antiX-16-a1_386-full available

[anticapitalista]

32 bit full version only at the moment. NB: This is an Alpha build

There aren't too many differences under the hood between this version and the 15/15.1 release.

Main differences are:

* 4.4.2 kernel so those cheap netbooks that have flooded the market will work correctly (many need 4.3 kernel and later)
* UEFI support in the installer. Work in progress and works for 64 bit only.

antiX-16, although based on Debian Jessie, uses sysvinit and eudev.

We are proudly systemd-free!

Defaults to IceWM with a Rox desktop. F6 at live boot gives the user many options.

For those with very old laptops/desktops, the lightest option in terms of RAM usage is JWM.

The min-* options do not use a desktop and no wallpaper to keep RAM usage down to a bare minimum.

Please test on real hardware as well as in VBox.

We are particularly interested in finding out how well the iso-snapshot app works as well as running live with persistence and remastering the running live session.

Users happy with antiX-15 have no need to replace it with this version.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix- ... /antiX-16/

[Adrian]

Some fine refinement for installer, the default label for root is rootantiX-15 it should be rootantiX-16 (or even rootantiX-16-a1, so people will know what is that partition).

In iso-snapshot "next" button has the tooltip "start scanning for shares" because I re-used the template from mx-findshares to create the GUI for the snapshot program, I just removed that from mx-snapshot.

[Richard]

Looks good, as always I'm amazed by how fast IceWM boots.
Installed to partition on desktop. My desktop look:

antix16a1rh.jpg

Notes:
Partition Image
1. put a note to use TAB to switch around
2. I wasn't able to get it to clone, since it wanted the partition unmounted.

Will try tomorrow; didn't find the iso-snapshot app or how to backup running partition?

RoxFiler:
1. is there a way to stop RoxFiler from changing the size of its window? I find it disconcerting.
Probably just set in my ways. I usually just install Thunar and DoubleCmd. :)

Tomorrow to play with Preferences, etal.

NOTE: Thanks for include Caracas in the time zones. rh.

[dolphin_oracle]

Looks good, as always I'm amazed by how fast IceWM boots.


RoxFiler:
1. is there a way to stop RoxFiler from changing the size of its window? I find it disconcerting.

right click in a rox-filer window, select Options>Filer Windows. The options for rox window sizing are there.

[Richard]

Notes, cont'd:
3. No temps; ACPI, HDD, etc.
4. Set Root password but in use, it is not clear whether asking for sudo=user or su=admin.
Synaptic will only boot from menu when using user pwd.

ISO-Snapshot
I found it. :)
Created ISO of 730 MB.
In antiX didn't find easy way to check md5sum.
I know how, just didn't find a GUI way, yet.
Will check to see if it boots. Later, got to go do errands.

[Richard]

...and the iso boots, looks as I left it. runs fine,


...still can-t login to antix forum --probably because of the keyboard-- ES<>EN.
Not. I-ll try asking for a redo. No, Doesn-t recognize either user or key.
Soy indocumentado.

The MX forum works fine.

[Richard]

and installed from snapshot back onto HDD. Wiped the original install of antiX-16a1 on sda6,
installed via minstall onto sda6 installing grub on MBR,
with output in terminal here:

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root@antix16:/home/richard# minstall
yes
Error: device /dev/sda6 is not mounted
sfdisk: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
sfdisk: Done
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda6 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'ANTX'
	created on Wed Mar 16 13:40:36 2016
Creating filesystem with 4942592 4k blocks and 1236992 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 1221a88c-51a2-4332-8803-a119f4c954e5
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done   

mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda6 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'ANTX'
	created on Wed Mar 16 13:43:26 2016
Creating filesystem with 4942592 4k blocks and 1236992 inodes
Filesystem UUID: fe3c2609-8c21-4a75-adc3-f3d6bf61e9b6
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done   

