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[Member calciumsodium]

Hi @BobC,
I was wondering if you would consider trying a different approach.

I have had a lot of success and enhanced performance using the liquorix kernel. Your system has the i7 processor, which is fairly new. I have had success on all my x64 systems with the liquorix kernel, even systems that are over 10 years old.

If you want to try it, please first make a backup iso snapshot of your current system. Then,

To install the liquorix kernel, simply type in terminal:

curl 'https://liquorix.net/add-liquorix-repo.sh' | sudo bash

and reboot. This will get you the latest 6.0 kernel. If it works, great. If not, you can so back to your backup iso snapshot.

Just a thought.

[Member ModdIt]

Hi Robin, other readers,
To get a completely functional antiX live stick.

Boot a live (or installed) system created using Iso2USB, method as above, using
the antiX usb creation tool write your ISO of choice to a second stick.

This might be problematic on any very low memory devices. I was unable to test
as none working and available at present.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Running live antiX 21 full iso live usb on my Kali Linux Dell P22 chromebook.

I broke Kali deleting my /swap partition and the grow part threw errors since I tried it while running. Duh. Forgot.
Using antiX gparted right now to fix kali corrupted partition installation that won’t boot anymore.
Nice the live iso booted right up with no hiccups.
Curiosity is the only reason that kept Kali on here. I will probably give in and make this a antiX 22 chromebook later on.
Am curious to see if my gparted fix is gonna work.

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I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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[Moderator BobC]

No, I’m back up and running, but I admit to being tired from the effort. I keep a copy of my main partition on the SSD that was able to boot and run.

NCDU showed me the problems, and I got enough of them fixed pretty quickly that I was back up and running in an hour.

Someone recently had problems with antiX22 Base, and by mistake I had downloaded it to my main partition and not noticed. I also installed an appimage of Pinta, which worked pretty well to create the icons for my new theme that one person besides me is is interested in, but I found out tonight that it had taken 2 gb of space! Add that to 5 gb for a PlayOnLinux game, and then download 3 and install kernels, and you get 0 bytes free and a black screen.

But tell me about how you are installed to your SSD? It sounds cleaner, I think. How and where do you install the ISO files? And what is in the Grub to boot it? And where do user installed programs go? Maybe create a thread in Tips to tell people how to set it up?

[Member mcpderez]

I did not try pressing OK before, but it does work as you pointed out. However, it seems to have many duplicate items scattered throughout the Applications menu. Even booting from the full 386 iso has two complete sets of items, though only one set remains after installation to hard drive.

One thing is certain — I am learning a lot!

[Member mcpderez]

I think I found the problem.

I mounted the base and full iso files and in the base (which won’t boot on a 386 system, complaining that you cannot use 64-bit software on it), inside of
boot/isolinux/gfx-cpio

and

boot/syslinux/gfx-cpio

there is a 2-byte file called:

64bit

which contains a 1.

This file is not present inside the two gfx-cpio files on the full ISO, which will boot without complaint on 32-bit x86 systems.

By the way, what’s the purpose of the top-cpio file?

[Member mcpderez]

Thanks! That did it. I couldn’t fit two flash drives I was willing to overwrite in the tightly spaced ports, so I had to use a VM to boot the iso on a different computer and start live-usb-maker to create the drive. I was not successful in finding a way to use just one flash drive on the T42 with only 512MB of RAM. Either I could load an AntiX 17.5 core toram so it would see the flash drive as writable (but then not see a live image to use) or I could boot from the flash drive and then not be able to write to it.

[Moderator christophe]

mcpderez wrote:

Is there some intermediate step I need to take between burning the drive and booting from it, is this a fault with the iso, or does it just not work how I expected it would?

This is expected behavior. antiX sets up the live-usb to be read/write, unlike dd, etc. To get a live-usb with persistence (which is fully-functional, upgradable, etc.), do as BobC wrote:

BobC wrote:

boot from your dd or balena flashdrive with antiX

BobC wrote:

then use Live USB Maker to burn a normal antiX flashdrive. When you boot from that one, it [will] have the persistence options.

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how this is supposed to work. I’ve searched the forum, read several threads and watched dolphinoracle’s video from AntiX-17 linked in the FAQ, but I might just have a wrong impression of how home persistence is set up.

Testing with my IBM ThinkPad T42 today, booting from a flash drive burned with AntiX-22_386_full.iso.
At the boot screen I use the function keys to select my Time Zone (F3), Persistence as persist_home (F5), and Console as 1024×768 (F7), then Enter to boot.

I thought that I would be prompted to configure the size of a home persistence file, but instead what happens is I see a few blank lines below “found boot device” and then:

Look for persist device with label antiX-Persist

The screen clears and I see:

Could not find a partition with label antiX-Persist

Please wait while existing partitions are found ...

