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[Moderator caprea]

Yes, a try with a newer kernel should be made for this hardware. There is the possibility to download an iso with the 4.19 kernel on the download page.

Sharing my experiences: On my laptop with a legacy nvidia-card , there’s no problem. The live-isos boot and installed too with nouveau, without any action from my side.
On my Desktop with a 960gtx-card , i have to use “xorg=nouveau nouveau.modeset=1” from above for boot. Otherwise it stops after “starting init” . Same on MX-Linux.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

It is definitely possible to boot an ISO image from a variety of sources.

I’ve personally booted and installed systems from boot floppy disk and CD (early Slackware), CD, DVD, hard drives and most recently USB.

I don’t remember offhand the technique and specific details of booting from a hard drive location but between 2005-2010 I used the technique several times.

Search for the details. If you have trouble finding it let me know and I’ll dig it up and share the details with you,

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Brian Masinick

[Member seaken64]

@Xecure, that is interesting. I had not considered using Core on the CD and Base on the USB. I knew about the from=usb boot code but I assumed I had to have the same iso in both the CD and the USB. Since I knew that the 19.3 Base iso would not fit the CD I was suggesting using Plop instead.

I have also been successful using two other techniques when I can’t boot from USB – swap out the CD-ROM player for a DVD-ROM player, or pull the hard drive and attach to another box that does have USB boot then put the HD back in the non-USB-booting machine.

I haven’t tried booting the iso from the hard disk. I have read that it is possible to boot from an iso directly from the hard disk without using either the CD or USB. But I don’t know if that can be done with antiX. Maybe someone else knows if this can be done?

seaken64

• This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by seaken64.

[Member bluedxca93]

@anticapitalist. Thx for your reply your method seems far advandced compared to what i did to get it running ! Very great that it is able to boot from an iso image.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

I have this in my grub.cfg from my main antiX install. No need for grml boot.

menuentry "ISO boot from encrypted partition" {
     echo Boot disk address is: $root
     insmod luks
     cryptomount -u fe4d690dc47a41aca2e8762669267518
     set root=(crypto0)
     set iso='/antiX-test/antiX-21_alpha1_x64-base.iso'
     set bootparms='buuid=fe4d690d-c47a-41ac-a2e8-762669267518 from=all quiet nocheckfs disable=lx'

     search -f $iso --set=root

     echo ISO root is:          $root
     echo ISO is:               $iso
     echo Boot parms are:       $bootparms
     echo
     loopback loop $iso
     linux (loop)/antiX/vmlinuz fromiso=$iso $bootparms
     initrd (loop)/antiX/initrd.gz
     echo Booting $iso}

Yes it boots an iso from an encrypted partition!

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

This is was worked on my computer to boot antix with the grml boot live iso scripts.

menuentry "Antix" {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	linux  /antiX/vmlinuz from=all fromiso=$iso_path 
         initrd /antiX/initrd.gz 
}

It has to be placed in a file called loopback.cfg in the /boot/grub/ folder of the antix iso.

Why?
I have ubuntu installed to my ssd , now i place my isos of other distributions in /boot/grml of the ssd partiton and then i can boot antix directly from ssd.

[Anonymous]

@cybeghost,

late to this thread but yeh just burn the iso image to a blank disk
and boot. The base iso did fit on a cd-r and the full on a dvd-r disk.

[Member FrankNStein]

Hey gang – thanks for all the intel!!

Yep – skidoo – I know it is not a “burn” tool… but I’m showing my age – I’ve been fiddling with Linux for years. And no – I only boot into Windows when FORCED to… My daily driver laptop is multi boot with PopOS being my normal driver. So having a usb maker with better options will be AWESOME… I already downloaded it and will be trying it out next time I burn a usb make a boot usb. Tee hee hee…

OH – I learned a new trick from the git comments!! You probably know it – but I will forget it – so I am going to write it here. If you open a terminal… don’t change directories, nothing. Just type sudo (and 1 space) then go into file manager and drag the file “live-usb-maker-qt-19.11.02.x86_64.AppImage” to the command prompt it automagically pastes in the full path to the file. Then hit enter and then password. And boom. That drag and drop full path name trick is pure gold and obviously can be helpful on a lot of things!!

