Boy, am I embarrassed! enrique, you helped me see what the messages were saying, that it was seeing .sfs files in sda8, which should not have been there. They should have been only on sdb1, the USB drive. EXCEPT that I had been playing with a "cheat frugal" install when one of the other sy...

I'm trying out different Puppies on a Lenovo G585 laptop (1300MHz 2 core., 8 GB RAM) originally dual booting Win8 and Fatdog64-620 through refind, now with the addition of Bionicpup64 8.0 frugally installed. This, being an UEFI machine, only allows USB boot by going into the "BIOS" (the UE...

I just installed acpitool and now this laptop suspends and wakes up gracefully after the lid is closed. It even re-establishes Wifi connection without a fuss.
Woohoo!

Tahrpup64 never did that right for me -- I just got used to working around that quirk. No need for a workaround on XenialPup-7.0.6 !!

I have been using Puppy Linux since 2008 starting with 4.1.2, acquiring newer versions as I got "newer" hardware. Currently, I'm using Tahrpup64 on a hp/Compaq nx6325 (AMD Turion 2 Core @1600 MHz, 4 GB memory) with success, having previously used Tahrpup (32 bit) and Precise on this machin...

After more testing and more missteps, I finally have motion! I initially thought there was a parallel port problem, made a parallel port LED tester which showed the port was live, just not being controlled by the software.This led to my reviewing the setup configuration. During setup, I verified as ...

So, more progress to report. I installed Ubuntu8.4-test02.iso on a flash drive using isobooter and the P3 Thinkpad does boot AND it will run the latency test, with numbers almost 3 orders of magnitude better than the "new" machine! And by unplugging and replugging the PCI combo card, the r...

I got my wireless networking working in DD. It turned out that firmware was missing for my Broadcom network card: ... [ 2075.483952] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9) [ 2075.553423] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ] [ 2075.743798] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "...

So a little progress to report. I found I could expedite booting speed by adding: pnpbios=off in addition to the previously added acpi=off to the appropriate stanza on menu.lst. Earlier, I would start the booting sequence and walk away allowing things to happen naturally and some unspecified time la...

I've been lurking here a long time, as my interest in this matter of CNC was purely academic. But now, I have a tiny CNC mill and my interest is a lot more concrete. Like vtpup, I plan on running things from an ancient Thinkpad, an A22m. This is allegedly a 1000 MHz P3 machine. Now a hitch: this mac...

Semme wrote:Because of potential BusyBox conflicts, DON'T install this pkg. Instead, extract ONLY what you need.

Wow, thanks! I extracted only the "unshare" from the .deb with XArchive, and I'm moving forward again. I'll mark this "solved".

I'm trying to install the Mer platform SDK on tahr64-6.0.5 frugal and got a: bash: exec: unshare: not found Now this project, trying to port Sailfish OS to a Galaxy S3 phone, is probably way beyond my capability but I didn't expect to be blocked by this, a non-existent command. I checked couple of m...

It took a while but I updated the original post with a different download location for the wine-compholio files. The versions are not the newest but at least they are already built and ready to go.

It seems that the pipelight page at launchpad.net no longer has built .deb files -- I found that out as I was reinstalling as I had borked my system from experimenting --- again!
I will now edit the original post to reflect the new situation, and hopefully a solution.

HJ

I now made a successful install on tahrpup 6.0 CE! Same steps as before, full install of tahrpup on ext4, but use: wine-compholio - 1.7.XX~ubuntu14.04.1 package from https://launchpad.net/~pipelight/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages rather than the 12.04.1 package. (XX=30 today, 11/05/2014.) And my l...

I just installed the noPAE version on my aging hp/Compaq nx6325 laptop and it runs great. Looks good, wireless connected painlessly, things work well and fast. A bonus is that it definitely runs cooler on my laptop compared to Precise 5.7.1. A LOT cooler, without the constant cycling of the fan. A m...

Well, the solution was simpler than expected -- use the "unusable" Silverlight 5! And to think that what I read on the Internet was wrong! I removed the Firefox, in my case, by deleting the ~/.wine folder. If you have other Wine stuff going on you may not want to do that. You don't need to...

Something has changed at Netflix in the past week(~Oct. 28-31,2014). Instead of watching videos, I get this error message: http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt44/hjablohme/Silverlight_Error.jpg I have tried newer and older versions of wine-compholio, but no success. As I had gotten used to watching...

I'll have to say that after dabbling unsuccessfully for quite a while to figure out how to get Netflix to play on a frugal install, ext4 partitions on USB flash drives don't seem to boot, at all. One way that might work is to boot on a ext2 partition on the USB, and run WIne off a second ext4 partit...

I just wanted to say thanks for posting your how to. It helped me a lot in getting Pipelight setup and working in Precise Puppy. Now I can continue with creating an Updated Kiosk for my machines. Glad you found something useful here. A little curious as to what you're setting up, if you'd care to s...

Well this is interesting. By following the instructions, I am now running Precise 5.7.1 apps from a cheat frugal Slacko 5.3.1, including connecting using PupDial(yes, dial-up ) from Precise. Do you think Wine could be run this way? The reason I ask is that I've been running an older Windows version ...