No suitable devices were found.
Press <Enter> to continue

I press Enter, the screen clears, returns to the antiX 22 (Grup Yorum) boot screen, this time it is at the run live scripts stage and again says:
Look for persist device with label antiX-Persist

I looked in /var/log/live/initrd.log and it appears that persistence is being disabled because the USB drive is being considered read-only. I tried making it with both Balena Etcher and with dd and I get the same result. Is there some intermediate step I need to take between burning the drive and booting from it, is this a fault with the iso, or does it just not work how I expected it would?

/var/log/live/initrd.log:

Run custom code before reading boot codes: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh
Width of screen in pixels 984
Try to set line length to 120
Using size 8
Set font to Uni2-TerminusBold16
setfont /live/locale/fonts/Uni2-TerminusBold16.psf -C /dev/console
New screen width 128
@ 1.30 starting tsplash
=== initrd bootstrap ==================================================
initrd init started at 0.06 seconds
Welcome to antiX 22 (Grup Yorum) 32-bit!
  BusyBox v1.31.1 (2021-02-03 15:54:12 MST) multi-call binary.
  ntfs-3g 2017.3.23AR.3 integrated FUSE 28
           initrd version: 8.30.14-x08
             initrd built: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:43:21 +0000
             Total Memory:   493 M
              Used Memory:    35 M
             Linux kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp
             Screen width: 128
              Kernel arch: i686
                 Hardware: IBM 2373H12
Current boot codes:
     vga=791 persist_home tz=America/Chicago quiet splasht disable=lxF
Found overlay
Loading hardware specific modules ...
Scan usb,cd devices.  Look for boot file(s) antiX/linuxfs
Filtered devices  /dev/sr0
Retry for 15 seconds .
Found new device(s) /dev/sda2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda /dev/sr0
mount -t vfat -o umask=000,dmask=002,fmask=113,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda2 /live/boot-dev
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sda1 /live/boot-dev
Mounted boot device. Mounted device /dev/sda1 at /live/boot-dev
boot device filesystem: iso9660
boot device model: USB Flash Disk
Spent 1.65 seconds looking for boot file(s) antiX/linuxfs
loop times: 0.15
BOOT_MP:    /live/boot-dev
SQFILE_DEV: /dev/sda1
SQFILE_MP   /live/boot-dev
Initializing random number generator ...
Mount file /live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs at /live/linux
mount -t squashfs -o loop,ro /live/boot-dev/antiX/linuxfs /live/linux
sqfs_vid: === 0c8833e2fdf15aca1a9fa6ad6a57081d
Updating grub config to 2.0
Using BIOS UUID: 
LD_PATH: /live/linux/lib:/live/linux/lib/i386-linux-gnu:/live/linux/usr/lib

Persistence was requested on a read-only boot device
Will search for a persistence device with the label antiX-Persist

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Begin Mount persistence device (if needed)
Look for persist device with label antiX-Persist
Retry for 10 seconds ...................
Spent 10.74 seconds looking for persist file(s) antiX/homefs.new antiX/homefs
loop times: 0.18 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.17
tsplash clear

Could not find a partition with label antiX-Persist

Please wait while existing partitions are found ...
mount -t vfat -o umask=000,dmask=002,fmask=113,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sda2 /tmp/mnt
No suitable devices were found.
Press <Enter> to continue
Disable persistence
tsplash on
Loaded 10 module(s)
nls_utf8 nls_cp437 uas usb_storage shpchp dm_crypt dm_mod overlay battery fotg210_hcd
Create aufs ram tmpfs at /live/aufs-ram       (366 MB)
/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=366m,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs-ram
Mount overlayfs at /live/aufs
mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/live/linux,upperdir=/live/aufs-ram/upper,workdir=/live/aufs-ram/work /live/aufs
Load microcode
Found one video display device
Create   /media tmpfs at /live/aufs/media     (10 MB)
/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=10m,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/media
Create     /run tmpfs at /live/aufs/run       (1111 MB)
/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=1111m,mode=755,nodev,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/run
Create    /live tmpfs at /live/aufs/live      (100 MB)
/bin/mount -t tmpfs -o size=100m,mode=755,noatime tmpfs /live/aufs/live
Run custom code before: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh
mount --move /live/aufs-ram /live/aufs/live/aufs-ram
mount --move /live/boot-dev /live/aufs/live/boot-dev
mount --move /live/linux /live/aufs/live/linux
Run custom code after: /live/custom/antiX/0.sh
Run custom code before running live init.d scripts: /live/custom/antiX/8.sh

The initrd init program took 24.23 seconds
======================================================================
cp /live/config/tsplash/progress /live/aufs/live/config/tsplash/progress
cp /live/config/tsplash/tsplash.log /live/aufs/live/config/tsplash/tsplash.log

inxi -Fxz:

