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Old 07-22-2010, 01:37 AM   #106
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oh...where did you get sudo?
from source or .deb?
Sorry, I donīt remember now. Maybe I used slackpkg or sbopkg? I think I did.
 
Old 07-28-2010, 12:21 PM   #107
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Updated and upgraded and fixed everything I hope...
Please see here for the downloads and info

http://multidistro.com/NFLUXNEW/SQ4/...kit-slack.html

I put the kernel source as seperate archive
in the x86 section
 
Old 07-29-2010, 01:36 AM   #108
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Updated and upgraded and fixed everything I hope...
Please see here for the downloads and info
http://multidistro.com/NFLUXNEW/SQ4/...kit-slack.html
Why "back" to kernel 2.6.34? Your kernel 2.6.35 works (as I said before). Everything is perfect.
 
Old 07-29-2010, 04:40 AM   #109
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Hey golfer7
the 2.6.35 kernel is great, but the squashfs 4.0 is the deal breaker..
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Mmmmmm...
there seem to be some differences between meerkat's 4.0 squashfs and Ritchies 4.1 CVS squashfs

the 4.0 squashfs with kernel 2.6.35-r5 makes the live media in about 15min vs 45min+ for 4.1 CVS vs 70-90min 3.4
but, the live media I made with the 2.6.35-r5 kernel and squashfs 4.0 was bigger than the 4.1 cvs builds...
weird huh?

the live cd I made earlier was about 640MB vs the 4.1 cvs' build of 522mb
thats a big difference
I would've thought the 4.1 squashfs would have been faster at making the live media and make it smaller

but, then I remembered squashfs 4.1 cvs is built against or patched with lzma and thats why it takes longer but makes it smaller...

so, if upgrading to kernel from meerkat 2.6.35-r5 then your cd will be at least 100mb larger...
what do you think is best?
2.6.34-ZEN with squashfs 4.1 cvs VS 2.6.35-r5 with squashfs 4.0?
I think the ZEN kernel will be upgraded soon anyway and thats what I am looking for...

Maybe I can release both?
the meerkat kernel is hard to keep up with as it's changing everyday it seems...
 
Old 07-29-2010, 06:56 AM   #110
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Just summarizing the "how-to" for my new kernel kit for slackware...

Steps to LiveCD/USB creation

1) Download one of the kits, either x86 or x86_64 and extract it

2) install the "Kernel-Kit-Slackware-i686-2.6.34.txz" as root
Code:
su + password
installpkg Kernel-Kit-Slackware-i686-2.6.34.txz
3) reboot off new kernel; make sure if using Lilo to update Lilo
before rebooting!
Code:
/sbin/lilo
Or update grub, /boot/grub/menu.lst if using grub...or if grub2 /boot/grub/grub.conf by using "update-grub" as root

4) after booting off new kernel, make sure to rename these files
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.new to rc.local
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.new to xorg.conf (vesa) (optional)

5) configure system as you wish, themes, wallpapers, etc
to save space empty /usr/doc
also empty
/var/cache/slackpkg
/var/cache/sbopkg
/var/lib/sbopkg
/var/lib/slackpkg
/var/log/removed_packages
/var/log/removed_scripts
/var/log/sbopkg
/var/slapt-get

make sure you also backup your firefox bookmarks, then delete the .mozilla folder in /home/username and /root
and then open firefox, setup bookmarks, then clear recent history
under firefox/tools/clear recent history

also good to delete /home/username/.bash_history and /root/.bash_history

6) reboot into console/text mode, runlevel 3
cd into /root/linux-live-6.3.0x86
and run the build script

Code:
./build
it will ask for name of live media folder
any name is good, no spaces!
so, while "my_distro" is good
"my distro" will not work,etc (no quotes though)

it will ask where the kernel is, if "vmlinuz" is a symlink to vmlinuz-2.6.34-ZENS32, then your OK, otherwise give full path to kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-ZENS32

7) Once it starts leave it be till it finishes and dont enter X or another virtual console
(You can do this while running X but it will take longer and anything you do will go into the live media)

8) Once it finishes the live media will be in /tmp/live-data*

simply copy the 2 folders in /tmp/live-data* to usb and reboot into new usb install!

