When you can only tell us something is wrong, you’ve presented us with a mystery.
Do you remember the Sherlock Holmes’ movie when on entering the scene of the crime he says to Dr. Watson, “My dear fellow, would you kindly go back to the carriage? I forget my case and will need my magnifying glass and finger-print kit.”
My post here, viewtopic.php?p=56560#p56560 asked you to bring our diagnostic tools to the scene of the crime.
PupSysInfo is a suite of tools which, among other things, tells what hard-ware components your computer has. Think of it as our magnifying glass. ListDD is a tool for determining what dependencies needed by applications are on, or lacking from, your operating system. Think of it as our finger-print kit: a tool for determining who was or wasn’t present.
TBH, I was relieved when you indicated you were giving up. That concealed a fundamental mistake I made in not insisting that we get to the bottom of why Puppys other than tahrpup could not be booted to desktop. It is questionable that tahrpup will provide satisfactory internet performance.
Forget about any Web-browser other than seamonkey, firefox and palemoon. Tahrpup does not contain the libraries required by recent Chromium, Google-Chrome and other web-browsers which are built from Chromium. Installing those libraries into Tahrpup will break Tahrpup. Google owns youtube and now insists that only very recent web-browsers will be granted access. Hence, the three I mentioned.
My computer is not set up to boot tahrpup. But it is set up to run several versions of xenialpup. Forgetting that you may be running the 64-bit version of Tahrpup, I booted into a 32-bit version of xenialpup. From it I was able to watch youtube videos with sound using either palemoon-portable or firefox-portable.
It may be possible to do the same running tahrpup. Consider the following a diagnostic examination rather than the operation to fix things. Recently, I’ve notice that both palemoon and seamonkey didn’t always provide satisfactory performance with youtube. So, try firefox first.
Follow the instructions here, viewtopic.php?p=56545#p56545. Basically, the instructions setup firefox-portable, then uses ListDD to find out what an operating system lacks in order for it to run that application. Note what I wrote in that post: if you need a newer version of glibc, you’ve out of luck. Other missing dependencies can be installed.
BUT FIRST. We never did get to the root of why you had problems getting other Puppys to boot. I can’t think of anything obvious which prevents xenialpup from running on a system that can run tahrpup. The major difference between them is that xenialpup employs newer glibc libraries than tahrpup. glibc is not something hardware has problems with.
If you picture building an operating system ‘from the ground up’, a computer and its hardware are ‘the ground’. A kernel (and drivers compiled for that kernel) are the first floor: they are what are necessary to communicate with your hardware. glibc is on the 2nd floor: it is one of the links between the kernel and applications. Theoretically, a kernel can use any glibc. On the forum you’ll find some web-browsers which include a newer version of glibc. And often AppImages are published with ‘built-in’ glibc libraries.
Now that you figured out how to get tahrpup to boot from a USB-Key, I’d recommend that you take another stab at getting xenialpup to do so. [If that’s successful we can try even newer Puppys. BUT ALWAYS TELL US EXACTLY which puppy you are working with. Currently, for example, are you working with the official 32-bit tahrpup, the official 64-bit tahrpup, or some variant? USE AN ISO’S FULL NAME]. One of the first things detectives want to find out is the identity of the victim.
P.S. BologneChe provided a link to palemoon-portable. You don’t install portables. The post I referred to above explains how to ‘extract’ the tar.gz in which they are packaged and run them from the folder you’ll find in the ‘portable-extracted’ folder. My recollection is that tahrpup has at least one application on Menu>Utilities for extracting archives. But you’ll likely find the latest version of UExtract useful, viewtopic.php?p=3263#p3263
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