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| 2016-02-05 | iso2usb.sh: fix a logic error. |   Eric Hameleers | 1 | -4/+8 |
| 2016-02-04 | 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 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-02-03 | Cosmetics: better grouping of code; additional comments for better readability. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -28/+45 |
| 2016-02-03 | Do not run the risk of creating a dangling symlink. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-02-02 | Live init: add 'blacklist' bootparam to prevent loading of kernel driver(s)....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[,...]]
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+15 |
| 2016-02-02 | Live init: eject the Live CDROM/DVD medium after loading modules into RAM....Only relevant if the user added the 'toram' boot option.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+3 |
| 2016-02-02 | Live init: move the module loading code into a single function call....This gets rid of quite some code duplication.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -33/+33 |
| 2016-02-02 | XDM: add a 'console' button for easy access to a console login session. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+5 |
| 2016-02-02 | Don't abort if the udev rules file is not present in the initrd. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-02-02 | Live init: add 'toram' boot parameter....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -6/+39 |
| 2016-02-01 | liveinit: fix a spelling error in a comment (nitpicking I know). | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-01-29 | Add support for persistence using a loop-mounted container file....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 2 | -69/+153 |
| 2016-01-29 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+4 |
| 2016-01-29 | Fix a flow in the logic when using a LUKS /home and no persistence....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+4 |
| 2016-01-24 | MATE Live: removed libgnomecanvas as it's no longer needed to build zenity. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+0 |
| 2016-01-22 | MATE ISO: updated package list (some packages now part of slackware-current). | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -7/+0 |
| 2016-01-22 | Slackware Live Edition: version 0.4.0 (aka Beta4)...Milestone reached:
- add LUKS-encrypted /home/.
0.4.0 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-01-22 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 3 | -36/+234 |
| 2016-01-22 | PLASMA5: bluez-qt is part of Frameworks, not Plasma. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-01-22 | Updated package list for the minimal XFCE ISO to keep it below 703MB (CDROM)....Removed: mozilla-thunderbird
Added: boost, bsd-games, ghostscript-fonts-std, gpm, xfractint.
| Eric Hameleers | 3 | -4/+6 |
| 2016-01-22 | Ensure that rc.pulseaudio is not started. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+1 |
| 2016-01-22 | Readability changes to various comments in the script. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -6/+7 |
| 2016-01-22 | Enable mouse support in runlevel 3. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+21 |
| 2016-01-15 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -3/+5 |
| 2016-01-15 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+6 |
| 2016-01-15 | Add 2016 in the copyright line. | Eric Hameleers | 3 | -3/+3 |
| 2016-01-14 | Plasma5 Live: add a new dependency libkexiv2_4 for okular....Reason: okular is still KDE4 based but libkexiv2 moved on and is now KF5 based.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+1 |
| 2016-01-14 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2016-01-14 | PLASMA5 Live: sync to KDE-5_16.01 release. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+3 |
| 2016-01-14 | XFCE Live: keep up with new packages in Slackware-current....PulseAudio and its dependencies mainly.
| Eric Hameleers | 3 | -0/+19 |
| 2016-01-10 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -4/+10 |
| 2016-01-10 | Fixes for SDDM and X keyboard mapping. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+18 |
| 2016-01-10 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 9 | -422/+165 |
| 2016-01-10 | Fix X keyboard configuration if no custom layout was chosen at boot. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -10/+12 |
| 2016-01-05 | 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'.
| Eric Hameleers | 3 | -27/+57 |
| 2016-01-04 | XFCE: libevent is a new dependency for the links package. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+1 |
| 2016-01-01 | 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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -16/+15 |
| 2016-01-01 | Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot....Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well.
Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
| Eric Hameleers | 4 | -5/+15 |
| 2015-12-24 | Updated skeleton files for populating the 'live' user's homedirectory.Beta3 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+0 |
| 2015-12-24 | Updated package lists for non-Slackware and custom configurations. | Eric Hameleers | 5 | -159/+174 |
| 2015-12-24 | In XDM's Xresources file, try to handle varying screen sizes better. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -7/+7 |
| 2015-12-24 | Clear the syslinux menu from the screen when booting the OS. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+1 |
| 2015-12-24 | Add a themed GRUB2 menu for UEFI boot, these are the actual files used. | Eric Hameleers | 8 | -210/+98 |
| 2015-12-24 | Much enhanced iso2usb script....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -37/+88 |
| 2015-12-24 | Add themed GRUB2 configuration for UEFI boot....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -20/+99 |
| 2015-12-24 | Add Mate repository info if we are adding slackpkg+. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -3/+4 |
| 2015-12-24 | Start Konsole with a login shell....However... does not seem to work for non-US language choices.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+9 |
| 2015-12-24 | Stamp a VERSION number in the ISO, and to the USB partition. | Eric Hameleers | 2 | -8/+20 |
| 2015-12-24 | Make the init more robust....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.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -10/+38 |
| 2015-12-24 | Delete ALSA state file, the Live OS may be booted on different computers. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+3 |
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