user/passwd in the live CD ? kix
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Paul Seelig escribió: > Hello, > > i'd like to announce a completely redone Window Maker Live ISO image has > been upploaded to sourceforge and is now available for direct download, > and also via bittorrent. Since Ubuntu in the end didn't provide what is > actualy needed for this project, i took some time and effort to switch > my focus to Debian instead. This is the first public offeering of the > results of many hours of hard work. > > Please kindly check out and test my live image proposal. It would be > really great if this would be incentive enough for people to actually > start contributing for future versions. > > Without further ado, please find here the complete README containing all > relevant information pertaining to this release: > > ---------- 8<---------- > > Window Maker Live now based on Debian/sid > ----------------------------------------- > > Using the ISO mastering infrastructure provided with Debian by the > software offerings of the Debian Live Team, Window Maker Live has been > rebuilt from scratch. It is now based on bleeding edge debian/unstable > (aka sid), borrowing some ingredients still from debian/testing (aka > wheezy), and also a few bits still from debian/stable (aka squeeze). > > While trying to get sound working in the former development stages of > Window Maker Live, it became obvious that Ubuntu is not a viable option > anymore. Obviously, all ALSA and legacy OSS sound modules were simply > removed from standard official Ubuntu kernels, meaning that lots of > audio hardware and software is left behind. As this can't really be > considered user or even admin friendly, we decided to switch all future > development efforts to a pure Debian based environment. This means that > the old wmlive-create script suite has basically become obsolete. > > On http://live.debian.net you will find all information needed to > understand how to use the ISO build configuration files provided here. > The archive wmlive-debian-config_20120225.tar.xz contains the config > folder, on which the successful build of is based on. Check out the > Debian Live Manual at http://live-manual.debian.net/manual-3.x/manual > for in depth information about how to manage an ISO build. > > The wmlive-debian_20120225-amd64.iso has become sized slightly over > 800 MB, and therefore is not suitable for a CD anymore. But who uses > CD media anyway, in the times of cheap versatile USB media? There is > also a torrent file available, although this might go a bit slow from > my end for the first full upload. Get either of these from here: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files > > To save yourself from burning a CD, if you already have some USB > pen drive suitably prepared with GRUB, then copy the ISO image to the > pen drive into the /boot folder and add following grub entry to the > /boot/grub/grub.cfg: > > menuentry "Ubuntu Live 9.10 32bit" { > loopback loop /boot/wmlive-debian_20120225-amd64.iso > linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper > iso-scan/filename=/boot/wmlive-debian_20120225-amd64.iso noeject noprompt > initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz > } > > This ISO image includes the Debian installer, which has been rebuilt > to function with the latest Linux kernel release version 3.2.6 for > this particular release. While this ISO can probably be used to install > Debian on any system, there are still some quirks which require manual > intervention and the application of some workarounds during the final > stages of the installation process. We have tested the installation > only on a Thinkpad T61 so far, and can't promise any success for any > other machines. > > Here is a short procedure for the manual installation workarounds: > > - During the grub installation, the debian installer reports that the > "GRUB installation failed": Just press Alt-m to minimize the full > screen installer window, open a root terminal, and perform a "chroot > /live/installer/target". Once inside the chroot environment, just > execute the command "grub-install --no-floppy --recheck --force > /dev/sdx" (replacing the device file name with a valid one), and > after that run "update-grub". Then exit the chroot environment, and > delete from /live/installer/target/var/ the directories named "run" > and "lock". Once done, copy over the missing contents of the /var > folder of the live system over to /live/installer/target/var/, > taking care to retain the proper permissions. And while you are at > it, add a geographically adapted variation of the following line > "deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free" to > /live/installer/target/etc/apt/sources.list. Then just return to the > installer, check the option "Continue without boot loader", ignore > the warning and finish the installation. The live system is usually > not properly working anymore at this stage, so just reboot and start > the freshly installed system from disk. > > - Once you are at the desktop, just remove the debian-installer icon > from the clip, as it is of no use anymore. Also edit the command > line of the dock icon showing the cute BSD Chuck such that it ends > in "su -" instead of "sudo -i". You may as well add yourself to the > sudo users configuration, instead. > > - The third dock icon which is showing an open mailbox will not start > up anything until you haven't sent sent internally any kind of mail > to your own user account. Just execute the following command to send > yourself a traditional welcome message: > > echo "Hello world" | mail -s Welcome $USER@localhost > > This will all be taken care of in a future update release version. > > Please also note the poor man's implementation of toggable autostart > scripts via the menu entry "Session > AutoStartSwitch". I split off > the single autostart script entries into small startup scriptlets, > which have been placed into the ~/GNUstep/AutoStart folder, The > autostart script has essentially been turned into an autostart > scriptlet launcher. Now my idea was to enable the user to turn off > parts of the preconfigured autostart stuff without having to edit any > configuration file or script. Check out how it functions by exploring > the menu configuration editor included with WPrefs. Maybe someone > could suggest a better and simpler method to handle this kind of > function? > > Window Maker is included as the the latest up to date Debian released > version 0.95.2, and the major applications Firefox and Thunderbird, both > in the latest version 10.0.2, have been installed manually to the /opt > folder, using the Mozilla built Linux packages. Both also come with a > range of preinstalled extensions. > > The Window Maker desktop has been extensively preconfigured, in order to > allow any user to immediately start working without any further prior > configuration efforts. > > Just keep in mind that this ISO release may have proven to be very > stable for the developers, but this doesn't really mean that this going > to be the same case for you. > > Please go ahead and test this release and provide us with your > feedback and suggestions. > > Enjoy! > > [email protected] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. -- ||// //\\// Rodolfo "kix" Garcia ||\\// //\\ http://www.kix.es/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
