antiX-M11-pt1 available - Page 2

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2010-12-29 15:02

Interestingly, I had a copy of unetbootin 3.12, and that version worked fine with the new pt release. Weird. This is with my eeepc904ha.

Just a note on the rox desktop in icewm...if you click on the"files" icon in icewm-rox, it opens the files in rox-filer. If you open via the files icon on the toolbar, it opens up pcmanfm. I didn't notice before as I generally stick to fluxbox, which is all rox anyway. Since I assume rox-desktop is shared between fluxbox and icewm, I'm not sure if that behavior can be made more consistent.

I do like the default icewm theme. Looks good.

From the live-usb session, when doing a shut down, I get a kill-client warning for conky with a note about losing unsaved changes. I made no changes. I do not get this error under flux.

rokytnji · posted: 2010-12-29 15:14

My question: is this antiX 11 compatible with unetbootin?

My experience was a bit different from dolphin_oracles. I had to delete my old unetbootin and go with the latest one available to get my USB to boot. Otherwise, my Usb booted successfully. Using antix2usbpy to make my persistent live usb later. I am able to boot That usb on numerous laptops and Desktops.

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afab4 · posted: 2010-12-29 16:01

M11-pt1 on my Dell D800 lappie: Tried and tried to get pcmanfm to mount partitions and display thumbnails properly and finally broke down and used Dolphin...
Look at the low ram usage. Awesome!

secipolla · posted: 2010-12-29 16:29

d.o., you can disable that dialog if you want by setting"ConfirmLogout=0" in ~/.icewm/preferences.

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2010-12-29 16:32

@secipolla - I will remember that when I install. Thanks.

lagopus · posted: 2010-12-29 16:57

Just a word about the script antix2usb:
You may have to kill halevt (I don't know why I get 2 halevt processes running, one as root - expected -, but a second as simple user)
And pcmanfm mounts the usb as soon as it is formated and the process aborts, maybe misleading you to a dilaog saying"process completed"
I have to check this

I tried to download M11-p1... too slow
I have some problems installing M8.5-full-update on a not so old HP Pavilion P4 2.5v GHz, X doesn't start (NVidia GxForce 400) I will post if I cannot solve it.

secipolla · posted: 2010-12-29 20:38

Yves, (1) the user's halevt may be the one started from ~/.icewm/startup?
(2) Did you try to boot with xdrvr=nv cheatcode (also present in the extra options menu, I think)?

plvera · posted: 2010-12-29 21:10

I used a live CD to install Antix-M11-pt1 (686-full) into an USB stick and the install went fine. However, it won't boot up. Grub menu comes up but when I make any selection, it ends at"file not found"

Here's my grub:

timeout 10
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title antiX at sda1, kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/sda1 nomce quiet nosplash vga=normal
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
boot

title antiX at hdc4, kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hdc4 nomce quiet nosplash vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp

title antiX11 at hdc5, kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp root=/dev/hdc5 nomce quiet nosplash vga=normal
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-1-mepis-smp

Could it be because it's calling out to /dev/sda1 or /dev/hdcX(whatever) rather than to the UUID? Is it possible to fix this for the USB stick?

thanks
Pedro

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-12-29 21:17

Try root=/dev/hdb1 or root=/dev/sdb1 for the first entry

and
root=/dev/hda4 or root=/dev/shda4

Dave · posted: 2010-12-29 21:27

@ anti,

ok, compressed the files on my server and edited them to work in localhost or a folder.
Need to extract antix-start.tar.gz in /var/www/ then copy the files in antix-start folder into the root of /var/www/

then set the browser home page and startup page in /usr/share/iceape/defaults/pref/browser-prefs.js I know it works this way ( tried on server stuff on M11 ), but it may work by putting the changes in /etc/skel/, I have not tried this.

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plvera · posted: 2010-12-29 21:45

@anti:
I tried both suggestions for the first entry (the usb stick option) and still no luck:"error at line 15..file not found"

thanks

anticapitalista · posted: 2010-12-29 22:39

Boot the livecd and then plug in the usb stick again and find out the uuid for the partition where you installed by typing

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

you need to make sure the stick is mounted

Cuttlefish · posted: 2010-12-29 23:13

Installed M11-pt1 full as Fluxbox. I like it very much.

I noticed that when I right click for the menu for the first time, after boot up or login, there is a lag of about 2 secs. before the menu appears.
After that initial click, the menu appears immediately.

Used SGFXI to install NVIDIA driver and the install of the driver froze. I needed to ctrl,alt, delete to reboot PC and then complete the installation. Otherwise all went smoothly.
I may reinstall to see if that makes any difference with the menu or try something else, if anyone has another suggestion. Having a 4 min install and a 60 sec system update is great! I really like these up-to-date isos.
-Dave

plvera · posted: 2010-12-29 23:47

Anti:
Thanks for your suggestion. I changed the grub menu using the UUID for the USB, and it still won't boot.

Pedro

dolphin_oracle · posted: 2010-12-29 23:58

Just got the livecd up with my plop-usb boot setup and the old sony vaio laptop. Still needed to put the antiX squashfs file on the hard drive in an open partition (I used a fat32), but the usb boot worked with that (no surprise since same kernel). WICD doesn't seem to work off the livecd, ceni worked fine with the rt61 wireless. Also, tapping and scrolling are working on my touchpad, which hasn't been the case since the antix 7 days. I am posting from the livecd/usb now.

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System:    Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M11-686-beta2 27 December 2010
CPU:       Single core AMD Duron (-UP-) cache 64 KB flags (sse) bmips 1100.94 clocked at 550.049 MHz 
Graphics:  Card ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card VIA VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller driver VIA 82xx Audio at ports 1000 1c54 1c50 BusID: 00:07.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too v: 0.9.28 at port 1800 BusID: 00:10.0
           Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 BusID: 02:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 19.1GB (7.5% used) 1: /dev/sda HITACHI_DK23CA 15.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb SanDisk_Cruzer 4.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 16M used: 103K (1%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 0.56GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 84 Uptime 15 min Memory 126.2/501.6MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.22