Pureos is polished and complete and also compatible with Slax - at least Slax modules seem to work without problems.

Rather than using the installer I did a "manual" install just by copying onto the hard drive the vmlinuz and initrd files and the Pureos directory. I have configured the Grub menu.lst stanza as follows:-

title PureOs
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=10240rw changes=/pureoschanges
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.gz

On booting there is a pause while the changes directory is checked for and again when mounting drives where I get a "/dev/sr1 no medium" message.

Are there any cheat codes which would bypass these pauses? Also it is it possible to boot as root and not have to enter a password?

Brad

Hi shark,

The right syntax for the 'changes' bootcode is: changes=/dev/sdaX/pureoschanges where sdaX is the partition with PureOS, you can also use the 'nocd' bootcode.

I don't how to boot as root without a password.