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USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext partit

Post#1 by milangru » 15 Apr 2015, 10:43

Hi,
I have create 2 partitions on my USB with gpart. One of them is 3gb fat32 partition and other is 700mb ext4 partition. I would like to install porteus on ext4 partition and to be able to read and write on the fat partition from windows. How can a achieve that? ( tried that - first partition fat ,second ext - after that first partition ext and second fat but it won't boot) .
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#2 by wread » 16 Apr 2015, 00:01

@milangru
Elemental, Watson, Windows cannot read ext partitions; so fat must be the first one. So your USB from point of view of Win is a 3gb one, ignoring the 400 mb ext partition. The other way around Windows detects an unformatted USB!

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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#3 by tome » 16 Apr 2015, 16:32

Or maybe install Porteus on first FAT partition and store changes on second ext partition, and why not porteussave.dat - it also works but you have probably problem with reading/understanding - pORteus vs pROteus -> OR vs RO. Do you understand your mistake?????? :wall: :O: Are you troll?? =@
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#4 by milangru » 20 Apr 2015, 06:39

tome wrote:Or maybe install Porteus on first FAT partition and store changes on second ext partition, and why not porteussave.dat - it also works but you have probably problem with reading/understanding - pORteus vs pROteus -> OR vs RO. Do you understand your mistake?????? :wall: :O: Are you troll?? =@
I'am not troll. Keep trying to save resistant changes to save.dat but no succeed. I have make changes like you told me but still in the same place like I was before
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#5 by fanthom » 20 Apr 2015, 07:05

we dont have a cheatcode named 'change='
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#6 by Ed_P » 20 Apr 2015, 13:58

You are so close milangru.

You just need to add 1 letter. changes= rather than change=

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APPEND initrd=initrd.xz change=/porteus/milan.dat
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APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus/milan.dat
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#7 by milangru » 20 Apr 2015, 14:26

Hope this is god but still no persistent porteus.

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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#8 by milangru » 20 Apr 2015, 14:54

Finaly got it...
Create 2 partitions first ine FAT 32 with porteus on it. Second one ext4. Copied porteus folder from fat to ext partition and now is working---- :Yahoo!: Yeahhhh
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Re: USB with 2 partitions, FAT & ext, with porteus on ext pa

Post#9 by Ed_P » 20 Apr 2015, 15:06

Recommended:
Ed_P wrote:

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So...
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz change=/porteus/milan.dat
becomes
APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/porteus/milan.dat
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milangru wrote:

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APPEND initrd=initrd.xz changes=/mnt/sdb1/porteus/porteussave.dat
See the difference?


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milangru wrote:Finaly got it...
Create 2 partitions first ine FAT 32 with porteus on it. Second one ext4. Copied porteus folder from fat to ext partition and now is working---- :Yahoo!: Yeahhhh
Good for you milangru :good:
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