Porteus

If I run 'ntpdate pool.ntp.org' command, my RTC will be set (altered) too, or only the system time? Only your system time. That said, you can now test your first question without screwing your RTC. This clock question has been asked a few times onthe forum. Dig around a bit and you should find the ...

That's great! Thanks for the write-up, I enjoyed it a lot. I'm a user.

Maybe a temporary glitch in repo since it seems to be working now.

Thanks Blaze!

Are you using the kiosk version?

Only I am sure the an average user does not even notice this message, and even he notices, he should be very vigilant and fast to be able to make a good decision. If the user didn't open the configuration file and type in the cheatcode to save on exit then the 3 second message wouldn't appear. This...

Firmware was removed from the kernel source and is now handled by the distro packages. You can get all the firmware in the kernel-firmware slackware package.
http://packages.slackware.com

Thanks. I'll apply these patches. Further patches are welcome.

Thanks alsass,

The patches would be appreciated.

mloop is just a script to ease mounting of file systems. It's the file system that is read-only as is reported in the above output. mount -o loop /path/to/module.xzm /mnt/loop mount -o loop /path/to/savefile.dat /mnt/loop You will get two different results with the above commands. One writable and o...

Probably tonight. I will upload the base ISO for desktop maintainers to create desktops around.

I'll see if I can add slackwarepatches to the GUI.

slackware-patches IS slackware.

jssouza wrote: ↑

08 Mar 2018, 12:16

I guess this is now a general problem in all porteus scripts that check /proc/cmdline.

I the next release you may now check the single file /etc/bootcmd.cfg

I understand the concept but why not have the lines in linuxrc copy all the cheatcodes from the porteus-v4.0-$ARCH.cfg file into the /proc/cmdline file when booting Perhaps not. /proc/cmdline is a process file. It's not writable even as root during boot and it is used to communicate with the kernel...