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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I guess you have an old version of Ubuntu that uses an older version of Unetbootin.

You probably have to use dd to install the iso to the stick.

There are plenty of examples on the net.

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Hello.
I’ve downloaded AntiX a couple of days ago. I’m about to use it on a old computer (9-10 years old).
I’m currently trying to make a Antix Live USB on Ubuntu.
Each time i try to do so with the tools : usb live creator (include in the distro) and Unetbootin, the process start and then it stops. After that when i’m trying to start my pc with that stick, the interface prompt : no bootable operating system.
Do you how could I solve that problem? thank you for you help.

You'll find below the MD54sum check : 
MD5sum AntiX iso on my pc : 
c0be8980027356d064fb2a4f8275a42f
MD5Sum of AntiX-17 website antiX:  
c0be8980027356d064fb2a4f8275a42f

AntiX21M

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by rokytnji.

[Member andfree]

What size have you made the black image?

36 K.



As I mentioned in an another topic, I’ve noticed the current version of slim exhibits cumulative “memory leak” with each logout/login. So, for an apples-to-apples comparison of the before (original) and after (black image) mem usage, I recommend: boot+login+test then replace imagefile and reboot+login+test

Always I reboot before a measurement.


so, in your case (desiring black) you could just skip (omit) the line mentioning background_color option.
I’m inviting you to test:
1) background.jpg is absent, and themefile specifies background_style ____ color
2) background.jpg is absent, and themefile specifies both background_style AND background_color

Background_style was already stretch. I specified color as #000000 and removed background.jpg. This caused again the hang/stall problem. Restoring to the original situation hasn’t fixed the problem. I’m running live, now, and I’m afraid I won’t avoid to reinstall the OS.

[Anonymous]

What size have you made the black image?

size (dimensions) shouldn’t matter. Consider stretched, vs tiled, vs centered:
The factors involved in the size of membuffer for the root window: display size (dimensions), and display palette color depth.
Source image is released after reading. The imagedata is rescaled and/or merged with bgcolor (if necessary, for “centered” presentation).

htop shows the same, if not slightly increased, memory consumption.

As I mentioned in an another topic, I’ve noticed the current version of slim exhibits cumulative “memory leak” with each logout/login. So, for an apples-to-apples comparison of the before (original) and after (black image) mem usage, I recommend: boot+login+test then replace imagefile and reboot+login+test

This caused trouble. X was not loaded automatically. After “startx”, it was stuck.

Thanks for reporting the result. Absence of imagefile for background is one several whatif’s I’ve not yet gotten ’round to testing.

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extra “too much info” removed

In my old machine I had tried a whole bunch of antix isos and I couldn’t boot the image, something about gfx (i915), but can’t remember specifically. It was one of the very few distributions I had tried and had the problem. But I have read only good things about antix and now that I got a newer old machine it worked, first try.

I am already in testing running openbox and exploring. Good work.
I think I’ll stick around.

Now that I know a little better I think I could have tricked the grub menu with some vga=*** tag to get it going but I learned this trick when transferring stuff to a new box. The installer by the way, it seemed a little intimidating at first, something in need to study better before the installation, but it provides so many options that once you get used to it, it seems as the most effective installer in the hands of the experienced.

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Hi !
At the moment I have some problems with the installation of a HP LaserJet 2100 printer. The system here is an antiX-17 with testing repos. The printer is connect with the PC via WLAN.
So, this is what I did and what I got :
1. I opened the ControlCentre and then the hardware section. The screenshot shows the printer section with a missing icon. Clicking on the icon or the text opens nothing.
2. So I started Firefox and with the URL localhost:631 the CUPS administration interface. I logged in as root and started the search for a new printer. Here I got a PDF printer and the HP LaserJet2100. That means the printer is connected and identified correctly. I select HP as manufacturer and then I get a FULL list of HP printers (see 2nd screenshot). I select one of the many (sub-)models of the LaserJet 2100 series. Then I click the “add printer” button and get returned to the main printer administration page of CUPS. However, when I checked the added printers, the LaserJet is not listed at all.
The error log of CUPS shows a single line (see screenshot 3) :
[cups-deviced] PID 4052 (gutenprint52+usb) stopped with status 1!

