I did the best I could, can't get it installed

[progrockfrog]

I was able to get Porteus on an Acer Aspire One D257.

The past 24 hours I have been racking my head to get Porteus installed on a USB. Here are the problems I have faced.

When I go to make a bootable Porteus on Linux Mint Cinnamon Zena, it makes a ~500mb Porteus .iso file occupy the whole USB. This I understand is like those CDs where you only get one try and then that's it. You can't save no more later. Fine.

The MX Linux people last year helped me out when I was trying to get Puppy Linux to work by telling me to use two USB sticks. That eventually worked.

So, I tried that method but every time I load up the second USB it stops at the bios. I even tried loading up with both USB sticks, and nothing showed for the "installed" version. On a 32 gb it is saying there is 1 gb of something. So, I am clueless now. I don't know what to test.

Is Porteus meant to be installed on another USB with an internal hard drive as a "backboard"? Or, can it install by itself on a single USB stick?

I have tried all permutations, and Gemini and I are at wits end about this. I am feeling Porteus needs an internal drive to install on or else it doesn't work. If I am mistaken, please chime in. How can I get Porteus installed on a USB stick where it is not hijacking 31+ of my 32 gb USB stick?

[Vic]

Hi progrockfrog

How did you put Porteus on the acer?

Vektor

[Ed_P]

For a Porteus USB system that boots just about anywhere I format a 8 GB USB drive as FAT32, copy all the files in the Porteus ISO to the USB drive, then run the /boot/Porteus-installer on the USB drive. No harddrive needed. Once booted I create a save,dat file to save changes.

For more detailed install options see the USB_INSTALLATION.txt file in the ISO.

[progrockfrog]

Hi progrockfrog

How did you put Porteus on the acer?

Vektor

The Acer is long gone. I am trying to see if I can get it working on a USB flash drive.

[progrockfrog]

For a Porteus USB system that boots just about anywhere I format a 8 GB USB drive as FAT32, copy all the files in the Porteus ISO to the USB drive, then run the /boot/Porteus-installer on the USB drive. No harddrive needed. Once booted I create a save,dat file to save changes.

For more detailed install options see the USB_INSTALLATION.txt file in the ISO.

How to you make it persistent? Every time I try it reverts back to default.

[pterid]

How to you make it persistent? Every time I try it reverts back to default.

Hi! You might be interested in the bug I just reported, it's exactly the behaviour you're seeing: Porteus-v5.01 bug reports (Post by pterid #104898)

For now, the workaround is to

• find the file /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg on your stick
• on roughly line 43, edit "APPEND changes=/porteus" to read "APPEND changes=/porteus/porteussave.dat" (or whatever folder & filename you gave your save.dat file on the stick.)

[progrockfrog]

I didn't install a newer version of Porteus, and this time it seems like things are working on a target USB stick. The problem I am facing now is trying to get my wifi adapter stuff working. Not exact, but I essentially have this wifi adapter's files, TP-Link AC600 wireless Realtek RTL8811AU [Archer T2U Nano]. I have three total wifi adapters which work fine with a .ko file which I think is 88XXau.ko. In Linux Mint they work fine. I have installed the latest Porteus Cinnamon and it is showing something like 6.17 as a number for Porteus. Using Gemini chat, it also mentioned 6.5.5 and needing to get the latest drivers for the 6.17. I looked in the lib folder and I saw a bunch of .ko files and different Realtek folders. The exact wifi adapter I am trying to get working now is Linksys WUSB6300 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8812AU] but I would also like to get the Archer as well. Is there one driver that can do both like in Linux Mint where the drivers for the Archer also work on the rest? I am assuming the 88XXau.ko file is the one I need.

[Blaze]

Hi progrockfrog.
Try your wifi dongle with kernel 6.19.5 - Porteus Kernel Builder (Пост Blaze #104878)

[progrockfrog]

BRB, I am going to buy a new laptop to try out this idea.