Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-19 Thread fsmithred
On 05/18/2016 08:32 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:04:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:52:57AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: >>> I think it's also removed in the boot menu of my unofficial live beta, but >>> it's still there in refractasnapshot. No plans to

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread David Hare
Did "real" installations, both the original and the beta (bios machine). Went fast and flawlessly in both cases with refractainstaller. However, the "beta" failed to boot (to that installation) with a kernel panic.. update-grub had failed to configure /boot/initrd_devuan.img I made an entry in

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:04:53PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:52:57AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > > I think it's also removed in the boot menu of my unofficial live beta, but > > it's still there in refractasnapshot. No plans to get rid of that. > > Ok, I'm confused.

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:52:57AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > I think it's also removed in the boot menu of my unofficial live beta, but > it's still there in refractasnapshot. No plans to get rid of that. Ok, I'm confused. Is the mini live image that KatolaZ produced a small version of your

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread David Hare
sudo is set up automatically by /lib/live/config/0040-sudo .. unless "nocomponents=sudo" is on the cmdline. By default for "user" unless "username=xyz" is specified. On 18 May 2016 at 14:52, fsmithred wrote: > On 05/18/2016 05:04 AM, KatolaZ wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread fsmithred
On 05/18/2016 05:04 AM, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:44:23AM +0100, David Hare wrote: >> What is ${netconfig_opt} in live.cfg? >> > > It's coming from refracta, I guess. It should probably be removed in > the future. Yes, ${netconfig_opt} is from refractasnapshot and can be turned

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:53:57PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > @KatolaZ (and everyone else): I just took the 2016-05-17 iteration of > devuan-minimal for a short spin, and here are my notes. In summary, it > seems to be a nicely prepared iso, with features that I've found > overlooked in much

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:44:23AM +0100, David Hare wrote: > Boruch, the iso boots from isolinux, (isolinux/live.cfg), grub is not > involved. > > My notes (so far): > > What is ${netconfig_opt} in live.cfg? > It's coming from refracta, I guess. It should probably be removed in the future. >

Re: [DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-18 Thread David Hare
Boruch, the iso boots from isolinux, (isolinux/live.cfg), grub is not involved. My notes (so far): What is ${netconfig_opt} in live.cfg? What is udevuan.cfg? "vga=792" may fail in some case, probably best not set as default Menu entry "(nofb)": Runlevel 3 has no special meaning for this iso

[DNG] devuan-minimal brief review notes

2016-05-17 Thread Boruch Baum
@KatolaZ (and everyone else): I just took the 2016-05-17 iteration of devuan-minimal for a short spin, and here are my notes. In summary, it seems to be a nicely prepared iso, with features that I've found overlooked in much larger distros that make attempts to be minimal. Nice work!