Porteus

Be aware though that your keyboard layout may be reset to default (US?) after your mouse is discovered and paired! Not sure why this is and a workaround may be to log out of your account and log back in again. This sometimes doesn't work and again I don't know why. I suspect that Porteus 5.0 isn't s...

The defaults Settings of
1. Keyboard Layout and
2. File Right-Click Options "Move to Trash" and "Delete" ... where are they?
vmlinuz? 000-kernel.xzm? where?
I would like to change them.
Thanks.

Bluetooth mouse wasn't discoverable on Toshiba notebook running Porteus but was discoverable on hp notebook. Looked closer at Toshiba, trying to understand Porteus boot logs, found at ... Clicked on Porteus logo, Applications, System, Porteus System Information, logs, Dmesg, Open current file, to sh...

KDE works quite well for what I want it to do. I have a hub connected to my laptop when the computer boots up. There is a Rapoo dongle plugged into the hub to operate my Bluetooth mouse. Sometimes, the Keyboard Layout changes back from "gb" to "us" when I connect a USB flash drive to the hub! This d...

I must admit I missed Zahtar's reference to booting from the Boot Menu "I am accessing the boot menu F12 during startup". So I didn't need Rufus or APPEND /EFI/BOOT :) I can now boot Porteus on my USB stick without depending on the boot order set in BIOS. The boot order in BIOS is overridden by Wind...

Thanks for the info guys. I will look into that

Is Porteus supposed to work with the Bluetooth device in a laptop? Possibly there is no driver supplied with Porteus. Having installed Porteus 5.0 onto my laptop, which has a Bluetooth device, I placed "bluetooth" in /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg but saw an error message when I clicked on Bluetooth ico...

That's pretty much what's in USB_INSTALLATION.txt under the section "FOR EFI SYSTEMS:" What's not obvious is that it matters what mode the computer is in during installation. So the computer must be in UEFI mode and Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe run. You can burn the .iso to DVD and boot with th...

Nice to see Porteus 5.0 , thanks to all. Why does official installation still only refer to two folders: boot and porteus? And only extract those two? There is a third included, EFI, with no indication how it's used in a laptop whose BIOS is set from CSM to UEFI. Doesn't work for me under UEFI, only...

Interesting stuff guys (gals?).
Sometimes Mouse Pointer Icon (arrow symbol) is unmovable at center-screen after boot-up.
nanZor, your comments have given me an idea to place Porteus 4.0 on another USB stick and look more closely at its operation.
Thanks !

Yes I was surprised also, especially as there was an EFI folder accompanying Porteus 4.0. That's why I was annoyed... my laptop should have booted from the USB stick, especially as I had Secure Boot turned off.

Yes I did and it works like you say. But I run Windows 8.1 on the PC sometimes and I was tired changing the BIOS setting from CSM -> to UEFI and back. I was annoyed that Porteus 4.0 didn't work with PC in UEFI mode: I saw that it was supplied with an EFI folder containing files. So I searched for AN...

Add to /porteus/porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg the following line: APPEND /EFI/BOOT Ignore /boot/syslinux/porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg (yes there are 2 .cfg files!). Got hint from the files Rufus created to make USB stick bootable. Then used Porteus method to install onto USB stick. Then added above line. Stran...

Hello Donald, I added ACTION!="bind", to 69-libmtp.rules. When I tried to read from my smartphone, an error message indicated "an mtp process had ended unexpectedly". So I downloaded XFCE and Cinnamon compressed modules. I didn't use Cinnamon asits md5 checksum wasn't the same as the one in md5_sums...

Thanks Donald!
I will try your suggestion. I appreciate the help.