Porteus

brokenman do u know why there are like 4 different things to manage the auto-mounting ?
it is getting me nuts. (but i learned a lot from it)

udev/hal/udisks/pcmanfm

whoho: im a white ninja from now

you mean that the script does not remove the icon from the desktop when a drive is unmounted ? im working on that. i fixed the script so that it will show all your drives. working on ntfs icon as we speak (need to format flashdrive to ntfs to test =]) to let the icon be removed on unmount i need to ...

i know that there are some flaws in the script.
are all the mounts done in the /mnt dir ?

i wil edit the script to search in mtab so that the script wil detect mounts on other dirs than /mnt

crashman requested a script to create desktop icons for all mounted harddrives. i have started on the script it is partially ready. the links does not work. there are frends with me at home. and to not bore them to death i cannot finish the script this time. #!/bin/sh function fadd { for i in $(cat ...

i know for all other packages i use slackyd or online repository's for slackware packages. but this package can only be found in .deb ipk and rpm now i have created the package in the 0.9 build and converted it so my problem is solved. but the rpm2cpio problem in the 1.0 rc still exists. maybe it is...

when i am trying to convert a rpm to cpio rpm2cpio generates this error: rpm2cpio: error while loading shared libraries: libnssutil3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory to fix it i need to link some .so files from the firefox directory to /lib ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/l...

i know that you guys are working hard to make the Site and forum as complete as possible.
and the porteus site and forum are pretty new so no reason to complain about it.

i used slacky and accepted to download all dependencies of all stuff so thats why all the crap is there. not a really good idea to do in the future :P the documentation is pretty good for the beginner stuff like installing on usb and stuff. but the more advanced stuff can be hard to find or not find...

i have made a qt4 package by accident
edited slackyd to download all deb for gparted included qt for me. so i have to figure out which package's qt needs and pass the link =

Hi all, i am pretty new to porteus. i have played around for ages with slax but never ever heard of this excellent distro until it popped up on DistrWatch a few day's ago. faster and more actively developed than slax. so this is better sooted for the year 2011 than slax :D i have played around with ...