Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere as I could not find. This query is for an educational art project and I want to use a minimal UNIX-like OS and play an MP4 or MKV video in a continuous loop at a museum exhibition. It needs to be stable and run 8 hours per day, and start up instructions will be next to the laptop.
I am new to Linux and bought an Acer Aspire es1-431 with Linpus Lite pre-installed. I would like to overwrite with Proteus or Slackware OS. I am reading manuals and looking at sites but time is short. I also have a MacBook that can be used to support any downloads or bootable USB.
I will appreciate any suggestions to get up and running so I can test ASAP.
Thanks
Mark
Bangkok
Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
Install the xfce4 version of Porteus. Use a startup script to automatically start your video in mplayer in full screen. I am a little short of time right now but perhaps someone else can write a short tutorial for this.
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
for an infinite loop in fullscreen mode use
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#!/bin/bash
mplayer -fs /path/to/video.mp4 -loop 0
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
Thanks for the quick response and help. I will try these suggestions
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
Encountered some trouble:
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
Volume PORTEUS on disk2s1 unmounted
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
Password:
dd: unknown operand /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd ~/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
Password:
dd: unknown operand /Users/Mark/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd ~/Desktop/Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
dd: unknown operand /Users/Mark/Desktop/Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Any suggestions or spotted syntax errors?
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
Volume PORTEUS on disk2s1 unmounted
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
Password:
dd: unknown operand /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd ~/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
Password:
dd: unknown operand /Users/Mark/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Marks-MacBook-Pro:~ Mark$ sudo dd ~/Desktop/Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/rdisk2s1 bs=1m
dd: unknown operand /Users/Mark/Desktop/Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-x86_64.iso
Any suggestions or spotted syntax errors?
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
See this brokenman posting for doing that. http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 354#p45528Toponoetikos wrote:Any suggestions or spotted syntax errors?
Your bs=1m might be the problem.
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Re: Porteus install over Linpus Lite in Acer Aspire es1-431
diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
This shows me that disk2s1 is a partition, correct?
dd /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
That should be if=/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso (The path should exist)
of=/dev/rdisk2s1
That should be rdisk2s <--- without the partition number
WARNING: You are going to nuke EVERYTHING on this drive if you run this command correctly. Only Porteus will exist on the drive. Is there a reason why you don't simply format the partition, copy the Porteus files onto it and then run the install script from within the boot folder?
This shows me that disk2s1 is a partition, correct?
dd /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso
That should be if=/Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso (The path should exist)
of=/dev/rdisk2s1
That should be rdisk2s <--- without the partition number
WARNING: You are going to nuke EVERYTHING on this drive if you run this command correctly. Only Porteus will exist on the drive. Is there a reason why you don't simply format the partition, copy the Porteus files onto it and then run the install script from within the boot folder?
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umount /dev/disk2s1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/disk2s1
mkdir /mnt/iso
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -o loop /Desktop/Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso /mnt/iso
mount /dev/disk2s1 /mnt/usb
cp -a /mnt/iso/* /mnt/usb/
sync
cd /mnt/usb/boot
./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
cd -
umount /mnt/iso
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