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williwaw

If I were to try this trick is there any way I could use the profile, particularly the mail boxes, from a Seamonkey installation from another PC? Would copying it over the one created by the first run of Seamonkey via your script work? I keep my portable outside the savefile, and have had success b...

williwaw

The devx & kernel dirs are on the desktop from sfspup, but I don't know if they are 'installed'. I don't understand what the icons on the desktop kernel and devx are. If I try to see what they are, the information I get is that they are ec-chroot-kernel and ec-chroot-devx. I don't know what tha...

williwaw

what is a savespec or savemark intended purpose? can i read up on the project objectives somewhere? tx

williwaw

for a t-bird/windows > t-bird/ linux migration this might help http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_from_Windows_to_Linux moving to a different client might might be best done by setting up a t-bird linux install somewhere first, before moving from tbird to a different client. moving between clients is ...

williwaw

My Pup boots to ram only, no savefile, no drives mounted (pfix=ram). It does not have Waterfox installed at all. I installed Waterfox to /opt I configured it the way I like. Then I made a tar file of the waterfox dir in /opt and a tar file of the Waterfox configuration files in /root/.waterfox/ and...

williwaw

are your emails still on the server? if not you might have to upload them in order to download in the format your new client likes. or convert them with a tool. ymmv

williwaw

Hmm I'm not sure what to do, am inclined towards common-use apps that serve needs and aren't too technical. I used T-bird in Windows, had a different user for each email configuration. different clients use different message file formats, some use a format exclusively and others with varying amount...

williwaw

Do you store your e-mails/settings in a special way?

Does your distro matter for e-mail?

I dont keep much on the server, so my local archive is rather large. I keep both outside the savefile. works with any pup. mutt is highly configurable. claws-mail is nice too.

williwaw

by "reader", do you mean a client like mutt or thunderbird?

williwaw

To avoid paying that price involves resorting to using other forms of communications methods - typically other protocols than pretty much Google owned http/https - of which there are many choices but generally that do not offer the same slick look-n-feel experience. On the plus side the alternative...

williwaw

please describe the menu you are using to choose your USB at boot time. bios? kubuntu? bionic? if you reinstall bionic on to an ultrafit and just leave the ultrafit always plugged in, there is a boot device menu that you can make come up in the bios by pressing a key at powerup, (should you want to ...

williwaw

You have bionic on a usb at present? we need to know how you installed it on the usb. "Live" has a couple of different meanings. Can you save your changes in bionic? do you have a save file/ folder on the usb? can you take a screenshot of the top level contents of the usb shown in a file b...

williwaw

@ bigpup coming from another thread, I think what chase is trying to do is dual boot a puppy, (bionic64?) with an existing kubuntu install on the HDD. The easiest way might be to have bionic64 on a dedicated usb and use the lenovo disc selector to choose the drive at boot time. the next easiest migh...

williwaw

My Pup boots to ram only, no savefile, no drives mounted (pfix=ram). ....Like others, booting and not saving, using a pre-configured known 'clean/pristine' system is great IMO. Whenever I use other systems where all changes are preserved as and when they occur it almost gives me a cold shiver and t...

williwaw

you used etcher in bionic to make your mint? you say you had to install bionic again?

mint running slower than puppy does not surprise me, neither does a slow installer in mint.

just curious what are your machine specs Ram? cpu?

williwaw

maverick07 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:58 pm
Thanks you all for your answers. I was finally able to do it with etcher.

could you tell us a bit more about what you did? Did you create mint by running etcher in puppy?

Big pup sez

Etcher has some problems getting it to work in Puppy Linux.

I thought etcher had problems making puppies?

williwaw

It looks like version of dir2pet in easyOS doesn't have as many options. So instead of: dir2pet -s -p=$PKG_Fname -w="File Manager" -c="Filesystem" you can do the following: dir2pet $PKG_Fname That fixed it. The slackbuild script dropped right into Barrys gui version of dir2pet a...

williwaw

dir2sfs failed, but the renaming in /tmp/SBo completed

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ran dir2sfs in /tmp/SBo, took the defaults and

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EasyOs dir2fs attached for reference . It's cool being able to utilize slack build scripts. I see a similar thread nearby

williwaw

I ran # ./emelfm2.SlackBuild
tail as shown

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in this directory

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and it returned

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williwaw

s243a, not sure I am making the substitution correctly. The screenshot shows the tail of my emelfm2.slackbuild. I can see where my line 113 needs to be replaced by your #/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz} dir2pet -s -p=$PKG -w="File Manager" -...

williwaw

What you're doing is bookmarking your bookmarks file? yes, and alternately, I configure my browser to open each new tab with the bookmark file, the first entry being my search engine link should I wish to search for a non bookmarked destination. I don't look at them, but most browsers import/export...

williwaw

Note that most software project have a readme file that tells you how to build your own package. Thanks s243a. I will read a bit further at the https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg project and see what I can learn. Being able to compile something from git hub is my goal, as many common apps such as ...

williwaw

williwaw Can you explain the end of Dancytron's Chrome script? "$@" file:///bookmarks.html ? I am not sure what behavior this creates, as I do not use chrome. Perhaps a bookmarks file external to the usual chrome configs? I keep my bookmarks in a simple .html file kept on a different part...

williwaw

/usr/share/applications is usually all the Menu Items in Puppy, but theoretically some might be hiding in /root/.local/share/applications . Many different ways to skin the cat, but I like running Chrome from a separate script that I put in /usr/local/bin to pass all the parameters I want, and then ...

williwaw

My progress so far on compiling emelfm2 with what I learned in green for the benefit of anyone following this thread in the future. Now click on the slackbuild file. It will create a directory called emelfm2. click, of course meaning to gunzip Enter the directory. Once in the directory you will see ...

williwaw

this is a good place to start

https://rockedge.org/psearch/

it took me a bit to find it, maybe there is a sticky topic or post with the link somewhere

williwaw

Are you writing I can use a .pet to save my customized desktop? you are installing a chrome version that tahr did not include, and you are running it from a non standard location. Thats cool, I run my email client from a different partition in any puppy I want. I just drag the executable to each de...

williwaw

a .pet or a .sfs would include a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. Did you find chrome in the repo for the pup you are using? If you install a program without a .desktop file, they are not too hard to make with a text editor. perhaps someone can write a script to do that for assisting newbie...

williwaw

right click the desktop icon and select "edit item" in the context menu.
there is a field to pass arguments to the executable

williwaw

are you asking how to open pale moon in private browsing mode or any browser that is set as your default ?

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