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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [Gnewsense-dev] new gNewSense/MIPS netboot & archive |
Date: | Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:39:33 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) |
Robert Millan schreef:
Hi! I rolled a new netboot image, and corrected a number of issues in the archive. What we have now: - tasksel didn't work (package selection wasn't automatically installed). It's quite messy to work with tasksel anyway, so I got rid of it, and now use preseeding for package selection instead. - wireless was mistakenly disabled by deblob, fixed now (thanks to DJB Clark for pointing it out). - renamed distroname (lenny -> mipsel-l) - fixed a few package conflicts. Note: I experienced stability problems that sometimes brought Linux down when performing a full (+desktop) install. Therefore the desktop components are not enabled by default, you have to install them manually afterwards: apt-get install gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop Note2: for those who already installed with an older version, the current URIs for sources.list are: deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream mipsel-l main deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream-security mipsel-l main deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/overlay mipsel-l main
My experience with a fresh install on /dev/hda5 (summarizing, because it's much like Samy's):
- "LVM not available" near the start- It got stuck at 90% for about 5 or 10 minutes. I could use tty2 just fine, so it's not a kernel problem. There seemed to be no network activity and the hard drive LED only flashed briefly a few times per minute. After that it continued on with creating the vmlinux symlink. - I also had to try a few time with PMON2000. It didn't seem to like the symlink and the logical partition very much. - While installing gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop I happened to see that some Gnome menu stuff was skipping denemo.desktop and nted.desktop because they don't include a menu name. Probably not mips-specific, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
It's still working on the desktop install right now, but I guess there won't be many surprises with that.
Thanks for the improvements.
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