Since many of us in here experiment with more than one Porteus version (at least I did so back at the time of Slax - with 6.1.2 pimped running XFCe and the remix one "only" running LXDE...)
I suggest adding one more folder hierarchy to where the default Porteus is to be found, either as os/porteus or OS/porteus (since OS is an abbreviation and technically should be written in CAPS...)
It would enable every user to just add other Porteus versions or hopefully spin-offs of porteus into the "os" (or "OS") folder, and that could result into a hierarchy like that:
OS/porteus
OS/porteus-1.3alpha
OS/porteusGnome
OS/porteusLite
...
Just an idea that pested me for a while, to me it sounds appealing.
What do you folks think?
[solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
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[solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
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Re: /OS/porteus instead of /porteus as default OS hierarchy
i see no point as you can use 'from_dir=' cheatcode with this hierarchy:
OS/porteus/alpha
OS/porteus/beta
OS/porteus/rc
OS/porteus/final
ofc each folder must contain /boot and /porteus.
OS/porteus/alpha
OS/porteus/beta
OS/porteus/rc
OS/porteus/final
ofc each folder must contain /boot and /porteus.
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Re: /OS/porteus instead of /porteus as default OS hierarchy
fanthom wrote:i see no point as you can use 'from_dir=' cheatcode ...
Dum dum me, sure you are right...

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Re: [solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
Have to say i am really happy with the from_dev/from_dir cheats. I prefer it to the original method and it is much more flexible. Great implementation fanthom!
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Re: [solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
BTW... does that mean that booting is quicker since Porteus does not have to look for the sng file? (or sgn... I always confuse these since I have no clue what it stands for)brokenman wrote:Have to say i am really happy with the from_dev/from_dir cheats. I prefer it to the original method and it is much more flexible. Great implementation fanthom!
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Re: [solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
Yes boot time will be a little faster since Porteus is told where to look rather than sniffing down into a directory structure until found.
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Re: [solved] /OS/porteus as default OS hierarchy
Good to know then, I will edit menu.lst then.brokenman wrote:Yes boot time will be a little faster since Porteus is told where to look rather than sniffing down into a directory structure until found.

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