Porteus

Thank you for all your help. I succeeded in getting Porteus booted using my boot manager Bootitng. Porteus boots up very quickly and has a smaller memory foot print than most distros. I like the combo KDE classic style and LXDE. But the package manager is confusing, how to update and add applications.

Thank you for trying to help. Since I did not and do not want any grub in the MBR, The Porteus live CD would not let me get to >grub prompt so I used Super Grub repair and got >grub command line and >find /boot/grub/stage1 found others but the Porteus installation partition was missing stage1 and se...

Thank you for your replies. PClinuxOS and WattOS have installers that give the user the option of where to install grub. LinuxMint12 gives option but rewrites MBR problem. Vector7 provides Lilo to root option. When using a boot manager such as BootitNG, the user does not want grub installed in the M...

When using a boot manager for booting several Linux OS's, must have grub installed in root partition instead of MBR. I use BootitNG for managing my partitions, backup copying, and having more than 4 primary partitions and so Porteus needs the option of grub or lilo install to root partition / instea...