antiX-test versions to play with (NEW)

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-02-01 18:15

NOW AVAILABLE

3 versions to play with:

full (610MB) - features 5 windows managers! icewm(default), fluxbox, jwm (all with or without a Rox desktop) wmii and dwm. LibreOffice replaces Abiword and gnumeric. Iceweasel replaces iceape. claws-mail included as email client. qmmp replaced by the mighty xmms, yad replaces zenity, thunar removed, Asian fonts removed and many others.
base (330MB) - features fluxbox, jwm, wmii and dwm. iceweasel, antiX-control-centre for base edition.
core (115MB) - no X, cli-installer only.

Both full and base use Debian Testing repos by default, while core uses Debian Stable.
All versions use the latest kernel available (3.2.2) - customised for antiX to allow booting with PI and AMD K5/K6 CPUs.

Note: antiX has its own repo (thanks to Dave).

All built from scratch using debootstrap. This version of antiX is not remastered from MEPIS nor any other existing iso.

Available here:Please use sourceforge to conserve bandwidth on mepisimo.

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Edit: I'll add more information later, particularly referring to antiX-live and persistence and also the ability to remaster your installed to hard drive version.

Edit1: If using usb device to just test the live system ready to install to hard drive, you can use the dd method or unetbootin.
If you want to run persistence, unetbootin should work, but the antix2usd one won't (yet). Instead you will have to use the new_usb.sh script from a root terminal. Instructions will be posted.

Edit3: How to use the new_usb.sh script to install 'live' to usb stick.

1. Make sure you are not using auto-mounting
2. Plug in device and in a root terminal type fdisk -l or fdisk.distib -l or blkid to find out what your usb devices shows up as. Mine shows /dev/sdc1
3. Open a root terminal and simply type

new_usb.sh path_to_iso file.file_name.iso usb device path -b grub

where b=bootloader, options =grub (recommended ext2/3/4 or fat), or ext (extlinux for fat32) or iso (isolinux).

Real example on my box.

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new_usb.sh /media/sda3/remasters/antiX-base/antiX-base-test1.iso /dev/sdc -b grub

Known issue: mountbox is broken

Edit: Expect to find lots of bugs.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 18:51

Baby don't wanna play with Roky.

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# fdisk  -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
109 heads, 2 sectors/track, 36149 cylinders, total 7880544 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009d2e8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048     7878655     3938304   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB, 16139354112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1962 cylinders, total 31522176 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00091fd8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048    31520767    15759360   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdd: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes
158 heads, 42 sectors/track, 589 cylinders, total 3913728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x21ca45f8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1            2048     3913727     1955840    b  W95 FAT32

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root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# new_usb.sh /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/antiX-test1.iso /dev/sdd -b grub
Preparing bootable ext2 partition on device /dev/sdd
USB device: /dev/sdd Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Size: 2003 MB
Ready to format /dev/sdd. This will erase all data on the device.
Continue? (y/n) y
Clearing partition table
Creating bootable partition fs: ext2
Error: Failed to create partition  on device: /dev/sdd

Moving on to try Unetbootin since you said you had success with it in Chat Box Anti.

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-02-02 19:58

Roky, make sure you have dosfstools and maybe install gnu-fdisk and give it another try.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 20:30

anticapitalista wrote:Roky, make sure you have dosfstools and maybe install gnu-fdisk and give it another try.

Ok. I will give that a go next. Unetbootin 565 on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS in house Desktop is what I tried next. Tried with persistence option and also without persistence. I'd get to the grub screen with all the menu choices OK. But would hit a brick wall with any boot option picked from menu with: ( I copied this in freehand on paper and pen so tried to get error as close as possible

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Welcome to antiX-12 Bafazane!
Free Memory: 2006m
Linux Kernel: 3.2.2-antix.1-486-smp
CPU: AMD Athon (tm) 64 x 2 Dual Core Processor 4200 +

Hardware Kernel Modules:
ahci ehci_hcd ohci_hcd pata_atiixp pcieport

Looking for device with label: antiXlive
retrying ...............
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Fatal Error
No Device with bootlabel=antiXlive found
Valid Labels
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_________________________________________________
p=power off
r=reboot
_________________________________________________
select p or r then hit enter

Am I just lucky or what __{{emoticon}}__

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-02-02 20:53

e2fsprogs is needed for making the ext partitions, you may also need extlinux and isolinux.

