Post#5
by sean » 25 Apr 2013, 01:35
I have porteus on a half dozen thumb drives, LXDE, Xfce, and Mate, mostly configured as closely as each allows of the other. Hate to admit my shortcomings but I'm so afraid of losing something it is very hard to throw away (delete) old stuff. Consequently I seem to test everything new I try with Porteus on the first thumb drive I made which is actually 2.0rc2. All the rest are pure 2.0's which I try to duplicate accordingly.
Maybe it's my age, or lazyness, but mostly lack of knowledge and fear of the unknown that keeps me from stepping up to the plate and doing what "I believe" is what I want to do. I'd like to have Porteus as my main system installed on a hard drive, be able to mess with it, improve it, reconfigure it, do anything I want with it, and when I walk out the door, be able to simply copy everything to a USB thumb drive and "take my computer with me".
So, I just knew this topic was going to touch on that subject. I actually avoided looking at the topic until now. And bingo! There was Hamza and brokenman saying exactly what I was thinking. I remembered brokenman mentioning that he did his work on hard drive and then copied it to thumb drive as needed. That is as I remembered it anyway. And when I saw that Hamza used Porteus as his main OS, well, let's just say I felt my feelings were vindicated all around.
Fact of the matter is I keep plugging in my thumb drive and using it instead of my hard drive system(s). I really love the way Porteus behaves. More and more often I find myself shutting down with the thumb drive plugged in, then booting up the next day with it still in place.
Where I'm really lazy is with the boot managers, LILO, Grub, and Grub2. Man I do hate messing with these things. I messed with Grub a couple of times, and it wasn't too difficult to figure out, but Grub2, why are distro's using it when AFAIK it is still beta and Grub works fine. Well, okay, I know there are serious answers, and all way over my head, just a brief vent of steam from a frustrated old timer. But I do learn a bit more with each boot, always wanted to be more keyboard efficient and Porteus is helping me more than the past 8 years experience. I do love it so!
And I'm pretty windy, as you can tell it takes me forever to get to the point. So here we are, the point is I find it very encouraging that folks are using Porteus as their main OS and taking advantage of it's portability also. I will be making renewed efforts to install Porteus to the hard drive with boot privileges.
Any suggestion where I should post this question so others may also benefit from the answer:
I have copied Porteus from a USB thumb drive to a folder on my hard drive several times, a while back, and each time I got messages that some "special" files could not be copied. Is there a simple explanation for this message, hopefully that those files are temporarily generated?
Sean