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guest@rava:/$ cat /etc/porteus/*
001-core.xzm:20230922
002-xorg.xzm:20231001
002-xtra.xzm:20230922
003-xfce.xzm:20230922
06-man.xzm:20230915
initrd.xz:20220928
I did not went through the whole offline FAQ testing each command (I was reading it from chapter 5 downwards), but I was thinking "that one command - fdisk -l - would not work for the normal 'guest' user and in that chapter there is no mentioning of using a root terminal."My PC has low memory amount - is there any simple way of increasing it?
Create a swap file on your hard drive which will act as an extra (but slower) memory bank. Run the following command in a console to create and activate a 500MB swap file on the partition 'sda9':
If you want to have this swap file activated by default, add following command to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local:Code: Select all
mkfileswap /mnt/sda9/Porteus.swap 500
You should replace sda9 with the path of your own partition. You can see your partition setup by typingCode: Select all
swapon /mnt/sda9/Porteus.swap
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fdisk -l
I even tested it out:
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guest@rava:/$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
guest@rava:/$ echo $?
127
guest@rava:/$
At the very end there is this info:
(green highlighting by me)Where is the Web browser?
[…] They can be accessed by the GUI app Browser Selection and Update Tool or via (root)terminal command: eg. update-firefox.
I suggest that the mentioning of a root terminal is also mentioned at the top of the article, e.g.
like this:
Many of the below commands only work for user root, so open a root terminal, e.g. by choosing in the main menu System / ??? Terminal (root) (e.g. called Xfce Terminal (root) when Xfce is your DE) or via
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su -