Sunday, January 13, 2013

How do i create a Wakepup Floppy Under Linux?

Q. im switching between my xubuntu live cd to a Puppy Linux running from a USB FD, i downloaded Wakepup which allows your old pc to boot from your USB device but its a windows Installer, its design for windows and i dont have access to it right now. So how can i create the Boot up floppy under Linux?

A. I think you will find the information you need at:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3875

Note at the top of the thread, there is a link for the WakePup disk image for version 2.0. The link for Version 1.0 {WKPUP11C.ZIP } is lower on the page.

The directions are for Puppy1 {wakePup 1.1c} so you will have to translate them as needed if YOUR's is Puppy2.

In a nutshell, once you have the proper image it needs to be uncompressed and written {as root} to the floppy using 'dd' in Linux. For example, assuming Puppy1:

# unzip WKPUP11C.ZIP
# dd if=WKPUP11C.IMG of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

BTW, WakePup is a Puppy boot disk using FreeDOS, with support for USB mass storage drives (CD-ROM, hard disk and flash), legacy parallel port drives (Backpack CD-ROM and Iomega ZIP) and legacy PCMCIA drives (Addonics or similar CD-ROM).

You may also find this link helpful if you want to create a boot CD version:
http://www.puppylinux.com/cd-puppy.htm

hth.

How do I install Eclipse in Mint Linux?
Q. I'm trying to install Eclipse on my computer with Mint Linux to do some Java and Android development. Using Google Chrome, I downloaded the correct version of Eclipse. It's in my downloads folder as a .tar.gz. When I double click on it, it takes me to the archive manager and shows the folders. How do I install it?

A. The command:

tar -xvf

will untar the file. Then cd to the directory that you unzipped and type :

more README

and read that file. There may be and INSTALLATION file -- read that as well. The normal installation routine goes something like this:

./configure

followed by

./make

then

./make install

and that should do it.

How do I install a program on UNIX OS?
Q. I would like to know how to install a program on Linux without having to use the software center tool, I want to install it from scratch by myself but the only issue I have is that I dont know how. That is the only thing that is holding my horses from switching to Linux or Fedora. If you could write on a step by step format it would be better for me to understand.

A. You unzip the source archive, then go to a terminal and enter:

cd [enter the location of where you put it here]
./configure
make
sudo make install

Or you may mean downloading rpm files manually, which unless you can't find what you want (you'd go to http://rpmfind.net ) is not recommended as they could've been tampered with and you also won't get updates for that package.

If you want a good amount of packages then switch to a Debian-based distro.

http://www.ubuntu.com
http://www.kubuntu.org
http://linuxmint.com
http://debian.org




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