Re: [Announcement] GoboLinux 015 alpha

Hi Jonas, thanks for your prompt feedback.

I wonder -- does it work if you 'cd /Programs/Installer/Current' and run
'make', followed by SymlinkProgram Installer? I don't have access to a test
machine right now, but I can try that tomorrow.

Thanks,
Lucas



On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Jonas Neumann <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi there,
> the LiveCD works quiet well. Even X starts - yay :)
> The installer won't work with (at least) the german qwertz layout. It
> won't work with qwerty. The error message:
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/System/Links/Shared/Installer/TestingInputs/keymap
> There is not even a /S/L/S/Installer dir.
> Creating the Directories and touching the files won't work, as it can't
> find many needed Files either.
> 'SymlinkProgramm Installer' won't fix this error.
> Starting the bin from /P/Installer/Current/bin won't work either (doh!)
>
> InstallPackage tells me "gobo" is not root. Wich is true, but gobo is
> Superuser anyways :).
> Compile is in line w/ InstallPackage with the rights.
>
> So that's it for today. I hope I will find some time to do some digging in
> the next few days. Thanks a lot anyway :)
>
> Jonas Neumann
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Viola Zoltán <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but this is too late for me, already... I have already my own
>> „distro” named KISS-Linux, based on the LFS but it has a GoboLinux-alike
>> filesystem-hierarchy, but it no compatible fully with the Gobo. There are
>> available the howto about it:
>>
>> http://parancssor.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hogyan_keszithetsz_sajat_disztribuciot
>> (Of course, in hungarian language, sorry... The title of this document
>> mean in english: „How can You create your own Linux distributon?”.) My
>> „distro” are for x86-64 system.
>>
>> Zoli
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/21 Lucas C. Villa Real <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am happy to announce the release of an alpha snapshot of GoboLinux 015
>>> for i686.
>>>
>>> This is the first version that had its preparation fully automated from
>>> scratch, which means that following the bug reports collected from you all,
>>> an ISO for x86_64 will be also produced for a round of tests. This
>>> automation was possible thanks to the new GoboALFS project, which lies on
>>> the shoulders of jhalfs from Linux From Scratch.
>>>
>>> The download links below point you to the ISO and its MD5 sum:
>>> http://gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-015_alpha-i686.iso
>>>  http://gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-015_alpha-i686.md5
>>>
>>> There are a few known issues with this snapshot which I would like to
>>> let you know beforehand:
>>> - The Installer (especially its Qt based GUI) has not been tested yet
>>> - KDE warnings related to MIME types
>>> - udisksd and upowerd are not automatically started by dbus. As a
>>> workaround, they are being launched by ~/.xinitrc
>>> - polkitd is not automatically started by dbus either, and launching it
>>> from the command line fails with permission-related problems
>>> - There are some debug print messages in the kernel coming from AUFS
>>> (the unionfs implementation adopted used in the LiveCD) that will be
>>> removed in the final version
>>> - Some machines with b43 wireless cards simply hanged at boot because of
>>> missing firmware. As a workaround I have added the Linux-Firmware package
>>> to this snapshot, but licensing terms would probably forbid us from doing
>>> so in the final image. Hopefully a kernel upgrade will get that fixed.
>>> - Firefox has been packed from the binary available at mozilla.org, but
>>> no special permissions have been arranged on /Programs to let automatic
>>> updates work
>>>
>>> Please test the ISO and let us know of any other issues that you may
>>> find. And, of course, help to properly address the shortcomings mentioned
>>> above are greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best regards!
>>>  Lucas
>>>
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