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[Anonymous]

Yes I did check .iso and run checks from GRUB2 before booting into live mode.

I remember I was able to launch firefox-esr in live mode by that entry.
After installation still in live mode I couldn’t relaunch firefox-esr.
Having booted into installed system can’t again.

Replacing the menu entry with the toolbar one is OK

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

Well. As long as Debian supplies 32 bit packages and kernels. I guess base may have to go on a further diet.

Then I can waste my time on facebook answering clueless users on why they picked a empty iso as their first choice as a linux install. On their I7 12 gig ram gear. 32 bit no less.
Answer. Is usually speed. Nothing like installing a base iso and wonder why compiz aint working. Where is my spinning AntiX cube desktop.OOTB.

Guys on facebook with airy fairy bug reports. No details what so ever. Like pulling teeth. Fun and games in systemd free land to boot.
Sure could use some help. Getting frazzled here. Some folks don’t how to join this forum. But for them. Facebook is easy.

Back on track. Some users cannot handle PLOP. So. Yeah. CD is still needed. I figure small iso are your forte anti. Should be a breeze.
Here is hoping flattery gets me some where. 😀

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[Member KenzoG]

This seems to be a new thread about the problem that I asked about last year: the Base iso being too big to fit on a cd.
Many people then suggested not having any browser (Firefox) included on the iso, which I think would be a good idea, as Firefox nowadays anyway is too heavy to use on older computers.

I use every day an i686 from 2004 – that neither can boot from usb, nor write dvd’s – for surfing, reading hotmail, etc. It works excellent with AntiX Berta Cáceres and Chromium.
Alternatively, the two cd solution seems good. As far as I know, Debian also offers that solution, so it obviously works.

[Moderator christophe]

That’s a good question. I realize it must get harder & harder to keep the base down to 700 MB (or 650). I don’t need it. But my thought is this — antiX is one of the very few distros left supporting 32-bit. I think you are trying to check if the cd-rom space requirement is still needed for the base ISO. I think you will be supporting people who have nowhere else to go, if you continue to support the cd-rom limit of about 650/700 mb.

Just my thought. Again, my computers (that I still use) can boot usb, so this is just conjecture….

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by christophe.

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

Who still uses a cd (not dvd) to write/boot/install antiX?

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

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[Member rayluo]

I’m currently using a 32-bit old machine (or several of them, for that matter) that “runs antiX great, and runs ff-esr good (enough) …”. Here comes my bullet-by-bullet quick answers.

1. After the initial short stint with home persistence, I’ve settled with root persistence, with manually choose whether-to-persist when I’m about to turn off the machine (and I typically choose “no”). And recently I’ve even switched to use no persistence at all (since I’ve customized my system as an ISO snapshot with all the little tools that I want). The point here, is to minimize/eliminate the possibility of storing any personal data locally. If there is nothing personal/valuable in this local machine’s browser cookies/history or even the entire hard disk, there is nothing to be hacked/stolen/lost. It does mean that, every new day I’d have to re-login to every website that I visited yesterday, but that is a trade-off that I’m willing to accept. Nowadays most websites I use already support social login anyway, except … ahem … antiX forum.

2. Same here. Although, given that I already persist no data across reboot, I do not have to bother using private browsing mode.

3. Again, since each reboot gives me a brand new environment, I do not have to refrain from online shopping or banking. If I want to be sure, I can just reboot, go finish my online shopping without any web surfing (*), and then reboot.

(*) Although in practice, I sometimes could not resist the temptation to go to antiX forum and perhaps answer a question there…

4. I’m not familiar with this topic. No comment.

[Member olsztyn]

BobC wrote:

So I made a fresh antiX 17.4.1 live usb with LUM. Then I copied-over the antiX folder on the live usb, replacing it with my frugal-install folder.

Just to make sure I got it right:
– You copied antiX folder from Frugal instance over antiX folder in the freshly cut Live USB produced from distribution ISO?
– Resulting Live antiX boots with all the customizations previously done in Frugal

Looks like this would be another workaround for backing up Live-USB antiX using Frugal install. The only my concern is whether machine specific limitations would not be ported into such created Live-USB, so it boots fine on one machine but not on the other as I reported in my other thread related to failing Nouveau driver in result.

