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* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.9.0.0.9.0 Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+1
| | | | And it is ready for a stable 1.0.0 version if no further bugs are uncovered.
* README.txt: suggest 'toram' boot parameter when running a PXE server. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-0/+2
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* Without 'fsid' option nfsd refuses to export the filesystem if it is RAM based. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+3
| | | | The number '14' used in the script could be any (unique) low-range number.
* pxeserver: minor polishing. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-2/+2
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* liveinit: allow PXE server to work even when the Live media is copied to RAM. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-6/+14
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* iso2usb.sh: show some progress info when copying files from ISO to USB. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-2/+7
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* XFCE: routed is needed for the PXE server. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-0/+2
| | | | | | Packages added: + netkit-ftp + netkit-routed
* README.txt: update the documentation for the new PXE server functionality. Eric Hameleers2016-05-053-0/+60
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* Add PXE server infrastructure. Eric Hameleers2016-05-052-0/+731
| | | | | See the README.txt for instructions on how to use the 'pxeserver' script and what it can do for you.
* Silence one "cd -". Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+1
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* liveinit: when network-booting, add MAC address as suffix to the hostname. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+20
| | | | | | | | | | This default behaviour can be prohibited by applying an extended 'hostname' boot parameter as follows: hostname=your_custom_hostname,fixed The qualifier 'fixed' after the comma will prevent the hostname from being changed to something else than 'your_custom_hostname'.
* SYSLINUX: add a 'clear screen' command at the top of the syslinux message. Eric Hameleers2016-05-051-1/+1
| | | | | Results in a nicer looking welcome screen when you boot the Live OS without the graphical syslinux menu.
* XFCE: add some network tools, remove some entertainment (to stay below 703MB). Eric Hameleers2016-05-052-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added packages: + bind + dnsmasq + idnkit + traceroute Removed packages: - xfractint - xlockmore - xmms The XFCE ISO has xaos as alternative to xfractint. The xlockmore program is not used anyway (we have xscreensaver). XMMS was a hard call but there's audacious still. In return, you get useful stuff like nslookup and host, and dnsmasq is required by the PXE server (soon to be added).
* Update the 'timeconfig' script in make_slackware_live.sh, not in liveinit. Eric Hameleers2016-04-292-2/+9
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* Do not specify heads/sectors when calling "isohybrid -u". Eric Hameleers2016-04-271-17/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The resulting ISO will boot on real hardware as well as in virtualizers like QEMU, VirtualBox and VMWare Player, despite the warning shown by isohybrid that the ISO has more than 1024 cilynders and not all BIOSes will be able to boot it. Specifying sectors/heads to stay "standard compliant" will generate ISO files that fail to boot in VirtualBox if the ISO filesize is larger than roughly 1 GB, spitting out the error "VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED".
* Deal with custom timezones (non-UTC) in KDE4 and PLASMA5. Eric Hameleers2016-04-272-0/+30
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* Update syslinux & grub help files with latest boot parameter info. Eric Hameleers2016-04-245-3/+40
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* Fix the package list for PLASMA5. Eric Hameleers2016-04-241-2/+1
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* make_slackware_live.sh: accept custom ISO filename without full pathname. Eric Hameleers2016-04-241-3/+3
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* Do not bail out if there are no X apps in the ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-04-221-1/+3
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* iso2usb.sh: fix detection of UEFI support in the ISO image file. Eric Hameleers2016-04-221-5/+2
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* liveinit: make the DHCP wait time configurable and set a longer default. Eric Hameleers2016-04-222-7/+14
| | | | | | | New boot parameter: dhcpwait=<numseconds> Maximum wait time for the DHCP client to configure a network interface (new default: 20 seconds, was 10 seconds).
* make_slackware_live.sh: add parameter to specify custom ISO name. Eric Hameleers2016-04-221-9/+16
| | | | | New parameter: -O outfile => Full path to a custom filename for the ISO.
* Allow CONFFILE to be specified as an environment variable. Eric Hameleers2016-04-211-1/+1
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* make_slackware_live.sh: fixes for kernel detection & selection on 32bit arch. Eric Hameleers2016-04-201-8/+26
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* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.8.0.0.8.0 Eric Hameleers2016-04-191-1/+1
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* MATE: update to Mate 1.14. Eric Hameleers2016-04-192-9/+3
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* PLASMA5: refresh the package lists. Eric Hameleers2016-04-192-7/+27
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* make_slackware_live.sh: also add dependencies of network modules to initrd. Eric Hameleers2016-04-191-2/+27
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* liveinit: make the udev trigger for net devices more rebust. Eric Hameleers2016-04-191-10/+21
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* Add a post-install customization hook to 'setup2hd'. Eric Hameleers2016-04-173-30/+156
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A new file 'setup2hd.local' has been added to the liveslak sources. If you do not touch that one, it will be copied to: /usr/share/${LIVEMAIN}/setup2hd.$DISTRO.sample and serve as just that, a sample script. If on the other hand you rename the file to 'setup2hd.$DISTRO' before generating your ISO image ($DISTRO being the name of your own distro, like 'CINELIVE'), then this file will be installed in the ISO as /usr/share/${LIVEMAIN}/setup2hd.$DISTRO and this will be sourced by 'setup2hd' providing you a custom post-install customization hook for your own Live distro. Usage instructions are inside 'setup2hd.local'.
* iso2usb.sh: only umount if the directory was actually mounted. Eric Hameleers2016-04-151-3/+3
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* iso2usb.sh: use XZ for compressing/decompressing the initrd. Eric Hameleers2016-04-131-3/+16
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* Use XZ compression for the initrd instead of GZIP. Eric Hameleers2016-04-131-7/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This shrinks the initrd back from 22 to 17 MB in size. Also, a redundant copy of the initrd was removed from the '0000-slackware_boot' module, reducing the ISO size with an additional 17 MB. These two modifications compensate for the increased size due to addition of network modules and firmware (which are needed for network boot). Goal reached: the XFCE ISO still fits on CDROM media.
