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dancytron

You already have a Puppy frugal install? Just copy the contents of the puppy iso to it's own directory on the same partition as your existing Puppy frugal install. Then show us a copy of either your menu.1st file (grub4dos probably Windows 7 era or before pc) or grub.cfg (newer) and we'll help you m...

dancytron

Lupu 5.28 was the 1st Puppy I really used....... For me the same.....made huge headway with Lucid Lynx 5.2.8....still have a really old version of ZoneMinder running on a IBM T-42 (old as dirt, no HDD and no battery) with Lupu-5.2.8 as the OS from a USB flash drive. This laptop loves Lupu-5.2.8 and...

dancytron

Give it a try without the "psubdir=/lupu528 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck".

Lupu 5.28 was the 1st Puppy I really used. I have it still installed on an old 386 laptop.

dancytron

...but I decided it's way more trouble than it's worth. That echoes most of the way I usually also feel most of the time about lots of special arrangements and attempts for greater efficiency than what is often pretty efficient anyway. The Debian Dog that runs 24/7 on my desktop except when I'm tes...

dancytron

The only disadvantage I can think of is that you lose whatever the security advantage is of having most stuff in a read only format, but to really take advantage of that, you have to remaster all the time and not use a save folder or keep your save folder as minimal as possible. I could see in a se...

dancytron

The only disadvantage I can think of is that you lose whatever the security advantage is of having most stuff in a read only format, but to really take advantage of that, you have to remaster all the time and not use a save folder or keep your save folder as minimal as possible. I could see in a sec...

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Built a new Chromedog and got it booted and working. These are the menu.1st entries I used to boot it directly out of the /bookwork/isodata directory for anyone who is still using grub4dos. Probably won't have time to play with it today. title bookworm/isodata (sda1) noauto from=/bookworm/isodata/ c...

dancytron

Works perfect.

Thanks.

--Dan

dancytron

I'm still using this on my Thinkcentre M90 all-in-one.

Yt-dlp/Youtube Get won't update because it needs Python 3.8, but Buster only has 3.7.

I didn't find anything in the backports.

I guess it's time to upgrade????

dancytron

I watched this video on setting up MX Linux with btrfs and then using the rollback and snapshot application with it a couple of days ago. I'm not sure if it would work with a frugal install.

Probably stuff you already know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq06PCvJLt0

dancytron

So you would recommend using Sway if I wanted to try this???

dancytron

Unless there is a major security upgrade, I don't see any reason to upgrade kernels other than to contribute to general testing.

dancytron

It works. It found "Headphone, Speaker, Mic1, and Mic2". When I chose all 4, it didn't work. Ran it again and just chose Speaker and it works. I don't have an old style set of headphones handy. I'll have to find some to test that. Is there any real advantage to the new kernel if the old ke...

dancytron

I was able to build scrcpy (application for using computer as a thin client for your android device) using the same instructions as puppy, except I edited out the "sudo" in the script before I tried it. Seems to work fine. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=113651#p113651 https:/...

dancytron

Thanks.

Might be next week before I get to test it.

Sid kernel could have been just slowness. Old kernel is much faster.

Dan

dancytron

Built an SD card for my Gen 3 Lenovo 11e legacy boot laptop with the Debian Multi-installer. As always, the Debian Multi-installer worked to create the legacy installer with grub2. Installed Devuan Starter Kit among other things. With the new kernel, got to the desktop but there was something hung i...

dancytron

If you are going to copy a save folder manually instead of using the Puppy backup utility, then you should probably use rsync and not just copy and paste.

dancytron

If you are booting from a USB stick install. In the boot menu entry make sure to make the pmedia= command be pmedia=usbflash Puppy boots slightly differently using that pmedia= command. I did that. It's something about the [very complicated] grub setup MX uses. Debian Dog didn't work either. edit: ...

dancytron

What kind of an MX install did you start with? It was a standard install to my boot ssd. MX 23.1, gpt, root, swap and home partitions. Thanks. I tried to do it on an MX USB stick, but it didn't work. With the custom.cfg method, the entries appeared but grub couldnt' see the partition and it timed o...

dancytron

What kind of an MX install did you start with?

dancytron

edit: There is now a .pet file for bookworm puppy.

see viewtopic.php?p=113539#p113539

These instructions, minus the sudo trick at the end, work on MX. I will test it on Debian Dog sometime. It should work just like puppy.

edit: worked on Debian Dog bookworm too.

dancytron

I remember reading about Refracta on the Devuan message board.

I don't remember the details, but it's another layered/live file system like Puppy, Anti-X or Debian Dog/Porteus that does all the usual stuff you'd expect it to.

dancytron

Scrcpy (share android phone screen with your pc screen, keyboard and mouse) didn't make it into Debian Bookworm. The Sid version is ancient. I wrote a quick explanation of how to install it in Bookworm 64 Puppy, which requires compiling it, but it's easy. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?...

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More chromebook testing. It's remastering an MX install now. It almost immediately throttled down to 30% or so cpu, but shows no signs at all of being hot my old laptop would. Debian dog Bookworm booted to the desktop and everything seems to work but the sound. edit: another quirk, if you set MX to ...

dancytron

but I've always thought the most secure setup for chrome type browsers would be to put the portable app in an adrv or remastered into the main sfs in /opt and then delete the cache, remaster and put the chrome user settings in there too. Then remaster it every time you update chrome or make a serio...

dancytron

I've never done it because i don't care that much and just aren't doing anything that important, but I've always thought the most secure setup for chrome type browsers would be to put the portable app in an adrv or remastered into the main sfs in /opt and then delete the cache, remaster and put the ...

dancytron

Google Chrome and Firefox do not support usb gps dongles anymore, although at one time they did. Google earth seems to support it as standard serial on ttyS0 (com 1??) but that's not where usb gps dongles are. (see link) Gpsd is the linux library that supports gps and it works and will support linux...

dancytron

I guess I should get as much milaege as I can out of this screenshot.

This is Bookworm puppy running on my Lenovo 11e gen 3 with scrcpy running.

MX runs fine too.

: PuppyScrcpy-800.jpg (87.03 KiB) Viewed 261 times

dancytron

Scrcpy (share android phone screen with your pc screen, keyboard and mouse) didn't make it into Debian Bookworm. The Sid version is ancient. I wrote a quick explanation of how to install it in Bookworm 64 Puppy, which requires compiling it, but it's easy. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t...

dancytron

edit: added screenshot Scrcpy, a program to mirror your android phone on your pc, didn't make it into bookworm and the version is sid is ancient. MX has it packaged with a huge kde based frontend (edit: it's a flatpack, MX didn't build that awful thing). But it is really easy to compile. Basically, ...

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