"It is a great distro. I am very pleased with the speed on my dinky machine. I can boot up, do work and shutdown before windows even gets to ta da." Polypagan
Wanna run puppy on linux and Windows?
PUPPY ON LINUX
1. Go download this = http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/PupWinQE.htm∞ , and save it into your thumbdrive. Dont forget to unzip the file PupWinQE.zip
2. Download the latest puppy iso and save it into your thumbdrive.
3. Go download qemu at http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html∞ , and install it in your linux.
3. Copy the following shell script, and save it into your thumbdrive. You can name it as 1GB-RAM-Puppy.sh if you want:
#!/bin/bash
# written by azlanar, http://benci.tapi.rindu.net∞
# Purpose: testing puppy
umount /dev/shm
echo "mount -t tmpfs -o size=2048M none /dev/shm";
mount -t tmpfs -o size=2048M none /dev/shm
df -h
echo "Starting puppy now...";
qemu -L . -m 1024 -cdrom puppy-2.16.1-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso -localtime -boot d puppy.qcow -hda /dev/sda1
4. Chmod the above script to 755, eg chmod 755 1GB-RAM-Puppy.sh
5. Execute the above script. eg "./1GB-RAM-Puppy.sh"
6. Hey, you love that puppy huh?
PUPPY ON WINDOWS
1. Go to your thumbdrive.
2. read the documentation at http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/PupWinQE.htm∞ hehee
3. If you wanna add more RAM, edit the Puppy.bat
The original lines in Puppy.bat is:
qemu -L . -m 256 -cdrom puppy-2.16.1-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso -localtime -hda puppy.qcow -boot d -hdb \\.\PhysicalDrive0
You can change it to ... say:
qemu -L . -m 1024 -cdrom puppy-2.16.1-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso -localtime -hda puppy.qcow -boot d -hdb \\.\PhysicalDrive0
Means that you assigned 1 GB RAM .
keep old bookmarks, mails, passwords.
copy these folders to a new install
/root/.mozilla
/root/.sylpheed
/root/Mail
/root/.gftp
"left-click menu" disabled
open /root/.jwmrc in the texteditor.
It has such a line:
Code:
<RootMenu label="Start" labeled="false" height="0">
change it like this:
Code:
<RootMenu label="Start" labeled="false" height="0" onroot="true">
As .jwmrc is hidden, activate the "show hidden" -icon in the rox-filemanager.
Then you can rightclick it -> open as text.
Then restart X.
command line CDPlayer
Just insert a cd and type
# cdplay
Or if you prefer the third track
# cdplay play 3
To stop
# cdplay stop
# cdplay
Or if you prefer the third track
# cdplay play 3
To stop
# cdplay stop
to change the background of the icon text
in Rox options (you can right-click a desktop icon and select Rox-Filer, Options) ... click the Pinboard tab ... select Text Style: No Background ... click the Save button
Virtual Screen
Right click and drag the screen selector (bottom right)
In the default desktop with several programs open in different screens
Right click and drag the selector button for a virtual screen
Right click and drag the selector button for a virtual screen
Check ISO contents list from prompt
#cd /
#mkdir /mnt/iso
#cd /mnt
#mount /"path to filename.iso" /mnt/iso -o loop (all of this is on one line)
#cd iso
#ls -l
#mkdir /mnt/iso
#cd /mnt
#mount /"path to filename.iso" /mnt/iso -o loop (all of this is on one line)
#cd iso
#ls -l
the files listed for a Puppy ISO are:
boot.cat
image.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
user_cram.fs
vmlinuz
#cd /
#umount /mnt/iso
#rmdir /mnt/iso
How to let firefox run at start up
edit .xinitrc in /root (it's a hidden file, click the Show/Hide Hidden Files button in the rox window to see it)
add this line:
firefox
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