For some reason it is not seeing your labelled file system. Does the usb show up in /media as antiXlive when plugged in?

dark-D · posted: 2012-02-02 21:00

i played around with antix base. what can i say, WOW. the base seams so complete for usage. the addtion of iceweasel is great on my machine is fast as hell. the control center is superb and easy to use same as the full version and it's a great addition, it suprized me in a good way when i saw that it also has umts. unfortunately ceni doesn't work from the control center, it flashes the terminal and closes. it works when i start it from the terminal. other thing i saw gnome-keyring isn't working, it doesn't use the correct line in slim.conf for login, i don't know if this is intended or not. other thing that i saw alt + scroll wheel doesn't work anymore for volume. in iceweasel i was impressed with the amount of languages in it and also flashblock isn't compatible with iceweasel 9.0 use this
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. change cursor is depreciated because lxappearance has the option. will test some more, also i have found remaster rc that puzzles me and can't wait to give a try. later guys and will post if i find something.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 21:22

Man, I feel like dark-D today with these usb issues. Playing tag with Anti also. Sorry to be wasting time and space. Wrote thiis next post out in a text file so I could be sure and get it right. I am back on my EEEPC again for this post to avoid confusion. Done with intro ad lib for now. Quote:

Roky, make sure you have dosfstools and maybe install gnu-fdisk and give it another try.

Did not have gnu-fdisk installed. I must be in a bad spot of the universe today though. Can't get my
act together it seems. This worked before. But like dark-D. When it worked before. I had tried dpkg -i install
first with the deb. When I ran synaptic. It said I had one broken package so I uninstalled the dpkg -i
install of the /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/live-usb-antix_0.1.2_all.deb.

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harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads$ sux
Password: 
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# ls
antiX-base-test1.iso         DEBIAN
antiX-base-test1.iso.md5sum  live-usb-antix_0.1.2_all.deb
antiX-test1.iso             unetbootin-linux-565
antiX-test1.iso.md5sum         usr
commands
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# new_usb.sh /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/antiX-test1.iso /dev/sdd1 -b grub
bash: new_usb.sh: command not found
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# cd /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/usr/local/bin
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/usr/local/bin# ls
antix2usb.glade  antix2usb-gui.py  antix2usb.sh  new_usb.sh

harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/usr/local/bin$ sux
Password: 
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/usr/local/bin# new_usb.sh /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/antiX-test1.iso /dev/sdd1 -b grub
bash: new_usb.sh: command not found

This might be why I can't get it to work for me now.

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harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry$ apt-cache policy dosfstools
dosfstools:
  Installed: 3.0.12-1
  Candidate: 3.0.12-1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.12-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry$ apt-cache policy gnu-fdisk 
gnu-fdisk:
  Installed: 1.2.4-3
  Candidate: 1.2.4-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.4-3 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

male · posted: 2012-02-02 21:39

Hi Roky,

not in a partition

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/dev/sdd1 -b grub

but

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/dev/sdd -b grub

__{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 21:50

male wrote:Hi Roky,

not in a partition
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/dev/sdd1 -b grub
but
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/dev/sdd -b grub
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Purged dave-apps and tried dpkg -i again but still errored out. But. Now trying males suggestion after dkg -i I am now looking better (I hope)

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harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads$ sux
Password: 
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# 
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads# new_usb.sh /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/antiX-test1.iso /dev/sdd -b grub
Preparing bootable ext2 partition on device /dev/sdd
USB device: /dev/sdd Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Size: 2003 MB
Ready to format /dev/sdd. This will erase all data on the device.
Continue? (y/n) y
Clearing partition table
Creating bootable partition fs: ext2
Creating file system on /dev/sdd1, please wait...
Prepared bootable partition: /dev/sdd1 label: antiXlive
Mounting /dev/sdd1 on temporary mount point
USB device mount point ready
Mounting /mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads/antiX-test1.iso on temporary mount point
Iso file mount point ready
Copying antiX compressed file system (1MB) to the mounted device
It will take some minutes, relax...
Files copied to mounted device
Copying files to boot directory
... initrd
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/antix_iso/boot/initrd*': No such file or directory
... vmlinuz
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/antix_iso/boot/vmlinuz*': No such file or directory
... cdrom.ico
... version
... memtest
Copying grub directory and config files from iso. Configuring for grub
Installing grub on /dev/sdd, please wait...
Grub successfully installed to /dev/sdd
Unmounting /dev/sdd1 (please wait...)
Mount points removed.
Process successfully completed.
root@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry/Downloads#

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-02-02 21:55

That looks better roky. Hope it boots __{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 22:01

It works. Yay.

