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nooby · #1411 Post by **nooby** » Fri 14 Mar 2014, 05:43

How is Shakel related to Proteus then?

I wonder what menu.lst they suggests?
This code boots to a installation guide that wipes out the HD
seems they don't want people to do frugal install.

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title slackel
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel (hd0,0)/slackel/bzImage noauto copy2ram from=/slackel/ 
  initrd (hd0,0)/slackel/initrd.img

James C · #1412 Post by **James C** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 05:11

Porteus 3.0 Mate.

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guest@porteus:~$ uname -r
3.13.6-porteus
guest@porteus:~$

Here's the menu.lst I'm using on an ext4 partition.

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title Porteus 3.0 MATE in sda14
  root (hd0,13)
  kernel /porteus/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=/porteus changes=porteus
  initrd /porteus/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
  boot

nooby · #1413 Post by **nooby** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 07:48

Thanks James

On an older Porteus from 2013 Dec 30 something
this one boots fast and the OS works as expected.

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title Portdeb (sda1/portdeb)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel (hd0,0)/porteus/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz noauto copy2ram from=/porteus2014/ changes=/changes.dat
  initrd (hd0,0)/porteus/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz

I am using it now at time of writing. Will try to boot your code too soon .

Edit here is what goes wrong with latest 3.0 version.

I dont seem to have the needed Porteusv3.0 x86.64.sgn file.
It ask for it and when it does not find it then it refuse to load and boot.
Where do I find that file?

nooby · #1414 Post by **nooby** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 08:10

Here I am using Centrych OS Have already forgotten
what that OS is based on. Is it a ubuntu maybe.
Has any of you great experience of using it?
I am totally new to it. Fail to even to spell the name.

dejan555 · #1415 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 08:58

nooby wrote:
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title Portdeb (sda1/portdeb)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel (hd0,0)/porteus/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz noauto copy2ram from=/porteus2014/ changes=/changes.dat
  initrd (hd0,0)/porteus/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
I dont seem to have the needed Porteusv3.0 x86.64.sgn file.
It ask for it and when it does not find it then it refuse to load and boot.
Where do I find that file?

nooby, it's in porteus subdirectory, I htink problem is in your grub entry, which one is correct subdir porteus or porteus2014 ? if you boot kernel and initrd from porteus then your from=/ parameter should also be porteus, no?

BTW I just booted 2 different versions of porteus (both 3.0 but different isos choosen from their desktop wizard.) I like the approach of building and downloading custom iso.

I like the modular approach and choice of apps in lxde version is incredibly similar to puppy's, with libreoffice and firefox iso is about 340 Mb
I also tried razor-qt version because I never used that desktop enviroment, choice of apps I got in ~175 MB iso is great -gimp, vlc, qmmp, qbittorrent, unfortunately I haven't included browser.
razor qt seems slick and good.
QT is indeed powerfull framework although I don't normally use it.

peebee · #1416 Post by **peebee** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 12:22

Ouch - problem was my error - I had earlier version of Porteus on my hard disk - but as Nooby says below, the Porteus forum was very helpful and friendly in analysing my error....

nooby · #1417 Post by **nooby** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 14:52

Don't get me wrong now. Bst chance to get answer
would be ti join their own forum. They are rather friendly to deal with.

dejan555 yes maybe the 3.0 versions is keen on havin the rightname.

But the 2.0 from Dec 2013 do boot with this code.

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title Portdeb (sda1/portdeb)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel (hd0,0)/portdeb/vmlinuz noauto copy2ram from=/portdeb/ changes=/changes.dat
  initrd (hd0,0)/portdeb/initrd.xz[quote]
so if it accept portdeb then why would it fail with porteus2014? 
Not logical to me. I look for the .sgn file and make a opy in many places to see what happens. [/quote]

dejan555 · #1418 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 15:01

yes but in that old code you have "portdeb" 3 times

In new code you have "porteus2014" only once and "porteus" twice

Is that because you have vmlinuz and initrd in directory named differently then where modules are? What I'm saying is not that it needs specific name but that maybe you put wrong name of directory in new code?

nooby · #1419 Post by **nooby** » Sat 15 Mar 2014, 21:13

Wow oops my bad how can I be so blind.
Embarrassing indeed. So typical me.
dejan555 thanks indeed. I try again.

What about Shakel. OS somebody suggested that
Proteus and Shakel maybe I can reuse pars of the menu.lst?

