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Lucid Puppy SFS Tutorial
SFS = Squash File System
Puppy Linux utilises these SFS files. The SFS is compressed, hence "Squash". SFS needs to be mounted like any other Linux file system.
Puppy sets up several "layers" of file systems at first boot and has the ability to add more SFS layers.
People in the Puppy community make large programs such as Open Office into SFS because a Pet would populate much of Puppy's savefile.
NOTE: These procedures work only with a frugal installation.
Unfortunately, SFS files cannot be installed using the bootloader with a full installation.
The SFS must be mounted and the individual files placed in the proper directories.
Try this sfs install program or thisPET MAKER PLUS, one of which may work, otherwise the files must be copied manually to the corresponding directories on the hard drive.
SFS files compatible with Lucid
Amarok dejan555‘s amarok-xxx-sfs4-sfs for Puppy 5
Amarok amarok-1.4-lucid.sfs for Pupppy 5.1
kmymoney sidder’s kmymoney2_0,89-1_xxx.sfs
Open office 3.2 dingo’s openoffice3.2-sfs4_xxx.sfs
Skype skype_static prepared by 01micko
Language Support shinobar's language sfs, supports 40 languages
*Note that some of these are not direct links
Now, download an SFS and save it to /mnt/home.
You can configure your browser's download manager to do this to save mucking about later.
Once your file is in you can open "Bootmanager" from the Menu.
Click "Menu (or Start) > System > Bootmanager". A window appears.
Click the "Choose which SFS to load at bootup" button and you see the next window.
You choose your SFS from the left pane, add it to the right pane with the arrow, click "ok" and you are done. Now reboot and your SFS is ready.
The sfs_linker program by jrb, still in development, allows for mounting of SFS files on the fly without rebooting.
