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* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.5.0 (aka Beta5)0.5.0 Eric Hameleers2016-02-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Milestones reached: - Option to use a loop-mounted file for storing persistence data. When using 'iso2usb.sh' to copy the ISO content to a USB stick, use the new '-P' parameter to create and use a container file 'persistence.img'. Note that the existence of a directory 'persistence' in the root of the Linux partition of your USB stick still takes precedence over the file 'persistence.img'. So be sure to remove that directory first, if you want to start using a loop-mounted file for persistence. - New 'toram' boot option (add the word to the syslinux or grub boot commandline) allows you to run the Live OS completely in RAM. If you are booting from a CDROM, it will be ejected at the end of the boot process. A USB stick can be removed manually after booting Slackware Live Edition. Further interesting updates: - A new boot parameter 'blacklist' allows you to blacklist certain kernel modules while booting. Some people need to blacklist the 'nouveau' module for instance. Example: add "blacklist=nouveau" to the syslinux or grub boot commandline. Multiple modules can be specified, separated by commas. - The XDM login screen now has a button "console" which lets you drop to a console login if you have no need of a graphical login or don't want to start an X Session (relevant for the XFCE and MATE variants). And many other small improvements/bugfixes to the scripts as well of course.
* Cosmetics: better grouping of code; additional comments for better readability. Eric Hameleers2016-02-031-28/+45
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* Do not run the risk of creating a dangling symlink. Eric Hameleers2016-02-031-1/+1
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* Live init: add 'blacklist' bootparam to prevent loading of kernel driver(s). Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-0/+15
| | | | | | | | Any kernel modules mentioned here will be added to the modprobe blacklist. This will help out people who need to blacklist the nouveau driver, for instance if they have a too-new computer. Syntax: blacklist=mod1[,mod2[,...]]
* Live init: eject the Live CDROM/DVD medium after loading modules into RAM. Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-0/+3
| | | | Only relevant if the user added the 'toram' boot option.
* Live init: move the module loading code into a single function call. Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-33/+33
| | | | This gets rid of quite some code duplication.
* XDM: add a 'console' button for easy access to a console login session. Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-2/+5
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* Don't abort if the udev rules file is not present in the initrd. Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-1/+1
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* Live init: add 'toram' boot parameter. Eric Hameleers2016-02-021-6/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows the user to remove the bootable Live media afterwards, because the complete OS will been copied to RAM and run from there when adding the boot commandline parameter 'toram'. This feature works nicely for the XFCE ISO since that one is fairly small. Untested for the bigger ISOs; you need more patience while the squashfs modules are being copied to RAM, and available RAM decreases a lot. Realistically speaking, your computer would need 1 or 2 GB of RAM for the XFCE variant, 2 or 4 GB RAM for the Mate variant, and 4 to 8 GB RAM for the KDE4 and Plasma5 variants.
* liveinit: fix a spelling error in a comment (nitpicking I know). Eric Hameleers2016-02-011-1/+1
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* Add support for persistence using a loop-mounted container file. Eric Hameleers2016-01-292-69/+153
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an option to store persistent data in a container file instead of a directory in the USB stick's Linux filesystem. Theoretically, this would allow the Slackware Live files to be copied to a VFAT partition on a stick without erasing it, as long as the stick is made bootable and the Live kernel & initrd are added to the boot menu. To create a USB stick from the Live ISO which uses a persistence file instead of a persistence directory, run the 'iso2usb.sh' script with a new parameter: -P|--persistfile Use a 'persistence' container file instead of a directory (for use on FAT filesystem). The following example creates a 750 MB LUKS-encrypted container file 'slhome.img' which will contain /home ; as well as a file '/persistence.img' in the root of the USB's Linux partition which will be used to store the Live OS' persistent data: ./iso2usb.sh -i slackware64-live-current.iso -o /dev/sdX -c 750M -P NOTE: The persistence container file will be created as a 'sparse' file which starts as an empty file not using up any disk space, but is allowed to grow dynamically to consume a maximum value of 90% of the free disk space on the Linux partition of the USB stick.
