Thanks! Fabio Mierlo
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:32, Michael Homer <mich...@gobolinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > I've been working on getting things back up to date for a while now, > with the idea of hopefully getting a CD out with a reasonable upgrade > path. I've been updating the recipes for things and building binary > packages as I go, which are in > <http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/packages/>. In particular, I > have new kernel, Glibc, and X all running. Instructions for getting to > it from the CD or an 014.01 system are in > <https://gist.github.com/1148866>, with I think some updates in > <https://gist.github.com/1360997>. There are no hierarchy or other > major changes, just updated programs that avoid the difficulty of > trying to upgrade things directly from the CD. > > The CD is stalled on a few things, but I do have a fully-working > up-to-date system, so I've made a tarball of the whole thing and > uploaded it. It might be useful to people either to install from or to > use as a reference. The packages in the repository are exactly what's > in there, so there's nothing novel, but I might have missed something > out and it could be retrieved from that. The tarball is of my entire > installed system and is far from minimal - it has a full stack up as > far as Firefox, and it all of the programs I have installed. If you do > install it you're pretty much good to go right away, but it is 1.6GiB > compressed as a consequence. > > There are three main things you'd need to set up to get it working on > your system: firstly, there's no configured bootloader in it, so > you'll need to add it to your existing Grub setup. Secondly, the fstab > needs filling with the right entries for your system. Finally, you'll > need to set a root password (and create a user). You can do that from > an existing system with `sudo chroot /mnt/gobo passwd`, or I suppose > by copying your existing passwd/shadow/group files in. There will be > other things you need to set up, but those are the big ones to start > with. The kernel has a fairly general configuration with most things > as modules, but you might need to rebuild it still for your particular > system. You should be prepared for things to go awry and perhaps hold > off if you're not prepared to deal with that. > > The tarball is at > <http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/gobo-014.10-mwh-20120226.tar.bz2> > (again, 1.6GiB). Everything is inside a "gobo" directory, and the > contents of that should be put in the root of the filesystem you want > to use it on if you plan to boot it. > > Thanks for getting this all together go to Diogo Lima (I hope I recall > correctly), who wrote the original 014.01->current update guide that I > used setting this system up, fowlmouth on #gobolinux who wrote the one > linked above and some tools to help it, and Andreas Köhler who has > been working through it and sent numerous reports and updated recipes. > I hope this can be a foundation both to get people up and running and > to get us closer to a new proper release, whether tarball or CD. > -Michael > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-devel mailing list > gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
