? Again, sorry for my rudimentary questions. (So much to learn, so little time.)”

Okay. Friendly-Fossa64, huh? Well, Wiz57 is quite right. Quickpet was one of PhilB's personal 'trademarks' for his Puppies.....a quick'n'easy way to access popular apps'n'programs from the dedicated repo put together for that particular Puppy. This lasted from Tahrpup64, through Xenialpup64 and ...

Question:- Have you ever looked at the many 'portable' browser builds I and several others have put together? You can find a listing for all the 'portable' apps I've made available by looking here:-

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5104


mikewalsh wow this is great stuff! Thanks ...

I have perhaps a rudimentary question so please forgive me as I am still learning.

I’m using the friendlyfossa64 remaster as I learn. It came with Firefox already installed. After getting comfortable I updated Firefox using the browser’s help>about utility.

My question is, when I go into the ...

Good afternoon!
I was poking around in BookwormPup64 10.0.6 today and I came across what may be a discrepancy. Screen shot is attached. In most places the version number is shown as 10.0.6, but in System Information, it's showing as 10.0.5.

Have a great day!

I wanted to drop a note here in case anyone was interested. I continued to experience issues with the laptop booting up my puppy after the first save occurred. I’m slowly working though variables as I have time and patience. I have replaced the CMOS battery in the laptop but that did not make a ...

Hello everyone. First, let me again extend my thanks to everyone who has shared information and knowledge with me through this thread. You all are a great community and I'm thankful to have corresponded with you.

Being a newbie, I mistakenly thought that using rufus with a persistent partition was ...

Is yoursavefile on the top of the second partition, or in a directory on that partition?


I am using a save folder in the second partition. It’s called fossapup64save. It is at the top of the directory. The other two objects at that level are a folder called lost+found, and a file called ...

Would have been important to look at your grub.cfg or grub menu.lst to see what the boot command section was doing. Probably some small problem there.

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I've attached txt copies of these files from the FAT32 bootable partition on my USB Stick. Being new to Linux and Puppy, I'm embarrassed ...

When you made the save on first shutdown of the USB install.

You did tell the process to place it on the USB?

When you boot with the USB.Do not have any other USB drives plugged in or a CD, with a Puppy install on it, in the CD drive.

The boot process that is in Fossapup64 9.5 for booting from ...

does the boot process go directly (without hesitation) to the initial boot behavior? (we call this pupmode 5 ), or does the boot seem to have some errors and timeouts and eventually bring up pupmode 5?


I don’t notice any hesitation or errors when watching the boot up process. It goes quickly ...

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To check a save folder use the method for checking a partition.
Check the partition the save folder is on.

To do the whole partition:
Need to boot from a live Puppy or a Puppy on a different partition to do a partition check.
(the partition must be unmounted)
Example:
partition sda1

e2fsck -p ...

If you used Rufus to do the install to the USB.

Read this post about Rufus:
https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=40522&sid=b3f0d0c5e412aa0e716d86fc0062b81f#p40522


Really, any installer that is out there, that was not specifically made for installing Puppy Linux, is going to have ...

How large was your savefile (if you didn't use a save folder) and what format did you use for the Puppy partition and savefile: ext2, ext3 or ext4? Ext3 and ext4 should be able to recover easily from a glitch when checked. ext2 is less sure.


It was a folder on the 2nd partition created via ...

What installed and did this

To my recollection, the only thing that was installed was Firefox automatically updating itself. I never used package manager. I’ll try the steps you suggested and report back. I’m also looking into another USB stick but want to see if I can fix this first. I’m also ...

I have a new problem and I wasn't sure if I should start a new post or place it here. I thought here since my PC specs and all the previous info about my USB flash drive and how it was created is already in this thread. Someone please let me know if this is the wrong place.

Puppy on my USB drive ...

Thanks you all for the quick and insightful responses. I spent several hours more on this issue today. I was able to get my USB with save to reliably boot up several times by ignoring the boot order and instead mashing F12 at power on until the boot select came up. At that point I’d manually select ...

possible hints here

https://superuser.com/questions/624234/toshiba-satellite-l755-key-for-bios-settings?rq=1
https://superuser.com/questions/1691576/toshiba-satellite-l755-refuses-to-boot-to-usb


Thanks for these. The first link mentioned quick boot. I checked and my boot speed was already set ...

I suspect that your bios is trying to decide between mbr boot or uefi boot when it boots the second time.


if you press F2 or F12 repeatedly when powering up, can you access a usb selection menu?



I can get into the boot order if I press f2 at power up. I confirmed that USB is the first in the ...

When you used rufus, did you carefully follow the instructions here? https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=40522#p40522 particularly, Step 6: "Under Persistence use the slider to have rufus create a persistent partition of the entire drive less about 2 Gbs...?


Yes I followed the ...

What brand of USB-Key did your use? What was it's alleged size? Not all manufacturers are honest


It’s a Duracell branded USB rated for 8GB. When I check it in with Windows Explorer or with DISKPART, it confirms the size is about 7.5GB. I’ve had the drive for a good while now but am pretty ...

Hello! This is my first post to this forum although I've been reading it for a few months now. Please be gentle :-) .

I have been trying to get Puppy Linux to boot from a USB flash drive (thumb drive). I'm able to get it to boot the first time. However, after I go through the process of saving my ...