MX-14 beta1 available. - Page 2

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-24 21:53

roky - the installer should be able to install / to sda2 and /home to sdb2

I tried it with / on sdb6 and /home on an external usb hard drive /sdc5 and when it rebooted after install, it worked.

I will admit that if you do this and it fails, don't blame me __{{emoticon}}__

rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-24 22:00

anticapitalista wrote:roky - the installer should be able to install / to sda2 and /home to sdb2

I tried it with / on sdb6 and /home on an external usb hard drive /sdc5 and when it rebooted after install, it worked.

I will admit that if you do this and it fails, don't blame me __{{emoticon}}__

I aint the piss ant I was a couple of weeks ago so I won't have a hissy fit if things go south.

Nothing turned out good for me on my best computer box so I said screw it and after throwing my toys around. I settled down. So if it breaks, I am coming to greece. __{{emoticon}}__

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-24 22:08

You will have to deal with these scum though.

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Easy,

Hope to see you.

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-24 22:11

hey roky, someone else tried with success,

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rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-24 22:46

Dualbooter MacPup,grub4dos,chainload grub2, MX14, root=/dev/sda2, /home=/dev/sdb2.
Do ya like the way it asked for sudo password after blkid?
Must be aliens hover over my install.

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biker@biker:~
$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda2: LABEL="/" UUID="2e19c2f3-6b4e-4d73-a0bd-591bdbf57d99" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/data" UUID="ee7bdb53-cea8-4e61-ba99-2a4e6e1adf7a" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="5e6d4bb9-198e-4a6d-a39e-0d6451e8a949" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="2f9daa1a-7ed3-42be-be65-e377c4ef872a" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb3: UUID="48072200-9a78-49a3-a8f2-2446cb94e45c" TYPE="swap" 
biker@biker:~
$ sudo fdisk -l

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for biker: 

Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160039272960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sda1               1       18096   145356088   83  Linux
Warning: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2           18096       19458    10940265   83  Linux
Warning: Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 40 GB, 40015987200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1167     9373896   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            1168        4723    28555537   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3            4724        4865     1132582   82  Linux swap
biker@biker:~
$ df -h
Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                   11G  2.3G  7.4G  24% /
udev                                                     10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                                   114M  292K  114M   1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2e19c2f3-6b4e-4d73-a0bd-591bdbf57d99   11G  2.3G  7.4G  24% /
tmpfs                                                   5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                   227M     0  227M   0% /run/shm
/dev/sdb2                                                27G   46M   26G   1% /home
biker@biker:~
$

rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-25 00:35

I ran Chromium last install. This install trying something different inside of /opt.

skidoo · posted: 2014-01-25 00:36

"since nobody else is testing"

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500+ downloads so far, so it obviously is being tested... but maybe I'm not alone in refraining from commenting due to uncertainty regarding
"What goals? What does this hope to achieve? Who is the target audience?"

I've regarded Mepis as a foot-in-the-grave stale project and, with that in mind, looks like MX14 provides a potentially interesting upgrade path to current Mepis users... but attempting to sway KDE users over to xfce, hmm, seems like a stretch.

MX14 is based on stable. Without a LOT of backports, doesn't seem like current antix users would regard it as representing an"upgrade" path.

I believe that XFCE users are not well served by the chosen"bundled" components within a (as seen in MX14 preview) stock xfce install.
Specifically, midori, mousepad... I was disappointed to note that the MX14 preview includes these poorly-reinvented wheels.

In my experience, xfce is"light" or is"heavy"... depends on which of its DE components (and the number instances) are autostarted. Having two xfce4-panel instances adds overhead, every widget (panel applet) adds overhead. So, although I think heavy?light? is a wrong question (and although the preview contains only a single panel)... compared to various other current debian+xfce respins, at 160Mb+, the MX14 preview does seem to be on the"heavy" end of the spectrum. However, due to its comparatively newer kernel, it is far more appealing than several of those other"lighter" spins.

I booted it via unetbootin & ran it several hours.
Encountered ZERO bugs... but throughout the session was chafed by, and grumbled about, MANY absent features due to its"debian sta(b)le" base. Synaptic 0.75 can't display details+dependencies+files tabs in the lower right pane... spacefm and several other apps I'd immediately care to install aren't present in the repository. Midori (as ever) choked attempting to render many of the sites I visit; that's not an"MX14 bug".

If anticapitalista's goal is"doing the current Mepis users a favor", great. Attaboy, way to go!
(SalineOS users also will probably find MX14 to be appealing)
If the goal is something else... that"something else" isn't apparent to me.
In a nutshell, to me the preview seemed unremarkably different from refracta (and equally unappealing).

rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-25 00:42

Errrr, don't forget to do a apt-get update after a install. It is how I installed xmms and if I wanted to

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biker@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy spacefm
spacefm:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.2-1
  Version table:
     0.9.2-1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/stable/ stable/main i386 Packages
     0.9.2-1~bpo70+1 0
        100 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main i386 Packages

$ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: / etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list

which means anything in AntiX will show up in synaptic. OK?

But, I guess you were running live which is not a way to judge any distro in my way of thinking.
I am not going to keep this install but I figure if they put the time and work in. Then I should
back my bros to the hilt.

rokytnji · posted: 2014-01-25 00:49

anticapitalista wrote:You will have to deal with these scum though.

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Easy,

Hope to see you.

\
All I see is posers.

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-25 00:59

rokytnji wrote: All I see is posers.

Exactly.

We will defeat them as Malcolm X said"By any means necessary"

worktowork · posted: 2014-01-25 11:42

@anticapitalista and your group Please tell will antix in debian 7.3 ?

Eino · posted: 2014-01-25 16:40

I got noting but an error, booting my AMD machines.
But it booted great on this one.

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demo@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.10.2 (Gtk 2.24.10) Distro: MX-14_13.97_386-xfce beta1 22 January 2014
Machine:   System: Gateway product: E-4600 version: 4000725
           Mobo: Intel model: D850GB version: AAA49507-903
           Bios: Intel version: GB85010A.15A.0028.P09.0103091412 date: 03/09/2001
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache: 256 KB flags: (pae sse sse2) bmips: 2792.95 clocked at 1396.476 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.12.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI nv05 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.2 Mesa 8.0.5 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] driver: snd_ens1371 port: df00 bus-ID: 02:0a.0 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.12-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too ver: 0.9.28 port: d800 bus-ID: 02:0b.0
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 140.1GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1000BB size: 100.0GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD400BB size: 40.0GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 591M used: 5.3M (1%) fs: rootfs ID: swap-1 size: 2.30GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 100 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 187.5/754.0MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.2 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.2.37) inxi: 1.9.16

SamK · posted: 2014-01-26 16:24

Eino wrote:I just got a fatal error...

Eino wrote:I got noting but an error, booting my AMD machines.
But it booted great on this one.
[...]

A similar exprience here.

Checked the md5. Burned to CD.
Tried it on 6 systems each from a diffferent manufacturer.
Got the GRUB screen on all 6.
It booted to the OS on only 1 system.
The remaining 5 all failed with the following message

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[...]
Scanning usb,cd devices for antiX/linuxfs
Retrying for 15 seconds
Fatal error
No block devices found

There is clearly an issue somewhere as all 6 of the systems boot a variety of other ISOs from CD including antiX.

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-01-26 16:30

The solution is to add a patch. See here:

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This is fixed for beta2.

SamK · posted: 2014-01-26 17:06

Is Connectshares intended to work fully in the live beta1?
Here it cannot connect to any servers if connectshares.conf specifies the remote server by name.
This is the usual method employed here, and was intended in the original design.