3. I reinstalled all printer-driver- packages, hplip and all system-config-printer- packages but saw no changes. Same after a reboot.
4. I started an antiX live session from an usb stick with a freshly downloaded iso file. Here I do have the icon of the printer section in the ControlCentre and when I use the browser interface for the CUPS administration I get a PRESELECTED list of the HP printers with those matching the 2100 series on top. When I click the “add printer” button I get the printer in the list of available printers and it is working perfectly.

So, I guess there is something broken or missing in the installed system.
Any hints and tricks ?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by delix02.

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[Anonymous]

Ok. Now I know, what Plop is. I could boot the antix-ISO with it. Antix runs fine on the old Thinkpad. But two things were not OK: it told me, that no sound-card was available and the driver of the graphic-card was neofb and not neomagic. The sound-card has been detected and the drivers were loaded as it should be (tried aplay -l/-L).

I know very well, what the Thinkpad is able to do – it runs very well with Puppy-Slacko and can even play DVDs and Mpeg-videos. Web-surfing with Firefox is very slow, because Firefox uses so much RAM, but surfing with Midori is fine.

I wanted to install antix on the harddisk, but antix forces to use 3.5 Gbyte for the system. That’s much, if the harddisk has only 6 GB. Why so much?

And that’s the reason, why I gave up on antix and am still searching for a up-to-date Linux-OS, which needs < 100MB RAM and < 2 GB harddisk.

Spielmops

[Member Xaver]

Thank you all for your help.
Dolphin Oracle was right. PartedMagic gave my stick an outdated version of syslinux: 3.73 of 2009-01-25.
Now I have used PartedMagic only to run bootflash (or flashboot ?) to prepare the stick for my ancient PC.
Then I have installed antix-17_x64 to the stick with unetbootin 608 from Lubuntu 16.04 to .
It installs suylinux 6.03 and the stick boots without any problems, even with the hybrid iso.
To my great joy I have now discovered, that unetbootin 608 is included in the antiX repos.
So this method will work from antiX too.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

CD drive lens might be dirty or toasted < might have to run a len cleaner disc through it> even though you say it booted with other isos. I boot my old T23 with a PLOP CD 1st. Then install PLOP using PLOP options. Then make a usb of antiX. Because my bios does not support usb boot on usb 1.1. When I installed AntiX. I installed grub to mbr. Which probably overwritten my PLOP bootloader install. So all was good.

I have a thinkpad thread Titled T23 in the hardware section of the forum.

Oh yeah. Did you md5sum check your antix downloaded iso before making the cd 1st?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by rokytnji.

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I just downloaded antix-base-17.iso and burnt it on CD. Booting from that CD with an 1999 Thinpad 570 ended short after BIOS with “ISOLINUX 6.03 6.03x ETCD” and nothing more. I tried to boot from this Disk with a more modern Laptop: success. What could be the reason for “not booting”?

I’m searching for a good modern OS for this Thinkpad and tried more OSes than just antix. Everytime from CD and all CDs are from the same charge and all are burnt with my modern Laptop and K3B. And all other CDs startet without problem. So I assume, the reason is within the ISO-image and that reason is not compatible with old computers …

Spielmops

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

That would be a question for the PartedMagic folks. Your PartedMagic iso is going on 5 years old now…

The fact that it still works for Ubuntu 16.04 (almost 2 years old, but an ubuntu LTS version, so still supported by Ubuntu), likely means that ubuntu 16.04 still uses syslinux 4, which I would guess is installed on your PartedMagic iso.

at this message (error message: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R) on your current stick, try typing “Live” at the : prompt. (might be live or Live, I forget which).

