I am completely new to Linux. I have always recognized its benefits but I have always been able to manage my windows platforms with out issues. My mother's computer fried a dim and no longer has the juice to run windows at anything faster than the speed of smell so here I am loading puppy. After a marathon of progressive steps I eventually took the plunge, reformatted to ext2, and performed a full install to the HD. This happened fairly easily (or so I thought). Puppy is very well written for the un-initiated. I was able to guess my way up to this point.
First Issue (more for future knowledge than immediate application)...After a few days of flawless performance the net simply dropped out. I could still see activity on my LAN coming from this MAC Address but pages would no longer resolve. When I rebooted the system would get stuck after loading the optical drive (I have been running off the HD no CD in drive). It would drop out just a command line and just sit there. I have since made a complete reinstall which did resolve the issue. I recognize that I've essentially given you no info. to help me but maybe I'll get lucky and someone will just happen to know my problem. Maybe it can be avoided in the future.
Second Issue....I tried to load xfprot. Everything seemed fine but now it just says that it is running as root. When I click no it obviously just closes and when I click yes to continue it gives an error...."cannot detect f-prot's version...aborting". Since this is not a complete failure I wont be running away from it. I would like to try a real solution and not just a puppy reinstall.
Two Questions from a two day old puppy.
The first issue may be as easy to resolve as typing startx at the prompt you were left at. Or typing xorgwizard to go through the video setup again.
I'm not sure about xfprot because I don't use it, so I can't really help you there. But, maybe you could try opening it from the command line? It may spew out more info for you to troubleshoot with?
I'm not sure about xfprot because I don't use it, so I can't really help you there. But, maybe you could try opening it from the command line? It may spew out more info for you to troubleshoot with?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45992
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47668
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36944
full installs need the above.
Ext3 does handle better as it attempts to self heal
mike
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47668
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36944
full installs need the above.
Ext3 does handle better as it attempts to self heal
mike
Ext3
Great I've been saving all of her personals to a flash so I'll just go through and reformat to ext3. Then I'll figure those other things out. I have noticed an inability to truly shutdown. "System Halted" and it just sits there. I hope that is the shutdown issue those other posts were describing. A minor thing but it would be nice for it to truly shutdown when I tell it to. I have started to expand to a few other machines which were considered parts boxes/nerd shelving.
Do you know where I might find a good primer on using the package manager?
Some time ago a caffeine junkie told me of something he said he ......... ? "?"Installed into the RPM that allowed new packages to install in a manner more like windows. Next...next...next....yada yada yada...finish. Any impact any idea?
Do you know where I might find a good primer on using the package manager?
Some time ago a caffeine junkie told me of something he said he ......... ? "?"Installed into the RPM that allowed new packages to install in a manner more like windows. Next...next...next....yada yada yada...finish. Any impact any idea?
Ext3
Great I've been saving all of her personals to a flash so I'll just go through and reformat to ext3. Then I'll figure those other things out. I have noticed an inability to truly shutdown. "System Halted" and it just sits there. I hope that is the shutdown issue those other posts were describing. A minor thing but it would be nice for it to truly shutdown when I tell it to. I have started to expand to a few other machines which were considered parts boxes/nerd shelving.
Do you know where I might find a good primer on using the package manager?
Some time ago a caffeine junkie told me of something he said he ......... ? "?"Installed into the RPM that allowed new packages to install in a manner more like windows. Next...next...next....yada yada yada...finish. Any impact any idea?
Do you know where I might find a good primer on using the package manager?
Some time ago a caffeine junkie told me of something he said he ......... ? "?"Installed into the RPM that allowed new packages to install in a manner more like windows. Next...next...next....yada yada yada...finish. Any impact any idea?
Touch Type Tutor
So now I'm trying to use parts to give my brother a puppy. We discovered he could use some typing skills. Is there a touch type tutor in the puppy software somewhere that I simply missed or perhaps one that could be installed. I've been looking to no avail.
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Typing tutor http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... c3fd885f24
online flash typing, pretty good
http://www.powertyping.com/
ttuuxxx
online flash typing, pretty good
http://www.powertyping.com/
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)