“Live” Carrier Installation

[patatino]

Hello, I am a new user (French and not English) of Porteux and cannot start "live" the ISO burned on a USB key or on a CD Rom, whatever the version of the ISO (1.9,1.8,1.7). After the "init" sequence, nothing happens (no welcome screen). Can anyone help me? Many thanks in advance.

'Texte en français : Bonjour, je suis nouvel utilisateur (Francais et non anglophone) de Porteux et n'arrive pas à démarrer en "live" l'iso gravée sur une clé Usb où sur un Cd Rom, et ce quelque soit la version de l'Iso (1.9,1.8,1.7). Après la séquence "init', plus rien ne se passe (pas d'écran d'accueil). Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider ? Un grand merci par avance.'

[Ed_P]

burned on a USB key

How?

Did you follow the instructions in the porteux ISO's /boot/docs/install.txt?

How are you booting the USB key? BIOS, EFI, grub2, ...

My grub2 menu to boot Porteux 1.9:

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menuentry " PorteuX 1.9 ISO - Cinnamon AF+"  --class slackware   --class user-icon-porteux  {
#    https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases

     set linux_folder=/porteux
#     set iso="/ISOs/PorteuX/porteux-v1.8-current-cinnamon-6.4.2-x86_64.iso"
     set iso="/ISOs/PorteuX/porteux-v1.9-current-cinnamon-6.4.6-x86_64.iso"     

     set bootparms="volume=33 reboot=cold extramod=$linux_folder/Modules;$linux_folder/modsavedat \
       kmap=us norootcopy noload=-test;myc;MyC"

     search -f $iso --set=root
     loopback loop $iso
     linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz      from=$iso $bootparms
     initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.zst
     }

Added in 3 hours 36 minutes 35 seconds:
Format USB drive FAT32. If drive larger than 32GB partition it.
Copy all files in the ISO to the USB drive.
Run the appropiate /boot/porteux-installer-for app.
Boot the USB drive. It will boot anywhere.
If it doesn't boot you have a hardware problem.

[porteux]

@patatino, what is your machine specs?

[patatino]

Gateway DX4300 (ACER Aspire M 3203) Athlon 64X2 4Go ram DDR2. Impossible de démarrer sur un CD Rom contenant Une Iso gravée. L'installation du live CD se bloque après l'initiation (Init run level 4) puis aucune image écran après 5 mn d'attente, la lecture du Cd rom s'arrête (Unable to boot from a CD Rom containing a burned ISO. The installation of the live CD crashes after initiation (Init run level 4) then no screen image after 5 minutes of waiting (the reading of the CD Rom stops). What solution? Is there a post or a tutorial explaining clearly how to install Porteux on a hard drive or a USB drive. The given solution does not work under Windows or Linux (the .exe file does not launch and the .run cannot be checked as executable, even in "root"

Merci pour la réponse (Thanks for the response)

[Ed_P]

CD Rom - too slow, too much work

(the .exe file does not launch

Check your Windows' AV/Security logs to see if they are blocking it.

the .run cannot be checked as executable, even in "root"

The file is executable in the ISO and should be on the USB drive when you copy it. Are you executing it on the USB drive?

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guest@porteux:/mnt/live/mnt/isoloop/boot$ ls -hon porte*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 189K Feb  1 21:47 porteux-installer-for-linux.run*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 164K Dec 15 22:23 porteux-installer-for-windows.exe*
guest@porteux:/mnt/live/mnt/isoloop/boot$ 

Is there a post or a tutorial explaining clearly how to install Porteux on a hard drive or a USB drive.

See my prior posting.

[porteux]

@patatino, your CPU is not supported. You need a CPU with SSE4, which is not the case of yours.

The only way to make PorteuX work on your machine is to build it yourself. You'll need to edit https://github.com/porteux/porteux/blob ... etflags.sh and change ARCHITECTURELEVEL variable to "x86-64".

If the main branch doesn't compile for you, you can try the 2.0 one.

[Ed_P]

your CPU is not supported. You need a CPU with SSE4, which is not the case of yours.

It would be nice if the Installer could note the requirement when installing. Even better if it could tell if the hardware doesn't match the requirement.

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At the bottom of the https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree/main page, the section labelled Building references a createModule.sh script. A link as to where that script is would be helpful.

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Like this one: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/blob ... eModule.sh

Certainly not where one would think to look for it, especially if new to Porteux.

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Or this one:

PorteuX script for build kernel
https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree/main/000-kernel

I suggest it would be better here: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree ... lder-utils

[porteux]

It would be nice if the Installer could note the requirement when installing.

That's good suggestion. It will be in the next release.

Thanks!

[patatino]

Where to find version 2.0 as shown ?

[porteux]

Where to find version 2.0 as shown ?

You have to switch to 2.0 branch because current master is still in 1.9

[Ed_P]

You have to switch to 2.0 branch because current master is still in 1.9

Can you provide a link to the "2.0 branch" that you refer to? And what/where to make the switch?

[porteux]

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree/2.0

There are no ISOs because 2.0 hasn't been released yet. So just the source code.

[Ed_P]

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree/2.0

Ok, so go to https://github.com/porteux/porteux then click on the main "button" and select 2.0. And in each file link run the createModule.sh script?

[porteux]

https://github.com/porteux/porteux/tree/2.0

Ok, so go to https://github.com/porteux/porteux then click on the main "button" and select 2.0. And in each file link run the createModule.sh script?

Yep, then the green button 'Code' and download the zip that will contain the source code necessary to build PorteuX. The instructions are in the readme in the Github page.

[patatino]

Merci pour les réponses, mais je me suis tourné vers Salix, une Slackware avec un vrai support en français et qu'il ne faut pas ans cesse "bidouiller"! Dommage.......
Thanks for the replies, but I turned to Salix, a Slackware with real support in French and which you don't have to constantly "tinker" with! Too bad.......