MyPC is about 10 years old.
AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5050e 2600 MHz
Mainboard Abit AN-M2HD (MCP68 – NVIDIA GeForce7050PV/nForce 630a Chipset))

The Phoenix BIOS does not know USB-sticks. But if I set the BIOS to boot from USB-LS120, I can boot from USB-sticks by the following trick:
– preparing the USB-stick with bootflash from PartedMagic 2013-05-01 or Puppy 4.3.1
– Then install the iso on the USB-stick with Unetbootin.

Unfortunately with antiX 17 Unetbootin does not work.
(error message: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R)
The sticks made with the antiX methods do not work on this PC.
(They are ok – they do work on my 3 years old Asus notebook.)
Creating a non hybrid iso did not help either.

Does anybody have an idea?
Is there a way to modify the iso (i.e. with isomaster), so that I could still use Unetbootin?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Xaver.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Depends on model number of IBM Thinkpad. I had to research mine to be sure before I upgraded the ram. Bios and motherboards can be picky on ram upgrades.
Buy the wrong stick. It won’t boot. Give a AntiX 17 base iso a try if the cd drive is any good on that Thinkpad. 512MB of ram should be good enough to run the graphical installer. Pick no F key options on live boot. Hopefully the vesa driver will take over graphics on that Thinkpad.

I would not buy ram till I was sure everything is functional 1st.

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[Member roadkill13]

I did boot back into live usb with persistence. I was able to create non root user “demo”.

I was not able to install new packages via apt. I attempted to install gpm and links2.

Apt-get failed error code 1 exiting…

So I can create the default non root user in live usb mode. I can have persistence. I can use the antiX-cli-cc application (although the weather tool is broken).

However APT is broken and downloading/installing packages is not possible. Exits reading error code 1.

Somewhere in the process I did see an issue with libc-bin coughing up an error.

If I recall correctly that was associated with running update on live usb prior to installing to hard drive. APT presented dialogue that showed the process of downloading and installing each file. However it reported that APT failed. the aptiX tool presented me with a menu with the option to install upgrades (which I had already done). I selected that option and 0 bytes of 0 files were downloaded and installed, the database was updated and the aptiX tool seemed to be satisfied and moved on to the default menu that would have been presented if everything had worked properly.

Because I have achieved identical results with two different live usb installers made in Antix full on two different laptops created with iso images from two different mirrors, I would think that one of two possibilities exist. The obvious conclusion would be to look for a bug. However, I learned long ago that not all hardware is created equal. It would be nice to know if this is reproducible on any EEEPC-901.

[Member roadkill13]

The read error message is what concerns me as it probably is causing the other issues.
I cannot reproduce it though on my install (VBox)

Try reformatting and overwritng the drives by using gparted on antiX-17-full (live) before installing core.
Don’t use the separate /home for now.

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The read error message changed after I ran update with apt-get before installation. All of the read errors on previous attempts read:

cp: error reading ‘/live/aufs/usr/sbin/filename*’

I did format and install Antix-17 full. I then re-created the usb installer for the core iso and rebooted.

As suggested I ran update with apt-get prior to install.

During the install process I received the following errors:

cp: error reading ‘/live/aufs/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libunistring.so.0.1.2’
cp: error reading ‘/live/aufs/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libustr-1.0.so.1

Observed the following error when prompted to create user.

/usr/sbin/useradd: error while loading shared libraries; /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libustr-1.0.so.1 file to short

adduser: ‘/usr/sbin/useradd -d /home/james -g james -s /bin/bash -u 1001 james returned error code 127. Exiting.

On this attempt install failed to create user.

I can only log in as root. Interesting to note that antiX-cli-cc works as root.

I am going to try it one more time as I had not read your message regarding the use of a seperate /home partition. I will reformat again as suggested and install everything to one partition. I suspect the error messages regarding adduser are not going to resolve but I can check it and see. I will report the results shortly.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by roadkill13.