I use Camtasia to record movies with their proprietary codec (results in small files) and have been looking for a way to view them in puppy.

I used the virtual box machine 4.3.1 for playing around, and to my surprise it can play the movies right out of the box.

On my other frugal installs I have ...

Still amazed at how this all works so well.

I am now wondering if there is somewhere I can put the mount command so that it occurs upon booting the vm.

Thanks for your time!

Mike

First of all... You Rock Playdayz! Awesome VM of puppy. I have been running them for a while, but never with sharing and the extensions enabled. So Cool!

I am creating training videos for a linux module for my 8th graders using Windows, a VM of puppy, and Camtasia. It uses a proprietary codec, so I ...

FANTASTIC! That is the exact post I was looking for.

Thanks tons for your help!

Mike

Greetings. I seem to recall a tool called puppy software installer that I used to add back when I used v2 and v3. I am trying to find the forum thread that had instructions for adding it... and am coming up blank.

Any tips?

I remember having to add pet support after I downloaded it and installing ...

I did find that first, but the first 2 times I wrote the img to floppy it failed... Found the other and it worked. Read a message that floppys sometimes fail even though it reports success. Wrote the image 1 more time and it booted. It gave a bad SMK error though.

No worries since the other one ...

Google and a little luck are a good thing. =)

Plop is a floppy based boot manager. Worked like a dream.

I love the hirens disc. They are bootable cd's with more tools than a sane person would know what to do with....

I am working on a ancient laptop (Dell Xpi P150) that will not boot to CD. I have a wakepup2 disk and can get puppy 2.1 to load, but it will not install.

I want to run the diags that ...

The file can be found here

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/

If that link does not work, I got to it from here ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/

That page was found by going a long way down the page here

http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads ...

Love being able to use opera in puppy. I am using opera 10b1.

Everything is ducky, but after changing the icon and dragging it to the desktop as per the instructions... it does not launch Opera.

I have to go in the folder and click it...

I am assuming I have something messed up... any tips ...