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Upgrade Porteus flash drive from 3.1 to 3.2?

Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 10:52
by postcd
Hello,

i have bootable flash drive with Porteus 3.1 made by Windows application "Universal USB Installer".
Now i would like to upgrade my flash disk to Porteus 3.2 from within running Proteus 3.1

What is the easiest method?

I renamed porteus, boot, uui folders on my flash drive and then used Porteus application called "ISO Master" (is installed on Porteus) to extract folders boot and porteus from the .iso i downloaded at http://ftp.vim.org/ftp/os/Linux/distr/p ... 6/current/

Then per instructions in USB_INSTALLATION.txt (located on flash drive)

b) navigate to the /boot folder and launch the installer
'bash Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com'

i ran it: cd /mnt/sda-1/boot/;sudo bash Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
The following utilities are required and missing from your system:
sfdisk
Same question here: https://superuser.com/questions/1229966 ... -usb-drive

Updated USM can not find such package. Please how to proceed? Thank you

Upgrade Porteus flash drive from 3.1 to 3.2?

Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 11:09
by Bogomips
One way of doing this is to find the 3.2.2 iso you are interested in, and download it. Then try this: Simple USB Flash Installer.

Upgrade Porteus flash drive from 3.1 to 3.2?

Posted: 20 Sep 2017, 13:32
by donald
guest@porteus:/mnt/sdXN/boot$ su -c ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

EDIT

better to use su, not sudo

Examples: (more detailed)

guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot$ su
.......
root@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot# ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

if message:
bash: ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com: Permission denied
then do
root@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot# chmod +x Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

root@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot# ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
...........


or from guest account:

guest@porteus:~$ cd /mnt/sdb1/boot
guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot$ ls
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe docs/ syslinux/

^installer-for-Linux.com isn't executeable (no * at the end)

guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot$ sudo chmod +x Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
......
guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot$ ls
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com* Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe docs/ syslinux/

^now it is -- now run:

guest@porteus:/mnt/sdb1/boot$ su -c ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com
......