Split Point Lighthouse, Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia <../../> Home <../../> About <../../about.htm> Gallery <../../gallery> Tips Download <../../download.htm> Release Notes <../../release-lhp.htm> Hints and Tips for Lighthouse Pup <#Acronyms>Acronyms <#Acronyms>| System Requirements <#requirements> | Installation <#Installation> | GRUB Bootloader <#GRUB> | Troubleshooting <#Troubleshooting> | Keep VirtualBox or Wine from filling up your save file <#f-s> Display drivers in Lighthouse64 <http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=662949#662949> | Uninstallation/Upgrade <#Uninstallation> | SFS Add-ons <#sfs> | Automount <#automount> | Desktop <#Desktop> | Command Line <#CL> Release notes <../../release-lhp.htm>| Flash Version <http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/> | Compiz-Fusion <../../c-f.htm> | Cairo-Dock <../../sfs/503/Cairo-Dock.html> <c-f.htm> If you're updating your existing Lighthouse to a new version, please start a 'clean boot' from the CD-ROM by typing at the boot menu puppy pfix=ram and make a back-up copy of your pupsave* file e.g., LHPsave.3fs.bak before booting LighthousePup. (If booting with GRUB, at the boot menu, press 'e' to editthe kernel line, add pfix=ram, then Enter and 'b' to boot.) * As of Lighthouse 5.00 G, the pupsave filename begins with LHPsave. With Lighthouse 64 the save file begins with L64save. Acronyms Used Here LHP <../../about.htm>= Lighthouse PupLinux JWM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWM> = Joe's Window Manager IceWM <http://www.icewm.org/> = Ice Window Manager L64 = Lighthouse 64-bit KDE <http://kde.org> = 'K' Desktop Environment LXDE <http://lxde.org/> = Lightweight X11 DesktopEnvironment SFS <#sfs> = Squash File System Xfce <http://www.xfce.org/>= Lightweight & full-featured desktop Fusion = Compiz <http://www.lhpup.org/c-f.htm>stand-alone with ROX desktop NLS <http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Native_Language_Support>= Native Language Support, a.k.a. Localization or L10n. Lighthouse is mostly English, though efforts to support more locales are ongoing. System Requirements For the LiveCD you'll wantthe machine set up in the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM drive before other drives. Floppy, then CD is OK if no floppy is inserted. (If you already have Lighthouse or Puppy booting from GRUB <#GRUB>, you can click on the ISO in ROX-Filer to mount it and then copy the files into a new folder one-level-deep at /mnt/home e.g, /mnt/home/lhp.) Other requirements differ by Window Manager (WM). The Lighthouse Base CD has JWM, IceWM, LXDE and Openbox <http://openbox.org/>. All should work with older hardware, though JWM is slightly faster than the others. One of the add-ons make KDE 4 available after saving your session and rebooting, though you can use most of the KDE apps without logging in to KDE. Lighthouse Base and Mariner should boot and run all WM's except KDE with 256-512M RAM. For logging into KDE 4, I recommend at least 512M though it may need 768M+ with fairly recent hardware for best performance. A newer ATI or NVIDIA based graphics adapter is recommended for 3D apps and HD video. For Lighthouse 64, at least 1G - 1.5G of RAM is recommended. A Linux Swap partition is also recommended, at least the size of the installed RAM. GParted in the System menu can be used, however on a Windows box, note that GParted will pop up a message with tips on resizing an NTFS partition in Windows before creating the Linux Swap with GParted. Please read these tips as resizing a Vista/Win7 partition with GParted is not recommended. Before applying any changes with GParted please clean boot from the LiveCD by typing ram at the boot menu so that all partitions can be unmounted first. When saving your session onto a Windows partition it is wise to defragment the drive in Windows first (Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Defragment.) LHP 5.00 is based on a hybrid of Quirky 1.2 <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-1.2/>,Slackpup 0.4 <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/test/spup-0.4/>, Slackware 13.1 and Puppy 4.3.1 <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/>,with some updates from a recent Woof <http://bkhome.org/woof/>. It's a good idea to have one of these CDs available for comparison and if something hardware-related doesn't work, you'll have a wider base of users to get help from. Lighthouse64 is loosely based on Fatdog 64 <http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/web/>, primarily Fatdog 64 521, and requires a 64-bit processor. Back to top <#Start> Installation Download the ISO and burn to a CD-R. Start here if you're unfamiliar with ISOs and MD5s: Burning an ISO <http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LiveDVD> - Authoring/Burning