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* | Fix a bug in the program flow related to CONSFONT....If the predefined console font (CONSFONT variable) was not found
on the system, the make_slackware_live.sh script would abort with an error.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-23 | 1 | -6/+7 |
* | Add support for 32-bit UEFI boot (disabled by default)....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-18 | 1 | -42/+67 |
* | New parameters to specify Slackware version and architecture....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').
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-18 | 1 | -26/+42 |
* | Further expand the use of DISTRO variable to customize the Live ISO. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-15 | 1 | -3/+18 |
* | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.7.0.0.7.0 | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Use the right variable to access official Slackware READMEs and other docs. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-15 | 1 | -2/+2 |
* | Use internal variable DISTRO=slackware. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-10 | 1 | -22/+25 |
* | Only add graphics drivers module matching the Linux kernel in the Live ISO. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-09 | 1 | -3/+3 |
* | Remove the /SLACKWARELIVE marker file from the filesystem root....After installation to harddisk using the 'setup2hd' script, this
marker file is a Live OS left over and will only cause confusion.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-03 | 1 | -0/+1 |
* | Use correct grep command to find unique package name....The grep command used so far would find "vim-gvim" when searching for "vim"
because it did not try to match from the beginning of the string.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-28 | 1 | -3/+21 |
* | Determine KGEN properly so that it works for 32-bit Slackware as well....Thanks to SangDae YU for pointing it out.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-27 | 1 | -3/+3 |
* | Better safe than sorry. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-27 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Some small improvements for the harddisk installer. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-24 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Define KVER and KGEN at the proper location in the script. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-24 | 1 | -0/+4 |
* | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.6.0.0.6.0 | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-24 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Add 'setup2hd' - this script will install the Live OS to local hard disk....The 'setup2hd' script is a modified version of 'setup' in the Slackware
installer, taken straight from the initrd.
The SOURCE selection has been removed since the script knows where to
find the Live media.
Except for the actual extraction of Slackware Live content to your
hard drive, the other hard disk installation steps are unmodified from
the stock Slackware installer.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-24 | 1 | -1/+36 |
* | Fix fontconfig. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-24 | 1 | -4/+4 |
* | Really start Konsole with a login shell. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-22 | 1 | -0/+6 |
* | Make this chroot code look easier to interpret by the human eye....The script was mixing relative and absolute paths which is confusing.
In the chroot, we do not have to work with relative paths as is the
case with some original Slackware scripts.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-22 | 1 | -11/+11 |
* | Fix the flow when rsync-ing a remote repository....It is a requirement to have the Slackware mirror available locally in advance.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-16 | 1 | -2/+6 |
* | Add the liveslak documentation to the ISO image. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-16 | 1 | -0/+3 |
* | Enable more customization: configure your own LIVEDE....A new sample configuration file 'make_slackware_live.conf' shows a
commented-out example of how to use the variables LIVEDE, SEQ_CUSTOM
and a function "custom_config()" to create a Slackware Live variant
which is not covered by the available variants SLACKWARE, XFCE, KDE4,
PLASMA5, MATE or CINNAMON.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-15 | 1 | -2/+23 |
* | Download packages from rsync mirror if local repository is empty....This is for package lists in "pkglist/" subdirectory where a 3rd party
repository is the package source.
If the pkglists/*.conf file defines a rsync mirror URL in
variable SL_REPO_URL, then instead of aborting with an error when
the local repository directory (SL_REPO) is empty or non-existing,
the packages will be downloaded from that mirror before continuing.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-14 | 1 | -3/+24 |
* | Allow other people to add their own custom skel*.txz archives....Anything matching ./skel/skel*.txz will be extracted into the Live ISO's
"/etc/skel/" directory by the "make_slackware_live.sh" script.
This allows other people to add application presets for the "live"
user account.
Feature request by Schmatzler for Cinelerra-CV.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-13 | 1 | -2/+5 |
* | PLASMA5: Do not show the blueman applet, Plasma5 has its own BlueTooth widget. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-13 | 1 | -0/+3 |
* | Make X Keyboard configuration work properly....- fix detection of german (de) keyboard layout to configure Compose Key,
- actually use field #6 of the languages file (X Keyboard layout & variant)
when generating the grub and syslinux boot configuration files.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-09 | 1 | -1/+4 |
* | Copy files from /etc/skel _after_ they become available....This block of code was moved up as part of an earlier attempt to group the
code in more closely-knit blocks.
See commit 4c08b1a2caae4319cd4b97a99a5c387ae86e5fdb .
However, it was moved to far up, so we need to revert.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-09 | 1 | -5/+5 |
* | If ALSA pipes into PulseAudio, configure a fallback using "sysdefault"....Or else there will not be sound on first boot.
Not so important for Slackware itself, but a Live distro run from
CD or DVD will never have sound.
Thanks to USUARIONUEVO on LinuxQuestions.org.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-07 | 1 | -0/+7 |
* | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.5.1...Contains bugfixes for the Beta 5 release (0.5.0) prior to public release.
0.5.1 | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Handle in/exclusion of Nvidia drivers more reliably. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -27/+14 |
* | liveinit: use MARKER instead of INITRD as prefix for message display at boot. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -0/+37 |
* | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.5.0 (aka Beta5)...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.
0.5.0 | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-04 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Cosmetics: better grouping of code; additional comments for better readability. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-03 | 1 | -28/+45 |
* | Do not run the risk of creating a dangling symlink. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-03 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Don't abort if the udev rules file is not present in the initrd. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-02 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Get rid of udev errors about obex-check-device on boot....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-29 | 1 | -0/+4 |
* | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.4.0 (aka Beta4)...Milestone reached:
- add LUKS-encrypted /home/.
0.4.0 | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Add support for a LUKS-encrypted /home in the USB Live version....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -3/+6 |
* | Ensure that rc.pulseaudio is not started. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -0/+1 |
* | Readability changes to various comments in the script. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -6/+7 |
* | Enable mouse support in runlevel 3. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -0/+21 |
* | Fix kernel version detection....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-15 | 1 | -3/+5 |
* | Do not overwrite /etc/asound.conf...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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-15 | 1 | -2/+6 |
* | Add 2016 in the copyright line. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | VERSION bump from Beta 3 (aka 0.3) to 0.3.8....Roadmap:
v0.3.9: adding LUKS encrypted /home
v0.4 (Beta4): LUKS home setup stable enough for public consumption.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-14 | 1 | -1/+1 |
* | Do not add Nvidia proprietary drivers to the Full Slackware ISO....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-10 | 1 | -4/+10 |
* | Fixes for SDDM and X keyboard mapping. | ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-10 | 1 | -0/+18 |
* | BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience....- 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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-10 | 1 | -2/+5 |
* | Added support for separate configuration of X keyboard layout/variant....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'.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-05 | 1 | -11/+12 |
* | Use more compatible isohybrid commandline parameters....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.
| ![](//www.gravatar.com/avatar/caef891534164c2e3fee7e102a39cc97?s=13&d=retro) Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-01 | 1 | -16/+15 |