Installing Guest Additions on Slacko Puppy Linux 5.6

[trekkie0]

Hello,

I am having difficulty installing the guest additions in Puppy Linux 5.6. (the PAE version).

I have searched the internet and the VBox forums for solutions and have found some for Puppy 4, which I have not tested, but I couldn't find any solutions for Puppy 5.6. The error reported is that gcc and make are not installed, but of course, they are (see the attached screenshot). (It also reports that it can't find the kernel sources, and they are on the system as well.)

My real goal is to get the display to be 1920 by 1080, but for some reason Xorg doesn't like anything more than 1024 by 768 (I've tried everything from the wizards in Puppy to editing the configuration files to installing various packages from PPM, nothing seems to work). In VirtualBox's preferences, I have used both the hint (at 1920 by 1080) and none options for the display limits. Thus, I was hoping guest additions would fix the problem, but it seems impossible to get working.

I've tried the live CD, the frugal install, and the full install (for Puppy), I have also tried installing all of the different make and gcc packages, kernel sources, and other packages that sounded good (guessing).

I also want to point out that I've had this problem on the Non-PAE version of Slacko Puppy 5.5 (many months ago, I just never got around to posting the problem here). I'm not sure if this is a Vbox problem or the OS's problem, but I've heard some people getting it to work (but I obviously cannot replicate their success), so hopefully it is just one of things that requires getting one's hands dirty in the config files.

If you can get it to work, a step-by-step guide would be most helpful! (Even more lovely would be modifying the guest additions to work on slacko puppy out of the box.)

[loukingjr]

This may or may not help.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81705

[trekkie0]

Thanks, loukingjr! That article helped quite a bit! Although there isn't a package for Slacko Puppy, the .iso installation allowed me to select the driver and set the resolution to 1920 by 1080. Perfect!

[loukingjr]

Thanks, loukingjr! That article helped quite a bit! Although there isn't a package for Slacko Puppy, the .iso installation allowed me to select the driver and set the resolution to 1920 by 1080. Perfect!

You're welcome. Glad it worked out.