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[fluxflux]

I made a PCLinuxOS remaster for the eeePC, based on GTK2-applications and full-featured. Openbox and Fluxbox are the windowmanagers.

The live system can be installed to the internal SSD with an installer (draklive-install).

It is a private project, created for my own usage. But there are some users who found it useful and therefore I offer the system via internet.

Here some more informations:

http://fluxflux.net/fluxflux-eee

http://fluxflux.net

http://www.mypclinuxos.com/doku.php

The project is no competition to any other PCLinuxOS-based live system.

fluxflux.

Edited by fluxflux, 09 June 2008 - 07:15 AM.

[Surfer Dude]

This looks interesting, will I be able to run the bootinst.sh with instructions in English, or are the instructions only in German? anyway, downloading the fluxflux-eee right now, I will give it a go,

thanks.

[fluxflux]

The bootinst.sh is in English. You have to navigate onto the mounted usb/sd-drive and run there the bootinst.sh.

fluxflux.

[fluxflux]

New release: fluxflux-eee-2008-4

Changes: http://eeelive.org

fluxflux.

Edited by fluxflux, 29 March 2008 - 08:03 PM.

[Surfer Dude]

Quote

New release: fluxflux-eee-2008-4

Changes: http://eeelive.org

fluxflux.

This is a great little OS, my favorite of all the custom eee's, thanks Fluxflux.

[fluxflux]

Thank you for your feedback.

fluxflux.

[Surfer Dude]

You are welcome, I just downloaded the new version, I like the new expanding icons on top of the screen, very cool :)

If anyone else is interested in trying out this great little OS, but are put off by the German language settings, I recommend you give it a try, it is easy to install onto an sd card, and easy to convert into English, here is what i did:-

download fluxflux-eee-2008-4.tar.gz.

Prepare your usb stick /sd card by creating two partitions, A fat32 partition for fluxflux, and an
ext3 partition to store changes to the OS. The fat32 partition should be around 700mb in size, I chose 720mb
to be on the safe side, make this partition bootable. the rest of the space is filled with an ext3 partition.
I used fdisk to do this (as root).

fdisk /dev/sdX

where X is the letter of the medium, if unsure what the letter is, try

fdisk -l

After deleting any partitions on the card (d), create a new (n) partition, choose primary, partition number (1),
when asked for size, (+720M) press (t) for type, use hex number (0B) for a fat32, (a) to make it bootable.
for the second partition - (n), then primary, number (2), use up all the remaining space and press (t) to make type (83)
press p to check the partition table, if all seems ok, press (w) to commit the changes to the card, otherwise start again.

Format the unmounted partitions using -

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX2

Mount the newly created fat32 partition somewhere, I created an empty folder called "fluxflux" in the /mnt directory

mkdir /mnt/fluxflux

then

mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/fluxflux

using your favorite archiver, extract fluxflux-eee-2008-4.tar.gz
to the newly created fat32 partition

in a terminal, move to the partition where fluxflux was extracted.

cd /mnt/fluxflux

and execute the bootinst.sh script to finish the installation

./bootinst.sh

after unmounting the card, place card in eee-pc, boot off the card by pressing "esc" during the bios splash screen,
and select the correct boot medium, if all went well with the install you should now see the fluxflux boot screen,
to stop fluxflux from booting before one is ready, press down arrow then up arrow to stop the countdown, and in the options window,
type "changes=/dev/sdb2" this is easier if the "sprache-F2"option is used to change the language to English, otherwise
type changes(shift 0)(shift 7)dev(shift 7)sdX2
If you have other cards plugged into your eee-pc, you might have to experiment to find the correct letter here, in my case, changes=/dev/sdb2
works fine. press enter to start the boot process.
when asked for the keyboard layout, choose Großbritannien.

using the openbox menu, navigate to system - Synaptic Paketverwaltung.

open the menu "Einstellungen" "Paketquellen"

Select one of the unselected repositories, in my case this was the 4th item on the list, then click ok.

we need to update Synaptic with the new repository, click "Neu laden"

select "locale-en"and "openoffice.org-l10n-en-GB" for installation (Zum Installieren vormerken).

