Robert Millan schreef:
Hi!
I rolled a new netboot image, and corrected a number of issues in the archive.
What we have now:
- tasksel didn't work (package selection wasn't automatically installed).
It's quite messy to work with tasksel anyway, so I got rid of it, and
now use preseeding for package selection instead.
- wireless was mistakenly disabled by deblob, fixed now (thanks to DJB
Clark for pointing it out).
- renamed distroname (lenny -> mipsel-l)
- fixed a few package conflicts.
Note: I experienced stability problems that sometimes brought Linux down when
performing a full (+desktop) install. Therefore the desktop components are
not enabled by default, you have to install them manually afterwards:
apt-get install gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop
Note2: for those who already installed with an older version, the current URIs
for sources.list are:
deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream mipsel-l
main
deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/pruned-upstream-security
mipsel-l main
deb http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/overlay mipsel-l main
My experience with a fresh install on /dev/hda5 (summarizing, because
it's much like Samy's):
- "LVM not available" near the start
- It got stuck at 90% for about 5 or 10 minutes. I could use tty2 just
fine, so it's not a kernel problem. There seemed to be no network
activity and the hard drive LED only flashed briefly a few times per
minute. After that it continued on with creating the vmlinux symlink.
- I also had to try a few time with PMON2000. It didn't seem to like the
symlink and the logical partition very much.
- While installing gnewsense-pkgsel-desktop I happened to see that some
Gnome menu stuff was skipping denemo.desktop and nted.desktop because
they don't include a menu name. Probably not mips-specific, but I
thought I'd mention it anyway.
It's still working on the desktop install right now, but I guess there
won't be many surprises with that.
Thanks for the improvements.
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