Hi, I would like to try to customise my OS a little by installing lightdm and i3wm on top of antiX-core. I saw the info on the usb install page recommending new_usb.sh instead of antix2usb and was wondering if I can download this script and run it on my ubuntu os, or is it only integrated in the full antix os?

I was also wondering if antix-core has WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK wifi support to get me started?

Thanks.

antiX2usb has been updated and replaced new_usb.sh. new_usb.sh was the backend built before the qui for antix2usb.sh. It was included in the previous version of antiX by itself as the gui was not quite ready. Now that the gui has been finished they are available as 2 matching packages.

If you would like to try this antix2usb packages on ubuntu you can download them from here

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Or using the repo

deb
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testing main

I have no idea if it will work in ubuntu, It would be interesting to know. There are other options available to install antix to an usb device, but I am not familiar with them.

Dave wrote:antiX2usb has been updated and replaced new_usb.sh. new_usb.sh was the backend built before the qui for antix2usb.sh. It was included in the previous version of antiX by itself as the gui was not quite ready. Now that the gui has been finished they are available as 2 matching packages.

If you would like to try this antix2usb packages on ubuntu you can download them from here

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/main/live-usb-cli-antix_0.2.4_all.deb"
linktext was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/main/live- ... .4_all.deb"
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========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/main/live-usb-gui-antix_0.2.4_all.deb"
linktext was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/main/live- ... .4_all.deb"
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Or using the repo

deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/debs"
linktext was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/debs"
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testing main

I have no idea if it will work in ubuntu, It would be interesting to know. There are other options available to install antix to an usb device, but I am not familiar with them.

Hi, thanks for the reply. If you are interested in how it works in ubuntu, it turns out I needed yad for the gui, which isn't in ubuntu's repos. I had some problems with antiX repo:

Running apt-get update...

W: GPG error:
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testing Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY DB36CDF3452F0C20
W: Failed to fetch
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url was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/debs/dists/testing/main/source/Sources"
linktext was:"http://daveserver.info/antiX/debs/dists ... ce/Sources"
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404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I guess this led to...

apt-get install yad
...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
yad : Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0) but 2.8.0-3ubuntu9.1 is to be installed
W: Duplicate sources.list entry
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url was:"http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/"
linktext was:"http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/"
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precise/partner i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_partner_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I'll see if I can figure out how to use the command line tool instead, but right now it's late and I'm off to bed. __{{emoticon}}__

answering your second question, I tried core and the wireless on my system did not work out of the box. wireless-tools is not installed by default in core, so that may be the reason. also, core is a libre version, and there is more missing propreitary stuff, like firmware, than the base and full versions. ceni and wpa-supplicant are installed though.

dolphin_oracle wrote:answering your second question, I tried core and the wireless on my system did not work out of the box. wireless-tools is not installed by default in core, so that may be the reason. also, core is a libre version, and there is more missing propreitary stuff, like firmware, than the base and full versions. ceni and wpa-supplicant are installed though.

I should be good to go for wifi with wpa_supplicant, but how difficult is it to install the proprietary stuff (firmware)? Is there like a repository where I can install a bunch of them at once? As this will be a portable USB system, I would need good support across different devices. Perhaps it is easier to install the base system and strip some of the window managers and stuff from it.

I had a go with the command line utility on ubuntu...

$ sudo antix2usb.sh -f ext2 /home/asdf/antiX-13.1_386-core-libre.iso /dev/sdc
Preparing bootable ext2 partition on device /dev/sdc
USB device: /dev/sdc Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Size: 0 MB
Ready to format /dev/sdc. 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/sdc

The usb device was a newly formatted fat32 file-system, but not to worry. I decided to install the full system on an old laptop that my kids use, and will run the usb-gui installer from there.

Thanks __{{emoticon}}__

The firmware is available in the debian repositories, so it should be a simple matter to install once you know which one you need. I believe they come up in the"non-free" categories.