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| Author: | frostwork [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Efika - e17ka liveimage ready |
I made a gentoo liveimage system for the efika ready to boot from usb-stick or hd (& probably also usb-cdrom). gunne is once more so kind to upload a torrent on pegasos.org (i'll send it to him via snailmail, so just some more days) radeon-tvout & (non-tested) xgi dri,fb,xorg drivers are included here's a part of the readme: ------- e17ka is a gentoo-linux liveimagesystem created to have an out-of-the-box system with some useful applications. Included apps are video/media-player : mplayer soundplayer : audacious picture viewer : Gliv mini web-browser : dillo irc-app : xchat file-manager : worker terminal : Eterm text-editor : leafpad hdtool : gparted 2 window-manager are available to choose: enlightenment e17 fluxbox 2. Which special features does it have? - above apps :) - no installation required - no linux skills required - good possibility to format the internal hd - jump board to install a linuxsystem to internal hd (chroot) - can be modular expanded at any time, so f.e - games module - scene demo module - other appilcation module can be added later ---------- have fun! EDIT: login-passwort: e17ka (packaged older readme...) |
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| Author: | SoundSquare [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:06 pm ] |
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sounds nice, perfect for a demo, what's the size of it ? |
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| Author: | frostwork [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:13 pm ] |
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hi SoundSquare! It is at about 134 MB |
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| Author: | Neko [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:28 pm ] |
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Quote: hi SoundSquare!
Cute. It is at about 134 MB But... What about if I don't want something that plays media or does graphics? I am still struggling to get my Efika (assume I have no Pegasos or other device to leverage in this) to install a Linux without chopping and changing 3 or 4 different kernels, installers, utilities and boot keys. How about something that guarantees me the ability to boot on the serial console with no graphics, partition my disk, install Debian, Gentoo, whatever else so I can run a server? |
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| Author: | frostwork [ Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:49 pm ] |
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you can partition your hd with it & it's not too hard to install a gentoo from it. as i'm not the only linux-guy I'm sure someone else is interested in doing a non-xorg-system |
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| Author: | Leon [ Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:30 am ] |
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Hi Frostwork, look forward to download and try your image :) |
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| Author: | mvdhoning [ Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:44 am ] |
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When will a download be available and where? |
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| Author: | frostwork [ Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:36 pm ] |
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I hope you like it Leon :) mvdhoning i sent it today to gunne via snailmail so it'll be up soon as torrent on pegasos.org |
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| Author: | bbrv [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:41 pm ] |
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So, how is it Folks? Do you like it? That must have taken some serious frostwork! R&B :) |
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| Author: | SoundSquare [ Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:41 pm ] |
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The torrent is available for download here : http://www.pegasos.org/modules.php?op=m ... tit&lid=77 I'm downloading it now :) EDIT : @frostwork : I've RTFMed but do you know how can i boot it from a TFTP server ? none of my USB sticks work on the Efika so i tried to boot it from my TFTP server, but of course it complains about not being able to find the root partition. Any idea about it ? |
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| Author: | frostwork [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:45 am ] |
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Hi! 1st of all you must know that it is not possible to boot e17ka with a simple "boot e17ka". Instead the included "BootE17" menu should be edited and used for booting. As the liveimage uses the standard gentoo-livecd-scripts it is necessary to define the cdroot parameter (if there's an internal hd in your efika the 1st entry in the menu is valid for the 1st usbstick found - cdroot=sdb1). I doubt that it is possible to boot a gentoo-livesystem via tftp-server, as there's no ftp-device you could define for "cdroot", but i may be wrong here. have fun so far! frostwork EDIT: I packaged an older readme...: The login-passwort is e17ka (Also edited initial post here) |
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| Author: | luvdownbabylon [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | network booting e17ka |
I am downloading the torrent to play with... Does the build support NFS? If so, you should be able to boot the kernel image via tftp and set the root to an nfs share, no? I am not an expert, but I will experiment with this. There is a page on the Gentoo Wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Efika that has instructions regarding netboot of a Gentoo build via tftp/nfs. Mabye that will help me figure out how to do it. Thank you frostwork! -Tim- |
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| Author: | Leon [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:17 am ] |
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Hi frostwork, when booted from USB stick or USB CDROM, won't it be too slow (as it is 1.1) ? |
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| Author: | frostwork [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:41 am ] |
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really no idea with nfs boot from usb1.1 ist quiet fast - only thing which needs long is extracvting the kernel at the beginning - the boot itself is quiet fast |
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| Author: | mvdhoning [ Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:31 am ] |
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First of all i want to thank frostwork for making this possibele! Nice. In my case the BootE17 also needed a rewrite for e17ka to hd0:0 E17KA in the 1st boot option. Playing an mp3 sounded strange at first but after using alsamixer to turn down gain a bit and turning of line-in and mic playing mp3 goes well. Playback of mpg movies is not working (way to slow) A little wishlist for the next version: - a gui for the alsa mixer - a gui for configuring network settings so it is a capable of browsing the inet out of the box or at least after changing network settings. - a installer to install gentoo to the harddisk from the liveimage (like beos) |
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