Sorry to hear about all the trouble Caneri.

I wonder if a "donate" button would help towards gathering funds for hosting and bandwidth?

This would provide a "blanket" method for us happy users to support the whole community. I know donations never amount to much but I guess every little bit helps.

I, for one, have no way of contributing to the community other than by monetary means.

I have no better idea then to say try the 4.1.1 retro.
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sorry for my english.

we want a greek puppy. (puppel).

we have two problems.

(with el_GR.utf8).


1. in rxvt we dont have greece. with sakura is all ok, so we have it.

but the other problem is important.

In scripts (pmount, etc) there are orange windows, with messages (Puppy Drive Mounter, please wait....).

if we translate it, do not appear Greek, but as symbols. (only the text in orange windows).
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I'm thinking of a system where the package manager would automatically download packages via torrent, and then keep the last several packages you've downloaded hanging around to seed them. It would have some kind of size limit, so that it would never be retaining more than 10-20 MB or whatever. When you install something new, it could remove either the oldest package(s), or preferably, the package(s) that you seed least often. (I add the (s) because if you download something large, it may need to discard several packages to hold the larger one).

There would of course be options to disable that, or modify the parameters (size retained, seeding bandwidth, etc.) to take care of people with poor connections or network admins who consider p2p to be an Evil technology only used by those nefarious baby-eating Software Pirates.

We'd need to set up our own tracker on a server somewhere, because I think that existing trackers would probably find it rude for us to randomly decide to use them for our entire package management. From what I understand, trackers don't use much, resource-wise, so it shouldn't be a big problem to set one up. The actual location for the uploaded package could be anywhere, so long as there's a direct link to the file so that people who can't use torrents can get it. We could host the .torrent files on the same server that runs the tracker, or put them anywhere. Those are little.

The trick is getting all of this as automatic as possible, so that people don't have to think about it. It should happen automatically.

Uhh, I have to go to class now, I'll type more later.
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Goodevening,

After Puppy Linux 4.1.1 install, acc. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 on a Pentium 2 - 400 MHz - 384MB RAM - 6.4 Gb hdd, the computer doesn't boot from hdd.
He stops and shows this on the screen :

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640 lower / 392184 upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.]

grub> _


From cd everything works fine.
Anybody?

Thanks in advance,

Yo!

Could be a driver problem not included in the kernel.
Hope for you that someone with the correct level of knowledge sees the post. Barry?
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CUPS 1.3.3 (from PetGet) does not allow for changes to the config file, see following:

http://localhost:631/admin/
Edit Configuration File

Make any change then try to save your changes ... ERROR
"No such file or directory"

What's up with that, please?
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Awesome!

Thanks!
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If you follow these instructions, you won't have problems.

BTW you didn't indicate what installation you had before, frugal or full.
It's always best to be as accurate as possible.
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I would help, but I think that this idea is just cruel, kind of using puppy as a punishment tool. How boring for those kids and they'll probably hate puppy for it!!
You need to install
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=19738
or
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/posting.php?mode=reply&t=36298

http://www.giovelug.org/index.php?lng=en&mod=download&pg=indice&c=1
http://www.pieroni.biz/edupup/index.php?lng=en

then let you kids have some fun
ttuuxxx
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Yes this would work on any 2,3,4 series of puppy, But I do have a newer release now, it can be found at. this thread.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36316
ttuuxxx
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Sorry. My host got attacked over the weekend and they claim to be up and running again, but they seem to have goofed up my account during the process. I'm waiting for the tech support to get back to me still. Grrr....

Meanwhile, I'll attach the latest version so you don't have to wait.
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A Google search indicates the C700 uses an Atheros 5006 or 5007
series chipset.
Go to Menu>system>pupscan interface info>pci interfaces and the
exact chip should be in the list somewhere.
In the forum go to hardware>networking>wireless, and search the
posts by Tempestuous.
He tells where to find the drivers for these chipsets.

good luck

i am very new to this linux platform. i happened to here in our tv channal about this free platform.
Now have downloaded puppy 4 ,Ubuntu 8 and latest fedora and burned to CDs
now i wanna know two things
1.how to install puppy linux to a pen drive
2. How to run XP and fedora/ubuntu/puppy Linux in one pc in different hardisk

and dont forget to say how to boot after istallation


i have tried for nearly 2 months to set as above but failed
i hope our forum will hav answer for this with snapshots

Very interesting. I have been using gnump3 to stream but have been playing with icecast/mpd/ncmpc. I cannot seem to get the bugs worked out of the trio working together.