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demo@antiX1:~$ inxi -z -F
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.2.2-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-full 01 February 2012
Machine:   System: ASUSTeK product: 900 version: 0405
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 900 version: x.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 0601 date: 05/26/2008
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (nx sse sse2) clocked at 899.984 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller 
           X.Org: 1.11.3.901 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x600@59.5hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver: atl2 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath5k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 22.2GB (2.9% used) 1: /dev/sda ASUS 4.0GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ASUS 16.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1510 
Info:      Processes: 78 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 167.6/2017.1MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.28

Now to try this out on the Acer Aspire 5534 Laptop next. What a day. __{{emoticon}}__

anticapitalista · posted: 2012-02-02 22:11

Give it a thorough test so we can get as much feedback as possible.

rokytnji · posted: 2012-02-02 22:36

Thorough test I will do tomorrow Anti. For now just moving the pendrive to all my computers for now to see how it boots. I am on my Acer Aspire 5534 beasty that has 4 gig of ram with a Widescreen display. Big change from itty bitty EEEPC. I had to startx from the cli on this unit. Logged in demo. Password demo. startx.

2 finger on touchpad scrolls the the webpage up and down but no tap to click for now. No biggy though. Will delve into sound and other stuff tomorrow though. I will mention that wireless works on EEEPC 900 and this Acer Laptop also. wlan0 for wicd in full iso with wpa2 encrypted home network also. Cool beans.

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demo@antiX1:~$ inxi -z -F
System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.2.2-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-full 01 February 2012
Machine:   Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5534 version: V1.10 Bios: Acer version: V1.10 date: 08/26/2009
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon X2 L310 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1196.860 MHz 2: 1196.860 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI RS780M/RS780MN [Mobility Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] 
           X.Org: 1.11.3.901 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Audio:     Card: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 252.1GB (0.3% used) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_MK2555GS 250.1GB 
           2: USB /dev/sdb DataTraveler_2.0 2.0GB 
Partition: 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: 0.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 96 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 84.8/3545.9MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.28 
demo@antiX1:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3631000     348588    3282412          0      42196     220752
-/+ buffers/cache:      85640    3545360
Swap:            0          0          0
demo@antiX1:~$

Was curious to see if all 4 gig of memory would be picked up with this kernel because eventually when this release goes final I will be running this on this laptop as a dual boot with Windows 7 which came with this unit. Like I said. Be patient with me as I run around like a chicken with it's head cut off and see how many rigs this usb will boot on first. Looking good so far as far as I am concerned. Biggest hurdles have been jumped IMO.

Cuttlefish · posted: 2012-02-02 23:29

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System:    Host: antiX1 Kernel: 3.2.2-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-full 01 February 2012
Machine:   System: Compaq-Presario product: FK586AA-ABA SR5610F
           Mobo: N/A model: IVY8 version: 2.00 Bios: Phoenix version: 5.14 date: 05/02/2008
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2511.563 MHz 2: 2511.563 MHz
Graphics:  Card: nVidia C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] 
           X.Org: 1.11.3.901 drivers: vesa,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev) Resolution: 1024x768@61.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Audio:     Card-1: nVidia MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 driver: USB Audio
Network:   Card: nVidia MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:22:15:f4:6c:15
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 824.2GB (-) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD3200AAJS 320.1GB 
           2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD5000AAKB 500.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc USB_2.0_FD 4.1GB 
Partition: ID: swap-1 size: 7.82GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 8.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 74 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 178.0/2913.3MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.28

Looking good so far anti. I'll have to play with my resolution a bit.

Cuttlefish · posted: 2012-02-03 01:12

Having a bit of trouble with wireless on my laptop. Have the issue with ceni not opening up with the CC, but opens okay when I use the terminal. Also when I try to configure ceni, and after it scans for available networks the wireless indicator light will go off.

Here is what I have.
Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k

BTW, will there be a i686 version for the final release? I noticed that this is a 486.

Thanks

***Forgot to mention that at boot I needed to login as demo and use startx. I don't know if that is important or not or really what that means. __{{emoticon}}__

****roky. Just saw that you mentioned cli and startx too.*****