Reply To: RE: Antix 16.2 USB Persistence Fails To Create rootfs and homefs

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November 7, 2017 at 3:17 pm #2105
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    BitJam wrote:
    I tracked the problem down to a mismatch in libraries in the initrd versus the main file system. I fixed this mismatch which solved the segfault problem. You can fix an existing antiX-16.2_386 live-usb by downloading the file initrd-16.2.gz from this Dropbox folder and then using it to replace the file /antiX/initrd.gz on the live-usb. You can also replace /antiX/initrd.gz.md5 with initrd-16.2.gz.md5 from the Dropbox folder.

    I tried that several times with the 2b-versions of the files by renaming them after having deleted the original files. That didn’t work for me: I got always kernel panics.

    Questions:

    – If I update the kernel with live-kernel-updater to one of Stevo’s Liquorix-kernels from the opensuse repository, will the generated initrd be automatically fixed by such an update?

    – Would a dist-upgrade starting from 16.1 avoid the initrd-bug?

    Some background:

    a friend of mine is a musician and she wants to produce music using her old Acer netbook from 2009. So I would like to install on it some kxstudio packages using a Antix-frugal installation.

    I tried that on Antix 17. But the kxstudio-meta-audio package cannot be installed on 17. The additional packages for stretch were installed though.

    Any advice highly appreciated.