Software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_disc_authoring_software#Windows> - Using MD5 Checksums <http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html> If you're updating your existing Lighthouse to a new version, please start a 'clean boot' from the CD-Rom by typing at the boot menu puppy pfix=ram and make a back-up copy of your pupsave file e.g., LHPsave.3fs.bak before booting LighthousePup. (If booting with GRUB Bootloader <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRUB>, at the boot menu, press 'e' to editthe kernel line, add pfix=fsck,ram to the end of that line, then press Enter and 'b' to boot.) No installation is required for the Base ISO, just enable booting from CD-Rom in your BIOS/setup menu. Reboot with the Lighthouse CD-Rom disc in your drive, at the boot menu type ram<Enter>.This is the Live-CD or 'clean boot' mode. The Mariner ISO is the same Live-CD but it includes extra SFS add-ons <#sfs> for first boot or a Frugal Install as described below. At reboot/shutdown you'll be prompted to save your personal files and settings in a LHPsave file (Option 1). If you choose to let Lighthouse save your files and settings, the boot (startup) time can be reduced. This is called a Frugal Install and allows sharing the partition with other operating systems, although choosing a partition formatted with ext4 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4>, or another a Linux file system (ext3, ext2 or reiserfs) is recommended. After selecting the partition, file system, encryption (optional) and name of your LHPsave, you'll see a 'Let's double check before finishing dialog' summary dialog. This one has a button for entering a subfolder, which facilitates sharing the partition with other Puppy or Puppy derivative installations on the same partition. The final dialog presented offers to copy the main file and SFS files to the same place as your newly created LHPsave, and this is the step that facilitates faster boot times. After rebooting into your newly saved Lighthouse environment, click on the Pmount Drives icon on the desktopor Menu -> File System -> Drives Manager,and the 'Mount' button for your CD/DVD drive. A window should open showing the files below. Then click on the File System icon, click on mntand home. (If you chose a subfolder in the 'Let's double check before finishing dialog', open it also.) Drag and drop the following files from the Lighthouse CD to the folder that contains your LHPsave file e.g., /mnt/home/LHPsave.4fs or /mnt/home/[subfolder]/LHPsave.4fs. When prompted to copy or move the files, select copy. (/mnt/home is actually a symlink to the root of the partition.) Some of the files may already be there. This is the recommended Frugal Install: * LHP-nnn.sfs (This is called the main file. nnn is the build version e.g., LHP-502.sfs, or for Lighthouse 64, L64-514.sfs) * initrd.gz (Initial ramdisk; for Lighthouse 64, initrd.xz) * vmlinuz (Linux kernel) * zWine-n.n.n.sfs (Wine system files) * click-to-verify-lhp or click-to-verify-mariner (md5sum verification script) * Optional: extra SFS file add-ons <#sfs> e.g., LibreOffice.sfsandJavaRE-nnn.sfs Note 1: A traditionalfull hard disk install is not recommended.It can make backups, upgrades, troubleshooting and customizing more difficult. A variety of install options are available in Menu -> Setup -> Lighthouse Universal Installer. Booting with puppypfix=ram from a CD/DVD burned multi-session, at shutdown a dialog offers to save your session back to the CD/DVD, so that a hard disk is not needed. This is the experimental PUPMODE=77. Note 2:For Lighthouse 5.00 G or later, if the LHPsave file is in a subfolder, extra SFS files can be placed in eitherthe top directory, or preferably in a subfolder, (one level deep, same folder as the LHPsave.)This is ideal when using a GRUB bootloader <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRUB> (Menu | Setup | Puppy universal installer, or Menu | System | Utility | GRUB Bootloader Config.) GRUB allows booting directly from the hard disk instead of from the CD-ROM. Sample GRUB entries here <../../misc/GRUB/SampleMenu.lstEntries>. Switch to Previous System, e.g. other Linux, Windows, etc. There is a command line option at the boot menu to boot from the first hard drive by typing h <Enter>. Or just remove the Lighthouse CD-ROM from its drive and reboot. Back to top <#Start> Troubleshooting It pays to back up your LHPsave file <#back-up> on a regular basis, just in case something goes wrong. If Lighthouse doesn't respond, first try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. This will shut down X Windows to the command prompt. From the text mode prompt, type xwin <Enter> to return to Lighthouse. If you've changed window managers try xwinjwmor xwin starticewmorxwin startlxde / xwin startkde / xwin startxfce.