OK
what about the git repo for archbang?
you checked out archbang yet?
http://gitorious.org/archbang/archbang
and GRML I'm sure you know?

I'm gettin ready to try and install nvidia driver for mine while on persistent usb...

EDIT:
I'm retarded as I have accidently deleted the drivers, etc stuff in /usr/src/kernel
like an idiot?!
so, compiling new kernel now...ack

LOL
I'm so dumb sometimes
its the adhd/marfans gone amuck

so, anyway; I'm gonna include the full kernel source
from now on in the arch and slack builds
that way it gives the end user full control over
what they want, etc

right now I'm compiling new kernels for both arch/slack versions
and will also be uploading all new iso's of nFluxOS arch/debian/slack/ubuntu

Have you thought about asking Jeremy to set up an nFlux support forum under Distributions? It might be more efficient than having this thread grow to monstrous proportions.

your very right brother!
thats a good idea...

I'm trying to bring it all together across 4 distros
so any ideas appreciated!

so Ill message Jeremy and see...

ArchBang:

archbang-2010.06-GIT_apeiro-testing-i686.iso
... has no support for german keyboard-mapping out-of-the-box.

GRML: didn't try it.

hey lq_asking

I'm uploading four new iso's now
this time I'm including full kernel source in the slack/arch iso's

Also, I'm looking into how other distro's handle lang support
and will imitate their efforts for boot menu, desktop, kybd, etc
archiso-live has a multilang boot menu and more so will be making a
multilang boot menu for all four
and I gotta implement some app that can setup lang support in live session, etc

any ideas for that?

OK

the four new iso's are uploaded and ready
nFluxOS Four Horsemen
all downloads are here:
http://multidistro.com/downloads/downloads.html

nFluxOS Gallery here:
http://multidistro.com/distros/nflux...scrnshots.html

new ARCH 2010.05 variant still kinda testing but its good

Remember they are best as persistent usb OS's

the debian/ubuntu variants have good hdd installers on board

I really stress how it's better to manually install the slack/arch versions vs nflux-installer as you will have more command over grub/grub2/lilo and you need to setup /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab /etc/lilo.conf manually
its all explained in /usr/doc/manual-install in arch edition its
/usr/share/doc/manual-install

on the next set I will hopefully be adding language support to boot menus and desktop stuff, kybd, etc.

EDIT: making a FAQ/wiki now for all four instead of posting here
and maybe I can get Jeremy to give me a small forum

Please post if any questions, etc

Testing nFlux Slackware Current ISO 06/10/2010.

Firsttime test of my usb-audio-interface UA-25EX. My other audio-cards are ALC888(onboard) and NVidia (G210 built-in)

UA-25EX has a hardware-switch for the standard- and advanced-mode-driver settings. None of which works besides MIDI-input. No analog- nor digital-input-, output- or MIDI-input-channels.

I have to investigate that.

My test of nFlux ARCH 2010.05 ISO 06/10/2010 on my PC with Nvidia G210 card.

I noticed enormous delays starting and stopping programs. An example was the installion of qjackctl and audacity. Both are large packages with many dependencies. Pacman needed about 1 min to terminate after all packages had been 100% installed before.

The kernel is amazing. It has a favourable configuration for my purposes: BFS-patch, 1000 Hz timer frequency.

I can't believe it: I get a delay of only 2.9 ms using the jack-audio-server without xruns using only a 44.1 kHz sample rate on my external USB-audio-interface.

@linus72 Haven't looked for the nouveau-driver. Is it available?

I have setup an 512MB persistent storage for nFlux ARCH but would like to enlarge it to say 1,5GB without loosing the content.

I guess I have to start nFlux Arch without persistent storage, loop-mount the 512GB nfluxsave.dat and then compress it to a larger file (?)

Please where to look up the commands?

hey lq_asking

I just figured out the deb and buntu versions have issues and are fixing them now...

as for going to a larger persistent file
I think the ones in the nFlux_ARCH folder have a 1gb and 2gb nfluxsave.dat, etc

yeah, you could boot up in fresh mode
and loop mount the 512mb one your using and say the 2gb one
their xfs
you may have to compress the contents of the first 512mb save and then decompress it into the new save file

not sure about that
some simple pacman commands are

pacman -Q show all pkgs installed
and the arch wiki is where you can find alot about pacman, etc

You may want to remaster it for best results
and the kernel source is there too?

OH
also
you dont have to use a save file
you can edit syslinux.cfg to save into a seperate folder
and it'll look for that folder by name

changes=/mysaves

however, I think theres still problems with fat32 and slax
so it would be best to either boot the slack/arch versions off a ext3 usb
or make a seperate ext3 partition on usb of whatever size?

I have tried and used liloinst.sh to make nFlux_ARCH bootable on the 1st USB-Partition (1GB) /dev/sdb1. Tried ext2 or ext3 filesystems with no success.

This is my lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/sdb
prompt
timeout=40
lba32
compact
change-rules
reset
install=text
image=/boot/vmlinuz
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
label=NFLUXARCH
root=/dev/ram0
read-write
append = "ramdisk_size=8888 noauto max_loop=255 changes=slaxchanges vga=788"

Booting hangs always at the same point:

(error message)
...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 500k freed
BFS scheduler v.0.315 by Con Kolivas
attempt to access beyond end of device
-> ram0: rw=0, want=16464, limit=13332
EXT2-fs (ram0): error: ext2_get_inode:
unable to read inode block - inode=4449, block=8231
...

I've never tried lilo on usb....

what about grub legacy?
its pretty easy

you know how to make a grub menu.lst?

Done. Thanks for the advice. But I would like to use the 3GB-sized /dev/sdb2 ext3-partition on the stick as persistent store. I shall try to refer to it by changes=NFLUXSAVE where "NFLUXSAVE" is its label.

Will be back after reboot.