  make-fstab: Remove all dynamic entries from /etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 1 hard drive entry into /etc/fstab
dpkg-query: package 'anacron' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'cpufrequtils' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'uuidd' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'hddtemp' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'gdomap' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'haveged' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'samba' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX update-grub"
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background: /usr/share/wallpaper/back.jpg
Found background image: /usr/share/wallpaper/back.jpg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /bootroot@antix16:/home/richard# minstall
yes
Error: device /dev/sda6 is not mounted
sfdisk: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
sfdisk: Done
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda6 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'ANTX'
	created on Wed Mar 16 13:40:36 2016
Creating filesystem with 4942592 4k blocks and 1236992 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 1221a88c-51a2-4332-8803-a119f4c954e5
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done   

mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda6 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'ANTX'
	created on Wed Mar 16 13:43:26 2016
Creating filesystem with 4942592 4k blocks and 1236992 inodes
Filesystem UUID: fe3c2609-8c21-4a75-adc3-f3d6bf61e9b6
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 
	4096000

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done   

  make-fstab: Remove all dynamic entries from /etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 1 hard drive entry into /etc/fstab
dpkg-query: package 'anacron' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'cpufrequtils' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'uuidd' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'hddtemp' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'gdomap' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'haveged' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg-query: package 'samba' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
"grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/antiX/boot /dev/sda"
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX update-grub"
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background: /usr/share/wallpaper/back.jpg
Found background image: /usr/share/wallpaper/back.jpg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda1
Found MX 15 (15) on /dev/sda2
done
Exit code:  0
"/sbin/make-fstab --install /mnt/antiX"
  make-fstab: Create new /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 2 hard drive entries into /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 2 removable entries into /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX dev2uuid_fstab"
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# Created by make-fstab on Wed Mar 16 14:16:27 VET 2016

# <file system>                            <mount point>                               <type>     <options>                       <dump/pass>

UUID=6990f3e8-db88-46b4-9bab-6e7c5f88485e  swap                                        swap       defaults                        0 0
UUID=fe3c2609-8c21-4a75-adc3-f3d6bf61e9b6  /                                           ext4       defaults                        1 1
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
DONE!
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX update-initramfs -u -t -k all"
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module r8169
Exit code:  0
root@antix16:/home/richard# 
/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
Found Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition on /dev/sda1
Found MX 15 (15) on /dev/sda2
done
Exit code:  0
"/sbin/make-fstab --install /mnt/antiX"
  make-fstab: Create new /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 2 hard drive entries into /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
  make-fstab: Put 2 removable entries into /mnt/antiX/etc/fstab
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX dev2uuid_fstab"
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# Created by make-fstab on Wed Mar 16 14:16:27 VET 2016

# <file system>                            <mount point>                               <type>     <options>                       <dump/pass>

UUID=6990f3e8-db88-46b4-9bab-6e7c5f88485e  swap                                        swap       defaults                        0 0
UUID=fe3c2609-8c21-4a75-adc3-f3d6bf61e9b6  /                                           ext4       defaults                        1 1
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
DONE!
Exit code:  0
"chroot /mnt/antiX update-initramfs -u -t -k all"
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.2-antix.2-486-smp
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module r8169
Exit code:  0
root@antix16:/home/richard# 

Rebooted and writing this from the re-install via the snapshot back onto sda6.
Obgligated to learn how to use Rox. :) Good experience.

[masinick]

As reported on the antiX Forum note, I was able to download the antiX-16-a1_386-full image. I used dd to dump it to a 32 GB USB and was able to boot from it. I created two different persistent collections on two distinct file partitions and both behaved as expected and there were no surprises. It worked amazingly well in the first Alpha, and though I am sure that there is work to be done, the very first build was able (easily) to:

1. Save a bootable ISO image.
2. Run Live from a USB direct transfer of the ISO image (dd image dump).
3. Frugal persistence works.
4. Full persistence works.
5. Meta package installer works.

Much more to test, but I loaded the 32 bit image and successfully ran it on a 64 bit system. The system I used was a Dell Inspiron 5558 with 8 GB memory, 1 TB Disk - more than enough, and it works well with the current image.

I hope to test with my older hardware as well to make sure that this release still supports Gateway 2000 PA6A and Lenovo 3000 Y410, both of which have worked extremely well in the past.

I'll send any statistics on my testing directly to the antiX forum bearing this same topic.