Debian Live 503 Chrysalis fvwm-crystal for CD/USB/HDD!

linus72 · 01-05-2010, 03:55 AM

Chrysalis Live 503! a i686 distro

Basics:

Build: Debian Live i386 with Debian Live's default Lenny
Kernel: 2.6.26-2-686 (Removed kernel 2.6.26-2-486)

username: user
user password: live

username: root
password: no password set

Install to USB: Manual or Unetbootin

Install to HDD: Remastersys-installer

Chrysalis Live 503 CD was originally built from the Debian Live Standard (no X) iso made by Live-Magic.

Everything "Debian Live" has been retained default user is "user", password "live" no root password admin/sudo privy's for "user", as with Ubuntu

Please note this was not built using Remastersys although I did install Remastersys as Remastersys has a nice HDD Installer, which no Debian Live has..

Desktop:

FVWM-CRYSTAL and fvwm

Editors:
Nano
Gvim (vim-gtk)
Leafpad

File Management:
PCMANFM
xarchiver
MC
isomaster
grun

Graphics:
Gimp
Imagemagick

Network:
GFTP
Grsync
Xchat
Ircii
Flash 10
Iceweasel
Netrik
w3m
links2

Audio/Video:
Graveman
Burn
Audacious
Aqualung

Other Cool features:

Desktop wallpaper changes every 2.5 minutes!

Comes with Remastersys HDD Installer

Small and Lite at 391MB

Please note it also comes with:

NetbootCD-3.2.1 (net-install any major distro)
Plop bootmanager

Heres the full pkg list
http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/chrysalis-packages.txt

Debian Live boot cheatcodes
http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/parameters.txt

Debian Live persistent cd/usb/hdd info
http://live.debian.net/manual/html/persistence.html

Screenshots:
boot menu
http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/qemu.png

http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/chrysalis.png

http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/chrysalis2.png

http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/fvwm-crystal.png
the result:
http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/blkdg-crystal.png

DOWNLOAD 391MB iso + bonus goodies

http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/Chrysalis_Live_503.zip

MD5SUM

8cd17f67b550d150c8e777d31b7e0b0a

repo · 01-05-2010, 04:40 AM

Yet another Distro great work.
Just my 2 cents:

Quote:

Desktop wallpaper changes every 2.5 minutes!

Looks flashy, no doubt, but every 2.5 minutes ?
If you have some apps open, you won't even see it :-)
How about the load on the system for these changes every 2.5 minutes?

Keep up the good work

linus72 · 01-05-2010, 04:50 AM

Thanks Repo

The wallpaper thing is a script and runs via fvwm's startup script

I checked load on system and could see nothing
it runs at about 65MB ram sitting still

I havent even seen where the script affects anything...

I should maybe make it 5 min?

its a livecd thats why 2.5min

I also have Afterstep, e17, and Icewm-experimental and fluxbox editions to go!

workin on Afterstep one now

linus72 · 01-05-2010, 05:34 AM

Note heres whats in the download:
http://multidistro.com/deb/rezcu/chrysalis-folder.png

the live-rw.zip is a pre-made persistence file of 250MB(when zipped its 256KB as its empty)

if you wanna run persistent from cd/usb
put the unzipped live-rw file on any ntfs/fat/ext2/ext3 usb or hard drive partition and you will have full persistence

linus72 · 01-05-2010, 09:39 AM

linus72 · 01-05-2010, 05:55 PM

hey guys did anyone try this one yet?

the wallpape script is most cool and configurable

Note the install I did above went well 'cept it s Best
to first login to root desktop(make passwd for root first and configure gdm setup to allow root login)
login as root and make a new user using the user setup gui
then logout of root desktop and login to new user's desktop and then invoke remastersys installer

linus72 · 01-06-2010, 03:11 PM

I got this one at softpedia too
http://linux.softpedia.com/progScree...hot-53418.html

http://linux.softpedia.com/progScree...hot-53472.html

http://linux.softpedia.com/progMoreB...isX-31789.html

linus72 · 01-06-2010, 05:17 PM

Hey guys
I need to apologize as I have said on many occasions that when running Debian Live from usb that the
live-rw persistence file could NOT be on the same partition as the read-only livecd media(the compressed filesystem)

well, seems thats wrong or debian has fixed it?

I installed Chrysalis to a partition
and then did a remastersys backup to make livecd

anyway I use a fat32 partition on hd to emulate USB boot
cause less harmful to usb,etc

and so I accidently put the persistent file in same fat32 parttion
and booted up in toram mode (toram=filesystem.squashfs) and in persistent mode
and it works!

any of you try it yet?
the rotating wallpaper thing?

linus72 · 01-06-2010, 07:43 PM

Let me reiterate that comment...

it seems when I boot with options "toram=filesystem.squashfs persistent"
the live-rw can be on the same partition as the "live" folder

if booting just persistent and the live-rw is on same partition
the boot will fail

interesting

repo · 01-07-2010, 03:20 AM

Perhaps you can take a look at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install