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Re: TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

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This is a pretty cool idea. I have liked what I've seen of Slitaz.

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Re: TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

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mistfire wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:42 am

TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 released

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1faH2Rg ... sp=sharing
MD5 Checksum: 32f275ed42eec072b1ea3de4d53232f4

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Used to be an SliTaz user and that thing was blazing fast on a 1.5 GHz laptop so it would be really interesting and exciting to see a puppy version. Will keep an eye for an updated download link as I also could not download

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jp734 wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:15 pm

Used to be an SliTaz user and that thing was blazing fast on a 1.5 GHz laptop so it would be really interesting and exciting to see a puppy version. Will keep an eye for an updated download link as I also could not download

This is an old release, there hasn't been a release in 2 1/2 years, so it would be unlikely. It was, however a very nice puppy to use.

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TerryH wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:46 pm
jp734 wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:15 pm

Used to be an SliTaz user and that thing was blazing fast on a 1.5 GHz laptop so it would be really interesting and exciting to see a puppy version. Will keep an eye for an updated download link as I also could not download

This is an old release, there hasn't been a release in 2 1/2 years, so it would be unlikely. It was, however a very nice puppy to use.

I remember checking this post out way back sometime, and now reading it again, I'm super interested in it. It seems like a big innovation.

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TerryH wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:46 pm
jp734 wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 11:15 pm

Used to be an SliTaz user and that thing was blazing fast on a 1.5 GHz laptop so it would be really interesting and exciting to see a puppy version. Will keep an eye for an updated download link as I also could not download

This is an old release, there hasn't been a release in 2 1/2 years, so it would be unlikely. It was, however a very nice puppy to use.

2.5 years is not that old. I would still try it if theres a way to get it.

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Thanks @ally - It's just like how I remembered it. Still fast booting. Having some weird issue with my mouse though. Once I stop moving it for some odd reason it freezes. Also, package manager crashes after I update/upgrade it. But I'm posting from it right now using its Midori browser :thumbup: Maybe with a little tweak, it will be a solid performer again. I downloaded the tazpup-5.0-alpha-18.iso by the way

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@jp734 , @geo_c , @zzii30

Hello

The download link TazPup was broken it was flagged by Google as suspicious. Fortunately, @ally make an archive of TazPuppy. Right now this TazPuppy project was currently frozen because of slow movement on Slitaz upstream. I will release an updated version of TazPuppy once the upstream looks fine.

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mistfire wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:33 am

I will release an updated version of TazPuppy once the upstream looks fine.

I actually downloaded and tried to boot the last release in the archive, but I was having problems getting the boot stanzas right. I think I got it to load the kernel and then it would hang on the initrd, maybe something to do with .xz compression as opposed to .gz, and I tried changing the boot stanza made by frugalpup to reflect the initrd.xz, but I didn't get it right apparently.

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geo_c wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 4:23 am
mistfire wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:33 am

I will release an updated version of TazPuppy once the upstream looks fine.

I actually downloaded and tried to boot the last release in the archive, but I was having problems getting the boot stanzas right. I think I got it to load the kernel and then it would hang on the initrd, maybe something to do with .xz compression as opposed to .gz, and I tried changing the boot stanza made by frugalpup to reflect the initrd.xz, but I didn't get it right apparently.

Just unxz the initrd and compress it again as gz.

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geo_c wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 4:23 am
mistfire wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:33 am

I will release an updated version of TazPuppy once the upstream looks fine.

I actually downloaded and tried to boot the last release in the archive, but I was having problems getting the boot stanzas right. I think I got it to load the kernel and then it would hang on the initrd, maybe something to do with .xz compression as opposed to .gz, and I tried changing the boot stanza made by frugalpup to reflect the initrd.xz, but I didn't get it right apparently.

That's strange @geo_c. This is what I have and it boots just fine. Maybe a problem with the download? Also, I downloaded tazpup-5.0-alpha-18.iso

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menuentry 'tazpup on (sdb1/ext4)'{
  search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 26d69ba6-f274-4bc8-a621-8f0353ebdd27
  linux /tazpup/vmlinuz root=uuid=26d69ba6-f274-4bc8-a621-8f0353ebdd27 psubdir=/tazpup pmedia=atahd
  initrd /tazpup/initrd.xz
}

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jp734 wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:17 pm

That's strange @geo_c. This is what I have and it boots just fine. Maybe a problem with the download? Also, I downloaded tazpup-5.0-alpha-18.iso

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menuentry 'tazpup on (sdb1/ext4)'{
  search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 26d69ba6-f274-4bc8-a621-8f0353ebdd27
  linux /tazpup/vmlinuz root=uuid=26d69ba6-f274-4bc8-a621-8f0353ebdd27 psubdir=/tazpup pmedia=atahd
  initrd /tazpup/initrd.xz
}

I'm was using efi grub2, so the stanza is a lot more complicated, at least the one frugalpup generates. I'll give another go eventually, probably not today though.

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geo_c wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:46 pm

I'm was using efi grub2, so the stanza is a lot more complicated, at least the one frugalpup generates. I'll give another go eventually, probably not today though.

