TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 (Slitaz-based Puppy hybrid)

[grey38]

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

[zzii30]

TazPuppy 5.0 RC12 released

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

Google censorship does NOT allow this to be downloaded.
Please provide a new download link.

[jp734]

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

[TerryH]

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.

[geo_c]

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.

[jp734]

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.

[ally]

https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Tazpup

[jp734]

https://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Tazpup

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 Maybe with a little tweak, it will be a solid performer again. I downloaded the tazpup-5.0-alpha-18.iso by the way

[mistfire]

@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.

[geo_c]

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.

[mistfire]

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.

[jp734]

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
}

[geo_c]

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.

[jp734]

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

[geo_c]

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.

[Honeypup]

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)

[Wiz57]

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

[Honeypup]

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

[Wiz57]

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.

[Honeypup]

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)