On Friday 05 April 2019 15:35:53 Michael wrote:
On Friday 05 April 2019 04:53:15 pm William Morder
wrote:
On Friday 05 April 2019 14:04:16 Dave Lers
wrote:
William Morder wrote:
regarding Michael's suggestion:
>Hey Bill,
>
>I did a very successful Devuan 2 / TDE build by installing NO desktop
> in Devuan and then booting and using root prompt to install TDE.
> Â Worked very well, granted you need a second box to be able to read
> the commands from or have them in files on the install USB.
>
>I believe this is most of the files I used, lets see if they attach…
>
>Do check them against the current TDE wiki, they're possibly stale by
> now.
>
>Best,
>Michael
>tdedevuan.tar.gz
* I'll definitely check out your packages!
I did try something like this, but installing my TDE system from a root
prompt (I think you mean the shell that is available in the "expert
install - no gui" version?)
Hi Bill,
Ah, no, not "expert install." A regular install using the Devuan ISO.
I used this one:
/devuan/devuan_ascii/installer-iso/
devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1.iso
Probably overkill, I just wanted something to install the base Devuan with.
The steps I took were:
- Make a Devuan USB install stick and copy those files to it (and my
.bashrc, my ~/bin folder, and a bunch else as I needed propitiatory wifi
drivers). - Connect to your router with an Ethernet cable before booting
the Devuan installer.
In the Devuan install process:
- Select a mirror (this auto adds the correct Package repositories)
- And in the Software Selection only select:
- - Console productivity
- - Standard system utilities
(Uncheck everything else!)
- Finish Devuan install
- Boot
- Install TDE through root command line (all you have at this point).
- Boot
- Presto TDE is the only desktop on the system.
as I have a lot of
packages; sort of my own private repository.
Stick them on the USB stick? Okay, I'm not entirely sure what you mean by
this.
Best,
Michael
I mean, in my sources.list, rather than the usual URL for repositories online,
e.g,
deb
http://fi.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main backports backports-sloppy
testing
I would like instead to be able to point apt-get to a system address, e.g.,
deb ????://media/trinity/jessie main backports backports-sloppy testing
deb ????://media/devuan/jessie main backports backports-sloppy testing
but I don't know what to put in place of ???? or http, or even if this will
work. And this is just a folder in a hard drive in my desktop; I haven't yet
networked my computers here, which will make it even more fun.
It can take me hours and hours to download packages when I do a fresh
installation; I really would like to be able to get my system back up and
running in under an hour ... like I used to be able to do when running
Kubuntu Hardy. (Nowadays, a new installation takes a minimum of 5-6 hours,
sometimes a couple days if I miss a step.)
That was about 2004 or 2005; then I discovered aptoncd, which solved the
problem in a different way, and I didn't think about it again until I tried
to create DVDs of Devuan and Trinity packages with aptoncd; only to discover,
alas, that 1) aptoncd has been removed from the repositories, and 2) the
aptoncd package that I have, which still works, will not recognize Trinity
packages, but seems to believe that they belong to an older system or another
distro, so they are rejected.
And this is why I seem to recall that I had set up apt to use a system folder
address as my own personal repository. But this was about 15 years ago, when
I first started running Linux, so I probably followed some paint-by-numbers
guides, and I can't recall all the steps, and also did not save the web page,
or cannot find it.
This, too, is unusual for me, as I save everything that might be useful later,
categorize, organize, etc. If only I could keep my house as orderly as my
computer files.
Sorry if I ramble on, but it's 4 am here, and this boy needs his sleep.
Bill