Okay – back to work on the Insignia- Xecure – xinput is not installed on AntiX. I tried sudo apt install xinput and sudo apt-get install xinput and both times I got “E: Package ‘xinput’ has no installation candidate”. I also tried to find xinput in “Package installer” and “Synaptic Package Manager” but no go. Still googling what to do next. I see where to enable other APT repos – but we are getting over my head…

Hey ile – welcome to the party. I’m not sure I understand. I know the Insignia has 32 bit UEFI for booting and 64 bit hardware. I know that somehow AntiX is booting the 32 bit version. But I am not sure I know how to get it to boot the 64 bit. I am willing to try anything at this point from a USB boot. Getting close to being ready to wiping the internal drive clean but not exactly there yet. And based on what I have learned – I can make an iso of where I am at and just put that aside. Oops – too late. I see ile retracted the statement – but I am willing to try anything like that. Not sure how to get 64 bit to boot – but it would be an interesting try.

Howdy pepitofer. I will read up some more but I added i915.disable_power_well=0 to my grub line during boot and no go. When I try to play an audio file I get an error “Couldn’t open audio. Please check that: your soundcard is configured properly. You have the correct output plugin selected. No other program is blocking the sounddcard.
But I have only spent 30 seconds on this and haven’t read both links you sent. I will and I appreciate the direction as I bet it gets me closer.

Anyway – thanks everyone. I like this forum – everyone is helpful and positive. I appreciate all of the help!

Best regards,
Frank

[Anonymous]

For someone starting from windowsOS, rufus is fine.
( do NOT instruct rufus to setup persistence. That will be handled, on-demand, during antiX liveboot )

“AntiX usb burn tool”
! “burn tool” is a term to describe a utility that produces a read-only CD/DVD

> as a stand alone?

Yes.
source code here: https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/live-usb-maker

The packaged GUI version “live-usb-maker-gui”, packaged standalone, but has dependencies
Depends: live-usb-maker, cli-shell-utils, xdg-utils | antix-viewer, menu

The debfile packaged non-GUI version
Depends: cli-shell-utils, extlinux, syslinux-common, parted, xorriso, wamerican, dict
and
can be downloaded from here: http://repo.antixlinux.com/buster/pool/main/l/live-usb-maker/live-usb-maker_0.4.8_all.deb
(same package suits both 64bit and 32bit systems)

intall this first, it is a dependency of the above
http://repo.antixlinux.com/buster/pool/main/c/cli-shell-utils/cli-shell-utils_0.3.34_all.deb
(same pkg suits both 64bit and 32bit systems)
.
Although it contains no compiled executables, for sake of completeness I’ll mention that its source code is available here: https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/cli-shell-utils

There is an Appimage for live usb maker, created by the MX team:
https://mxlinux.org/blog/live-usb-maker-tool-now-available-as-an-appimage/

Aw, I was too slow in posting
(and mentioning the appImage was a better answer anyhow)

[Member FrankNStein]

Thanks Xecure.

I am running down 100 different avenues right now and will work on those too.

BUT – wanted to ask a quick question. Is the AntiX usb burn tool available as a stand alone? That is WAY better than Popsicle. I was actually able to (cheat) and burn PopOS onto a usb drive and make it read/write… Rufus and Popsicle both result in the crazy ISO9660 file format. I test booted this Insignia on PopOS 20.04 and got it to boot. Of course the screen is rotated out but I fixed that from what I learned. But I still have that mouse x-y inversion problem that only AntiX gets right. BONUS question – where in AntiX should I be looking for what it does to get this touchpad working? Is it just in xinput Coordinate Transformation Matrix string or is there also a driver? If I could get that figured out I might slide over to MX since it feels a little more familiar. But the more time I spend in ROX I guess I am getting better…

5: Persistence local stored. I am not going to worry about this since I getting close to a do-over again anyway – But I am 99.99% sure that persistance put its rootfs and homefs (or something) on my internal Windows partition – I saw the files there today while I was in Win… I am also 99.99% sure it was a user error and I must have clicked somewhere wrong…

Thanks again!!

My notebook is a MEDION Akoya E6416 with Broadwell-U chipset and an Intel Core i5 5200U CPU with integrated Intel HD Graphics 5500. It has two 8 GiB DDR3 RAM sticks and came with Windows 8.1.

