PorteuX 0.5 has been released

[Ed_P]

I'm confused as to why Porteux would be expected to follow the same format as Porteus.

The porteu character matchs would be a hint. And brokenman's xzm module concept.

Cinnamon, which I find to be a somewhat not intuitive desktop.

Each to his own I guess. I find the Porteus version to be very intuitive, possibly because it matches Windows' desktops and definitely because of all the work jssouza put into it.

For rookies who would like to change the taskbar location and not have to repeat the process every reboot I offer my script.

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!/bin/sh

if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
   echo -e "Enter root's password\033[1;31m"
   su -c "sh $0 $1"
   exit
fi
echo -e "\033[0m"; echo -en "\033]0;Make a Mod\a"

if [ -d /tmp/mod/ ]; then
   rm -rf /tmp/mod
fi
mkdir -p /tmp/mod
 

xzm2dir /mnt/nvme0n1p7/porteux0.5/Modules/003-*   -o=/tmp/mod
#xzm2dir /mnt/live/memory/images/003-*             -o=/tmp/mod    

#set -x
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=94844#p94844
# all settings in Cinnamon are stored in ~/.config/dconf/user
cp -a -p --parents /home/guest/.config/dconf/*        /tmp/mod/

dir2xzm /tmp/mod -o=/tmp/mycinnamon.xzm   &&   rm -rf /tmp/mod

echo
echo "COPY the .xzm file to the folder you boot your modules from."
ls -on /tmp
sleep 20
exit

Run the script after the taskbar has been moved and copy the xzm module to the folder you have the 003- module in. Rename the 003- module to .xyzm as a backup.

[porteux]

@Ed_P, dir2xzm script has been changed since PorteuX first release to allow multiple main folders to be converted in a row. Porteus 5, on the other hand, doesn't allow that -- you need to do one by one.

If you have a better idea on how to approach this, I'm open

[Jack]

I tried to build PorteuX 0.5 I downloaded porteux-0.5.zip but not sure which scripts to use. I want to learn how to build your OS.

[Ed_P]

A good wallpaper for the Cinnamon DE.


https://www.pxfuel.com/en/desktop-wallpaper-tvqeu

[Ed_P]

Run the script after the taskbar has been moved and copy the xzm module to the folder you have the 003- module in. Rename the 003- module to .xyzm as a backup.

After moving the taskbar, changes to the time and wallpaper will also be saved when the script is run.

[roro]

USB device is formatted fat32 but script installer-for-linux gives error.
What can I do?

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root@porteux:/home/guest# blkid
...
/dev/sdc1: UUID="0CF5-A2EC" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0e5e93b9-01"

root@porteux:/mnt/sdc1/boot# ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run 
Creating directory /tmp/porteux-installer
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing PorteuX Installer  100%  
Only 'dos' or 'msdos' partition table is supported.
Format your storage media using partition table 'dos' or 'msdos' and try again.

[Rava]

Do a

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fdisk -l /dev/sdc

as root and post the results.

[roro]

Hi Rava,

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guest@porteux:~$ sudo fdisk -l
...
Device      Boot Start       End   Sectors Size  Kn Typ
/dev/sdc1           63 120176639 120176577 57,3G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Why does Fat 32 (LBA) not work?

[Ed_P]

root@porteux:/mnt/sdc1/boot# ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run

Try an installer from Porteus 5.0.

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guest@porteus:/mnt/isoloop/boot$ ls -on
total 570
-r-xr-xr-x 1 0 384374 May  9  2022 Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 0 192745 May  8  2022 Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe*
dr-xr-xr-x 2 0   2048 Jun 14  2021 docs/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 0   4096 Jul  2  2022 syslinux/
guest@porteus:/mnt/isoloop/boot$ 

[roro]

Hi Ed_P
That means:
replace in the folder /mnt/sdc1/boot/
the porteux-installer-for-linux.run file with Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com ?

[roro]

Thanks Ed_P for the idea
A1) porteux-installer-for-linux.run version 0.4 works for me
A2) porteux-installer-for-linux.run version 0.5 does not work
I therefore used installer A1) to install 0.5

[bour59]

as @roro says in #36
the installer for linux does not work for PorteuX 0.5

[porteux]

That's because you need the partition table to be dos or msdos, as the installer says.

Please use gparted to create a msdos partition table.

[bour59]

@porteusx the msdos partition table was created using fdisk
is fdisk obsolete ?

[Rava]

@porteusx the msdos partition table was created using fdisk
is fdisk obsolete ?

fdisk is not obsolete.
you should be able to use it to change the type from Typ W95 FAT 32 to msdos (Fat 32)