FullMonty-DVD: installation and maintenance

[Frits]

The more I use FM Light, the more interested I get in the full FM

Any news?

Best regards,
Frits

yes, tomorrow 

Super

[pinoc]

ok, new FullMonty-2011.09 info here.
Some remarks:
- added more informative info to the installer, please also check the Installation Help before installing the system!
- fixed mime-type associations and missing wallpaper when using the normal KDE4-layout
- added some new tools: fif- command (way cool!), easy cleaning of backup files (useful), new FullMonty-menu having all fm_tools
- the task panel is now only 90% of the screen width which should facilitate entering the submenus from the now empty space to the left of the Start-menu
- after the second system reboot you will get the FullMonty boot menu including the Memtest option
- addlocale hardcore-test: convert FullMonty from English to French, and then from French to German and back to English: success! 

Hint: if you are on a low-bandwidth connection: either just use the FM as it is, or if you want to stay uptodate you could first run Start -> More Applications -> Configuration -> Remove unused packages. This will remove drivers which are not needed on your system and thus avoids downloading future upgrades of these unneeded drivers.

hope you like the new FM, I do 
-p.

[Frits]

Downloading.....

[Frits]

Live USB is working

Logged in as root and started GParted to remove the original PCLOS partitions from my disc. Then remains only unallocated for my new Monty.

Install does not work, reason: Not enough space.

It seems that GParted is not working, because after deletion (Incl apply of course) the partitions are still there. What could be wrong?

I restarted my PC and here I am working with my original PCLOS..... What can I do?

[pinoc]

I restarted my PC and here I am working with my original PCLOS..... What can I do?

run the live-session from the FM-DVD and then install it. Choose Custom Partitioning and then reformat your old "/"-partition, remember it must be at least of size 15GB, better 20GB.
-p.

[Frits]

In Guest or in Root?

And how do I reformat my old "/"-partition?

The method I described above is known to me and always working, until now. I do not have experience in setting up partitions myself.

[pinoc]

In Guest or in Root?

And how do I reformat my old "/"-partition?

The method I described above is known to me and always working, until now. I do not have experience in setting up partitions myself.

Don't have a machine up right now but it is pretty simple:
from the guest-account in the FM live-session, go to Desktop 6 and click the icon Install PCLinuxOS. The installer will detect the existing partitions, select to show them. One of them is your old root-partition (ext4, mounted under "/"). Select that partition and then chose Format. It will warn you that all data is erased but that is what we want. Then go on with the installation, done.
-p.

[Frits]

After some errors in partitioning I managed to delete the old partitions and made a new Ext 4 with enough space with /. Now installation is running, but I forgot to make a swap. Is that a problem? I have 2 Gig RAM.

I checked after install: There is no swap, enough unallocated space and FM is in Ext 4 in 13 Gig. This does not seem right. I think I need to do a new install. The partitioning things are giving me a headache.

Why is the way I am used to install not working?

[pinoc]

After some errors in partitioning I managed to delete the old partitions and made a new Ext 4 with enough space with /. Now installation is running, but I forgot to make a swap. Is that a problem? I have 2 Gig RAM.

I checked after install: There is no swap, enough unallocated space and FM is in Ext 4 in 13 Gig. This does not seem right. I think I need to do a new install. The partitioning things are giving me a headache.

Why is the way I am used to install not working?

no idea what your installation way is but the default one is pretty straight forward. There is an Installation Help on the desktop, which describes how to do it. I even added the info on the image shown before the partitioning starts during the installation. The easiest is to use an empty partition and put a 2GB Swap and a 20GB root-partition, all described in the information provided with the FM.

Never used gparted, was never necessary as all can be done from within the PCLinuxOS partition wizard without issues.
-p.

[Frits]

Even with a live usb Mint could not delete the partitions. During the install they came back again. In manual partitioning during install I deleted the old ones and made new as described.

After install checked via Gparted, looks fine now.

Will start later with the finetuning.

[pinoc]

Even with a live usb Mint could not delete the partitions. During the install they came back again. In manual partitioning during install I deleted the old ones and made new as described.

After install checked via Gparted, looks fine now.

Will start later with the finetuning.

ok, good news! FM does not need any fine-tuning... 

[Frits]

Well...., I found out that synaptic has 2 rpm's opened, should be 1. Going to add task multimedia and will change the desktop background for each desktop and of course Add Locale in Dutch.

I agree this is just minor stuff.

[pinoc]

added Post-install Tips & Tricks in the original post where useful info for the FullMonty DVD-editions will be summarised.
For example, the recent kdm update will reset the splash screen and the kdm login screen but you can go back to the FullMonty versions by restoring the backup-files included in the FullMonty2011.09 installation. 
regards,
-p.

[Frits]

Thanks Pinoc. :-)

As I have FM installed on my Asus Eee 10006H I can not unlock as user the system tray to add accu sensor. In root it is possible. Any idea?

[Frits]

Rubentje1991  helped me on the Dutch forum to: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,88306.msg737636.html#msg737636

That was the solution.

With thanks to Rubentje1991