Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:10:14AM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote:
> > The images are available here (scheduled for weekly builds):
> > http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/flavours/gnustep/
> Michael, this is fantastic!!!!!

Hey it's just a very barebone image :-)  The guys who helped with
the packages created a small/lightweight WM distribution:
http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/_balbes/antique/iso/
(e.g. antique-0.40.iso) -- now that's some polish indeed.

> I did install on a partition and i do have a few technical questions.
> This may not be exactly the list to discuss them on, so please tell
> me where.

Feel free to email me personally or subscribe to this list:
https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/community-en

> Just for reference, my two technical problems are:
> It does not apparently see how to use my network hardware
> (i have a dell inspiron 560).

Need lspci, lsmod and dmesg output.

> Second is that /etc/apt/sources.list is empty except for a comment,
> so i don't know what repositories to use.

See /etc/apt/sources.list/alt.list -- just apt-get update ;-)

> I can probably fix the second one if i get the list of repositories by booting
> from another partition and mounting and fixing the one i installed on.

It's not Debian/Ubuntu based, ALT uses apt-rpm by Conectiva
with loads of patches.

> But the first one would require some kind of code patch, and maybe
> i have to reinstall more intelligently, or somehow regenerate the
> iso itself --- i'm not entirely clear from your message.

Let's move this part of discussion elsewhere, I'm willing to help
with this of course.

> In any event, thanks very much for putting this and Sisyphus
> (what a name!!!) together, and thanks for any info on how to address
> these problems or what mailing list i should use.
> This is something i've wanted for a long, long time.

Thank you!

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