[SOLVED] Porteus from a USB drive
Posted: 13 Feb 2013, 15:29
Hello, I am a relative newbie. I have used mostly Debian OS's for about a year. Zorin and Solus. I wanted to try a Slackware derivative and found Porteus which impressed me greatly.
I installed Porteus to a USB drive using Linux Live installer. I partitioned an eight gig USB drive into two 4 Gig partitions. I had to use Fat for the install and I made my second partition Ext4 for the save file and downloaded packages. I then made a 512 gig save file on Ext. 4, edited the save file text and downloaded Audacious, Audacious plug ins and SeaMonkey which I then installed. I set Yahoo as my homepage and made a test folder on the desktop to check that everything was working. I then rebooted. Nothing.
I then redid all and this time used end current session, which said it saved my settings. On reboot my Test folder was on the desktop, and Yahoo was my homepage. My question, my installed programs where not there. No Audacious and no SeaMonkey, no plugins. Am I doing something wrong? Can Porteus not save the installations? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I could not find any answers in the forum and a few links I tried in the Wiki where missing.
I have one other questions. I have tried using sudo and su in the terminal and neither work. Is there a Slackware command I am not aware of? If I use nothing as in the cheat sheet and faqs I am denied permissions, and su and sudo are not recognized.
Again thanks for any help.
I installed Porteus to a USB drive using Linux Live installer. I partitioned an eight gig USB drive into two 4 Gig partitions. I had to use Fat for the install and I made my second partition Ext4 for the save file and downloaded packages. I then made a 512 gig save file on Ext. 4, edited the save file text and downloaded Audacious, Audacious plug ins and SeaMonkey which I then installed. I set Yahoo as my homepage and made a test folder on the desktop to check that everything was working. I then rebooted. Nothing.
I then redid all and this time used end current session, which said it saved my settings. On reboot my Test folder was on the desktop, and Yahoo was my homepage. My question, my installed programs where not there. No Audacious and no SeaMonkey, no plugins. Am I doing something wrong? Can Porteus not save the installations? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I could not find any answers in the forum and a few links I tried in the Wiki where missing.
I have one other questions. I have tried using sudo and su in the terminal and neither work. Is there a Slackware command I am not aware of? If I use nothing as in the cheat sheet and faqs I am denied permissions, and su and sudo are not recognized.
Again thanks for any help.