* Get rid of udev errors about obex-check-device on boot. Eric Hameleers2016-01-291-0/+4
| | | | | | | | The mkinitrd script adds /lib/udev/rules.d/60-openobex.rules to the initrd image, but since the rest of the openobex package is not added, this results in a "error: obex-check-device not found". We do not need bluetooth stuff in the initrd anyway, so we remove the rules file manually from the initrd until mkinitrd gets fixed.
* Fix a flow in the logic when using a LUKS /home and no persistence. Eric Hameleers2016-01-291-2/+4
| | | | | | The /home would end up read-only if the "nop" parameter was passed on the boot commandline in order to disable persistence for the session. So, remount the media as writable earlier during init.
* MATE Live: removed libgnomecanvas as it's no longer needed to build zenity. Eric Hameleers2016-01-241-1/+0
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* MATE ISO: updated package list (some packages now part of slackware-current). Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-7/+0
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* Slackware Live Edition: version 0.4.0 (aka Beta4)0.4.0 Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-1/+1
| | | | | Milestone reached: - add LUKS-encrypted /home/.
* Add support for a LUKS-encrypted /home in the USB Live version. Eric Hameleers2016-01-223-36/+234
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Using iso2usb.sh script's new '-c' parameter, you can define the size for a container file in the root of the USB stick's Linux partition. - The container file will be loop-mounted and LUKS-encrypted and the Live OS will mount the filesystem inside the container on /home/. - The LUKS passphrase will be defined when executing the 'iso2usb.sh' script. - The original /home content of the ISO will be copied into the LUKS-encrypted container during execution of the 'iso2usb.sh' script. - If for whatever reason you do not want to unlock & mount the LUKS container during boot, you must add the boot parameter " luksvol= " to the syslinux or grub commandline.
* PLASMA5: bluez-qt is part of Frameworks, not Plasma. Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-1/+1
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* Updated package list for the minimal XFCE ISO to keep it below 703MB (CDROM). Eric Hameleers2016-01-223-4/+6
| | | | | Removed: mozilla-thunderbird Added: boost, bsd-games, ghostscript-fonts-std, gpm, xfractint.
* Ensure that rc.pulseaudio is not started. Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-0/+1
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* Readability changes to various comments in the script. Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-6/+7
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* Enable mouse support in runlevel 3. Eric Hameleers2016-01-221-0/+21
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* Fix kernel version detection. Eric Hameleers2016-01-151-3/+5
| | | | | The new kernel has version number '4.4.0'. Yet the kernel package names, like the kernel source tarball, has a version '4.4'. We need to compensate.
* Do not overwrite /etc/asound.conf Eric Hameleers2016-01-151-2/+6
| | | | | | | Slackware has added PulseAudio plus a /etc/asound.conf file, which configures all ALSA output as an input to PA. An ALSA softvol pre-amp is therefore no longer needed and our Live script should not overwrite the /etc/asound.conf file in the OS.
* Add 2016 in the copyright line. Eric Hameleers2016-01-153-3/+3
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* Plasma5 Live: add a new dependency libkexiv2_4 for okular. Eric Hameleers2016-01-141-0/+1
| | | | Reason: okular is still KDE4 based but libkexiv2 moved on and is now KF5 based.
* VERSION bump from Beta 3 (aka 0.3) to 0.3.8. Eric Hameleers2016-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | Roadmap: v0.3.9: adding LUKS encrypted /home v0.4 (Beta4): LUKS home setup stable enough for public consumption.
* PLASMA5 Live: sync to KDE-5_16.01 release. Eric Hameleers2016-01-141-0/+3
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* XFCE Live: keep up with new packages in Slackware-current. Eric Hameleers2016-01-143-0/+19
| | | | PulseAudio and its dependencies mainly.
* Do not add Nvidia proprietary drivers to the Full Slackware ISO. Eric Hameleers2016-01-101-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | The customized ISOs (Slackware plus 3rd party software) can include the proprietary drivers, but the Full Slackware ISO is meant as a demo for official Slackware and therefore should not include 3rd party packages. If you respin the SLACKWARE ISO, it is of course still possible to add the binary Nvidia blob yourself by copying the graphics/*nvidia*.szx file to the 'optional' directory yourself. Nothing else is needed, it will 'just' work.
