Porteus

donald wrote: ↑

18 Jun 2018, 14:53

so I ended up with a huge module (~ 85 MB)..unacceptable.

donald wrote: ↑

08 Jun 2018, 08:22

I'm just a user and not a developer,
so I don't care about the size of the module.
What is the point of stripping down a module to the bone

A new way to convert MBR to GPT!! And no data lost. Linux is sooo much easier than this windows tool. Remember, talking about a system with files on it and maybe multiple partitions. How would Linux convert it? Gdisk? @n0ctilucient I think they are talking about a symlink on the real file system on...

fulalas wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2018, 01:31

Ed_P wrote: ↑

15 Jun 2018, 00:00

I use Easy2Boot, which use to be RMPrepUSB.

Cool! Do you have a xzm for this app?

It's a Windows app, just like Rufus. Whether it would run under Wine I don't know.

Check out this RMPrepUSB page: http://rmprepusb.blogspot.com/2014/02/b ... un-it.html

I have heard of Rufus fulalas but never used it. I use Easy2Boot, which use to be RMPrepUSB.

fulalas were you using flash drives? And is the partition on them GPT?

fulalas wrote: ↑

14 Jun 2018, 04:54

@donald, don't get me wrong, but if in your opinion Porteus 4 has no advantage over 3.2.2, why don't you keep using 3.2.2 instead?

I think he already answered that.

donald wrote: ↑

13 Jun 2018, 17:43

maybe because of fixed security flaws in newer package versions?..

Any security flaws fixed in the 4.0 version?

Yep, and the issues have been reported but were obviously,silently ignored. I suspect overlooked or forgotten rather than ignored. ....and then we got MPV...which is not userfriendly by any means. 1) There is no UI to make/change settings - I would not expect a user to search for and learn the synt...

The only thing that should be needed for a UEFI system is to disable the UEFI Secure Boot option.

I have a 3.2.2 flash drive that boots on my EFI system. The installer should be creating a hybrid MBR and a GPT directory table. I have not tried a 4.0 flash drive install.

I suspect it's pretty much the same as posted here: UEFI Boot Confusion [Solved] All that should be needed is the following: Create your Porteus file online at: build.porteus.org Be sure to select 64bit and the UEFI enabled. Create one single FAT32 partition on the USB Put all the files from the ISO...

@Ed_P, the idea is good, but most users don't know how to differentiate a DE issue from a generic Porteus issue. True, but most users don't know how to do this either. post these bugs (and how exactly we can reproduce them) :D Having a single topic with multiple unrelated problems makes it hard to ...

raja wrote: ↑

11 Jun 2018, 10:36

USM in both 32 and 64 bit v4.0, ends up showing LIBS.txt error, visit me after 6 hours. Enough has been talked about this error and repeats in the new version.

And the solution is the same one used to fix it in 3.2.2: Firefox Quantum (Post by Ed_P #62912)

Or a separate topic for each 4.0 DE needing tweaking.

Well, the small EFI partition has to be FAT32 ttbomk but not the other partitions where the OSs are installed.

On my Dell I have 8 partitions, the 1 EFI partition and 7 NTFS partitions. The partition table is GPT according to GParted.

fulalas wrote: ↑

08 Jun 2018, 22:53

@Ed_P, the one million question is: what 3.2.2 does that 4.0 doesn't (except for having decent icons when increasing taskbar size)?

You have to ask this guy.

donald wrote: ↑

08 Jun 2018, 08:22

I could easily list two or three things that do work in the older version,
but not in the new one.

Guys,I really appreciate your work on and for Porteus. Me too. And I wish I knew Linux better so I could help more. Maybe for XFCE there could be a Lite version and a Plus version. Whether that would be 2 003-XFCE modules or just the one 003-XFCE module with a supporting xzm module with all the fun...