14 Jan
2011
14 Jan
'11
10:27 p.m.
I have spent some time developing a Squeeze live-cd with Trinity. Why?
Because there is nothing out there in the mainstream that I like and I
have seen no Squeeze/Trinity live-cd elsewhere yet. It is named Exe
Linux as I live beside the Exe Estuary in Devon, England.
It might be a good starting point or demonstration for anyone who is
interested but is unsure of running Trinity on Squeeze.
The result has (to the best of my knowledge) strictly GPL software. Some
custom themes, configurations and scripts are included but are
debianized, i.e. they can be removed/replaced by apt (for example extra
live-config scripts to support Trinity autologin and locale/language)
and should not conflict with Squeeze core system components
The live cd has an optional integrated installer (hacked remastersys)
for HD and a custom CLI script for USB persistent pendrive.
It is built "from scratch" using custom scripts, debbootstrap and GNU
tools (not live-helper nor remastersys) and is not a "remaster" of
anything else. The build scripts are included in the live-cd but are
experimental and, misused, could trash a running system. If you want to
try a remaster better use remastersys (and please don't request support
from remastersys forums because a hacked version is used).
Three locales/languages are built-in (US, GB and ES) No more fit the CD
without removing one.
If there is any interest I would like to make this available to Trinity
users, perhaps later in the "community downloads" section.
In the meantime the current ISO (685MB) is available here (can paste
this in a terminal):
wget -c
"http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/exelinux_squeeze_trinity_gpl_1.0.iso"
md5sum:
wget -c
"http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/md5sum_exelinux_squeeze_trinity_gpl_1.0.txt"
Disclaimer: This is *not* an official Trinity project. There are
probably some bugs. There is some scrappy and probably out-of-date
documentation. Use at your own risk.
15 Jan
15 Jan
1:50 a.m.
David Hare wrote:
I have spent some time developing a Squeeze live-cd
with Trinity. Why?
Because there is nothing out there in the mainstream that I like and I
have seen no Squeeze/Trinity live-cd elsewhere yet. It is named Exe
Linux as I live beside the Exe Estuary in Devon, England.
In the meantime the current ISO (685MB) is available here (can paste
this in a terminal):
wget -c
"http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/exelinux_squeeze_trinity_gpl_1.0.iso"
md5sum:
wget -c
"http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/trinity/md5sum_exelinux_squeeze_trinity_gpl_1.0.txt"
Disclaimer: This is *not* an official Trinity project. There are
probably some bugs. There is some scrappy and probably out-of-date
documentation. Use at your own risk.
Thanks David, I'm downloading it now and will try a "unetbootin" install
from a pen-drive, I'll give you a report back here with my findings.
Thanks again, I love people who share their work. :-)
--
Jimmy Johnson
SimplyMEPIS 8.5.03 EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263
2:09 a.m.
On 15/01/11 01:50, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Thanks David, I'm downloading it now and will try
a "unetbootin" install
from a pen-drive, I'll give you a report back here with my findings.
Thanks for trying my CD. No guarantees though.
You do not have to use unetbootin, I included a USB script.
Just type in a terminal:
exelinux2usb
I also included a (post-install) script to switch sudo to su/kdesu
7:34 a.m.
David Hare wrote:
On 15/01/11 01:50, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
It was a easy install using unetbootin, you added a nice choice of
software, I made a couple of notes to suggest adding ext4 for a
filesystem choice, and all my systems are 64 bit, so a 64 bit iso would
be nice.
Like I was saying, it was an easy install, on booting that's when things
got bad, the installer had not made user jimmy, there was only a choice
for root or user, I logged in as root and found user jimmy was in fact
not made so I made user jimmy using kuser only to get errors while
trying to login, also the installer did not setup my network card, I
checked /etc/network and the config file looked good but running 'ifdown
eth0 && ifup eth0" I would get no network found. Then I decided to go
take a nap. :-)
What could I have done to have a more successful install?
--
Jimmy Johnson
SimplyMEPIS 8.5.03 EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263
Thanks David, I'm downloading it now and will
try a "unetbootin" install
from a pen-drive, I'll give you a report back here with my findings.
