I booted Slacko Puppy Linux 7.0 on a notebook. I mounted the single FAT32 partition /dev/sda1. At shutdown, it offers to make a savefile but the destination is the readonly DVD drive! I tried changing the destination folder to /mnt/sda1 but it still says that the filesystem is iso9660 and readonly. Any tips on getting puppy to save to /mnt/sda1?

Attached is a screenshot of the savefile dialog that i get at shutdown.

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Looks as though savefile functionality is broken when booting from optical media. This would seem to be a major bug because Puppy was intended to be booted from optical media.

"Booting off optical media and then saving, either hd, usb or back to optical I can confirm is completely broken. It must be something to do with @gyrog 's changes with the savespec facility. I'll raise an issue on github and get it fixed soon."

From:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtop...p=14243#p14243

BTW, a workaround is to interrupt the grub4dos boot process, edit the command line, and add a new boot parameter psave=sda1:/savedir/

Actually, what I'd do would be to boot back into the LiveCD again, then use the Puppy Installer tools to create a frugal, flash-drive Puppy. While Puppy is running (from RAM, as she always does), she's fully functional, and quite capable of creating another install.

Slacko 7.0 is Mick Amadio's first new Slacko in almost 4 years; the 'head honcho' has had a lot of personal issues at home in recent years (hasn't shown his face on the forums much, either), so it's entirely possible he's not quite up-to-speed with all the recent changes at Woof-CE on Github.....

Mike.

I didn't mean to be ungrateful. I like Slacko and have used it off and on for years. Ironically, i had the opposite problem many years ago on an antique PC with a SCSI disk. Savefiles worked from livecd but not from a frugal install. I forgot why, but the folks on Freenode told me that Puppy was meant to be run as a livecd and that method was better supported and tested than a frugal install. *shrug*

Ben:-

Nah, you're fine; don't worry about it. You're not being ungrateful; only regular community members could possibly be aware of what Mick's had to cope with this last couple of years. You couldn't be expected to know.

With regard to older Puppies working better when they run as LiveCD then save back to the disc, yes; that's always been one of Pup's strengths. Many distros will run as a LiveUSB, and be able to employ 'persistence' (I think that's what it's called), but to the best of my knowldege, Puppy alone is pretty much unique in being able to save back to the very same disc it was booted from...

Admittedly, most of us run frugals from either USB or HDD/SSD these days, but a few of the 'old guard' still prefer their Live 'multisession' CDs/DVDs..! Takes all sorts, don't it?

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As to your quote, above, er, yeah; things have gone a wee bit south recently. Gyrog (aka 'gyro' on the old Murga Forums) has been completely re-writing the initrd scripts over this last 18 months or so. Even he admits it's not yet running as smoothly as he'd hoped; which begs the question, why interfere with what BK himself put together several years ago?

BK's still around, but he's got his own projects now. Stepped-down 5 or 6 years ago, and handed the reins over to Mick, who is now the official 'steward' of the Puppy community. It's largely self-maintaining (basically a 'do-ocracy'; if someone feels like doing something, they do it!), but it can get a bit over-excitable at times.

Thr re-write has been prompted by the way certain new classes of hardware have had to be catered-for in Puppy's unique way of doing things. We'll get there eventually....

Mike.

@BenCollver -- looks to me as if you need a smallish partition either on hdd or usbstick for savefiles formatted to ext2. Anyway, that's what I'd try.

Do you use this rather than psavemark=X ?

Maybe you know some shortcuts I do not.

Have you tried creating a separate small partition on either hdd or usbsick formatted to ext2 and save the savefile there?

Yes i used psave=X and was not aware of the psavemark=X option.

This morning i tried a usbstick formatted to ext2 and still got the same problem where Puppy tried to save to sr0.