so I should reboot the system every time I need to fire-up a program like Office or Gimp?

or is there a way to install (and then access) applications into a different savefile from the current session?

there are many ways to do this if you search though the forum
searched the forum
failed to ...

Question:

how do I install a program so that the bulk of files are stored outside the savefile, and only the settings are kept into it?

Hi :)

I installed a fresh Lucid Puppy 529 on a 16Gb usb PenDrive.
Following the suggestions in this topik and this one too I tried to slim down my savefile.

But I must be doing something wrong because my 512Mb savefile (ext3) shows as almost full in the system tray :(

I only installed:
- instant ...

I didn't know about the E17 poweroff problem >_<'

Béèm wrote:I just log out of E17 and type reboot or poweroff at the X prompt.

I think I'll go with this for now

the new package works fine BUT:

- there are still problems with the reboot/shutdown panel ... it doesn't work and when I rebooted the system from the console it crashed X

- for some reason the AudioMixer gadget did not work ... I had to manually start AlsaMixer and use it to regulate my volume ...

thanks!

Awesome! :D
Let's see in the meantime if I manage to do what you requested :roll:

EDIT incoming... ...is this what you needed?

#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

. /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
. /etc/rc.d/BOOTCONFIG

if [ -f /root/.jwm/jwm_colors ];then #v3.96
. /root ...

Hi, I'm new to the forum, to Puppy and to Linux overall :roll:
I'm wrestling to learn how to make this "thing" do my bidding but with veeery little success so far :P

I'm running a eeePC with:
CPU = atom n450@1.66gHz
RAM = 1Gb RAM

I've Frugally installed LuPu 589 on a 16Gb usb drive.

Now, when I ...