Porteus

Posted: **03 Sep 2022, 10:55**

Assalamualaikum.

I downloaded Porteus-XFCE-v5.0-i586.iso and used Rufus to create my first bootable USB flash drive.

I inserted this USB flash drive into my Windows 7 Starter PC and it booted up into Porteus Linux
but I got this error message:

failed to load com32 file vesamenu.c32

I checked using winmd5 and there is no errors in download.

What is wrong?

Posted: **03 Sep 2022, 14:24**

hi when you have this message click on tab key and you have the option to boot but only text mode is an issue with vesamenu.c32

Posted: **04 Sep 2022, 14:14**

yasirqadhi210, is there a reason why you not use the Porteus script to create the USB setup incl. its boot sector?

Posted: **05 Sep 2022, 09:55**

Rava wrote: ↑
04 Sep 2022, 14:14
yasirqadhi210, is there a reason why you not use the Porteus script to create the USB setup incl. its boot sector?

How do I go about using the Porteus script? Please kindly explain as I am new to Porteus. Where do I find it
on my USB flash drive?

Thank you.

Posted: **05 Sep 2022, 10:04**

beny wrote: ↑
03 Sep 2022, 14:24
hi when you have this message click on tab key and you have the option to boot but only text mode is an issue with vesamenu.c32

I tried and used the path /boot/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 and the Linux menu loads up. I think this is a temporary problem as I need to enter/boot/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 everytime I boot into Porteus. But for now, I am happy I have already entered Porteus GUI and
I can surf this forum using Linux instead of Windows.

Thank you for helping me.

Posted: **05 Sep 2022, 10:16**

yasirqadhi210 wrote: ↑
05 Sep 2022, 09:55
How do I go about using the Porteus script? Please kindly explain as I am new to Porteus. Where do I find it
on my USB flash drive?

You have to extract the contents of the Porteus ISO while keeping the hierarchy it contains.

As example, I used mloop to mount the Porteus-XFCE-v5.0-x86_64.iso - when you use Windoze you might have to install a program that can open and extract an ISO - some GUI managers for compression programs (like ZIP, RAR, 7z…) can handle ISOs as well, but not all.

The main hierarchy is this:

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Your image has been mounted at: 
/mnt/loop

 You can unmount it by typing uloop

 Here is a list of the files:
EFI  USB_INSTALLATION.txt  boot  porteus

or as seen via ls:

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root@porteus:/mnt/loop# ls -o
drwxr-xr-x  3 root 2048 2020-05-04 21:12 EFI
-r--r--r--  1 root 1512 2019-11-17 03:32 USB_INSTALLATION.txt
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root 2048 2021-06-02 05:57 boot
dr-xr-xr-x  6 root 2048 2021-07-03 08:50 porteus

Just copy all these files and folders onto your USB thumbdrive, e.g. onto /mnt/sdc1/ when /mnt/sdc1 is your USB thumbdrive

The script to run is in here:

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root@porteus:/mnt/loop# ls -o boot/
total 574
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 384374 2022-05-09 10:52 Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 192745 2022-05-08 07:49 Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root   2048 2021-06-14 10:27 docs
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root   4096 2022-07-02 14:41 syslinux

After you copied it all execute "Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe" - make sure the drive the script mentions is really the one of your USB thumbdrive.

Also, make sure when you mount the ISO in any way, not use the Porteus-installer-for-* from the mounted ISO, only use the Porteus-installer-for-* after you copied it onto your USB thumbdrive.

When someone does the same using any kind of Linux, execute Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com instead.

Posted: **08 Sep 2022, 06:54**

Thank you as you have solved my problem. I ran Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe and now, Porteus boot menu appears
and Porteus GUI appears. Very nice.