Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-17 Thread Richard
All in all a good effort. 1. Synaptic wouldn't start from the menu, but works fine from gksu synaptic 2. Installed Double Commander-0.5.11-1; however, the latest, DC-0.6.1 is a real winner as a file manager. It is my new first app to install on any installation. Thunar is good but DC-0.6.1 is a rea

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-17 Thread Richard
@fsmithred, David, - edit /etc/sources.list.d/devuan. > list and change "sid" to "ceres". > - get the gpg key for the angband repo with the following commands: > gpg --recv-keys 719DCC80BED007F9 > gpg --export --armor 719DCC80BED007F9 | apt-key add - > (and don't forget the dash at the end

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-16 Thread David Hare
There appears to be no root password in the xfce image. There's only an asterisk in /etc/shadow. Maybe my mistake, there was meant to be. However should work (from where you can set a root password if wanted) That's the usual debian-live type setup anyway. For anyone interested in

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-16 Thread Richard
Yes, I think it is a worthwhile candidate for Refracta. The above should fix the update errors. Will do it later. I massaged fstab to get it to play well with other distros. And it looks good with no systemd. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:59 AM, fsmithred wrote: > On 04/16/2015 09:37 AM, David Har

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-16 Thread fsmithred
On 04/16/2015 09:37 AM, David Hare wrote: > Don't know why but some of my posts didn't seem to make the mailing list > properly so will try again! Make sure you click "Reply List" and not "Reply". I've done that a couple times. > > On 13/04/15 13:57, David Hare wrote: >> On 13/04/15 06:19, Franc

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-16 Thread David Hare
Don't know why but some of my posts didn't seem to make the mailing list properly so will try again! On 13/04/15 13:57, David Hare wrote: On 13/04/15 06:19, Franco Lanza wrote: What about being devuan maintainers and contribute those packages to devuan? Well, my intention is to promote Devua

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-14 Thread fsmithred
Sorry, I gave incorrect information. This was a fresh build. I knew that and forgot about it. fsr > On 13/04/15 19:41, fsmithred *erroneously* wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure David used a refracta jessie-sysv iso and built on that On 04/13/2015 08:29 PM, David Hare wrote: > > No. As mentioned befo

[Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-14 Thread shraptor shraptor
Does debian livecd's use linux live kit by slax developer Thomas Matijeck? I remember I saw on slax forum he was contracted by debian to do some work on livecd? true or false?? On Monday, April 13, 2015, fsmithred > wrote: > On 04/13/2015 03:00 PM, Richard wrote: > > Thanks Fred, > > David's sna

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread Richard
Sure looks nice. I'll install it on an 8 GiB test partition on the netbook and let it run in it's natural environment. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:45 PM, fsmithred wrote: > On 04/13/2015 03:00 PM, Richard wrote: > > Thanks Fred, > > David's snapshot is working very well for the most part. > > A re

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread fsmithred
On 04/13/2015 03:00 PM, Richard wrote: > Thanks Fred, > David's snapshot is working very well for the most part. > A real credit to it's Refracta base. Couple of questions: > > 1. fstab is 0 bytes? But seems to work. > Where is the info kept, in Jessie? > It's a live iso. No disks to mount. The

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread Anto
On 13/04/15 20:41, fsmithred wrote: Hi Richard, I'm pretty sure David used a refracta jessie-sysv iso and built on that All the refracta jessie-sysv builds started as a standard-system wheezy installation, then pinned "*systemd*" to -1 (do not install anything with systemd anywhere in its name)

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread Richard
Thanks Fred, David's snapshot is working very well for the most part. A real credit to it's Refracta base. Couple of questions: 1. fstab is 0 bytes? But seems to work. Where is the info kept, in Jessie? *2. # sudo apt-get update* failed, reporting conflicting distros ... (expected sid but got ce

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread fsmithred
Hi Richard, I'm pretty sure David used a refracta jessie-sysv iso and built on that All the refracta jessie-sysv builds started as a standard-system wheezy installation, then pinned "*systemd*" to -1 (do not install anything with systemd anywhere in its name) and pinned libpulse0 and dbus to wheez

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-13 Thread Richard
Thanks for your efforts, David. Copied the ISO to a Linux based Easy2Boot, boots no problem on Acer Aspire One. I've always liked the Refracta look. > user@exefce:~$ cat /proc/cmdline > initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live union=aufs > components=openssh-server,sudo,lightdm,refracta-lang > BOOT_IMAGE

Re: [Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-12 Thread Franco Lanza
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 01:44:00AM +0100, David Hare wrote: > Thanks to all others who have compiled sytemd-free debs. What about being devuan maintainers and contribute those packages to devuan? -- Franco (nextime) Lanza Lonate Pozzolo (VA) - Italy SIP://c...@casa.nexlab.it web: http://www.nex

[Dng] Live ISO's (Jessie with no systemd)

2015-04-12 Thread David Hare
I posted two new live iso's with no *systemd* (yes that means also no libsystemd0) with installers and remaster tools: xfce4 (Refracta-based): http://www.exegnulinux.net/refracta/iso/ Trinity Desktop Environment (the fork of KDE3): http://www.exegnulinux.net/downloads/jessie/ Some debs here