To install, click "Anwenden",a window pops up, click "Anwenden" again to download and install.

Click "Ja" to close Synaptic.

Navigate to Settings - LocaleDrake (User), select English, then click "Weiter", select "United Kingdom"
then click next.

Navigate to Settings - LocaleDrake (system), enter the password "root" select English,

using alt+left mouse, move up the window up and click "Weiter", select United Kingdom, click next.

To make the changes visible, log out (Abmelden, Abmelden)

You should now have a (mostly) English setup.

Edited by Surfer Dude, 30 March 2008 - 02:35 PM.

[fluxflux]

Thank you for pointing out the way to change fluxflux-eee into English. If more users are interested, I will release a complete English version (all custom scripts in English language). It is a little bit of work, but I think I can do it within two weeks.

fluxflux.

[Surfer Dude]

I would certainly be interested in an English version, although I will not pressure you into doing this,
not only is it extra work, If the secret gets out that this is the best little OS for the eee-pc, you
will have much more work answering lots of english questions :)

I wrote a small chess engine a few years ago, and have been using it to benchmark the different operating
systems I have tried on the eee-pc. the reason I mention this is because fluxflux appears to run at 630mhz
and 945mhz, not the 562.5 and 900mhz as stated, here is the full output from fluxflux, compared to some other results.


Fluxflux - overclocked.
***************************

ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 3 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 7 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 84 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=179428).
5 234 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=249089).
6 1894 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=304418).
Time: 18944 ms
ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 1 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 3 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 49 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=302650).
5 178 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=327103).
6 1838 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=313708).
Time: 18384 ms
ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 1 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 3 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 49 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=302044).
5 178 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=326920).
6 1831 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=314804).
Time: 18323 ms

Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 18323 ms
Nodes per second: 314735


Fluxflux - Default mhz
***************************

ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 4 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 10 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 123 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=122139).
5 315 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=185493).
6 2772 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=208033).
Time: 27722 ms
ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 2 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 5 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 75 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=200692).
5 266 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=219624).
6 2722 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=211792).
Time: 27230 ms
ply time nodes score pv
1 0 162 35 c1d2
2 2 4098 15 c1d2 d6d8
3 5 11742 31 g2d5 d6d5 c1e3
4 73 150720 18 g5e4 d6c7 c1g5 c8b7 (nps=204227).
5 264 584861 28 h2h4 f8d8 h4h5 g6f8 c1d2 (nps=220785).
6 2721 5766895 19 h2h4 d5f6 c1d2 d6d8 g5e4 f6d5 (nps=211885).
Time: 27218 ms

Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 27218 ms
Nodes per second: 211877

Xandros_eeePC @ 990mhz
**********************************
Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 17338 ms
Nodes per second: 332615


Xandros_eeePC @ 900mhz
**********************************
Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 19277 ms
Nodes per second: 299159

Xandros_eeePC @ 630mhz
**********************************

Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 27534 ms
Nodes per second: 209446

Pupeee @ 630mhz
************************

Nodes: 5766895
Best time: 28269 ms
Nodes per second: 204000

I also noticed that after overclocking the fsb to 105, then returning to 70 fsb, cat /proc/eee/fsb gives a reading
of 70 24 1 instead of the default 70 24 0, not a problem, just thought you might be interested.

One more thing, everytime I run Fluxflux, I am asked about the keyboard, how can I set the default keyboard to uk?

thanks.

[fluxflux]

Keyboard: In the syslinux.cfg (I assume you run it as a live system) there is in the append line the expression "keyboard=de". Change it to "keyboard=en" and add "nofinishinstall" as cheatcode. Then the default keyboard will be English and the confirmation will disappear.

With an installed system (real linux) you have to make these changes in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (add in the line kernel the option "keyboard=en").

To your benchmark: You can change the wrong entry "70 24 1" to "70 24 0" in the script /etc/acpi/overclock.sh. Can you explain me the difference or the problems which may result with this wrong feature?

flux.

Edited by fluxflux, 30 March 2008 - 06:32 PM.

[Surfer Dude]

Thanks for the keyboard tip, I am installing Fluxflux to the SSD now using draklive install, all going smoothly so far, no problems to report, so I will edit the menu.1st if all goes well with the install.