* README.txt updated for the network boot (NFS root) functionality. Eric Hameleers2016-04-131-0/+41
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* Add NFS root support. Eric Hameleers2016-04-132-2/+186
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is now possible to PXE-boot the Slackware Live Edition. Extract the content of the ISO to (for instance) a new directory called 'slackware-live' below your TFTP server's /tftproot directory and then add lines like this to your pxelinux.cfg/default file: label liveslak kernel slackware-live/boot/generic append initrd=slackware-live/boot/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 kbd=us tz=Europe/Amsterdam locale=us_EN.utf8 nfsroot=192.168.0.1:/tftpboot/slackware-live hostname=pxelive Two new boot parameters have been added to support a NFS root: * nfsroot => mandatory parameter defines the IP address of the NFS server and the path to the extracted content of Slackware Live Edition. * nic => parameter defining the driver for the network card (optional and usually not needed because UDEV will figure out the driver for you), the interface name (optional), the IP configuration method (static IP or DHCP), and in case of a static IP, the required parameters ipaddress, netmask and an optional gateway. Note that the 'nic' parameter is optional if you have a DHCP server in your LAN: Slackware Live will figure out what the interface name is. Syntax of these parameters: nfsroot=ip.ad.dr.ess:/path/to/liveslak nic=<driver>:<interface>:<dhcp|static>[:ipaddr:netmask[:gateway]] Example use of these parameters: nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/tftproot/slackware-live nic=auto:eth0:static:10.0.0.21:24: nic=:eth1:static:192.168.1.6:255.255.255.248:192.168.1.1
* Umount LIVE_ROOTDIR's sub-mounts properly on emergency cleanup. Eric Hameleers2016-04-121-0/+3
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* liveinit: correctly create an overlay of all installed content. Eric Hameleers2016-04-081-5/+12
| | | | | | | The 'setup2hd' script will use this readonly overlay to install to your harddrive. However, this readonly overlay still contained the Live customizations which you do not want copied over to your harddrive. This update fixes the logical fallacy so that 'setup2hd' works properly now.
* XFCE: add 'squashfs-tools' to the minimal package list (min.lst). Eric Hameleers2016-03-291-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The squashfs-tools are an essential package when using 'setup2hd', the Slackware Live OS' harddisk installer. The XFCE ISO does not contain setup2hd at all (it only gets added to ISOs with a huge kernel) but if someone creates a custom Live OS containing a huge kernel but based on the minimal XFCE variant, this custom Live OS requires the presence of unsquashfs, or else 'setup2hd' will fail.
* Fix the 'setup2hd' script's method of Live content installation. Eric Hameleers2016-03-293-42/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the original version of the script, the squashfs modules' contents would be extracted one after the other. However this disregards any package or file deletions inbetween modules. As a result, e.g. a PLASMA5 installation to disk using 'setup2hd' would leave several artefacts in removed_scripts and removed_packages and probably in other locations too. The overlay is now constructed somewhat differently, so that 'setup2hd' can access the full read-only filesystem properly; it will copy this content to the harddisk using rsync. A progress indicator will show the stats of files that are actually being transferred. At the same time, the 'setup2hd' script's language settings are now hard-coded by setting 'LC_ALL' and LANG to "C". Slackware's setup scripts parse command output and expect english texts there, but when you selected a different language when booting your Live OS, this would confuse e.g. 'liloconfig' to the extent that it failed to find the Linux partitions.
* Changed layout of README.txt slightly for better match with Wiki version. Eric Hameleers2016-03-231-138/+201
| | | | | | When changes need to be made to README.txt and its Wiki version at http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak I want to be able to diff the two easily.
* Fix a bug in the program flow related to CONSFONT. Eric Hameleers2016-03-231-6/+7
| | | | | If the predefined console font (CONSFONT variable) was not found on the system, the make_slackware_live.sh script would abort with an error.
* Add support for 32-bit UEFI boot (disabled by default). Eric Hameleers2016-03-183-47/+84
| | | | | | | | | | | This requires functionality in grub which is currently not enabled in Slackware's grub package. If you want a 32-bit Live ISO that boots on UEFI computers, you need to recompile Slackware's grub with the patch for grub.SlackBuild which you can find in the ./patches subdirectory. Then you need to set the variable "EFI32" to "YES" in the 'make_slackware_live.sh' script and (re-)generate your 32-bit ISO. The resulting 32-bit Live ISO will be UEFI-bootable.
* Patch for Slackware's grub.SlackBuild adds 32bit EFI support. Eric Hameleers2016-03-181-0/+85
| | | | | Not that 32bit EFI support is anywhere useful... but some people requested this.
* New parameters to specify Slackware version and architecture. Eric Hameleers2016-03-181-26/+42
| | | | | | | | | The 'make_slackware_live.sh' script now has two extra parameters: -a arch Specify machine architecture (default: 'x86_64'). Use i586 for a 32bit ISO, x86_64 for 64bit. -z version Specify the Slackware version (default: 'current').
* Further expand the use of DISTRO variable to customize the Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-03-154-20/+35
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* Show example of how to change distro name in your custom Live ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-03-151-0/+4
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* XFCE: add 'js185' package to support mozilla-firefox. Eric Hameleers2016-03-151-0/+1
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* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.7.0.0.7.0 Eric Hameleers2016-03-151-1/+1
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* Use the right variable to access official Slackware READMEs and other docs. Eric Hameleers2016-03-151-2/+2
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