Also I have done some more testing of using ISO Snapshot as backup of Live antiX. So far it seems to work for me as long as it is not an ISO Snapshot of encrypted Live USB.
So looks like there a few workarounds for backing up a Live USB but every one seems to be with some limitations. And none foolproof cloning a Live USB…
Thanks and Regards…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Moderator christophe]

I recently needed to install an old version of antiX 17 which I had customized, but I no longer had the live-usb. I keep my frugals backed up (because that’s what I generally use), but a frugal (I discovered) won’t “install” properly (though it tries), but it won’t boot afterward.

So I made a fresh antiX 17.4.1 live usb with LUM. Then I copied-over the antiX folder on the live usb, replacing it with my frugal-install folder. I figured this would work because, that’s how I start out my frugals: copying that “antiX” folder from a live usb (or ISO file). This worked as a live system, and also worked to install.

So I figure, a nice alternate way to backup a favorite live usb setup could be:
1. keep the ISO file it’s made from.
2. simply copy the antiX folder from the live usb.
3. Then, if/when needed, just re-make the live-usb; then copy over the antiX folder from the archive, over the one on the usb.

Anyway, it worked for me. 🙂

confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019

[Member ModdIt]

Hi all, maybe of some help.
on creating Personal ISO, then running from stick I have often been unable to login with user credentials,
this has happened to users who reported that ISO creation would not work.
After I asked if anyone had been backing up their work and school systems by the way, so most had no backup or were unable to get it running live correctly. Bad.

Yesterday I had a minor problem with getting icewm to run. The system Started with fluxbox and refused to change
to ICEWM.

First thought was a problem with the ISO creation, I did get the warning it was too big to boot depending on BIOS. When I looked at the ISO with a file manager my home was present as expected.

I was able to login as root but not as user, after using the passwd command to set my user password with bash in fluxbox. (Right click on desktop gave me a menu on otherwise naked screen).

On reboot I was able to login with my username and all customization usable.

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[Moderator BobC]

I found that it was that I installed core and lightdm, and THEN antiX packages that caused troubles.

I tried again, but this time with my x64 full based respin. I reinstalled slim to get it back to more normal, and THEN installed lightdm. And on reboot, I just found a few minor issues with the select list, but fixed the directory entries in /usr/share/xsessions, and rebooted again, and that fixed it.

Then I got matched the kernel version to the one where suspend and hibernate worked, and got those working on my normal setup as well.

Next I make an .iso and try it on the other machines… I think its going to work this time…

Hi all,

I have a newish computer with two GPUs: an integrated Intel one (UHD630) and a discreet Nvidia card (GTX1050). Last year, several different iso’s ran fine in VirtualBox on this computer.

In my current tests I am using a live usb with Antix 19 full iso. This boots ONLY to a command line, although boot messages indicate that the boot is running at level 5.

On another computer with just one graphics card, the same usb boots to a graphical screen in a “normal” fashion.

I suspect the problem is caused by this computer having two GPUs, but I haven’t seen any reports of this or how to tell the boot which GPU to ignore. I have tried adding “nomodeset i915.modeset=1” before the splash term with no apparent effect.

Appreciate advice and suggestions.

Thanks.

stevesr0

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stevesr0. Reason: typo nomodeset for modeset
• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by stevesr0.

Hi, I took a quick look here in the forum, but found nothing that helped me:

1- I’m on a new(er) desktop pc that, after installing antix 19 (now fully updated), got an internal dvd-rom plugged in.
2- Problem: if I put a disk in the drive, spacefm (my default file manager) correctly show’s it’s name, somthing like “sr0 … [name_of_cd-rom]” but when I try to mount it I get this error:

Mount /dev/sr0
Finished with error  ( exit status 32 )

udevil: /dev/sr0 is known to mount - running mount as current user
udevil: warning 45: options ignored for device in fstab (or specify mount point)
mount: /media/sr0: mount point does not exist.

3- The same thing happens if I put in an audio CD, but VLC plays it just fine!

4- My Fstab:

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=4d92d6e1-f69a-4f17-8668-51f82ad2d1e6 / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
UUID=800E-8308 /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0
UUID=cc3b899d-7ab1-4c7b-81ba-1f3eb068ee9c swap swap defaults 0 0 
/dev/cdrom                                 /media/cdrom                                iso9660    noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/cdrw                                  /media/cdrw                                 iso9660    noauto,exec,users,rw            0 0
/dev/dvd                                   /media/dvd                                  udf        noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
/dev/dvdrw                                 /media/dvdrw                                udf        noauto,exec,users,rw            0 0
/dev/sr0                                   /media/sr0                                  auto       noauto,exec,users,ro            0 0
# Added by make-fstab /dev/sdb1  label=antiX-Live-usb
UUID=ae3c8dbd-966c-4407-a45d-0aa68c43a322  /media/antiX-Live-usb                       ext4       noauto,exec,users               0 0
# Added by make-fstab /dev/sdb2  label=ANTIX-UEFI
UUID=2510-4932                             /media/ANTIX-UEFI                           vfat       noauto,uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,users  0 0

I don’t publish my inxi, because, if VLC can play audio cds, it’s because the harware is working ok, right?… but I can do that, if I have to…

Any idea how I can mount cd-roms and dvd-roms?
I tried to mount as root, same problem…
Thanks in advance for any help…

P.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by anticapitalista.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by PPC.