Thanks for trying my CD. No guarantees though.
You do not have to use unetbootin, I included a USB script.
Just type in a terminal:
exelinux2usb
I also included a (post-install) script to switch sudo to su/kdesu
1:05 p.m.
> On 15/01/11 01:50, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Like I was saying, it was an easy install, on booting
that's when things
got bad, the installer had not made user jimmy, there was only a choice
for root or user, I logged in as root and found user jimmy was in fact
not made so I made user jimmy using kuser only to get errors while
trying to login, also the installer did not setup my network card, I
checked /etc/network and the config file looked good but running 'ifdown
eth0 && ifup eth0" I would get no network found. Then I decided to go
take a nap. :-)
What could I have done to have a more successful install?
Thanks for testing Jimmy. I found a typo in the installer script and one
file to remove in /etc. Consequently it fails to make the new user. It's
all because of the move from live-initramfs to live-boot.
Will upload a fixed ISO later.
In the meantime, here is a quick fix (do this in the live session before
running the installer):
In a konsole (one line at a time):
sudo su
sed -i 's/1002/1000/'g /usr/bin/remastersys-installer
rm -f /etc/live.conf
You could copy this text to a pen drive to quickly transfer it to a live
session. I tested the fix on a new install and it worked.
The installer uses grub-gfxboot (grug-legacy) not grub2. It would be
better first-off to install grub to partition and chainload it from your
current main OS. You can "upgrade" to grub2 post-install if wanted.
Re: network configs:
sudo ceni
1:22 p.m.
On 01/15/2011 08:05 AM, David Hare wrote:
sudo su
sed -i 's/1002/1000/'g /usr/bin/remastersys-installer
rm -f /etc/live.conf
You could copy this text to a pen drive to quickly transfer it to a
live session. I tested the fix on a new install and it worked.
will copy that to a
flash drive, or have this screen up:)
The installer uses grub-gfxboot (grug-legacy) not grub2. It would be
better first-off to install grub to partition and chainload it from
your current main OS. You can "upgrade" to grub2 post-install if wanted.
Re: network configs:
sudo ceni
what is this?? ceni ?
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
2:06 p.m.
On 15/01/11 13:22, paul wrote:
Ceni is an interactive CLI app to setup network configs be it wired or
wireless. It reads user input and writes up /etc/network/interfaces for
you. Quickest way I know to set up a live-session or new install for
networking.
It came from sidux originally. Maybe Mepis uses it too.
For some strange reason it hasn't made mainstream Debian (yet)
On 01/15/2011 08:05 AM, David Hare wrote:
>
Re: network
configs:
sudo ceni
what is this?? ceni ?
2:44 p.m.
On 01/15/2011 09:06 AM, David Hare wrote:
Ceni is an interactive CLI app to setup network
configs be it wired or
wireless. It reads user input and writes up /etc/network/interfaces
for you. Quickest way I know to set up a live-session or new install
for networking.
it reminds me of an old text-based GUI for UNIX networking... nice!
just updated my trinity-squeeze laptop, now running 2.6.32-5-686
looked for kde4 packages and only found 4:
libakonadi-kde4
libkde4-ruby
oxygencursors
python-kde4
I do have kdesudo & sudo-trinity.
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
3:27 p.m.
On 15/01/11 14:44, paul wrote:
On 01/15/2011 09:06 AM, David Hare wrote:
The live session needs sudo and kdesudo configured for the user. See
desktop/exelinux/readme.txt for instruction to (optionally) convert to
su and kdesu. post-install. The readme is mostly correct but a bit
out-of-date.
The few kde4/qt4 bits will be deps of an odd few apps, e.g. wpa_gui
Ceni is an interactive CLI app to setup network
configs be it wired or
wireless. It reads user input and writes up /etc/network/interfaces
for you. Quickest way I know to set up a live-session or new install
for networking.
it reminds me of an old text-based GUI for UNIX networking... nice!
just updated my trinity-squeeze laptop, now running 2.6.32-5-686
looked for kde4 packages and only found 4:
libakonadi-kde4
libkde4-ruby
oxygencursors
python-kde4
I do have kdesudo& sudo-trinity.
