First beta release RPM - gtk-liveinstall-0.7.8-1

[iainrj]

I am very pleased to announce the first public beta release of gtk-liveinstall - an application designed to help you create a live or poor man's installation of any PCLinuxOS derivative. This installer is GTK based so will run on any of the PCLOS remasters - Gnome, SAM, TinyMe, PCFluxboxOS as well as MiniMe and PCLOS itself. It will not only install the live OS but help you partition your device and set up the bootloader with a variety of options, including an option to save changes and make the installation persistent.

To save me repeating myself, please see the announcement here for full details including installation and usage information:
http://www.mypclinuxos.com/doku.php/installscript

I have attached the RPM for beta testing to this post and hope to be able to offer an installation option from the PCLOS testing repos soon.

Please leave testing feedback at this thread or start a new topic in this forum. Use this forum to ask for help using the installer. Please don't post at the main PCLOS forums.

All old development threads are now locked.

Thanks in advance

Iain and ClareOldie (developers)

[iainrj]

If you are one of the 35 who have downloaded this beta test of gtk-liveinstall, I would be very grateful if you could leave some feedback in particular:

• whether the application helped you to successfully make a live installation on your media
• what you thought of the general feel of the application, including options and feedback along the way
• if you encountered any errors or bugs
• if you need any help using the application
• any other pertinent feedback

It is important for us to get feedback so we can move the application out of beta testing and make a final release that all users can enjoy

Thanks in advance
Iain

[ClareOldie]

81 downloads and no feedback ..........    anyone out there?

[KDulcimer]

Why not submit it to Tex? If you guys don't have the link to the contribs server, I can do it for you.

[iainrj]

Thanks KD, I would welcome that. However, I actually emailed Tex for contrib server access, explained about the project and asked if it would be okay to post on the main forum. That was a few weeks ago and I haven't had a reply.

[KDulcimer]

Hmm. Okay. I'll upload it to Tex.

I gave it a spin myself with TinyMe. Your script seems to work fine, but changes doesn't seem to be working.

[iainrj]

Thanks KD:)

If you don't mind could we unpick a little about the changes not working?

First of all can you tell me what filesystem and size you chose to create?

Secondly can you tell me what device number you installed onto and what device number this is allocated on boot?

Thirdly, could you post the main entry in your grub menu.lst?

Finally, could you tell me what version of mklivecd you used in TinyMe? I know that Ivan was working with the eeePC guys on amending the mklivecd script and to accept different boot options, and I just wondered if that could be the problem.

[KDulcimer]

Thanks KD:)

If you don't mind could we unpick a little about the changes not working?

I updated a couple of things through Synaptic, but when I rebooted and tried to install things again, it told me /tmp was read-only.

First of all can you tell me what filesystem and size you chose to create?

Secondly can you tell me what device number you installed onto and what device number this is allocated on boot?

I have a 2GB drive. I chose to go with a 1.5GB ReiserFS partition because it's never failed me. I allocated the rest to FAT32. The FAT32 partition was not used for any of this, though. It was simply there for transferring files back and forth with Windows.

It was installed to /dev/sdb1 because I had plugged in another USB drive first. When I ran it, though, it was the only USB drive plugged in. Interestingly enough, my BIOS doesn't see it as a removeable device-- it sees it as a hard drive.

Thirdly, could you post the main entry in your grub menu.lst?

title TinyMe Live
kernel (hd0,0)/isolinux/vmlinuz bootfrom=/dev/sda1 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 vga=788 splash=silent fstab=rw,auto fromusb changes=/dev/sda1 noeject
initrd (hd0,0)/isolinux/initrd.gz

Finally, could you tell me what version of mklivecd you used in TinyMe? I know that Ivan was working with the eeePC guys on amending the mklivecd script and to accept different boot options, and I just wondered if that could be the problem.

I believe I was using 0.7.0-30.

[iainrj]

There shouldn't be any problems saving changes to your device with a ReiserFS partition and certainly there is enough room.

Your Grub menu.lst looks okay given the information you have given.

This might lead me to believe that the problem may be with the latest mklivecd version. The bootcodes may have changed. Give me a few days to look into it and I'll get back to you...

[iainrj]

I've had a look at the code in the mklivecd-0.7.0-30 and I can't find anything to suggest the changes code wouldn't work as it is.

I wonder if it could be because your BIOS is treating the device as a hard drive? Maybe you can boot the live OS again and check whether it is being recognised as /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1?

[jmiahman]

If you've followed what Ivan has said in some other posts on here, it may be that the way the changes file works has been changed. Not sure if it was change in 7.0 or 7.1 though.

[Gianvacca]

The last testing updates screwed up your script:



The suspects are:
liblirc0 (0.8.1-1pclos2007) to 0.8.1-2pclos2007
libxine1 (1.1.12-1pclos2007) to 1.1.13-1pclos2007
losetup (2.12r-12pclos2007) to 2.13.1-6pclos2007
mount (2.12r-12pclos2007) to 2.13.1-6pclos2007
util-linux (2.12r-12pclos2007) to 2.13.1-6pclos2007
xchat (2.8.4-5pclos2007) to 2.8.6-1pclos2007
xine-faad (1.1.12-1pclos2007) to 1.1.13-1pclos2007
xine-flac (1.1.12-1pclos2007) to 1.1.13-1pclos2007
xine-plugins (1.1.12-1pclos2007) to 1.1.13-1pclos2007

I seguenti pacchetti sono stati installati:
consolekit (0.2.3-1pclos2007)
libconsolekit0 (0.2.3-1pclos2007)