Have tested and adopted Porteus on a live USB stick (faster the key better the exp) and now wish to do a frugal install on a fast SD Card.
* Porteus 3.1 XFCE i486 running.
* Acer netbook with Atom 1.33 GHz (i686 only), 1 GB RAM
* Sandisk Extreme 16 GiB (with wear leveling "like" for SSDs ) ext4 formated like this
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Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 4194kB 7365MB 7361MB primary ext4 boot
2 7365MB 15.9GB 8566MB primary ext4
All went well and fast, all modules were copied to SDCARD/porteus/porteus from my updated live system, including optionals ones Reboooted straight away, i.e. *default* without even editing /boot/porteus.cfg (was late in the night). System booted to... PXE.
I then rebooted from my USB key, and
1) opened /boot/porteus.cfg and edited it as it had copied my customized syslinux file from the USB stick, which is a multiboot with special file structure.
2) Searched for 'Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com', copied it from USBSTICK/porteus/xfce-x86_64 (maybe the issue here? though I'd swear it to be arch-agnostic) to /$SDCARD_MOUNTPATH/boot/ with 'SDCARD_MOUNTPATH' = /mnt/sdc1 and run it:
# ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
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Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Porteus Installer......
_.====.._
,:._ ~-_
'\ ~-_
\ \.
,/ ~-_
-..__..-'' PORTEUS ~~--..__
==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--
Installing Porteus to /dev/sdc1
WARNING: Make sure this is the right partition before proceeding.
Type 'ok' to continue or press Ctrl+c to exit.
ok
Flushing filesystem buffers...
Using extlinux bootloader.
Installation failed with error code '3'.
Please ask for help on the Porteus forum: www.porteus.org/forum
and provide the information from /tmp/mount/boot/debug.txt
Exiting now...
Relaunched the installer with the exact same result, so may not be the same issue.
debug.txt
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0a77d45
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 156312449 78156193+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 156312450 156714074 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 156714075 312576704 77931315 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 156714138 176249114 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 176249178 180249299 2000061 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 180249363 312576704 66163671 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 62.7 GB, 62742792192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7628 cylinders, total 122544516 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a62bd58
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 122544127 61271040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/sdc: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15193 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005d8f8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 8192 14385151 7188480 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 14385152 31115263 8365056 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0a77d45
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 156312449 78156193+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 156312450 156714074 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 156714075 312576704 77931315 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 156714138 176249114 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 176249178 180249299 2000061 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 180249363 312576704 66163671 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 62.7 GB, 62742792192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7628 cylinders, total 122544516 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a62bd58
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 122544127 61271040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/sdc: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15193 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005d8f8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 8192 14385151 7188480 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 14385152 31115263 8365056 83 Linux
Hope you're willing to share your knowledge on this, and that it can helps make next Porteus version a bit more error proof for frugal install!