Porteus

@Fanthom, I did get further through init this time before kernel panic took over. Seems I hung at mounting the root file system. Indications were the script tried all fs variants but was unable to mount. VFS error and some hex along with blinking lights. When I am going through make config my thinki...

@Fanthom, Man am I happy to see your post. I was just about to ask what I should be copying over. I built in-kernel support for two of the three possibilities on wifi. Via (non-gpl or very recently gpl) makes the third so I will have to build that in later. Looking at the instructions I didnt have t...

Ahhh, This is what I needed. Thank you! In scanning the first 20 lines I already see a few commands that were not in this tutorial: http://porteus.org/info/docs/51-development/91-compilation-and-usage-of-custom-porteus-kernel.html Once I saw initrd getting mounted as a block device I figured that th...

Thanks for the quick reply Fanthom! I am actually trying to bypass the xinitrd portion for now. Call it training wheels if you will however this is my first kernel compile and I am on attempt number 8 or so now. Once I get one that works I will try the initrd step too. Hey on a completely unrelated ...

Excellent. Think I made a mistake along the way on one or more of my attempts. I really need to name this kernel in the same context that porteus has, no? With the -porteus appended to the version or uname? Also when in makeconfig I see a default size for ramdisk. Should I adjust the default size or...

That is seriously good information for me at this stage. Thank you. I will try again with out initrd.xz. I tried out rc-2 last night. It would not boot on amd geode hardware. Indications were that I needed a cpu with pae support. I am not sure if that was intentional or not as Porteus makes a great ...

Help, I just failed for the third time in a row. Have yet to produce something that boots based off the instructions here: http://porteus.org/info/docs/51-development/91-compilation-and-usage-of-custom-porteus-kernel.html There is one spot where I needed to loose the .xz extension to off the end of ...

Thanks Ahau, I was wondering what tools were being used in those scripts. Well think I made a swing and a miss. After repacking and watching init hang, with many question marks, I remember that my /lib/modules folder did not have a /kernel/drivers/net subfolder. Crossed my fingers running depmod tha...

Ahh thank you again. I am a kernel newb but having a good time with this. Another question. I am at the very last part. Making changes to the 000-kernel.xzm. My challenge is that I am in vm ware on another computer on slackware buiding this kernel. The target hardware does not have enough storage sp...

Good question on the guest account. If I did want that can I assume I would find a line in ~.bash_profile that looks something like: exec /bin/login -f root </dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1 and I could swap out root for guest? Thank you for the options on this. I like the module method for its creativity...

@fanthom, Thank you! That should keep me busy for a while. Hey, quick question. Can I do away with the root and guest password portions of init very easily? My tablet hardware does have hard buttons and a d-pad however I only know how to link these to keystrokes / scripts though xmodmap and wont hav...

Thank you for your reply brokenman, I agree with you on Porteus being ideal for the task. I was just playing around with the other night and did as you recommended and removed KDE and sure enough there was LXDE on the next boot. Then I got crafty. I knew that I wanted the right click context on the ...

Hi All! Thank you for continuing the Slax effort! My name is daryl and I operate http://webdt.org . We use Slax. Its a community forum centralized around a given hardware set. Most of us there have these little x86 based industrial tablet pc's. As I am an old home automation and home theater install...

I was surprised when I put Porteus to an SD card and booted it from my Asus EEE Tablet pc. The touchscreen and everything worked right out of the box. I mean everything. Porteus did not ship with an on screen keyboard though. Thinking on it it may behoove one to grab one like florence or xvkbd just ...

My first post here. First of all thank you very much for continuing the Slax and or Slax-remix project. "Best" is subject to opinion so I will say that "it" works very well with Porteus. I am typing on an Asus T101MT. It is an EEEpc however this is the larger of the two tablets that Asus offers. The...