Reporting on my latest attempt to install
Posted: 4. Dec 2022, 18:23
It was uncomfortable for me to use the latest Slackel with OpenBox because there is no configuration for the touchpad. I need to disable "tap to click" because I am clumsy and I also can't plug in an external mouse to do something about it. Also have to use "xrandr" terminal command like I have to with Salix to turn down the screen brightness. Therefore I went with the older ISO for MATE v7.3.
First I installed with "install_to_usb" script, the result booted successfully but halted in the middle of starting process. Impossible to read messages of what happened because the screen was warped just after boot, with the two penguins on top.
Then I attempted with "SLI" copy-to-USB mode. That worked well, except persistence doesn't work. I noticed a "/live/media" that allows access to the rest of the disk formatted as "ext3" partition, but otherwise it seems only a 2GB RAM partition for "/home". I made some changes to the GUI to test it out, rebooted but they weren't preserved.
The documentation said a persistence folder was less likely to work than a file, but the "SLI" created a "/live/changes" or something alike which I couldn't control. I saved a text file to "/home/one/Documents" but after I rebooted, I found that directory empty.
I guess I have to try again to do a permanent installation with "SLI".
First I installed with "install_to_usb" script, the result booted successfully but halted in the middle of starting process. Impossible to read messages of what happened because the screen was warped just after boot, with the two penguins on top.
Then I attempted with "SLI" copy-to-USB mode. That worked well, except persistence doesn't work. I noticed a "/live/media" that allows access to the rest of the disk formatted as "ext3" partition, but otherwise it seems only a 2GB RAM partition for "/home". I made some changes to the GUI to test it out, rebooted but they weren't preserved.
The documentation said a persistence folder was less likely to work than a file, but the "SLI" created a "/live/changes" or something alike which I couldn't control. I saved a text file to "/home/one/Documents" but after I rebooted, I found that directory empty.
I guess I have to try again to do a permanent installation with "SLI".