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@dimkr

I would like to be able to do what you have done, but I got stuck after a WPS Office SFS I created didn't work (missing library that was there), so stripping a complete OS and building it back up is beyond me at the moment.

Malware scanners search for known malware, but nobody is actively looking for new and unidentified malware in Puppy. Therefore, antivirus scanners don't have signatures of Puppy files and probably won't find anything even if there is something malicious in a Puppy ISO you download.

Thank you for ...

Thank you for your reply.

Can you share with us the question that you asked the AI?

Prompt:
I want to know which application uses pnscan in Puppy Linux.

Response:
The application that used to include pnscan in Puppy Linux is PeasyPort. However, it’s important to note that the official ...

Some virus scanners identify pnscan in Puppy as malware. Pnscan was part of the old PeasyPort app, but the official versions of PeasyPort (made by me) stopped using pnscan long ago.


I am curious, since I just ran a ClamAV scan on BookwormPup64 10.0.8 x86_64 that I installed very recently, and ...

Hello,

I am using BookwormPup64 10.0.8 x86_64
If you prefer a GUI experience:

1. MENU → DESKTOP → JWMdesk
2. When open, click the Tray tab at the top of the panel.
3. Look for Virtual Desktops
4. Change 3 to 1
5 Apply when satisfied.


in my experience using JWMdesk may alter your jwmrc ...

I only want 1 desktop. How can I get rid of all the shortcuts/icons.
I am switching them accidentally and losing stuff.
Dont see anything in JWM


Hello,

I am using BookwormPup64 10.0.8 x86_64
If you prefer a GUI experience:

1. MENU → DESKTOP → JWMdesk
2. When open, click the Tray tab at the ...

Setting up the partitions properly did the trick.

Quick boot-ups now, and it boots on one of the not working PCs, so I expect the ones at work to boot up as well.
I had to go into the grub.cfg to change the pmedia to 'usbflash' so that the PUPPYMODE=13 not 12.

Thank you very much for the ...

Thank you for your insightful reply.

The most likely reason for this error is failure to extract dpupbw64save66.tar.gz to RAM - it could be corrupt, or maybe RAM is insufficient.
Ah! I'll see what the RAM is in the PCs that fail. But they do complete booting with no saved settings of course ...

:welcome: To Puppy Linux.
Thank you. And thank you for your great reply.

This is information we always need, but this is not enough.
We need to know the exact full name of the Puppy version.
This could be:
BookwormPup64 10.0.3
BookwormPup64 10.0.6
BookwormPup64 10.0.7
BookwormPup64 10.0.8 ...

Hello,

I installed BookworkmPup64 onto the first partition of a new USB stick, which was formatted to FAT32.

I followed the Frugal Installer: Puppy Button → This Puppy → sdf1
After that, I was prompted to create the boot files, which were saved onto sdf1 .

FSTAB ENTRY
I created an entry in ...