System:
  Kernel: 4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc
    v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.0.1
    Distro: antiX-22_386-full Grup Yorum 18 October 2022
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: IBM product: 2373H12 v: ThinkPad T42
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: IBM model: 2373H12 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: IBM
    v: 1RETDOWW (3.20 ) date: 02/27/2006
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 9.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 9.8/47.5 Wh (20.7%)
    volts: 11.9 min: 10.8 model: SANYO IBM-08K8193 status: full
CPU:
  Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 arch: M Banias rev: 5
    cache: 1024 KiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 1000 min/max: 600/1500 core: 1: 1000 bogomips: 1998
  Flags: sse sse2
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV200/M7 [Mobility Radeon 7500]
    vendor: IBM ThinkPad T4x Series driver: radeon v: kernel arch: Rage 7
    bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 1024x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2
    v: 1.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: IBM ThinkPad T4x Series
    driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.5
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-326-antix.1-486-smp running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet vendor: IBM Thinkpad driver: e1000
    v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: 8000 bus-ID: 02:01.0
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter driver: ipw2100
    v: git-1.2.2 bus-ID: 02:02.0
  IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: irda0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 71.85 GiB used: 5.7 MiB (0.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 14.55 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1
    size: 57.3 GiB
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: 36.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0
Info:
  Processes: 124 Uptime: 10m Memory: 493.2 MiB used: 122.9 MiB (24.9%)
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1563
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.19

Note the flash disk in /dev/sdb was not connected during my tests. I was just using it to get the initrd.log and inxi output over to a machine with network access since I’m having issues getting on wifi with the Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter built-in to the ThinkPad.

• This topic was modified 6 months ago by mcpderez.

[Member PPC]

Barrowman wrote:

I would like to create a full install usb stick but the installer says to use the image rather than the full install.

Barrowman wrote:

I do want the full version to install on the hard disc once I know it works.

Hi! If I understood you correctly, you seem to be a bit confused on how a live Linux Distribution, such as antiX works – it’s the same as Mint – you burn the Operating System’s to cd/dvd or to an USB drive, using specialized software, like Balena Etcher, etc (you can’t just copy the .iso file to a drive). Then you boot your computer and have to have it configured to boot straight from de cd/dvd/pen drive (you may have to press F11 or some other key that may be indicated in your screen, when you power your computer, to access the options that allow you to boot to your live media, newer systems may have to disable safe boot options, etc). Booting antiX from live media is (usually) a bit slower than booting from your hard drive, but you do get almost exactly the same system as you have once its installed. Check the system out, see if you like it. If you do, then you choose, from antiX’s menu, the option to install it to hard drive (keeping other existing partitions or wiping them clean and install antiX to the entire hard drive). Please read the sticky posts here in the forum, or you’ll probably feel a bit lost in antiX – specially, try out zzzfm File Manager (that is installed by default in antiX’s full .iso), if you seem so confused with how to install antiX, probably the default file manager (rox-filer) will seem to alien to you.
antiX is faster than Mint, but also very different, at first!
So, once you manage to boot into antiX live System, I advise you to do this:
Menu > Desktops > Other Desktops > zzz-icewm: that way you get a more conformable File Manager and also get to have Desktop icons- I wish I knew that when I started using antiX!

Edited to correct typos and add a few details (because I realized this post is a pretty concise description of how recording antiX’s iso to a live media and then booting from it, then installing, if the user is so inclined)

P.

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by PPC.
• This reply was modified 6 months ago by PPC.

[Member punranger]

It depends somewhat on what you mean by “full install”. You can create a bootable antiX USB in Linux Mint if you so wish, any distro should be able to make a bootable USB of any distro, as long as you have the ISO you want. The default antiX USB Live is great, you should be able to form a good impression by using it. The USB is typically a little slower than a regular install, that’s all. But the antiX USB is “static” by default, so any changes you make on the USB, such as settings or added programs are lost when you reboot. If you want the USB to function like a regular hard drive install where settings carry over on reboots, you need to set up the persistence option. The persistence option is great, but it is a little more complicated, and is for technical reasons a little slower in some respects than the static USB. For a first time user, I would recommend just testing out with a regular (static) live USB.

antiX linux: The best way to revive an old computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCTaUAP6sSg

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

My download came from anti’s link in the 1st post of this thread.

