Installed outdated Porteus by accident, more noob friendly download instructions
Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 08:58
Hello,
as a noob in Linux, i installed version 3.1 instead of 3.2, i think this should not happen and can be improved.
Here is how i proceed:
1. http://www.porteus.org / Download / Desktop edition
2. find text: "You can download the ISO and other files for the desktop edition from any of our mirrors here." and clicked on "here" to be taken to http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.txt
3. copied first link "http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/porteus/" to the browser address bar
4. see three dirs:
i486/
i586/
x86_64/
I have low RAM old PC so i was looking for 32 bit, so i excluded x86_64, somewhere i read 486 is right, so i clicked it and then clicked "current" directory and DLed Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-i486.iso
I think it would be good if on the download instructions are more noob friendly so i better know which .iso / which "architecture" i need to choose.
as a noob in Linux, i installed version 3.1 instead of 3.2, i think this should not happen and can be improved.
Here is how i proceed:
1. http://www.porteus.org / Download / Desktop edition
2. find text: "You can download the ISO and other files for the desktop edition from any of our mirrors here." and clicked on "here" to be taken to http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.txt
3. copied first link "http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/porteus/" to the browser address bar
4. see three dirs:
i486/
i586/
x86_64/
I have low RAM old PC so i was looking for 32 bit, so i excluded x86_64, somewhere i read 486 is right, so i clicked it and then clicked "current" directory and DLed Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-i486.iso
I think it would be good if on the download instructions are more noob friendly so i better know which .iso / which "architecture" i need to choose.