Re: [Gnewsense-dev] new gNewSense/MIPS netboot & archive

[Sam Geeraerts]

Robert Millan schreef:
> Hi!
>
> I rolled a new netboot image, and corrected a number of issues in the archive.
> What we have now:
>
>   - tasksel didn't work (package selection wasn't automatically installed).
>     It's quite messy to work with tasksel anyway, so I got rid of it, and
>     now use preseeding for package selection instead.
>
>   - wireless was mistakenly disabled by deblob, fixed now (thanks to DJB
>     Clark for pointing it out).
>
>   - renamed distroname (lenny -> mipsel-l)
>
>   - fixed a few package conflicts.
>
> Note: I experienced stability problems that sometimes brought Linux down when
> performing a full (+desktop) install.  Therefore the desktop components are
> not enabled by default, you have to install them manually afterwards:
>
>   apt-get install gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop
>
> Note2: for those who already installed with an older version, the current URIs
> for sources.list are:
>
> deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream mipsel-l 
> main
> deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream-security 
> mipsel-l main
> deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/overlay mipsel-l main

My experience with a fresh install on /dev/hda5 (summarizing, because 
it's much like Samy's):

- "LVM not available" near the start
- It got stuck at 90% for about 5 or 10 minutes. I could use tty2 just 
fine, so it's not a kernel problem. There seemed to be no network 
activity and the hard drive LED only flashed briefly a few times per 
minute. After that it continued on with creating the vmlinux symlink.
- I also had to try a few time with PMON2000. It didn't seem to like the 
symlink and the logical partition very much.
- While installing gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop I happened to see that some 
Gnome menu stuff was skipping denemo.desktop and nted.desktop because 
they don't include a menu name. Probably not mips-specific, but I 
thought I'd mention it anyway.

It's still working on the desktop install right now, but I guess there 
won't be many surprises with that.

Thanks for the improvements.