Or, to make livecd, cd into the /tmp/live-data*/boot folder and use
make_iso.sh to create livecd

Code:
./make_iso.sh
it will ask for name of livecd
any name is good but must end in .iso
so, "mylinux.iso" is good
whereas "mylinux" would not work

Thats it really, you can modify/edit /root/linux-live-6.3.0x86/.config or /root/linux-live-6.3.0x86/build
just be careful and backup the originals

Also, the kit includes the usb persistent wizard from SalixOS
which will create a slxsave.xfs for persistent cd/usb
The kit also includes slax's "xconf" script to autoconfigure graphics

just do "xconf" as root to generate new xorg.conf

Please read the README!

Last edited by linus72; 07-29-2010 at 07:02 AM.
 
Old 08-03-2010, 02:50 AM   #111
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Just summarizing the "how-to" for my new kernel kit for slackware...

Also, the kit includes the usb persistent wizard from SalixOS
which will create a slxsave.xfs for persistent cd/usb
The kit also includes slax's "xconf" script to autoconfigure graphics

Just do "xconf" as root to generate new xorg.conf
Now you "force" me to make a new version of Exton-Slack 13.1. I simply must include slxsave and xconf!
 
Old 08-03-2010, 06:24 AM   #112
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LOL

there are many little tid-bits I try to add golfer7 that will enhance the system; xconf is awesome
I even use it in one of my Debian installs and it worked; xconf comes in both the arch and slackware nfluxos versions
and it's from Slax 6.1.2

I was gonna redo the whole kernel kit thing yet again but I have alot of stuff to do with all the upgrades etc to
the 4 nfluxos builds...

the slxsave.xfs is most cool huh?
did you use it yet?
 
Old 08-06-2010, 07:00 AM   #113
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Well
I see my empire is expanding!
LOL

I downloaded Comal as I thought there was something familiar about it...and it's made off one of the kernel kits
I made
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...ux-52990.shtml

He didnt say what passwords are (and I can't read Arabic) so I couldn't get into desktop(sigh)

Soon, there will be many more Slackware derivatives being born...lol
 
Old 08-06-2010, 09:22 AM   #114
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the slxsave.xfs is most cool huh?
did you use it yet?
Hi again linus72,
xconf now works in my Slackware 13.1 remaster. Thanks!

I can't get slxsave.xfs to work though. I installed lastest version of zenity and libgnomecanvas and the slxsave wizard (SalixOS USB persistent slxsave.xfs maker) starts alright and creates the necessary save space but nothing gets saved. This is my start line in livecd.cfg:
APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9999 root=/dev/ram0 rw noauto max_loop=255 changes=slxsave.xfs autoexec=xconf;telinit~4 vga=788
Can you tell me if something is wrong?

I should perhaps say that I still use kernel 2.6.35. Maybe some symlink therefore is wrong/does not exist?

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Old 08-06-2010, 09:27 AM   #115
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which kernel?
the 2.6.35 from buntu?

where/how did you make the slxsave.xfs?

you checked it actually made it on usb,etc?

what does it say when booting?
does it say "changes not writable"?

did you first manually mount usb ?
you gotta first mount usb and then do the gui...

mount /mnt/sdb1

add "debug" to boot line too, pretty cool for debugging
 
Old 08-06-2010, 09:33 AM   #116
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Soon, there will be many more Slackware derivatives being born...lol
What I can't understand is why Slax still uses kernel 2.6.27.27 from November 2008???
 
Old 08-06-2010, 09:45 AM   #117
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I have no idea either; thats why Fathom came up with the SlaxRemix series (04-07)
as its based on 13.1/current

Tomas I would think should be releasing a new Slax soon I hope...
did you get the usb thing going?
 
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which kernel?
the 2.6.35 from buntu?

where/how did you make the slxsave.xfs?

you checked it actually made it on usb,etc?

what does it say when booting?
does it say "changes not writable"?

did you first manually mount usb ?
you gotta first mount usb and then do the gui...

mount /mnt/sdb1

add "debug" to boot line too, pretty cool for debugging
No, the kernel I have got from you before.

The slxsave.xfs of 1.5 GB gets created alright on a hard disk partition (/dev/sda8).

I mounted with mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/sda8 before I started the wizard/gui.

No message re. saving during boot.

I will add "debug".
 
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try giving different paths to it

changes=/slxsave.xfs
changes=/mnt/sda8/slxsave.xfs
 
Old 08-06-2010, 09:58 AM   #120
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try giving different paths to it

changes=/slxsave.xfs
changes=/mnt/sda8/slxsave.xfs
Ok, I will try but one "problem" is that no partition gets mounted (automatically) when I start in save mode.
 
  


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