Can I install Porteus on old 32bit laptop - w/ dualboot?
Posted: 02 Feb 2023, 22:34
Post the output of a cat command on your blacklist and config files that you've changed. And run the cat command from you /home/guest folder so the terminal shows the location of the files.
I tried to run my Porteus 3.2.2 ISO on my Dell but it's not compatible with the hardware and doesn't boot. Most of my old hardware got distrubuted during the covid lock downs.
I get the same insmod error with Porteus 5.0.
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root@porteus:/home/guest# insmod /lib/modules/5.18.8-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/b43.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module /lib/modules/5.18.8-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/b43.ko: Unknown symbol in module
root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -oh /lib/modules/5.18.8-porteus/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 29 Jul 2 2022 b43/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 35 Jul 2 2022 b43legacy/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 63 Jul 2 2022 brcm80211/
root@porteus:/home/guest#
Anything is possible with Linux, including running Porteus 5.0 on your old 64 bit system.
To the best of my knowledge, which isn't saying much, Ubuntu isn't Slackware based so it's drivers wouldn't be compatible.
I tried to run my Porteus 3.2.2 ISO on my Dell but it's not compatible with the hardware and doesn't boot. Most of my old hardware got distrubuted during the covid lock downs.