I have a dedicated box for my music and I will give this one a look.
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Maine, USA

HP N5250
Booting:
Frugal install:Puppy2.16, Puppy3.0 Retro, Puppy4.00, Puppy4.10 + WindowsMe
Currently using Puppy4.10 w/ Fluxbox

i am very new to this linux platform. i happened to here in our tv channal about this free platform.
Now have downloaded puppy 4 ,Ubuntu 8 and latest fedora and burned to CDs
now i wanna know two things
1.how to install puppy linux to a pen drive
2. How to run XP and Linux in one pc in different hardisk
and dont forget to say how to boot after istallation



i have tried for nearly 2 months to set as above but failed
i hope our forum will hav answer for this with snapshots

how come every time i start puppy i have to go through the process of finding the internet connection, entering the wep key and so on and so fourth. why doesnt it save the internet settings. It is a pain to have to confiqure it each every time.

Thanks I'm trying it out now!

Artie

then due to reports, i Will add alternative mirrors in nexts days for all lik pointing to jason salis repository
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dr_apokalypse Thanks for your post. It gave me some hope for a while.
I followed up a bit on your SUSE forum lead and found out that the person posting the problem had eventually to add the line "options snd-hda-intel model=hp-m4" to the modprobe.conf file.
I also found out that when I added the options statements to modprobe.conf on my machine, and then ran the puppy alsa wizard, the wizard erased the options statements. I put the statements back in and was able to reboot to restart alsa and the options statements were still in modprobe.conf. Testing the result, however, did not provide any sound.
Also, as could be expected, the IDT company does not provide any LINUX drivers. Meanwhile, back to further searching.

The Puppy 3.01 series work flawlessly on my computer but any of the 4.xx, though they work smoothly in other respects, have a shutdown problem.

When either rebooting or powering off I do not get the screen for save options. Instead the screen goes black, the power light on the computer stays lighted and the whole thing simply stays that way until I intervene manually. If, at that point, I hit the esc button the computer turns off but at no time do I get the saving options window.

I've tried many editions of 4.xx of new or retro kernels and the problem persists. My computer is an amd phenom 9850 quad core on a asus m2n e motherboard.

Any ideas????

Thank you guys, I just solved renaming the file with the "_411" at the end. Another question: first I tried open office 2, then I substituted the sfs file with the Open Office 3 .sfs one. It works perfectly but i wonder if i have to do a sort of "uninstall" of the previous OO2 .sfs or simply delete it.
Many thanks
Umberto

I hope to get some advice about getting my serial port configured to work with Puppy 4.1.1 and VMware player 2.0.5, running a win2k pro virtual machine. VMware shows the serial port is available but trying to communicate to a PLC logic controller from software in win2k fails. I have included some info about the current setup below in the hope that someone can spot the trouble. The serial hardware is a PCI and it does work.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Win2K COM1
Input output range 03F8-03FF
IRQ 4
BPS 9600
Data bits 8
Stop bits 1
Flow control None
Use FIFO buffers

VWware configuration
# First serial port, physical COM1 is available
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileName = "Auto Detect"
serial0.autodetect = "TRUE"
serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE"

Puppy 4.1.1
# puppyserialdetect -u | grep SERIAL
Type:SERIAL-Port|Port:/dev/ttyS0

 # cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
serinfo:1.0 driver revision:
0: uart:16550A port:000003F8 irq:4 tx:3 rx:1 brk:1
1: uart:unknown port:0000B828 irq:10
2: uart:unknown port:0000B840 irq:10
3: uart:unknown port:0000B850 irq:10
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EDIT: The solution was right there in front of me.
Change the VMware configuration from serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE" to serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "FALSE"

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Sound exciting, although I was hoping for something like Pardus Linux. I'll be keepking tabs on Woof through your blog.

