Porteus

Nice. Thanks.

Found the solution. In VirtualBox I had to set under network tab the Promiscuous-Mode to "deny". By default, this PromiscousMode was greyed out. To be able to change it, I had to 1 Change the network type to Host-only Adapter 2 Change Promiscuous Mode to deny 3 Change network type back to NAT Now Po...

I just noted that the connection to the internet for the Porteus OS in the VM seems to be broken somehow. A ping to www.web.de or to 82.165.230.17 is not working (the Host OS can do those pings) But how can USM say that downloading vercheck.txt, CHECKSUM.md5, MANIFEST.bz2 and PACKAGES.txt are done w...

Hi Ed_P and Raja, thanks for your help. When I open the GUI for USM and click Update - Update slackware database I get the following error: Find /tmp/xdg-runtime-guest/gvfs' : Permission denied Starting slackware database update Downloading: vercheck.txt DONE Downloadin´: CHECKSUM.md5 DONE Downloadi...

When running the (fresh) Porteus 4.0 XFCE iso file "Porteus-XFCE-v4.0-x86_64.iso" in VirtualBox I get the following error when trying to update usm: root Terminal usm -u all " Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz DONE There was a problem downloading the file: " I am a Linux newb and have searched in the interne...