To further clarify one of the points in my previous post: In screeny, if you put something like this in the output field: mnt/home/capture$$ It would be interpreted as: /root/mnt/home/capture$$ But if you write: ../mnt/home/capture$$ It will be interpreted as: /root/../mnt/home/capture$$ In other wo...

I see what you mean. You can change the name of the output file to something like mnt/home/<filename> but that will be converted to $HOME/<text in field> or /root/mnt/home/<filename> . One trick is to enter ../mnt/home/<filename> which will cause screeny to go one level up (/) and then follow the co...

ext2 partitions are not recommended as they don't do journaling and are thus sensitive to file corruption. The only times where ext2 would make sense is on media with a limited number of writes like thumb drives but over the years this has become less of an issue. I would recommend to boot from a li...

I have posted a howto:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 509#979509

Usually files are transfered to android devices using mtp. For me that works easily enough for small files but when I want to transfer something large like a full length hd movie to my tablet it proves to be difficult because after a while I lose the connection and have to remount or replug the tabl...

Transferring files over an mtp connection can be troublesome especially with Android's write permissions to the external sd card. I decided to go a different route by enabling usb tethering and installing an ftp server on the phone that had the required permissions. It worked but I had problems afte...

I have to admit the above solution helps more with dependencies on packages then it does with dependencies on files. The ldd command can help to some extent but that doesn't work with scripts or config files. The only thing I can think of that can help you save some space over time is a trick you ca...

I've looked around a bit and found out that the ppm databases are kept in /root/.packages. The name of the files is Packages-<name of database>. In the case of tahr64 3 of them are ubuntu databases. Here is an example: python3-pip_1.5.4|python3-pip|1.5.4|1ubuntu4|BuildingBlock|437K|pool/universe/p/p...

I don't understand what you mean with files listing dependencies. I rarely need to remaster and if I do I tend to put my trust in the remaster program. Removing files can be tricky and I don't think that you can save much especially with something as compact as puppy. About making an adrv from /init...

I did indeed mean the contents of /initrd/pup_rw. Thanks musher0 for the explanation and for the tree command. On first boot this folder contains the contents of everything added or modified since bootup. So the idea is to make snapshots of the contents of the folder before and after running the wiz...

If you make a snapshot of the pup_rw folder before and after going through the set-up windows and run a diff command on those snapshots would that help you to find out what files are being added/modified by the wizards?

I only know a little bash but I have knocked together something that may be useful as a template: ls -1 -R /initrd/pup_ro9 | tr -d : | sed 's/\/initrd\/pup_ro9//' | while read line; do if [[ $line =~ ^/ ]] then temp=$line ; mkdir /tmp/Slimjet$temp elif [[ -f $temp/$line ]] then ln -s "$temp/$li...

Let's see if I get this right: - The problem happens with an older nvidia driver, not with the latest version or another driver. - You want to update to the latest version but you can't because of this problem. First thing to try is using the bootmanager to temporarily blacklist the nvidia driver an...

This seems to be a laptop with dual graphics: integrated (intel) and discrete (nvidia).

The command lspci | grep VGA should give more info

This worked for a reboot command in a terminal window while :; do if [[ $(date +%R) =~ 18:18 ]] ; then reboot ; else sleep 5 ; fi ; done So a script would be something like #!/bin/sh shutdowntime=18:18 while :; do if [[ $(date +%R) =~ $shutdowntime ]] ; then reboot ; else sleep 30 ; fi ; done Haven'...

It's quite puzzling that f2 and f3 give the same screen as f1. Are tty2 and tty3 active? You can check that by checking the output of ps in a terminal window. The last time I had the command prompt acting up like that was when I launched midnight commander in the background by mistake. My workaround...

What does arecord -l give you?

@OscarTalks: thanks for the information. I always assumed sfs files were added between the base sfs and the savefile but according to the how puppy works page they are added to the bottom of the stack. Since the /usr/lib/seamonkey folder (which is actually a symlink) already exists in the base sfs i...

Did you install/uninstall the seamonkey pet to update the builtin seamonkey before trying out the seamonkey sfs?

If you did you can have issues with file layers (save layer lies on top) or whiteout files (hide files in sfs layer).

The bios is a strong maybe but number77 seemed to be unfamiliar with text based interfaces so I tried to stay in a gui environment as much as possible. But this experience did motivate me to take precautions should I find myself being stuck without a gui. I installed midnight commander so I'll have ...