dpup-482beta testing

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gposil · #1 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 01:07

This thread is for ongoing work on dpup-482.

http://www.dpup.org/downloads.html

gposil · #2 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 04:13

I should have working ServicePack for 482beta1 up in about an hour...sorry for the delay.

gposil · #3 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 04:54

On sinc's suggestion, I have added md5sum creation to the Rox OpenWith context menu and a new Phash app to Filesystem Menu...for the ServicePack.

Lobster · #4 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 05:26

Hi Guy
This from your excellent site

The purpose of dpup.org, is to provide a focus and development area for work on the dpup branch of what will become Puppy Linux 5.0.

?
I was unaware that this is the chosen base?
This is the last comment I am aware of?

"Future puppies
The Woof build system enables us to build Puppy from any distro's packages. I have released experimental builds of "Upup", Puppy built from Ubuntu Jaunty packages. What's the point? -- well, you get the tiny size (approx. 100MB live-CD) and wonderful speed of Puppy, a user interface and user experience that is totally Puppy, the full suite of applications and utilities as in any other Puppy, yet built from Ubuntu packages and able to install further packages from the Ubuntu repositories.

Other builds are active. Ttuuxxx and Gposil are working on "Dpup", a Debian-based build [1 2], and Kirk is working on "Tpup", codenamed Fatdog2, a build from packages compiled in T2 [1 2].

All of these are available for testing. Please look on the forum for latest announcements: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/.

Best regards,
Barry Kauler
September 2009"

That is in 4.3 under menu / help / release notes

Anyway good luck with Dpup

01micko · #5 Post by **01micko** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 05:29

Hi Lobster

I think Barry said somewhere on his blog that upup, dpup and tpup can all be branches of Puppy 5. I just can't put my finger on it..

Cheers

Lobster · #6 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 05:38

Thanks 01micko
That is my understanding too. It would seem that Dpup will be a very reliable and solid version.

dpup Debian Puppy
spup Slackware Puppy
apup Arch Puppy
ppup Puppy Puppy

normal service is now resumed .. .

gposil · #7 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 09:49

482 ServicePack1 is now onsite...

http://www.dpup.org/test/dpup482beta1-2 ... rvicePack/

Cheers

sinc · #8 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 11:52

ok, i used the xdelta, created the beta1-sp1 (not beta2 I guess) and am posting from it right now.

interesting tidbit if this question comes up from anyone in the future: again it did not auto-find my b43 legacy module and in connection wizard it now shows all the modules as it should except when I select load b43legacy from this list and then click scan for networks I get the ol' error "can't raise module".

HOWEVER... if i create a pupsave and use the boot manager and go to "click here to manually load a module" and reboot, it then works.

i did a manual frugal install. i will now try and do a full install.

gposil · #9 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 12:22

I suspect the full install is still a problem, as I left out the updated rc.sysinit file...i'll post it here and also add it to the site and of course it will be in the next update...or ServicePack2.

Cheers

cthisbear · #10 Post by **cthisbear** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 13:00

01micko:

I sent you a PM on WP.

Chris.

gposil · #11 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 13:24

I'm releasing 482beta2 tonight, there were too many changes to base system to keep doing deltas...should be up in about an hour.

I'm posting this from a full install of 482beta2 and boy it's fast, makes 477 look positively slow and I thought that was good.

Cheers
Guy

sinc · #12 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 13:44

well looks like you found it already but yes, the full install still did not work.

one other thing, when firefox automatically updates it comes up with a screen saying flash needs to be updated also to work properly. true or not the warning is still there. dpup has 10.22 and i think the newest version is 10.32.

sinc · #13 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 14:06

wallpaper setter in dpup, i'm not sure if you ever got around to these things but i agree that not having the full path and only the name of the file would be an improvement.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 9&start=18

gposil · #14 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 14:09

sinc, beta2 should be up in 30 minutes or so...and yes the apps are going to get a work over before next release...Wallpaper Setter is getting a re-write to include what you mentioned.

http://dpup.org/test/dpup482beta2-2.6.30.5/

Cheers

sinc · #15 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 14:49

gposil, i used your right click -> open with -> create md5sum and it worked but what do you think about ttuuxxx's gtkhash. i truly just find it more convenient. if you don't think it is right for this release its your call i will just continue to use the pet (attached) but i think barry put it in the 430 main release.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=20570

sinc · #16 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 14:57

double post

gposil · #17 Post by **gposil** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 15:02

Yes sinc, ttuuxxx and I had already discussed putting GtkHash in the next release. It will be there.

sinc · #18 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 15:18

thank you sir. i hope I am not annoying with small suggestions like that, I feel bad sometimes giving input since I am not actually coding anything but I appreciate your attention. If you ever feel its a useless suggestion that doesn't work please feel free to tell me "shutup and go sit in the corner" I will take it well.

i am posting from beta2 right now and this time MY WIRELESS WORKED PERFECTLY. It auto-recognized my b43legacy driver on the first boot and all worked as it should.

I will try and do a full-install and report back how that goes.

EDIT:

Alright, I tried out the full install and still could not get that to work. I will try one more time just to make sure.

And I tried again and still could not get a full install to work. Hopefully its just me but full install is a no go on my machine.
error 2: bad file or directory

sinc · #19 Post by **sinc** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 15:47

and since I am being annoying I may as well continue.

what do you think about bringing back gfxboot? A nice little dpup screen from the grub bootloader.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27471

Jim1911 · #20 Post by **Jim1911** » Fri 09 Oct 2009, 16:29

Installed 482b2 as follows: First I installed it on an ext2 partition as a frugal install. Then using the frugal installation, used Gparted 4.5(consider updating that to 4.6) to format an ext4 partition. Then I did a full hd installation on the new ext4 partition.

Bad news: This beta has the same booting problem that old beta had, error msg was different: ie:
:root login on 'tty1'
touch: cannot touch /tmp/bootcnt.txt': Read only file system
-sh: /tmp/bootkernel.log: Read only file system
This script will run X windows for you.
cat: /etc mouse device: No file

The contents of /mnt/home/tmp are: networkmodules, pkg_hompages_mod, temp2.pbm and temp.pbm

Good news: Installed beta2 to the new ext4 partition and this is what I'm posting from. You've apparently corrected all of the ext4 problems. It's passed the test of recognizing a frugal installation and booting it from an ext4 partition. It is fast and stable.

Still unable to set global font size.

I still have the full hd of 482b installed, so if there is any dir or file that you'd like for me to post (or edit with your code) to try to help solve the problem, let me know. Can't believe that you got the new beta up so quick. Is synaptic ready for another test?

Thanks,
Jim

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