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21 Aug 2015, 11:16 am

Has anyone played around with this distro. I looked at it, was impressed and tried to install to HD. It screwed everything up. Maybe in a years time I will look at it again.



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21 Aug 2015, 4:15 pm

I think Porteus is supposed to be a live image only, it's not developed for installation. Since it's Slackware based, you mayhave better luck installing Vector Linux,or perhaps simply installing Slackware itself, and tweaking the install to your specification.


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21 Aug 2015, 6:29 pm

It looks nice, it's Slackware based.

By portable to they mean you can install on a external drive or does it mean it's a good laptop OS?


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22 Aug 2015, 4:01 am

Rudin wrote:
It looks nice, it's Slackware based.

By portable to they mean you can install on a external drive or does it mean it's a good laptop OS?


AFAIK Live distro only, like a lot of the Slackware variants. Either burn it to a DVD, or run it from a USB drive.


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22 Aug 2015, 4:30 am

Nix OS looked cool; I'd rather go simpler than Gnome rather than more ornate like KDE; I'm running Fedora 22 lately. Something like Xmonad window manager could suit me but I like having just windows and separate desktops.


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22 Aug 2015, 8:19 am

Fogman wrote:
Rudin wrote:
It looks nice, it's Slackware based.

By portable to they mean you can install on a external drive or does it mean it's a good laptop OS?


AFAIK Live distro only, like a lot of the Slackware variants. Either burn it to a DVD, or run it from a USB drive.


Okay. So it's a live CD, is it amnesic?


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22 Aug 2015, 1:28 pm

cberg wrote:
Nix OS looked cool; I'd rather go simpler than Gnome rather than more ornate like KDE; I'm running Fedora 22 lately. Something like Xmonad window manager could suit me but I like having just windows and separate desktops.


Try one of 'box WM's , and a file manager. If you're up to it, you might want to give Archbang a try.

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It looks nice, it's Slackware based.

By portable to they mean you can install on a external drive or does it mean it's a good laptop OS?


AFAIK Live distro only, like a lot of the Slackware variants. Either burn it to a DVD, or run it from a USB drive.


Okay. So it's a live CD, is it amnesic?


I would assume that it would be, but you may possibly be able to configure it to save changes on reboot.


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22 Aug 2015, 3:12 pm

It said that Porteus was able to be installed onto HD. I partitioned a drive which had a few other distros on it. But when I wrote the grub, it overwrote the other grubs without seeing if other os were on the hd. I thought that was a bit selfish as I usually have about 4 versions of linux on that particular machine.



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23 Aug 2015, 5:37 am

madmick wrote:
It said that Porteus was able to be installed onto HD. I partitioned a drive which had a few other distros on it. But when I wrote the grub, it overwrote the other grubs without seeing if other os were on the hd. I thought that was a bit selfish as I usually have about 4 versions of linux on that particular machine.


Hmm... Distrowatch indicates that it is not able to be installed. Is it possible to edit the current GRUB to recognise the distros that you have on the other partitions?


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23 Aug 2015, 11:42 pm

At that point I'd probably hard boot it from external media with a good amount of storage persistence, so you could give it priority on a good disk controller from your BIOS and simply plug in that volume when necessary.


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26 Aug 2015, 8:35 am

I've given up on it. I have it on the USB and it looks nice. Looking at chromixium now.



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26 Aug 2015, 9:52 am

madmick wrote:
I've given up on it. I have it on the USB and it looks nice. Looking at chromixium now.


I once ran Chromixium on a Virtual Machine, I don't recommend it. I tend to disagree with Chrome OS.


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