PCLinuxOS Core (nonX iso). Could anyone create?

[tuxman]

This will be great! Great to use the same OS on PCs and home server.

[melodie]

Hi,

etjr has done one.
I told about it here:
pclinuxos-openbox-mini 2010-7_04 : on top of cli.iso

I had asked about getting or how to do one here:
Howto/Could we make a core version ?

The actual result of the use I do of it is here:
http://melodie.tyruiop.org/pclinuxos-core-cli-and-children/

Have fun !!!   

[tuxman]

Thats cool! Thank you very much, melodie! Also thanks for openbox-mini iso.

[melodie]

Thats cool! Thank you very much, melodie! Also thanks for openbox-mini iso.

You are welcome.

[travisN000]

Hi melodie..

I was looking at the posts that you referenced and saw that you posted the complete package list (..output of rpm -qa) for your openbox mini..  any chance you can post the same for just etjr's CLI iso ? 

If you don't have it in an easy to reach VM or partition already, don't worry about it..  I can set one up; but I thought I would ask just in case you have easy access. 

Thanks!

[melodie]

Hi melodie..

I was looking at the posts that you referenced and saw that you posted the complete package list (..output of rpm -qa) for your openbox mini..  any chance you can post the same for just etjr's CLI iso ? 

If you don't have it in an easy to reach VM or partition already, don't worry about it..  I can set one up; but I thought I would ask just in case you have easy access. 

Thanks!

Sure travis, I think I still have it on the stick where I installed it from, so it could be easy. It's dinner time now here, I'll look at this later in the evening and will come back to you once done. If needed I'll output it as text file and try to send it through the network with scp.

/that complete list of Openbox Mini might be outdated, however I posted the changes each time, on the dedicated thread.

/bye the way, I'm looking for some help/advise/information on a delicate part that concerns the very first version... packages I installed to ensure a proper end of install after the first reboot. Do you think you could be of some help finding out which ones were really needed and which ones were not ? If so, I can explain more about the issue I met with.

[travisN000]

..thanks!  I'm still in the middle of my work day, so no rush!  

..bye the way, I'm looking for some help/advise/information on a delicate part that concerns the very first version... packages I installed to ensure a proper end of install after the first reboot. Do you think you could be of some help finding out which ones were really needed and which ones were not ? If so, I can explain more about the issue I met with.

..I would be willing to try..  this was something I wanted to try when it was on the devs mailing list but I was too busy and had since forgot about it.  I archived the relevent emails, but looking back at them, the instructions were to use all the packages from the Main section of the repo..  at the time all it contained was the base CLI packages; doing the same today would not yeild the expected result.. 

[melodie]

Hi,

The packages I added to get the right finish install result are listed in the Synaptic logs. They must be at the very beginning, if you look from the Synaptic menu > File > History, the first ones are at the very bottom.

The packages I may have installed more or less the first are related to gnome-desktop, and I also remember having installed matchbox, because at that time, looking into the smallest mini I had succeeded to do by stripping an Openbox version, I was in a wonder what "matchbox" seen in /usr/share was doing in the system, so I looked the description of the package and thought it might have something to do with the look or icons... not sure at all, needed in the last stage of reboot.

Ending several times on an XDM login without having been invited to create a user account was somehow deceiving... looking at the logs and at the date the first one came out, was 4 days. It's not that important I think, but if there is one package I'm sure is not useful and can get rid of without hurting the system, that can be nice.
I this means using lots of time figuring out, then it should not be digged. It's not that important I think.

[Texstar]

The matchbox window manager is what centers the initial screens where you set your keyboard before it loads kdm, gdm or xdm.

[melodie]

The matchbox window manager is what centers the initial screens where you set your keyboard before it loads kdm, gdm or xdm.

HI Texstar,
Thank you very much !

[tuxman]

Thats cool! Thank you very much, melodie! Also thanks for openbox-mini iso.

You are welcome.

Looked for openbox-mini iso, awesome! All done pretty good and there is nothing spared for this stuff. Great job!

About the CLI.iso: there must be added "mylivecd" for remastering on-the-fly (but plymuth really not needed). IMHO.
Tried install mylivecd and it got plymuth and doesn't work without draklive-install...

[melodie]

Looked for openbox-mini iso, awesome! All done pretty good and there is nothing spared for this stuff. Great job!

About the CLI.iso: there must be added "mylivecd" for remastering on-the-fly (but plymuth really not needed). IMHO.
Tried install mylivecd and it got plymuth and doesn't work without draklive-install...

Hi,

At tip for you : if you want to do a non X server with etjr's iso, install it from command line, and use it "as is" once the necessary programs installed and configured, you won't have an appropriate tool to remaster it the way you usually do. All the system relies on graphical use, at least for the next install job to do after remastering. Yes, mylivecd asks for draklive-install which needs X. Maybe you could look inside mylivecd script with an editor and get this part out of the script. In fact this would interest me too, because I'd like to burn to CD an Edu without draklive-install in the live CD. (Just demo and no accidental install possible).

I think you could try cloning the product of your non X install by creating an archive out of it. Let's say, you could plug the hard drive on a more powerful machine, boot to another distribution, from the same drive or from another one that's master, mount the partition of your server install and make a tar.gz or a tar.bz2 of the whole mount directory. Then try to copy or move it to another machine, untar it, and try to boot from there. On some distributions, very kiss and light, that works.

If you try that, let us know ?