[openmamba-devel] openmamba pen-1GB 1.0pre1

Silvan Calarco silvan.calarco at mambasoft.it
Tue Apr 3 15:41:49 CEST 2007


Ho uploadato la versione 1.0pre1 della distribuzione openmamba su penna da 
1GB.
Il file è disponibile al seguente indirizzo:

http://www.openmamba.org/pub/openmamba/devel/media/openmamba-pen-1GB-rootfs-i586-1.0pre1.cpio.gz

Poiché l'unico computer su cui al momento riesco ad avviare da USB è il server 
di openmamba non sono stato in grado di fare molti test.
Problemi principali:

- i driver accelerati non sono supportati
- potrebbe esserci ancora qualche casino nell'avvio di login_manager (kdm) 
da /etc/inittab (quest'ultimo viene configurato all'avvio dal modulo xorg di 
postplug)
- all'avvio del login_manager i font di default hanno un rendering sbagliato 
(???)

Troverete 3 console virtuali (CTRL-ALT-F1:3) con login già fatto come root, da 
lì potete creare un utente con cui fare il login.

Riporto il file README con le istruzioni per l'installazione:

openmamba 1GB live pen - installation instructions
==================================================

This instructions explan how to install this
openmamba distribution on a usb storage


Requirements
============

a Unix system with the following commands:

extlinux, mkfs.ext2, fdisk, gunzip, cpio, mount, umount


Installation
============

1st step) Partitioning the USB storage device

- insert the storage and identify its device name (e.g. /dev/sda)
- make sure that no partitions are mounted for the device
- run fdisk or cfdisk and create a partition that is at least 1GB large
- mark the partition as "bootable"
- identify the device corresponding to the partitiong (e.g. /dev/sda1)

2nd step) Formatting the device

- run:

mkfs.ext3 > <partition device>

3rd step) Installing the cpio image

mount <partition device> <mount point>
cd <mount point>
gunzip -c < openmamba-pen-1G-rootfs-i586.cpio.gz | cpio -i

4th step) Installing extlinux bootloader

extlinux --install boot

unmount the storage and that's all.

Running the system
==================
Reboot your computer with the USB storage inserted in.
Your computer maybe configured or not for booting from a
USB Hard Drive/Storage device; check your bios configuration and
wheter it supports booting from USB (many bioses are buggy!).

TODO
====
- add support for proprietary drivers (ATI, nVidia)

ciao,
Silvan

-- 
mambaSoft di Silvan Calarco - http://www.mambasoft.it
openmamba GNU/Linux development - http://www.openmamba.org
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