Porteus

Need a laugh - check this out:

Never used Porteus Installer inside the Porteus Settings Centre, so thought I'd try it. I thought this would create a generic Porteus on a spare usb drive I had, much like an initial install after download.

"Why is this taking so loooong to complete? Problems? Permissions? Didn't check the sha256? Corrupt target drive?" Although told not to, I was yanking drives, shutting down, restarting the procedure over and over.

What I didn't know is that it makes a complete duplicate of what you already have! (very cool) And that meant about 4 or 5 other massive iso downloads in my Downloads directory that I had before. So yeah, I'll be clearing out my junk before I make another one!

Awesome, but I felt like a dunce once I waited long enough for it to handle all my unnecessary baggage and tell me it was all done.

I just went through similar mind warps.

When searching for some names and strings I got results that should not have been there.

Finally figured out that the symlinks I was using for shortcuts were being scanned too. Not only partition links but also .config , Home , mnt , etc and many other places.

I decided to replace the symlinks with .Desktop shortcuts instead. They open a new instance of Dolphin which is ok.

Vic

nanZor wrote: ↑

11 Nov 2023, 03:14

"Why is this taking so loooong to complete? Problems? Permissions? Didn't check the sha256? Corrupt target drive?"

Interesting find, I never used Porteus Installer inside the Porteus Settings Centre myself since I always do the manual approach copying the modules I want, the kernel I want, the initrd I want, and when I have an already working USB thumbdrive I just exchange or update module files in the porteus/ directories without making it bootable again, since it already is.

So the same gaffe could also have happened to me.