I downloaded the antiX-19.3-runit_x64-full.iso, did the MD5sum-check (passed), and put it onto a known-to-work 32 GiB USB stick with Rufus v3.13 (from Windows 8.1).

I changed the boot order in UEFI to start from the USB stick, and all worked well until the start of X. Whichever Option I choose from the boot menu, it just sits there with a completely black screen, only a frozen mouse cursor is visible in the middle of the screen. None of the Alt+F1, Alt+F2 etc key combos work, I have to press the power button to restart the machine.

Could it really be that this middle-aged and very common chipset/CPU/graphics combo is not supported by the kernel used in this ISO?

Do you need any more information about this system?

Thanks for your efforts.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Linux_Newbee. Reason: marked it as solved

[Anonymous]

https://www.insigniaproducts.com/pdp/NS-P10W8100/5855905

> the file system is read only ISO9660 format?

This is the result if you created a bootable (but read-only) boot media.
For best results, boot antiX on another system and use the antiX live-usb-maker tool to create the bootable media. If your only “other system” at hand is windowsOS, I’ll recommend the “rufus” creator tool (opensource, downloadable from http://rufus.ie ). If using rufus, do not ask it to setup persistence ~~ once booted, antiX will handle that detail (on demand during any given liveboot, if requested).

I have an Insignia NS-P10W8100 which is a 10″ mini Win10 laptop that BestBuy sold for a bit. Cute little thing but with only 2GB memory and a 32GB drive I know it will be a real poor performing machine in Windows. Anyway – picked it up on Ebay for $60 and thought I’d just put some flavor of Linux on board. Not so fast. Turns out it has a 32-bit UEFI with 64-bit hardware.

Well – Thank you guys very much!! AntiX is one of the few distros that boot out of the box. But now I need to learn a few new things:

1. During boot – at grub I hit e and insert “fbcon=rotate:1 ” before splasht… in the boot line. This rotates my text during setup. Hit f10 to boot with this set… but is there anyway I can save that? I was going to make my own grub line – but the file system is read only ISO9660 format? That is a new one on me – so none of my usual tricks allow me to go in there and try something.

2. During customization – I choose i915_invert and I think it solves some of the problems I have had with other distros. All other distros boot with the screen turned (which I can fix) but also the mouse x-y inverted – which I have not been able to figure out at all. But AntiX works fine. Just wondering how I can make the rotation setting persist?

3. During customization boot I choose – persist_root. After poking around I find that it is saving this on the physical hard drive somewhere? I have a 128GB thumb drive. Isn’t there a way to make this completely save all customization on the usb thumb drive?

4. The display is skewed left about 1/8″ – not showing the first letter of the “menu” and a black bar for 1/8″ in on the right side of the screen. I built an entirely new 800×1200 60 profile in xrandr and that showed me the far left of the screen – but still had a black bar on the far right. So – How can I adjust it and fix? OR – half credit for showing me how to make my new profile in xrandr to persist.

So far in persistence it is saving my wifi password. Not sure what else it will save? Is there a way to save all the toggles I select during the custom boot?

Anyway – I am googling and learning fast. Really wanted to say I like this distro and appreciate everyone’s hard work.

Thanks in advance for any tips, tricks or answers!
Regards,
Frank

[Member andyprough]

Anonymous wrote:

3rd try got it. I booted it in a virtualbox instance.

list of 259 packages (ignoring lib* named pkgs) in antiX 19 Full which are absent from the respin: https://pastebin.com/q4LEp33x
novel packages added: libavcodec58 and mokutil

/root/.cache directory contains 1.5MB cruft (mesa_shader_cache files and qt_compose…)
consider adding that path within the iso-snapshot-exclude.list

I should have stated – it’s based on Base not on Full. It’s big because I didn’t use the smaller compression method – I think I will next time. Thanks for the exclude list advice – sounds good.

[Anonymous]

3rd try got it. I booted it in a virtualbox instance.

list of 259 packages (ignoring lib* named pkgs) in antiX 19 Full which are absent from the respin: https://pastebin.com/q4LEp33x
novel packages added: libavcodec58 and mokutil

/root/.cache directory contains 1.5MB cruft (mesa_shader_cache files and qt_compose…)
consider adding that path within the iso-snapshot-exclude.list