Bogomips wrote:^ Looks difficult for Newbie.
Yup. But actually it's not that hard. There are only 4 lines that you need to tweak to fit your scenario.
This is the name of the folder you will create on your C: drive to hold the various Porteus related subfolders you will use. Such as a folder for the xzm modules that you will want to add to Porteus. Maybe a different browser or an updated flashplayer plugin and etc. I named mine to match the version of Porteus it relates to, you could name your's simply Porteus or Linux or mytests, etc.
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set iso=/ISOs/Porteus-CINNAMON-v3.2.1-x86_64.iso
This the name of the Porteus ISO file that you downloaded and a folder where you stored it. I have multiple ISO files and store them all in a single folder named ISOs, you may use the same approach or store it in a folder with a different name, like Downloads for example.
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set linux_drv=/mnt/sda5/$linux_folder
This one is more complicated if you're new to Linux. This one refers to the
location of the folder you created to hold the various Porteus related folders. But there are only 2 characters in that whole line that need to be tweaked to fit your scenario and they are the "a5".
The "a" is Linux's way of addressing drives in a machine. "a" for the first drive, "b" for the second drive, "c" for a third and etc. 99% of the time a machine has only 1 drive, the hard drive, and it is the "a" drive. If you had a USB drive also it would be the "b" drive.
Now comes the tough part, the "5". The "5" represents the partition number of the drive you are using for your files. Windows uses letters to represent a drive's partition, C: being the most common, and with modern machine's hard drives it doesn't represent the first or even the third partition now days. Modern machines have hard drives with many hidden partitions, for EFI, for Recovery, for vendor diagnostics, etc. Linux counts the partitions, the visible and the invisible ones, starting with the number 1. On my hard drive my C: drive is number 4 and a partition that I created for my non-system files is number 5. D: in Windows.
How do you know what number to use for your machine? You can take a guess, it will either work or not. Or you can use Windows' Disk Management to see your hard drive's partitions and count them.
Finally the last line to be changed:
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set porteus_parms="changes=EXIT:$linux_drv/changes/porteussave.dat volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=$linux_drv/Modules"
A LOT of stuff on this one. But when you're starting out you can
delete most of it. Start with:
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set porteus_parms="extramod=$linux_drv/Modules"
A lot easier to discuss than a stupid partition number eh?
Have fun.