Anno domini 2019 Sat, 6 Apr 04:12:36 -0700 William Morder scripsit:
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.
Hi Bill!
This might be a starting point: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD - but I do not know it this helps in changing spirces.list
I personaly prefer to modify the netinst installer image, it's all in the initrd.gz. Unpack, modify, repack :-)
Nik
Bill
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