PureLinux?

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:07 pm

thefool wrote:
Straker wrote:NTFS is read-only
Afaik that is not true. Its just the default ntfs "drivers" that doesnt allow writing.

So how are you supposed to change the default drivers on a LiveCD?

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:13 pm

@ thefool

Yes, you are correct. Most distros don't allow writing to NTFS by default - you need something additional like captive to do it.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:07 pm

About the conversion of the PureWinLin Distribution to VMWare Player I tried it mysqlf using http://www.consolevision.com/members/dc ... xform.html
for the VMX File and converting the debian.img to a .vmdk unsing Karlox qemu build, the ubelieveable thing is it really boots but when debian tries to start the X-Server it fails pbcompiler itself seems to work though. It would be cool if somone with a Workstation edition and not only the player could make a vmware distribution out of PureWinLin maybe also with a newer Kernel debian 3.1 sarge only ha a 2.4 brand Kernel I think...

Coolman · Post by **Coolman** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:34 pm

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread. ... t=vmplayer

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:15 pm

Hmm the tools thing can't be the problem since Damn Smal Linux' X Server runs just fine...
I will inverstigate further.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:28 pm

An own distribution like this would be a great thing. What about stripping down a Knoppix one, installing PB and all the reqiured packages and put it in the registed user area?

It would be cool if somone with a Workstation edition and not only the player could make a vmware distribution out of PureWinLin maybe also with a newer Kernel debian 3.1 sarge only ha a 2.4 brand Kernel I think...

This would be cool too. I tried it myself but I allways get an invalid image

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Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:52 pm

You have workstation Edition?

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:57 pm

Yes. I have VMWare Workstation 5.5. The message was something about Invalid format or image, I can't really remember well. I used -1024 M option so the image is 1 GB long, maybe the command line switches I used were wrong

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Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:11 pm

You tried the .img file from Beach? If yes you have to convert it into a vmdk that can be done using qemu-img, anyhow I have the system itself working and tried to reconfigure the X Server but that didn't work I will try to do a dist upgrade and maybe change the X Server to X.Org if nothing else helps, however this is the first time I try to nearly rebuild a whole Linux system.

EDIT: OK the virtuial mashine is now running it's update process and it seems that new packets for XFree86 are in the list of new packages so let's wait and see.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:16 pm

I hope you'll succeed, but that's a bit hard I think... Doesn't Beach have a .iso image we can burn and install? This would spare alot of work, though.

[Edit]
Ok.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:28 pm

I used ssh and cygwin to login to the server because I didn't get my german keyboard configured in consolemode. I then tried to connect to the cygwin X server that didn't work yet;-(
Anyway here is the error it gives me when starting the X Server on the local display aka the virtualised graphics card (I did a dist upgrade and reconfigured the X-Server but that didn't help)

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purewinlin:/etc/X11# startx
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority

X: warning; process set to priority -11 instead of requested priority -10
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 20050901212727 fjp@localho
st.localdomain)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2 i686 [ELF] 
Build Date: 02 September 2005

This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any
way.  Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see
<URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >.

We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command
to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as
possible.

Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ:
       XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml
  plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz

Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-2-686 (horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc v
ersion 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Mon May 16 17:03:22 JST 2005 
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 27 14:52:03 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Maybe this can help to solve the problem.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:44 pm

I'll try something: I'll install Ubuntu (Debian based, easy to use), install all the needed files and packages and the demo version of PB and then I'll use AtomicWebServer to host it for one day. I'll announce it here and I'll give you my IP and the download URL for the .vmdk drive. What do you think?

[Edit]
Maybe Beach can download it and host it, I can't run the server too long, because my hardware is old. After that we can talk to Fred and insert the full version of PB, dunno. We'll find a method

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:02 pm

The problem is an Ubuntu downlaod will be very I think Beaches debian version would be ideal but I somehow can't get the X Server to run if you want I can host the vmdk I got so far then you can try to get it running.

Inf0Byt3 · Post by **Inf0Byt3** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:13 pm

I would test it, but my old 40 Gigs HDD failed and now I have 4 GB of space... I'll go monday to buy another and then I can download it.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:09 pm

I just tried Puppy Linux because it's small but it's hell of dumb it has programs like excel and word and hundreds of other programs nobody needs on it's zipped 60 mb and you can even install new software however you can't install gcc form their package system who needs linux without gcc????
´Damn Small Linux would also be possible but I don't know how to do a hard drive install so I can really install pb...