Porteus

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...

cp /etc/bootcmd.cfg /proc/cmdline work?

No. No. Absolutely not. This is a process file created every boot. I've put a few lines in linuxrc to copy all used cheatcodes from both /proc/cmdline and the porteus-v4.0-$ARCH.cfg file into a single config file so all scripts can just check one file.

<r><QUOTE author="Ed_P" post_id="63111" time="1520572831" user_id="1571"><s>[quote=Ed_P post_id=63111 time=1520572831 user_id=1571]</s> Maybe an early run routine that merges the .cfg file cheatcodes into the cmdline ones would be an easier approach. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>Splendid idea! I'll see if...

Thanks jssouza,

I know there are many cheatcodes that won`t work. It`s a matter of me tracking them all down and adding the extra check. Thanks for the list.

I know SourceForge is under a DoS attack but I thought all the Slackware files were stored on the mirrors' sites. LIBS.TXT.gz is not a slackware file. It's the file that slackware does not have that USM creates in order to know dependencies. It is stored on sourceforge. I had assumed sourceforge wo...