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
4:52 p.m.
On 01/15/2011 10:27 AM, David Hare wrote:
The live session needs sudo and kdesudo configured for the user. See
desktop/exelinux/readme.txt for instruction to (optionally) convert to
su and kdesu. post-install. The readme is mostly correct but a bit
out-of-date.
The few kde4/qt4 bits will be deps of an odd few apps, e.g. wpa_gui
so I DID get most of KDE4 removed.. GOOD !
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
8:35 p.m.
David Hare wrote:
All 4 of my computers are 64 bit, can you compile a 64bit system?
How about using ext4? I've been using it for over a year and it sure
cuts down on file system checks and seems to be a big plus over ext3.
> On 15/01/11 01:50, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Like I was saying, it was an easy install, on
booting that's when things
got bad, the installer had not made user jimmy, there was only a choice
for root or user, I logged in as root and found user jimmy was in fact
not made so I made user jimmy using kuser only to get errors while
trying to login, also the installer did not setup my network card, I
checked /etc/network and the config file looked good but running 'ifdown
eth0 && ifup eth0" I would get no network found. Then I decided to go
take a nap. :-)
What could I have done to have a more successful install?
Thanks for testing Jimmy. I found a typo in the installer script and
one file to remove in /etc. Consequently it fails to make the new
user. It's all because of the move from live-initramfs to live-boot.
Will upload a fixed ISO later. In the meantime, here is a quick fix (do this in the
live session
before running the installer):
In a konsole (one line at a time):
sudo su
sed -i 's/1002/1000/'g /usr/bin/remastersys-installer
rm -f /etc/live.conf
Will this fix the system I have already have installed? Yep, and it's
fixed, I'm now logged in as Jimmy with a working system. Thanks.
You could copy this text to a pen drive to quickly
transfer it to a
live session. I tested the fix on a new install and it worked.
The installer uses grub-gfxboot (grug-legacy) not grub2. It would be
better first-off to install grub to partition and chainload it from
your current main OS. You can "upgrade" to grub2 post-install if wanted.
I've been removing grub2 from my Debian installs and installing
grub-legacy and then running update-grub.
Re: network configs:
sudo ceni
That worked, thanks.
--
Jimmy Johnson
SimplyMEPIS 8.5.03 - 64 Bit - EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263
11:16 p.m.
On 15/01/11 20:35, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
All 4 of my computers are 64 bit, can you compile a
64bit system?
How about using ext4? I've been using it for over a year and it sure
cuts down on file system checks and seems to be a big plus over ext3.
Will this fix the system I have already have
installed? Yep, and it's
fixed, I'm now logged in as Jimmy with a working system. Thanks.
There is only me working on this so ext4 and 64 bit will have to wait.
Unless some others volunteer to help build this stuff.
As for fixing a failed install, you might get consequences. Better
reinstall, it doesn't take long.
16 Jan
16 Jan
12:23 a.m.
David Hare wrote:
On 15/01/11 20:35, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
I'm disabled, keyboarding is not easy for me, I was a computer
specialist field engineer for 30+years and not a developer or coder or
packager before becoming disabled and I can wait. :-)
There was one other thing I forgot to mention and that was, the Debian
multimedia repos, you may want to add them to the sources.lst, you can
leave them remarked out if you want, everybody uses them and adding them
to the iso makes more sense than adding them to every install. ;-)
All 4 of my computers are 64 bit, can you compile
a 64bit system?
How about using ext4? I've been using it for over a year and it sure
cuts down on file system checks and seems to be a big plus over ext3.
Will this fix the system I have already have
installed? Yep, and it's
fixed, I'm now logged in as Jimmy with a working system. Thanks.
There is only me working on this so ext4 and 64 bit will have to wait.
Unless some others volunteer to help build this stuff. As for fixing a failed install, you might get
consequences. Better
reinstall, it doesn't take long.
I'm posting from the last iso build and yes I had to fix some stuff and
will be installing the new build soon, I will let you know how it goes
and that is the best I can do.
Thanks,
--
Jimmy Johnson
A Trinity Squeeze Mix by David H. at sda7 :-)
Registered Linux User #380263
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