AdmuLinuxGo -- The Instant Linux! version 1.0f (31-July-2000) AdmulinuxGo is a Linux distribution designed to boot and run from ramdisk and CDrom. It is a full-featured Linux development system made instantly available without disk partitioning and without installing on the hard disk, just by booting the AdmuLinuxGo CDrom. Recommended usage: For people running Win9x on their desktops who want to try a modern robust operating system without the hassle of disk partitioning or installation, or for those with little or no harddisk space left. System requirements: PC with 386/486/Pentium or compatible processor, fast IDE/ATAPI-CDrom, 32MB ram minimum, SVGA/S3/VGA16 video card and multisync monitor, 2/3-button serial or PS2 mouse. Website: http://www.admulinux.org/ Changes for 1.0f (July 31, 2000) 1. /boot/install.gz is a new root file system that can be used to install admulinux to the hard disk, if the user wants to. This can be booted from dos using the batch file /boot/install.bat. install.gz uses glibc-2.1.3 and includes only the most basic utilities for installing to the harddisk, for repairing the hard disk, and for emergency boot purposes, such as when you forget your password. It operates completely from the ramdisk, and does not mount the CD nor the hard disk. It comes with vi (if you need to erase the root password from /etc/shadow), the partition editor parted-1.2.5, fdisk, mke2fs, e2fsck, and the installation scripts extract, fstabconfig, and netconfig. See the file INSTALL (at the website) for instructions on installing admulinux to the hard disk. There is just one problem: you must boot dos and it must have CD rom support. Alternative: while in Windows, copy the files loadlin.exe, install.bat, install.gz, and linux.gz from /boot to your Windows partition, then shutdown to dos, and run install.bat. These files will constitute your install and rescue system, and will come in handy when you forget the root password. 2. A new web page, /opt/apache/htdocs/linuxworld/index.html, entitled "The World of Linux" is now available, and is included in the starting page of netscape. It is an introduction to Linux and why it is so good. A comparison of Linux and Windows is given. 3. Documentation for the partition editor, parted-1.2.5, is available from the web page /opt/apache/htdocs/parted/, and is available from the netscape start page.. The command 'man 8 parted' gives the standard manual pages for parted. Note: 1.0d and 1.0e were never released. Changes for 1.0c (July 26, 2000) 1. /opt/netscape/netscape is now communicator version 4.74. 2. Hugs98, a Haskell interpreter from Yale, is now installed as /usr/bin/hugs. This is for my students in CS280, "Programming Paradigms". 3. By making the links /usr/lib/zoneinfo -> /usr/share/zoneinfo, /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime -> /etc/localtime, /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Manila, and by running 'hwclock --hctosys --localtime' in /sbin/rc, the 'date' command now gives the proper date as set in the hardware clock. (Note: /usr is on read-only CDrom, but /etc is on ramdisk. By changing /etc/localtime and then running hwclock, the user can change timezone). The variable ENV_TZ in /etc/login.defs was defined incorrectly. It has been removed. 4. The X screensavers bob, geometry, and pengiun have been removed from the fvwm main menu, since they are not supported. 5. The default webpage /opt/apache/htdocs/index.html is now more compact and a slightly prettier. Now it includes the Hugs98 users' manual. 6. Root color under X is now gray50, which is lighter than the original gray24. Changes for 1.0b (July 22, 2000) 1. /usr/info/dir is now available, and so /usr/bin/info now works without arguments. 2. /etc/protocols is now available, and so /bin/ping now works. 3. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc have been modified to effect the following chages: a. Root color is now gray24 instead of SteelBlue to match the subdued color scheme being used by fvwm. b. xterm uses white text over black background, so that text colors used by the /bin/ls command are more visible. Formerly, it was black text on white background, and many of the color choices in /etc/DIR_COLORS do not come out right. c. Left-clicking on the root window shows the main menu. Those applications that are not supported have been removed from the main menu, such as emacs, gimp, xfig, xpaint, xxgdb, TkDesk, Xfilemanager, Xfm, all the Xgames, Rxvt, Large Rxvt, NcFtp, Gnuplot, xfractint, screensaver marquee and nose, fvwm95, mwm, and olwm. Those applications that are supported have been added, such as ghostview, xpdf, and xwpe. Others that are already supported, like netscape and xv, were retained in the main menu. 4. The database /usr/man/whatis is now available, and so /usr/bin/whatis and /usr/bin/apropos now work. 5. /opt/netscape/netscape default webpage, /opt/apache/htdocs/index.html, though useful, is still ugly. However, Sacha Chua promised to work on this. 6. The user is now asked to login as root. Formerly, you get a login prompt, and the novice user does not know that he must login as root. So now we tell him. Like before, no password is required. 7. The softlink /opt/java/docs -> /opt/apache/htdocs/jdk1.2.2 is now installed, so that java documentation is available to apache, netscape and the java utilities. Changes for 1.0a (July 12, 2000) 1. The first Windows partition (or Linux partition), if any, is mounted at /wrk 2. Directory /wrk/admlinux is created, and the following files are saved there: a. X configuration data: XF86Config, Xserver, mouse b. Swapfile: swap 3. On bootup, a swapfile, /wrk/admlinux/swap, is created, and if it already exists is enabled. 4. When root logs in, if X has not been previously configured, /usr/local/sbin/xsetup is run to configure X. 5. xsetup now asks the user to: a. Choose X server b. Specify horizontal and vertical frequencies of monitor c. Choose mouse, and if serial, choose serial port. 6. The user is told to type the command startx to get X window running. X is not automatically started in order to give the user a chance to manually tweak the files /wrk/admlinux/ {XF86Config, Xserver, mouse} on disk, and the actual X configuration files /etc/X11/XF86Config, /etc/X11/X, and /dev/mouse (by rerunning xsetup?) - Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
