I'm completely new to porteus, and my Linux knowledge in general is quite limited (still).
The other day I set up my old MSI Wind netbook (2GB RAM, 1.6GHz ATOM CPU, 1024x600 screen) using Linux Mint XFCE, which is fine but still pushes the CPU to its llimits. So I came across porteus.
The netbook is limited to 32 bit architecture so I chose porteus 4.0 with xfce.
I started by formatting an 8 GB USB pen drive to FAT32, copied the ISO's content to it then ran the Windows installer as is described here. Also modified the /porteus/porteus-v4.0-i586.cfg file to make sure I have the right keymap and timezone:
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kmap=de
timezone=Europe/Berlin
Next I followed the instructions creating a 512 MB savefile as /porteus/portauessave.dat using the default xsf as file system. On my netbook the pen drive is mounted as /mnt/sdb, so the entry in porteus-v4.0-i586.cfg is
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changes=/mnt/sdb/porteus/porteussave.dat
I tried numerous times to rebuild (using both ext4 and xfs, also extending the size to 1 GB) or recover the .dat file but without success. Also tried to "tab" into the "Graphical" selection on boot and enter
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APPEND changes=/porteussave.dat
I also tried to re-format the USB drive using ext4 than do the entire setup process from my Linux Mint setup using these instructions. Seems to work, but then I can't boot from the pen drive, the boot sequence starts telling me that there's no bootable kernel found stopping with
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boot:
So meanwhile I'm back at base 1, i.e. with a FAT32 formatted drive and no chance to save my changes.
Anyone having an idea what else I could try?
== UPDATE ==
I managed to mount may savefile in Linux Mint using
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sudo mkdir loop /mt/loop
sudo mount -o loop /mnt/sdb/porteus/porteussave.dat