I initially picked mini because I thought maybe if the ISO is smaller it
means this has a better chance of running on old, memory-limited systems.
Maybe that's completely misguided-- the download page could really use some
comments on system requirements. I'll work with the gnome edition and
Magic Banana:
When I boot from the CD and do sudo apt-get install trisquel-mini
trisquel-mini recommended, it says both of those are up-to-date.
You say I have the NetInstall version. Does that mean I should have
selected a different ISO? Let's be clear on what I want to achieve: I want to
I have just now tried the Gnome desktop version of the Trisquel CD (first
choice under the 'download' tab). It gave me a desktop right away. So
whatever the problem is with the 'mini' version, it sees to be limited to
that. Magic Banana says I was trying the NetInstall version. I'm sure
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. When I boot a computer with the
Trisquel mini version 6.0.1 (32 bit) CD, there is no evidence that any X
session exists. The output of 'ps -e' is login, acpid, cron, atd,
NetworkManager, mdadm, bash (6), polkitd, ondemand, sleep, login, ttm-swap,
I apologize! for my penance I will stay after the bell and write GNU/Linux
100 times on the blackboard.
Then do
$ apt-get install xorg xinit
$ xinit
If it's a live CD, HDD space is not used, only RAM; No permanent change to
the computer.
But are you sure you got the right ISO?
There's really no X11 when you boot, 'Try Trisquel without installing'.
I think that you may have confused
Thanks, Sebelius, I think we may be getting somewhere.
$ apt-get install xorg xinit
$ xinit
after this, in terminal 7 screen is all dark except for upper left rectangle
about 1/4 screen, white, with bash prompt. The mouse makes a pointer on this
screen and typing to the prompt is possible
I can boot computers with the Trisquel mini ISO CD, but adding vga=792 onto
the boot command line had no effect (this screen is practically unreadable in
the high resolution mode that is used). And it gives me a bunch of text
terminals, but no graphics screen. I have not tried the install
If you're gonna be inside X11 while using it, why don't you just change the
screen resolution with lxrandr or xrandr when it's booted up? I believe the
option is 'Try Trisquel without installing' or something similar.