Hmm :?: - A bit confused on what's the difference between grub and grub2 stanzas. I installed and currently using grub2 but my approach to adding a menu entry for any distro hasn't changed. That TazPup stanza I shared with you, I added that manually to grub2 created grub.cfg

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jp734 wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 3:08 pm
geo_c wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:46 pm

I'm was using efi grub2, so the stanza is a lot more complicated, at least the one frugalpup generates. I'll give another go eventually, probably not today though.

Hmm :?: - A bit confused on what's the difference between grub and grub2 stanzas. I installed and currently using grub2 but my approach to adding a menu entry for any distro hasn't changed. That TazPup stanza I shared with you, I added that manually to grub2 created grub.cfg

Yeah, you're right, your stanza is grub2. The frugalpup generated stanza has a lot if statements oriented around cpio, and stuff like that. I'll try your stanza which is more straight forward.

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Was trying to get the most recent version (as well as the 2 before it just to make sure it wasn't specific to 12) from the archive working in virtualbox but got this message:
"This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."

I'm not entirely sure what this means nor how to use the proper kernel since I don't remember seeing different kernel options in the archive.
(apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I'm only about 2 months into using linux)

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Honeypup wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:59 pm

Was trying to get the most recent version (as well as the 2 before it just to make sure it wasn't specific to 12) from the archive working in virtualbox but got this message:
"This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."

I'm not entirely sure what this means nor how to use the proper kernel since I don't remember seeing different kernel options in the archive.
(apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I'm only about 2 months into using linux)

What are the specfications of the computer you are attempting to boot Puppy on? CPU? Amount of RAM? etc.
Not sure since TazPuppy hasn't been updated in a while, but it sounds as if your CPU doesn't support over 4GB RAM,
so we may need to try a different Puppy with a bit older kernel (vmlinuz). When I ask for specifications, I'm talking
about what did you set as a target CPU in your virtualbox virtual machine, not the actual hardware.
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Re: TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

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Wiz57 wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 11:27 pm
Honeypup wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:59 pm

Was trying to get the most recent version (as well as the 2 before it just to make sure it wasn't specific to 12) from the archive working in virtualbox but got this message:
"This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."

I'm not entirely sure what this means nor how to use the proper kernel since I don't remember seeing different kernel options in the archive.
(apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I'm only about 2 months into using linux)

What are the specfications of the computer you are attempting to boot Puppy on? CPU? Amount of RAM? etc.
Not sure since TazPuppy hasn't been updated in a while, but it sounds as if your CPU doesn't support over 4GB RAM,
so we may need to try a different Puppy with a bit older kernel (vmlinuz). When I ask for specifications, I'm talking
about what did you set as a target CPU in your virtualbox virtual machine, not the actual hardware.
Wiz

I set ram to ~4gb and cpu to 2 in the virtual machine

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Re: TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

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Honeypup wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 2:47 am
Wiz57 wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 11:27 pm
Honeypup wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:59 pm

Was trying to get the most recent version (as well as the 2 before it just to make sure it wasn't specific to 12) from the archive working in virtualbox but got this message:
"This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU."

I'm not entirely sure what this means nor how to use the proper kernel since I don't remember seeing different kernel options in the archive.
(apologies if I'm missing something obvious, I'm only about 2 months into using linux)

What are the specfications of the computer you are attempting to boot Puppy on? CPU? Amount of RAM? etc.
Not sure since TazPuppy hasn't been updated in a while, but it sounds as if your CPU doesn't support over 4GB RAM,
so we may need to try a different Puppy with a bit older kernel (vmlinuz). When I ask for specifications, I'm talking
about what did you set as a target CPU in your virtualbox virtual machine, not the actual hardware.
Wiz

I set ram to ~4gb and cpu to 2 in the virtual machine

Can you determine which CPU architecture is being simulated? May need to try with a different Puppy.

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Re: TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

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Wiz57 wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:57 am
Honeypup wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 2:47 am
Wiz57 wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 11:27 pm

What are the specfications of the computer you are attempting to boot Puppy on? CPU? Amount of RAM? etc.
Not sure since TazPuppy hasn't been updated in a while, but it sounds as if your CPU doesn't support over 4GB RAM,
so we may need to try a different Puppy with a bit older kernel (vmlinuz). When I ask for specifications, I'm talking
about what did you set as a target CPU in your virtualbox virtual machine, not the actual hardware.
Wiz

I set ram to ~4gb and cpu to 2 in the virtual machine

Can you determine which CPU architecture is being simulated? May need to try with a different Puppy.

tried it with F96-CE and voidpup and got a similar error, "This Kernel Requires an x86-64 cpu, but only detected an i686 cpu"

After finding this I decided to try just booting tazpuppy from a usb (which was my goal anyway just wanted to try it in virtualbox first) and found that when I go to the boot menu it just, isn't there for some reason, the other puppies I'm able to boot from just fine with the same usb stick (tried another stick to be sure, same issue)

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