BTW aren't you afraid that if you're totally dependent on another distro's packages that Woof will simply be seen as a derivative of that distro? In http://akaimbatman.blogspot.com/2005/06/linux-desktop-distribution_111888594099190449.html this article there's a suggestion how software in Linux should be installed, i.e. just like on Apple, which I found a good idea.

Puppy 4.11 on 3 old laptops and one desktop.

The other desktop is Win2000pro but is soon to go.

The other laptop is WinXP but soon to be converted to Puppy as well.

Within a week or two we should be 100% MS-free!
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Volume seems much better!
all hardware works except some function keys that is what I am working on.
The wireless switch works, but after you turn it off and then back on you need to run the connection wizard again.

Both sd card readers work if the card is in @ boot.

No wifi lights due to ath5k driver not supporting it.

Still working on a way to get the external monitor function key to work without killing X or Rebooting. Any suggestions would help.

I will probably try to get a lid close to trigger a shutdown as I haven't played with hibernate at all yet.


Craig

I suspect it worked for smeebob, and not for you because he attached his old hd to his computer via usb. It appears as thought you attached the old hd as a secondary ide drive.

The Puppy Universal Installer would assume that a usb attached hd should be installed as usbhdd, which will become the primary boot device, when it is used to boot, and install the boot loader accordingly. When this old hd is returned to the original machine, it is in fact the primary boot device and so it works.

However with a hd attached as a secondary ide device, the Puppy Universal Installer would assume that your primary hd will remain your primary boot device, and will install the boot loader accordingly. When this hd is returned to it's original machine, it fails to boot. This is because it is now a primary boot device, but it was never setup to be one.

gyro

Anyone want to change the IDEs? I like code::blocks and such, but anyone want me to ditch this in favor of KDevelop, which produces more "professional-looking" projects? KDevelop requires KDE libs though, which would take up a lot of space. I could also ditch Code::Blocks and WxGTK in favor of the C++ extension in Netbeans, but i don't really like how netbeans auto-closes {} "" and (). Maybe there's a config file somewhere that i can turn this off, i think there is somewhere... Anyway, what's your thoughts; Does Code::Blocks survive the cut? Is it worth it if it only supports C++ (all others support C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, etc.).

Code::Blocks Pros:
Good interface
Lots of project configs, like SDL project, OpenGL project, WX* project, etc.
Good syntax highlighting, fast building.

Cons:
Very large, i could probably cut ~70 MB without it, or more
Only supports C++

Netbeans Pros:
Very popularly used
Handles many languages ( http://www.netbeans.org/ , look under "Supported Technologies" )

Cons:
Hard to configure some options
I don't like it's syntax-highlighting/auto-complete

KDevelop Pros:
Develops full project files that can be compiled with ./configure, make, make install
Handles many languages ( http://www.kdevelop.org/HEAD/doc/api/html/LangSupportStatus.html )

Cons:
Is very complicated the first time you use it (it gets easier after a while)
Relies on KDE libs

If anyone has anything else to say, or wants to voice an opinion, post.

Thanks!

I can't answer your question but I do have to say that anybody with an old ELP album cover as their avatar is alright by me.

Hi,

I'm new to Puppy but not totally new to Linux. I got involved with Puppy when I tried to install it on an ancient Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop (366 mhz Pentium II, maxed out at 256 MB RAM!) for my father-in-law. It worked great as a live CD (including even WPA wifi access using NDISWRAPPER!) but for the life of me I couldn't get GRUB configured properly to get Puppy to boot directly from the hard disk (I tried both the full install and frugal install methods, but couldn't figure out how to configure GRUB). This was disappointing because Puppy ran like lightning on that old laptop, whereas I ended putting Tiny Me on the machine for him (a lightweight PC Linux OS variant) which, while pretty, runs considerably slower than Puppy.... oh well.

Anyway, I have a MacBook Pro and would like to play around with Puppy under Parallels Desktop virtualization, but was unable to get wifi working. Does anybody have any tips to get Puppy running as a virtual machine under Parallels?

Thanks!