Re: Blending edge ISO with latest stuff

[Daniele Guerrieri <d.guerrieri@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to try it; only two words: i'm installing with:

# mount -o loop,ro slitaz.iso /media/cdrom
# slitaz-installer

but I've noticed that slitaz-installer sets KERNEL=vmlinux-$(uname
-r), while it should take the correct name from
/media/cdrom/boot/<name-of-kernel-in-the-iso>, assuming that I've not
booted from cdrom but i'm running my slitaz installation;
so the new vmlinuz-2.6.37 becomes vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz (the kernel
from which i'm installing), which will differ from
/lib/modules/vmlinuz-2.6.37.

However, after renaming the kernel and changing grub menu.lst,rebooted
and the new blending booted perfectly, the only issues being screen
res and b43 firmware wireless. So I have a generic question:
it wouldn't be nice to have a direct link for additional
known-requested packages near
the iso download link, to make all important devices working properly
and not requesting an uncomfortable cable connection?
E.g. I KNOW that my laptop needs i915 modules and ath9k modules or b43
firmware, so before downloading the iso couldn't I click on a quick
link to get this two or three most important packages? It is a
proposal, i think that it could
be compiled of list of known important-per-machine packages.

Regards,
Daniele


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Christophe Lincoln <pankso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> So here an a new ISO flavor called "blending" since it use latest
> packages from Tank/cookutils and latest code from our sub project
> repos. It use the new Kernel with i386, new udev and have /run.
>
> The goal is to let you try out latest code from the devel side, the ISO
> provide a X desktop but not a standard one, you have to right click on
> the desktop to get applications menu, the iso is at 22,8 Mb. The
> desktop is powered by Openbox and use Tint2 as panel (on top).
>
> Boot scripts
> ------------
> One off the BIG change except new packages build, is the boot scripts.
> I cleaned up them, remove 2 and we have now one system.sh
> configuration. If you can try this new ISO just for that it would be
> very greate, if no major bugs I will release new boot script fo
> everyone. Please boot without options to check the default boot for
> most users.
>
> Keyboard
> --------
> Also I used the real kbd package and so we support much more keyboard
> layout. The keyboard config for pt_BR should work since I used latest
> tazx/tazkeymap, please give it a try but first boot the ISO without
> options.
>
> Summary of new stuff
> --------------------
>
>    * TazPanel is included and work out-of-the-box
>    * TazWeb with search, bookmarks, printing, open in new widow.
>    * Tazlito wich will be less verbose now when creating livecd
>    * New way to configure system at boot
>    * New kernel with i386 and new udev
>    * Latest TazBox for system and users configuration (with new subox
>      from xfred)
>    * New splash image for Syslinux
>    * More keyboard from kbd with new tazx/tazlocale/tazkeymap
>    * All new packages freshly build by Tank and cookutils
>
> Download: http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/undigest/slitaz-blending.iso
> MD5: http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/undigest/slitaz-blending.md5
>
> Feedback will be grealty appreciated!
>
> - Christophe
>
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