/boot/syslinux file

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# This is the isolinux.cfg and/or syslinux.cfg file
# It controls the main menu in the bootloader on the live system.
# You can edit it to change the main bootloader menu on a LiveUSB.
# If you are not careful you can break the live system and prevent
# it from booting.
#--------------------------------------------------------------------

UI gfxboot gfx-cpio readme.msg
timeout 3000

default

MENU TITLE Welcome to antiX-22-net_386-net (Grup Yorum)

LABEL live
    MENU LABEL antiX-22-net_386-net (19 October 2022)
    KERNEL /antiX/vmlinuz
    APPEND quiet splash=v disable=lx
    INITRD /antiX/initrd.gz

LABEL safe
    MENU LABEL Safe_Video_Mode
    KERNEL /antiX/vmlinuz
    APPEND quiet splash=v disable=lx xorg=safe
    INITRD /antiX/initrd.gz

LABEL failsafe
    MENU LABEL Failsafe_Boot
    KERNEL /antiX/vmlinuz
    APPEND quiet splash=v disable=lx failsafe
    INITRD /antiX/initrd.gz

LABEL harddisk
    MENU LABEL Boot_from_Hard_Disk
    COM32 chain.c32
    APPEND hd1

LABEL memtest
    MENU LABEL Memory_Test
    KERNEL /boot/memtest

LABEL grub
    MENU LABEL Switch_to_Grub_Bootloader
    KERNEL /boot/grub/i386-pc/lnxboot.img
    INITRD /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by rokytnji.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Has anybody else thought maybe anti uploaded the wrong files to the antiX 22 folder ?

Stuff happens. Being the lone ranger out here. I can relate. Kinda surprised anti has not weighed in yet on this thread.

Well. Spiked my curiosity so I am downloading i386 net iso to look inside.

Hmm version text doc after extraction

antiX-22-net_386-net Grup Yorum 19 October 2022

harry@shop1:~
$ cd Downloads/boot/grub
harry@shop1:~/Downloads/boot/grub
$ ls
config   grub.cfg     i386-pc            lmk-single-grub.cfg  x86_64-efi
efi.img  grubenv.cfg  lmk-core-grub.cfg  loopback.cfg
fonts    i386-efi     lmk-grub.cfg       theme
harry@shop1:~/Downloads/boot/grub
$ cat grub.cfg
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# file: /boot/grub/grub.cfg for the Live version of antiX
#
# This file can get updated automatically on a LiveUSB via the save
# feature in the text menus.  It is possible to break these updates
# by editing this file.
#------------------------------------------------------------------

# load defaults
#
if [ -s $prefix/config/defaults.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/config/defaults.cfg
fi

# search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid %UUID%
set timeout=60
set gfxmode=1024x768
set gfxpayload="2048x2048;2048x1280;2048x1080;1920x1080;1680x1050;1600x900;1600x1200;1600x1050;1500x1000;1440x960;1440x900;1368x912;1366x768;1280x800;1280x720;1280x1024;1200x800;1024x768;auto"

set default=1

menuentry " antiX-22-net 386-net (19 October 2022)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

#--custom  menuentry " Custom" {
#--custom  linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet
#--custom  initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
#--custom  }

submenu ">>> Advanced Options for antiX-22-net 386-net <<<" {

menu_color_normal=white/black
menu_color_highlight=yellow/light-gray

menuentry " antiX-22-net 386-net Failsafe" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx failsafe
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry "antiX-22-net 386-net Create Bootchart" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx bootchart initcall_debug printk.time=y
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " antiX-22-net 386-net (1024x768)" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet splash=v disable=lx
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

menuentry " Power Off" --hotkey=P {
halt
}

menuentry " Reboot"  --hotkey=R {
reboot
}

if [ -f /boot/grub/theme/help.txt ]; then
menuentry " Help" --hotkey=H {
cat /boot/grub/theme/help.txt
echo -n "Press <Enter> to continue "
read xxx_help
}
fi
}

# load boot menus
#
if [  -f  $prefix/config/bootmenu.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/config/bootmenu.cfg
fi
harry@shop1:~/Downloads/boot/grub
$ 

Looks kosher to me. Not sure what is going on now.

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by rokytnji.

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Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Unless P3 gear, My antiX boxes with a full iso boot up pretty fast . My gear aint the most modern here on this forum either.

Turn off cups is all I can think of. searching for /dev on boot can’t be tweaked as far as I know. Everyone else covered things nicely.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

looking over here. It does not seem your wifi chip is too exotic technore.
http://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:10ec-b822-103c-831b
supported by kernels 4.14 and newer. Not sure why n/a shows up in your inxi report.

I am here on my chromebook my wife bought me.
So no /system specs in this post.

I did pull the trigger on 5th generation I3 Intel NUC box. Cost 50 bucks with no OS. Waiting on mini hdmi adapters I ordered that I don’t have.
Also pulled the Trigger on Dell P22 Chromebook with Kali Linux preinstalled. 50 bucks also
So. One down for hdmi connector. The Kali Chromebook aint here yet.
The NUC is going to be a antiX 22 Full Iso 64 bit box.
When the adapters get here. I’ll post the specs here in the thread.

Paypal is easier on my chromebook. Plus I need to boot it up once in a while. It’ll be a antiX box also later when the updates quit. it is a HP X360 chromebook.
Works OK for a google box.

Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.

Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problems