The 70 24 1 is not a problem, I believe the 1 represents a voltage setting, but not sure, my main point is that fluxflux runs at 630mhz, not 562.5mhz, and 945 not 900mhz, this is also not a problem for me as I like the extra speed. When running the default Xandros, I found it would run fine at 110 24 1 (990mhz) if fsb raised in steps of 2 (102, 104, 106, 108, 110) so 105 is a safe setting in my opinion.

[fluxflux]

Ok, thank you.

A tip for the SSD installation: sometimes the installer doesn't install the bootsplash. Then you have to boot in textmode the first time. Via PCC - System - Choose a graphical theme ... you can reinstall the bootsplash or create a own bootsplash.

There are several informations for an installation to SSD on my homepage, but in German language. The most important is not to use the given partitions by Xandros, but to repartition the SSD with one great linux partition. The full installation of fluxflux-eee is about 1,9 GB, the default Xandros partition is 2 GB. With the first update via synaptic the partition will run out of space ...

fluxflux.

[Surfer Dude]

I followed the instructions on the link below (translated by google), I created a swap partition on the last 512mb of the ssd, the rest of the drive is a single partition, formatted as ext3, yes I realize the swap partition will probably never be used, but i like it there just in case.... if I need the space in the future, it is easy to remove the swap, and resize the ext3 partition.

http://www.google.co...n&hl=en&ie=UTF8

The installation was both quick and easy to understand, after rebooting, the pclinuxOS splashscreen was working, and fluxflux loaded _without_ a problem, even the keyboard window had dissapeared :) It is good to have a real linux system on my eee, good to see gcc there too :) your work is appreciated. thanks again.

[fluxflux]

Fine that everything was ok with the installation. I think that the translation of Google is at a level to understand the important informations written on my homepage. Nevertheless I will work from now on at an English version of fluxflux-eee and will translate my homepage into English.

Thank you for your feedback and I am interested in your experiences. There are many questions answered in the German PCLinuxOS forum, may be you can read some of these informations with the help of Google translator.

http://www.pclinuxos....php?board=40.0

fluxflux.

P. S.: And I hope that my English is nearby the level of the Google translator ...

Edited by fluxflux, 30 March 2008 - 08:38 PM.

[Surfer Dude]

Flux hi,

your English is far better than my Deutsch, however, if you need any help, I am happy to proof read your English scripts and webpage, just let me know.

Writing this from my ssd installed fluxflux, what can I say, it rocks! not encountered any problems so far, both me and my eee are happeee...

[fluxflux]

Thank you for your help. I will send you the English texts and I am happy that you proof read the texts and the webpage. Thank you very much.

fluxflux.

P. S.: I think that I need two or three days to change the system into English ...

[fluxflux]

At the moment the server is down, may be it will take several hours to be back.

Here another URL for the download:

http://fluxflux.net/...e-2008-4.tar.gz

flux.

P. S.: An English release fluxflux-eee-en-2008-5.tar.gz will be available this week with some improvements ...

Edited by fluxflux, 31 March 2008 - 09:27 PM.

[fluxflux]

UPDATE: fluxflux-eee-de-2008-6.iso and fluxflux-eee-de-2008-6.tar.gz available

The English version will be released soon ...

More information at my german website http://eeelive.org.

flux.

[fluxflux]

UPDATE: fluxflux-eee-de-2008-7 as ISO and tar.gz (upload is running, will be finished in 2 hours) available

More informations about new features at the german website http://eeelive.org

fluxflux.

Edited by fluxflux, 04 June 2008 - 06:07 PM.

[fluxflux]

Due to problems with the provider of the download server (we had about 15.000 downloads in the last 7 weeks!) the homepage of fluxflux-eee has moved to

http://fluxflux.net/fluxflux-eee

and the downloads is at the moment restricted to the actual ISO:

http://fluxflux.net/...e-de-2008-7.iso

The md5sum is http://fluxflux.net/...-2008-7-iso.md5

Sorry for these changes, within the next two weeks things will be stable again ...

fluxflux.