* Fixes for SDDM and X keyboard mapping. Eric Hameleers2016-01-101-0/+18
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* BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience. Eric Hameleers2016-01-109-422/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - generate the grub fonts (.pf2) ourselves instead of using the Slackware-provided grub font file. - expand the help text about the boot parameters. - show the liveslak version number in the boot menu. - remove the 'boot any OS' menu item in Grub because it never worked for me. - add a bit of Grub help text at the bottom of the screen. NOTES: - I do not like the way how I had to implement the Grub2 help menu, it is ugly. Perhaps the text artefacts and understrikes are caused by the fact that the grub console has to paint on top of the graphical boot menu? - In any case, the grub console (the black rectangle in the middle) has its coordinates hard-coded in the grub2 source so it is not configurable. - the grub fonts look better than in Beta3 but I am still not happy with them. Research on Grub boot menu enhancements done by Didier Spaier.
* Fix X keyboard configuration if no custom layout was chosen at boot. Eric Hameleers2016-01-101-10/+12
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* Added support for separate configuration of X keyboard layout/variant. Eric Hameleers2016-01-053-27/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New parameter for the boot commandline: xkb=[language],variant Examples: # Only specify a Xkbvariant, and inherit the console keyboard layout in X: kbd=nl xkb=,sundeadkeys # Define a 'french swiss' layout in X, independent of the console: xkb=ch,fr Two new keyboard/language choices have been added which use this functionality: - german swiss - french swiss (requested by Niki Kovacs). New: if a non-US keyboard layout is selected, the US layout will be added as a secondary layout. Toggling between the two layouts is possible using the Shift-LeftAlt key combo. Also new: the RightAlt key is now defined as the Compose Key in X. Meaning, the combo <RightAlt><"><e> will generate a 'ë character'.
* XFCE: libevent is a new dependency for the links package. Eric Hameleers2016-01-041-0/+1
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* Use more compatible isohybrid commandline parameters. Eric Hameleers2016-01-011-16/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | This modifies Didier's original patch with a simpler set of parameters. His recommendations are based on these threads: http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-February/023256.html http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-May/023455.html http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-July/022538.html The new parameters allow the big ISOs to be booted in VBox. Patch proposed by Didier Spaier.
* Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot. Eric Hameleers2016-01-014-5/+15
| | | | | Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well. Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
* Updated skeleton files for populating the 'live' user's homedirectory.Beta3 Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+0
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* Updated package lists for non-Slackware and custom configurations. Eric Hameleers2015-12-245-159/+174
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* In XDM's Xresources file, try to handle varying screen sizes better. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-7/+7
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* Clear the syslinux menu from the screen when booting the OS. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+1
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* Add a themed GRUB2 menu for UEFI boot, these are the actual files used. Eric Hameleers2015-12-248-210/+98
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* Much enhanced iso2usb script. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-37/+88
| | | | | | | | | Two new parameters '--force' and '--persistence'. Read "usb2iso.sh --help". Size of the EFI partition was reduced from 200 to 100 MB. The wait-for-root time in the initrd.img file is changed for both BIOS and UEFI boot; this should make boot work out of the box for most computers. More robustness was added in handling race conditions. Only make the USB stick UEFI-bootable if the ISO file is capable of the same.
* Add themed GRUB2 configuration for UEFI boot. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-20/+99
| | | | | | | The GRUB2 theme is similar to the Syslinux theme used for BIOS boot. However, the GRUB menu also allows the user to select a timezone, whereas due to the limitations of syslinux, you'll have to edit the syslinux commandline to change your timezone there.
* Add Mate repository info if we are adding slackpkg+. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-3/+4
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* Start Konsole with a login shell. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+9
| | | | However... does not seem to work for non-US language choices.
* Stamp a VERSION number in the ISO, and to the USB partition. Eric Hameleers2015-12-242-8/+20
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* Make the init more robust. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-10/+38
| | | | | | | The computer may have other partitions which contain a Live image, we need to choose one. Alternatively, use "livemedia=/dev/sdX" to point init to the Live device we want to boot.
* Delete ALSA state file, the Live OS may be booted on different computers. Eric Hameleers2015-12-241-0/+3
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* Some small tweaks. Eric Hameleers2015-12-231-2/+3
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