Hi from a Slax user, some storytelling
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 18:08
Hi,
I just registered here. Last weekend I found about Porteus, the afterlife of Slax. I'v heared about the previous name Slax Remix, but didn't follow the discussion.
Anyway, I'm a Slax user since about 5 years. I'm using it for my home server, came across it in search for a distro that runs from a CF card, or in my case a DOM, and normally won't write to it, to save wear.
I made a number of modules for Slax, the bigger ones being Squeezebox+Twonky Server. Meanwhile there's a lot of stuff, the details and dependencies would make it hard to migrate to something else. All was running well through the years, no need to change.
The purchase of a 3TB data disk pressed me to do some updating, since I needed GPT support. I made a kernel update following fanthom's instructions (many thanks!):
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=53917
and converted all my modules to squash4. Works pretty well, all feels normal.
I was torn whether I should leap to Porteus, am worried if the Slax userland tools can keep up with GPT, ext4 and a >2TB disk. For testing, I prepared a DOM with Porteus v0.9. After learning howto set it up with grub (I could write a howto now) it boots up fine and me Slax user feels pretty much at home, all looks familiar. However, Porteus refuses to mount my ext4-formatted disk, which Slax meanwhile can. So for now, I'm back to Slax.
cu later,
Jörg
PS: There is a typo in the lilo.conf file of Porteus. IIRC, "changes" is misspelled in one of the entries, so persistence for that one won't work.
I just registered here. Last weekend I found about Porteus, the afterlife of Slax. I'v heared about the previous name Slax Remix, but didn't follow the discussion.
Anyway, I'm a Slax user since about 5 years. I'm using it for my home server, came across it in search for a distro that runs from a CF card, or in my case a DOM, and normally won't write to it, to save wear.
I made a number of modules for Slax, the bigger ones being Squeezebox+Twonky Server. Meanwhile there's a lot of stuff, the details and dependencies would make it hard to migrate to something else. All was running well through the years, no need to change.
The purchase of a 3TB data disk pressed me to do some updating, since I needed GPT support. I made a kernel update following fanthom's instructions (many thanks!):
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=53917
and converted all my modules to squash4. Works pretty well, all feels normal.
I was torn whether I should leap to Porteus, am worried if the Slax userland tools can keep up with GPT, ext4 and a >2TB disk. For testing, I prepared a DOM with Porteus v0.9. After learning howto set it up with grub (I could write a howto now) it boots up fine and me Slax user feels pretty much at home, all looks familiar. However, Porteus refuses to mount my ext4-formatted disk, which Slax meanwhile can. So for now, I'm back to Slax.
cu later,
Jörg
PS: There is a typo in the lilo.conf file of Porteus. IIRC, "changes" is misspelled in one of the entries, so persistence for that one won't work.