Hello, everybody!
As new to Aryalinux I can only describe what happened during the building process and at which point it interrupted/finished with an error message. As there is no documentation on the DVD and no topical help on the homepage I was depending on building some analogy to the "old way" of building Aryalinux. In the DVD's root directory you can find the main script build-aryalinux. It governs more than 4 subscripts to steer the process and to simplify it for normal users that can't spend their time in learning linux from scratch. In my case I used a USB pen drive partioned by gparted into two partitions / and /home formatted with ext4 filesystem as installation target. The build system was started from DVD. For detailed hardware information see below. The process stopped in the middle of the stage4-script (during the GRUB build) with the error message that it couldn't find an EFI-Partition. Of course, it couldn't find it because there is none. My machine is too old for that. Because lack of time I didn't try to resume the building process. That's why I can't say whether it could continue or resume. The only thing I tried afterwards was to boot the basic system which was installed up to that point. It was possible to start it by an external GRUB. But the installed software didn't allow the possibility to repair the GRUB configuration (file), of course. GRUB wasn't installed
Here is my hardware info:
System: Host: Ares Kernel: 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.14.2
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 8
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T DELUXE V2 v: Rev 1.xx
Bios: American Megatrends v: 1202 date: 12/22/2010
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7 950 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
Clock Speeds: 1: 1867 MHz 2: 1600 MHz 3: 1600 MHz 4: 1867 MHz 5: 1600 MHz 6: 1867 MHz
7: 1733 MHz 8: 1600 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT200b [GeForce GTX 285]
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1200@59.95hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 285/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.101
Audio: Card Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.8.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
Network: Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: eth1 state: down mac: 00:24:8c:a4:91:ec
Card-2: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:24:8c:a4:91:ed
Drives: HDD Total Size: 6257.3GB (43.0% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2003FYYS size: 2000.4GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD2003FYYS size: 2000.4GB
ID-3: /dev/sdd model: WDC_WD2003FZEX size: 2000.4GB
ID-4: /dev/sdc model: SAMSUNG_SSD_830 size: 256.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 976M used: 488M (54%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd1
ID-2: /usr size: 20G used: 6.6G (36%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd5
ID-3: /var size: 6.8G used: 1.2G (18%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd10
ID-4: /home size: 909G used: 642G (75%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd8
ID-5: /tmp size: 5.8G used: 13M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd6
ID-6: swap-1 size: 6.44GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdd2
RAID: Device-1: /dev/md126 - active raid: 1 components: online: 2/2 - sda sdb
Device-2: /dev/md127 - inactive components: online: none spare: sdb sda
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 36.5C mobo: 36.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1687 psu: 0 sys-1: 767 sys-2: 1125 sys-3: 706
Info: Processes: 257 Uptime: 3:45 Memory: 1384.3/5961.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28