Hi,

I'm very pleased with the new AntiX. My hope is it will live-boot on more systems than 13.2 did. First I tried a fresh install of AntiX 15 Base. The installer offered the choice of stable/testing/sid and I chose sid. Afterwards, however, I noticed that the installed system still used stable. Has someone else noticed this behaviour or did I make a mistake somewhere?

I also chose nl-be as locale, but afterwards regretted the choice, as the user interface was translated in dutch, while I prefer english. When I changed locale back to en-us in antixcc, things got weird. Hitting the button [apply] in antixcc had no effect, so I thought I should reboot the system. When rebooting the system got stuck showing the message"loading session" or something like that. Right-clicking the desktop (I used the Rox/Fluxbox session) showed the fluxbox menu was emptied. Only four items remained:

• xterm
• Reload config
• Restart
• Exit

Afterwards I was able to login as root and browse the filesystem. So, if I had a clue on where to begin, and if I was more experienced than I am, I might have been able to correct things. As it was, I just decided to do a fresh install of Antix Full.

In that new installation I experienced the same problem with choosing repos. How do I choose sid by hand afterwards? Do I need to disable stable in the sources list? Or can I leave both enabled? Since I chose the standard en-us locale the second time around, I had no problems with that.

One more thing. Since I seem to keep using Antix, I decided to make a donation, only to see that 'this recipient is unable to receive payments' (from PayPal). Are you aware of that?

In that new installation I experienced the same problem with choosing repos. How do I choose sid by hand afterwards? Do I need to disable stable in the sources list? Or can I leave both enabled

\

Antix Control Centre> System > Edit Config Files

Password

Comment out (# sign in front of line) so it looks like mine
Uncomment unstablle
hen

Save. Then open root terminal
Locales are not my strong point. I usually go the cli route and
use root terminal and do


and remove everything but english on my gear to speed up dist-upgrades.

You know antixcc has a keyboard layout button also?

Also. Did you md5sum check your AntiX full iso before burning on cd at the slowest burning speed possible on good cd discs?

Do I need to disable stable in the sources list? Or can I leave both enabled?

You can leave both enabled but doing so will add delay to (add overhead to) each apt-update operation.
Given that apt-policy preferences are set to"always prefer highest version", if you dist-upgrade to unstable, repeatedly retrieving lists from older repo(s) afterward seems rather pointless.
Although I've never tracked unstable+stable, late in the Debian 7 cycle I watched unstable+testing (wondering"am I missing the 'latest' version of spacefm, et al?")...

...until I discovered it's all-around quicker to just visit
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://packages.debian.org"
linktext was:"http://packages.debian.org"
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and type a package name, then click the links to check package version in sid, vs in testing.
(To be clear, I just"watched" and selectively upgraded packages; I did not dist-upgrade to unstable.)

@rokytnji: I confess, I didn't check md5. Installation was via iso on USB.

@skidoo: thanks, I see it clearly now.

Maybe someone should take a look at the install script. I did another fresh install this afternoon (takes only 15 or 20 minutes even old equipment) and again my choice of repo was ignored (only jessy/stable is enabled even when choosing otherwise).

I tried another old laptop this time and saw some other strange behaviour in the installed system (Antix base). When dabbling around in Antixcc, the control center window would unexpectedly close, just while moving the mousepointer (with touchpad). However, I couldn't reliably reproduce this behaviour. I'll experiment some more.

I am guessing you have a corrupted iso download. Start over. Md5sum iso file before installing to usb.

@rokytnji: alas, I did md5sum my .iso file, and it turns out to be OK. I suspected as much, since I experienced the same behaviour (in choosing repos) on Antix Base AND Antix Full.

dirkd wrote:@rokytnji: alas, I did md5sum my .iso file, and it turns out to be OK. I suspected as much, since I experienced the same behaviour (in choosing repos) on Antix Base AND Antix Full.

I am at a loss bro. I am just going through a fresh install today and am not experiencing any of your problems.
I just finished my"dpkg-reconfigure locales" and so I have my default english stuff set up, being a Texan.
I set my repos to stable on this install since this is not my main laptop. I hardly boot it up anymore except for hardware testing on a new release or app made later on.
My testing installs on my atom netbooks where I set repos to testing took just fine during the install process.
I am not using base iso though. So I am kinda at a loss on why you are having so much trouble
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url was:"antix.freeforu ms.org/post41954.html#p41954"
linktext was:"when it is smooth sailing for me"
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post41951.html#p41951

I hope someone else has maybe better insight than I do on what is going on with your installs.
Sorry. __{{emoticon}}__