F96_4-CE 4th Gen Dev Tester with a New Kernel 6.0.9 Made for F96

[keniv]

@rockedge
Sorry I made an edit to my post and have obviously crossed with yours. Here's the edit.

Edit: Now have a manual frugal install of F96_4-CE_radky6.iso. using a similar boot stanza to that for F96-4-CE including errorcheck off. Do not see errors at bootup anymore. Did a basic setup and made a save file. Have both rebooted and shutdown and rebooted and all seems fine. I'm posting from it now. My initial impression is that it looks much more polished than F96_4-CE 4th Gen. Will spend some more time on it latter.

Thanks for your answers to my questions.

The file ucode.cpio is micro code for the kernel to add enhanced kernel hardening.

Should I include the ucode.cpio in my boot stanza then?

If you have continued problems downloading the ISO, I can make another download location available.

Well it still took quite a time to download though this time it appears to have been successful. It might be helpful to me and others particularly if there are further updates.

@geo_c

Is radky6 available on the same link you provided me above for radky5? Or should I just wait for the upcoming official release? I'm in no hurry.

I got it from here.
https://www.smokey01.com/radky/Testing/

Regards.

Ken.

Edit: Sorry, posts crossed again.

[one]

@geo_c Here is the link for the ISO :
F96_4-radky6-CE

If there are any problems downloading it I can make another download location available!

Yes, please.

I have the same problem as @keniv,

I reported here:

viewtopic.php?p=75662#p75662.

peace

[tosim]

F96_4-radky6-CE downloaded fine for me. Thanks.

[radky]

@keniv & @one

Prior reports have indicated chrome based browsers may have problems with Smokey's server.

You could try a different browser, or perhaps a dedicated download application such as Uget.

[one]

Hi @radky,

yes - I was using chromium. As I wrote in my linked post I moved to firefox after several unsuccessful attempts ("network error") and all went well.

The problem with chromium arises only with big files like the FP96 iso, smaller files are no problem.

Thanks for your answer ...

peace

[keniv]

@radky

Prior reports have indicated chrome based browsers may have problems with Smokey's server.

I first tried to download last night. I originally started using palemoon. It was on palemoon that the download took more than an hour then "failed" at 483 MB. I tried a number of times with palemoon but the download attempts were always very slow and I ended up aborting them. I have firefox and iron as portables both up to date. I then tried firefox and had the same problems as with palemoon. I then tried iron and again had the very slow download problem. I think of these three browsers only iron is chrome based. When I finally got it to download this morning I was using palemoon but it was still slow though not as bad as yesterday. It's interesting that @tosim didn't have a problem downloading.

or perhaps a dedicated download application such as Uget.

I have a vague recollection of using Uget in the past but I think that was under somebodies instructions. I'll have a look and see if I can work out how to use it.
Can I just take the opportunity of thanking you for the work and time you've put into this. I've only been using it for a shot time but I'm already impressed with it.

Regards,

Ken.

[mikeslr]

@ One, rather than trying to download large files with browsers, use Uget. It's builtin to most (all?) Puppy's. See this post, viewtopic.php?p=77188#p77188 and the others on that thread.

[one]

Thanks @radky and @mikeslr,

for mentioning uget.

It is not included in my current jammypup32 (you can install it via PPM),
so I used wget with the -c option.

Happy new year and ... peace