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Cool stuff Goo, thanks for the link.

EDIT: OH, it requires to be run on windows O' well nice concept

I have Porteus on an USB stick. It's a fine distro. But i never understood how to save sessions. I use Porteus to access easily to KDE apps.
I m going to see this version 2.1.

Yes I wish porteus explained howto better, I've never got that working.

Hmm well perhaps they do it the slax way.

In which case you add the kernel parameter
changes=/porteus
for using the install folder on a posix file system.
or changes=savefile.thing
for using a save file iirc that would be in the root of the partition or you can use a path.
You would make a save file with dd then format to your liking.. ext2/3/4 reiserfs, xfs and so on...there may be a script to do it for you. The logic is you make the save file and then it gets loaded after a reboot and THEN its saving rather than as in puppy saving starts at shutdown.

hope that helps

Mike

I have forgotten details but I asked about this on their forum
and they gave a rather detailed answer and after a lot of experimentation

I managed to follow the instruction and it just worked. So look for
my username there. here is one such thread on their forum
I may go under the name Newbody instead of Nooby

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=1941

I have switched over from Porteus XFCE to the LXDE version - nothing wrong with the XFCE version, just a bit heavy for my old laptop.

For grub2 with saved changes in a folder i use grub code:

Thanks for posting that Stu, I readup on the links noob posted and it looks flexible enough to do some puppylinux like stuff, I think I could made a multisession like idea with the rootcopy folder on the ISO.

You're welcome.
I added an archive save option archive=blah which makes file blah at shutdown.
mike

Pelo wrote:I have Porteus on an USB stick. It's a fine distro. But i never understood how to save sessions.

Yes, this seems to be a major weakness of Proteus compared to Puppy. You should not have to jump through hoops for something so basic.

OTOH, I really like the Proteus on-the-fly custom ISO generator. I would really like to see Puppy Racy with such easy pre-install customization for USB flash drive use.

http://build.porteus.org/

But i never understood how to save sessions.

There is an app found in the start menu that allows a save file
to be created, but it is confusing to understand. Different
terminology is used..

When booting Porteus , the operating system automatically looks for
a save file unless it is told not to look (which can be an option in
kernel line of the menu.lst file)

mikeb wrote:You're welcome.
I added an archive save option archive=blah which makes file blah at shutdown.
mike

Which of your many distros would this be on? Slax, and/or Porteus?

Latest Slax seems to be set up that way too. Making a rather big savefile
totally automatic as I remember So what Mike describe maybe is similar to how Slax dev does it?

I have both porteus and slax but never use them I have no idea why.

Could it be that puppy Firefox have all the books marks and
all the right addons installed and to do all that again is way to much?

Porteus is one of the top of my list.
- It is portable (as their claim).
- Fast booting speed.
- very flexible.
- modular system for easy customization and multiboot of your choices (see extramod parameter).
- support a lot of platform formats (see their website), sofar persistent works for me even on NTFS partition.

Unfortunately the feature to create custom module of Porteus version 2.1 is not working!
I am not a member of their forum, hope I can find answer here.

d4p wrote:Unfortunately the feature to create custom module of Porteus version 2.1 is not working!
I am not a member of their forum, hope I can find answer here.

It does work for me. Perhaps you need to double or triple click on the icons to get them to change the selection. I noticed that a single click seemed to have no effect.

It goes ofline a few times of day, might be over night backup or something. Try again and make sure to have selection on the either or binary options, you have to select one or the other or you'll get nothing.

We could do the same with Puppylinux it would be great.

Ponce has compiled a huge amount of software for Porteus-
both 64 and 32 bit

The modules can be dragged into Porteus folder( for modules)
They are loaded automatically when launching Porteus
with Grub's menu.lst

http://ponce.cc/porteus/

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@Gooplusplus

It is nothing to do with "double or triple click" (more than one click almost always problem for all linux distros).
The best way, run it from the command line.
Thanks, finally it works also for me. The problem was too many previous porteus versions on my HD, for some reason it picked up from the wrong version during creating the module (my mistake!)

Pelo wrote:I have Porteus on an USB stick. It's a fine distro. But i never understood how to save sessions. I use Porteus to access easily to KDE apps.
I m going to see this version 2.1.

Ted Dog wrote:Yes I wish porteus explained howto better, I've never got that working.

I had problems with the Porteus SAVE FILE TOOL too. Although it seemed simple enough, the created file never seemed to actually get saved. The problem seems to be with SYNCing the generated SAVEFILE.dat in RAM to actually write it to the USB flash drive.

For those having the same problem, there is a workaround until the SYNC fix comes out:

Use the SAVEFILE MANAGEMENT menu to create the file. I used the EXT4 option and chose the location to be the internal distro's root directory. It then creates the file (in RAM).

Next, from the SAVEFILE menu, select the REPAIR option, not to repair it but just to grab the file (from RAM) and copy it to FILE MANAGER (to your preferred location on the USB flash drive). I copied mine to my /multiboot/porteus/ directory. I then added this option to my porteus-rw.cfg file's APPEND line:

changes=/multiboot/porteus/SAVEFILE.dat

After that, persistence worked fine after rebooting.

The usual situation is that a created save file is just a blank image file until it gets loaded at the next reboot.... there was/is no intention to populate it at shutdown like puppy does... That can be a source of some confusion.

I missed this reply..

Which of your many distros would this be on? Slax, and/or Porteus?

slax 6..... I assume porteus inherits the basic boot wrappers as nimblex did

mike

mikeb wrote:The usual situation is that a created save file is just a blank image file until it gets loaded at the next reboot.... there was/is no intention to populate it at shutdown like puppy does... That can be a source of some confusion.

That did not happen with me. The file was never written to USB.