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I found a recent forum discussion about 4.2 and Slackware. Pet builders seem to be having good luck with Slackware 12.2 packages. Thanks.

build your own packages from source!
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=74

I use Puppy primarily as a disk and multi-session installation, great for quick boots to browse or check email. I also use it as my main partition booter ( for 6 OSs ! ) and as a sort of master file manager for 4 large data disks. It's been ideal for that since since Puppy 2.0.1. And Puppy is just p...

... I'm getting the exact same error messages for the dependency check in puppy-unleashed-4.1.1. Is anybody else getting them? libgpm is not on the live cd ... I found the Slackware 12.0 gpm package providing libgpm.so.1 that works with 4,1,1 and Midnight Commander. http://packages.slackware.it/pac...

Not sure if its of use to you - but I put together a LAMP squash file from slackware binaries of mysql apache and php Belated thanks. It worked well. It fiddled around a bit and got it remastered into a multi-session customized ( with no HW detection ) for my main machine. Very slim and fast. I thi...

LaneLester wrote:BTW, I just did the Gparted format of the Puppy partition and did a new full install of 4.0. I was able to surf for only a few minutes before it crashed.

Bummer. It's fairly quick and easy to do and sometimes it works. Back to the drawing board ...

- Bill

I haven't seen this described, but I'll be surprised if I'm the only one who has experienced it. I've observed it with both the retro and non-retro 4.1.1 full installs. Lane I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned this in the thread, but I've had bizarre behavior from installing Puppy on top of anoth...

How do you go about using .sfs packages on a hard drive installed version of Puppy, please? I almost always use Puppy as a disk install. There is nothing like Puppy as a small utility system for booting (one of 6 OSs ! ), finding and fixing problems, quick boots to check of the weather, secure brow...

Ditto. I've had no difficulties with multi-session CDs on machines where it worked before ( since 2.x and up ). In fact, I was so impressed with the new hardware detection that I tried a CD write on an old funky MITSUMI CR-48XATE and it worked ! I hadn't even tried it since 2.14 or so, but it works ...

Could a moderator move this to topic Puppy 4.1beta (2.6.25.16 kernel) ?

I meant to reply and added a topic instead. Sorry.

I use Puppy as the boot partition for all my dual-boot machines ( actually, one machine is a "hex-boot" ), so I've worked with Grub a good deal. The disk install usually does an excellent job of recognizing Windows and Linux partitions to boot from, but there were some problems this time. ...

Quote from "ARAN": Just write a eBook with the Title "Puppy Linux from Scratch" where you describe everything what it need to make a Puppy Linux distro. Sell it on the Webpage for 50.- Australian Dollars ! What a great idea ! Develop a Puppy "Official" Build Guidebook o...

I installed TeenPup2008 on HD and love it, but was having problems with the Puppy 2.14 sound driver ( Avance AC'97 with VIA onboard chipset ). I just pulled out the 2.17.1 live-cd and installed it on top of TP2008 and the sound driver is working fine, no hiccups. I had a few problems, such as in the...

I just had to chuckle over this featured article on DistroWatch. MACH BOOT - a live CD that boots in 10 seconds http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070917#feature From the article: I emailed Mr Okajima, asking him about the licence, availability of source code and status of patents (if any), b...

Flash. It's slower to boot and creates wear and tear on the drive, if you do it enough. I do a multisession boot almost every day. Actually, I've been thinking about my previous message. One of the reasons I do "alien software" installs to disk rather than multi-session CD/DVD is that I wa...

Barry, I been re-thinking the idea about a "training wheels" boot mode for disk installations. The sysinit part seems fairly easy to implement. Shutdown and optionally saving to disk might be more involved. File deletes might be one issue. But, more fundmentally, saving back to disk might ...

I like Puppy full disk installations. For quick browsing or email checks, it boots like a bandit, very fast. I've got proliferating Puppy disk installations on all my machines. I found that if anything goes wrong, the best strategy is "boot Puppy first". But I've gotten used to the capabil...

Over the last few years, I've had various versions of Puppy installed on an old funky Pentium II 200MHz with 128Meg. It ran very well considering the hardware, Typically, the CPU would go to 100% and stay there for long periods of time, no surprises there. I have the machine routed to a DSL line cap...

I've encountered phantom files when booting from a fresh multisession CD because the sysinit routine can pick up stray pup-save.sfs files and include them in the unionfs mount. I've gotten some very bizarre configurations, where files I deleted weeks ago suddenly reappear from nowhere ( actually fro...

Eureka ! When reading through the XAMPP FAQ pages, I noticed a question about why images weren't showing. The explanation was that with some Linux releases there are "special problems". For some reason, XAMPP has a problem with Puppy mulitsession and but not with a Puppy disk installation ...

" ... the error below is likely if the device gets timed out (too slow to respond)." I'm still not sure what would be the cause of a "time out". It's on ram disk and the page is being served without a visible delay. Am I missing the point ? I never ask the question, but do you kn...