I am trying to install AntiX-19 on an IBM Thinkpad 600E, type 2425, with 288 MB RAM and a Pentium II processor, 366 MHz.

If I boot from an AntiX-17 Live CD made from antiX-17.4.1_386-base.iso then the Thinkpad boots into a graphic desktop with menus and icons.

But booting from an AntiX-19 Live CD made from antiX-19.2.1_386-base.iso it does not show the graphic desktop. If I key <Alt>F1 to view the boot process, it stops at a text mode login prompt. It appears as if the window manager initialization is failing.

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log files for these two cases look roughly the same up to the messages that start “VESA(0)”. Both version of AntiX log these messages:

[ 135.243] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
[ 135.248] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 2496 kB
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM: MagicMedia 256AV 48K
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.15
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: NeoMagic
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: MagicMedia 256AV
[ 135.251] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.0

After that, they differ.

AntiX17:

[ 135.287] (II) VESA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
“Screen0” for depth/fbbpp 24/24

Antix19:

[ 151.066] (EE) VESA(0): Specified fbbpp (24) is not a permitted value
[ 151.067] (II) UnloadModule: “vesa”
[ 151.067] (II) UnloadSubModule: “int10”
[ 151.067] (II) Unloading int10
[ 151.067] (II) UnloadSubModule: “vbe”
[ 151.067] (II) Unloading vbe
[ 151.067] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 151.067] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 151.068] (EE) no screens found(EE)

This looks to me like a bug, but I have no idea how to fix it. Any suggestions?

Surprisingly I have not seen this topic discussed anywhere.

As of 2020, I understand the typical file system format for most Linux distros is

ext4

. However I find I am often being steered towards using FAT32 for live USB; e.g; ISO installers such as Rufus or Pendrive USB installer either don’t include ext4 as an option or pop-up a “do you really want to do this” prompt first.

I was unable to boot-up antix 17 from either an external SSD or USB stick formatted in ext4. I have not tried my external disk harddrive. FAT32 always works.

Is this typical? Does ext4 not work with flash memory and/or live USB? I am aware of the file size and journalling benefits of ext4 over FAT32, is there any i/o performance benefit live USB on FAT32 is missing out on? Do any of the alternative Linux file systems have similar issues (e.g; btrfs)?

cheers Randy

[Member anti1alain]

Hey XE thank you for sticking with me today. I would like to solve this. Get my cd/dvd working and I’ll be cooking with gas. Coincidence with your choice of music that’s pretty funny. Or you are really good and know who I am. My name is Gregory….

I tried your solution above and included the screen capture. dev/sr0 not a file.

It is when I used your shift+L trick that I noticed the tree. Is my /media/sr0 file supposed to be under dev/? Or it is fine where it is? Still not working.

WHat about if I insert a dvd what will happen then? Which player will open? I would need them to start right up when inserted and figure which player to open automatically, or be able to assign it like we’re trying to do. Will I also have to do this with the video player or does XMMS play videos too?

Is there something you can look at that I can send so you see what is up with this?

3 days and counting on this install, it’s getting a little long. Just because I feel that I screwed this up.
PS. I properly downloaded the iso and burned it. I then played dvd and started up live in the demo. Working pretty fine. I tried to use the included installer over the whole hard disk on a WINXP system and properly followed the instructions. At the most crucial moments of partitioning and checking the boxes to ensure a proper install and putting the right boot and root in the right spots however is about 5 seconds compared to the rest of the video showing off the utilities once installed. I had to rewind over 5 times at that spot to try and see exactly how he did it. Anyway it would not install to the hard drive. Figured WINXP was screwing the install due to EIFI or BIOS or whatever I read. SO I DBAN the entire disk start from scratch, Antix had already overwrote the old XP OS. Retried other installs and finally it worked when I was told to use the grub repair and I figured to place the right boot and root, swap and home in the right partitions. Now we are here. Simple, insert CD/DVD it should play.

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