Okay one step at a time.

I have to put them side by side

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title Portdeb (sda1/portdeb)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel (hd0,0)/portdeb/vmlinuz noauto copy2ram from=/portdeb/ changes=/changes.dat
  initrd (hd0,0)/portdeb/initrd.xz

Should be changed to
title Port2014
root (hd0,0)
kernel /porteus2014/wmlinuz noauto copy2ram from=/porteus2014/ changes=/changes.dat
initrd /porteus2014/initrd.xz

I even spotted a new error that i\ve made vmlinuz to wmlinuz
so when I did the changes you suggested and set the vmlinz
right then it just booted. So much thanks for helping me out.[/code]

Billtoo · #1420 Post by **Billtoo** » Sun 16 Mar 2014, 17:43

I installed the 64bit Slackel to a hard drive partition on my
emachines D620 laptop.

It's working well so far.

James C · #1421 Post by **James C** » Mon 17 Mar 2014, 20:17

Still playing with Debian......

http://www.debian.org/

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james@testing-ob:~$ uname -a
Linux testing-ob 3.13-1-486 #1 Debian 3.13.5-1 (2014-03-04) i686 GNU/Linux
james@testing-ob:~$

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james@testing-ob:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3113396     361264    2752132       1176      16980     206152
-/+ buffers/cache:     138132    2975264
Swap:      6246396          0    6246396
james@testing-ob:~$

nooby · #1422 Post by **nooby** » Tue 18 Mar 2014, 00:53

James I trust that you refer to a full install maybe on
an USB or partition and not frugal install on
the regular harddrive? used by Wind 8.1

James C · #1423 Post by **James C** » Tue 18 Mar 2014, 04:53

nooby wrote:James I trust that you refer to a full install maybe on
an USB or partition and not frugal install on
the regular harddrive? used by Wind 8.1

Yes, traditional full install on an ext4 partition.

I have Windows 7 ( a few have XP too) on a number of my computers (I hate Windows 8 and refuse to use it

) but i always make room for a few ext 3 or ext4 partitions. So I don't have a clue about using Linux on NTFS....

James C · #1424 Post by **James C** » Thu 20 Mar 2014, 22:55

Still like Gnome 2.....

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[james@desktop1 ~]$ uname -a
Linux desktop1 3.2.18-pclos1.a64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 03:15:05 CEST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

James C · #1425 Post by **James C** » Sat 22 Mar 2014, 06:31

And Debian Sid......

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vsido@vsido:~$ uname -a
Linux vsido 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.6-1 (2014-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

James C · #1426 Post by **James C** » Tue 25 Mar 2014, 00:49

A collaboration between the Mepis and antiX communities has resulted in MX-14.Final was released today..Debian based naturally.

http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx

Release announcement
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#News

Core
Linux kernel 3.12 pae
Debian 7.3
Xfce 4.10.2
Details: type in terminal inxi -F

Properties
Fits on a CD
Runs in live mode in 10 languages
Live persistence and remastering
Snapshot tool
Default Browser: QupZilla 1.6.3
Video Player: VLC 2.1.4
Music Manager/Player: Clementine 1.2.2
Email client: Claws-mail 3.9.3-1
LibreOffice 4.1.4.2

James C · #1427 Post by **James C** » Thu 27 Mar 2014, 21:09

For those with older hardware there is now a MX-14 non-pae i486 release....

https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix- ... nal/MX-14/

MX-14 homepage
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx

Billtoo · #1428 Post by **Billtoo** » Fri 28 Mar 2014, 16:16

Ubuntu 14.04 beta 2 is out.
It's working well so far.
EDIT:
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Beta 2 64bit to a dual core hp desktop pc, it's
working great so far.
Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
Memory 4038MB (523MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sun 30 Mar 2014 10:34:35 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Linksys WUSB54GC v1 802.11g Adapter [Ralink RT73]

nooby · #1429 Post by **nooby** » Fri 28 Mar 2014, 16:31

I always make of use Linux Mint instead. It has a lot of needed
programs already installed while on Ubunti you need
to install and these are gone next time time you boot up
if you do Frugal iso-booting which is the fast and easy method for
some of us perennial noobs.

d4p · #1430 Post by **d4p** » Fri 28 Mar 2014, 23:49

Ubuntu-Entwickler warnt vor Einsatz von Linux Mint
http://winfuture.de/news,78916.html

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