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[timbobsteve]

Hi All,

I have been working hard to get EeeOS re-built against Debian testing (lenny) so we can use atl2 and take advantage of the updated kernel.... so without further delays.... here is Public Beta 2:

Image:
http://eeeos.interac...os_beta2.img.gz
Kindly mirrored @
http://eeeos.c2s.co....os_beta2.img.gz

To install:

gunzip -dc eeeos_beta2.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX

Here is a short list of changes:
- Built against Debian Testing (lenny) so the software is more up-to-date
- Wifi-Radar Wireless Management tool installed by default (xfce4-wavelan-plugin for tray)
- Atheros drivers now create the correct interface (correct interface created on startup)
- Included wired network drivers (atl2)
- Included working UVC Webcam Drivers
- IMPORTANT: the Asus ACPI support is still absent from this release.

A brief overview of the Distribution and source/package related information, as well as Installation instructions can be found on the project website:
http://eeeos.interac....com/index.html

As with the previous one, please keep comments in this thread on topic. I need feedback on the build as well as error reports or corrections that need to be made.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Edited by timbobsteve, 24 December 2007 - 04:05 AM.

[nealstep]

Hi,

just a quick note, thank you very much for your work on this, it booted fine on my 4G.

Some very minor changes for your website (http://eeeos.interac....com/index.html) below
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< Now run e2fsck -f /dev/DEV to make sure it copied correctly
> Now run e2fsck -f /dev/DEV1 to make sure it copied correctly
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< EeeOS Beta 2 Disk Image (460Mb)
> EeeOS Beta 2 Disk Image (391Mb)
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[timbobsteve]

Thanks for the corrections. I will change them after some christmas dinner :P

[Celegorm]

Thanks for the new beta release. I'm really enjoying it so far, and I like the website. Keep up the good work :)

[eFfeM]

Will this image boot from usb?
Also I would appreciate another distribution mechanism. The image will require that sdX matches in size to whatever your image uses.

[timbobsteve]

Thanks for the input eFfM.

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Will this image boot from USB?

Yes. In fact I haven't even tried doing it from SSD, as my Eee is the only computer I have access to these days... so I can't nuke the SSD every time I want to try the builds :P

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Also I would appreciate another distribution mechanism. The image will require that sdX matches in size whatever your image uses.

This is both true and untrue, in that the Image will load on any USB stick larger than the image (I think I made it 600Mb, but it might also be 1Gb... can't remember). If your media is larger than the image then it should be fine... of course the partition won't take up the whole space on the stick... but you could easily use parted to resize the ext2 partition in the image.

As for another distribution message, it was mentioned in the previous threads for EeeOS, that the beta's are being distributed like this for quick release and testing, but the final builds will use the debian-installer format (read: the original debian installer)... so that should alleviate any issues you are currently having with the image method of distribution.

I think, with having the images fairly complete, I will make Beta 3 more geared towards integrating the live-helper and d-i technologies. Not sure how long that will take though... had a few problems the last time I fired up lh_*....

Merry Christmas and Happy new year everyone!

[deadDuck]

I'm still following your instructions and trying to get the image running. I think I missed a step that was assumed by your website: mkfs.ext2 Is that correct?

Edit: I had a problem with it wanting to check the root filesystem, then failing, but it's running now. Allow me to say: well done!

Edit: I haven't successfully added a new user account yet (adduser didn't perform as expected), but I guess I'm not the target user at this point. I'll do a little more research. It seems that /etc/skel only has bash settings, nothing for XFCE.

Edited by deadDuck, 27 December 2007 - 10:39 PM.

[deadDuck]

I also noticed that /etc/apt/sources.list contains entries that begin with localhost. I needed to update it before installing packages.

Is this the kind of thing you would like feedback about?

Edit: I'm running EeeOS while posting this :)

Edited by deadDuck, 27 December 2007 - 10:42 PM.

[timbobsteve]

Thanks dD, That is the exact kind of info I needed....

If you are wondering why it has localhost entries in it... it's because I use apt-cacher to save downloading packages while building images :P

[deadDuck]

That makes perfect sense. If you want to know, I'm a little tired of Xandros and, since I bought a 4GB SDHC card, thought I would run a real operating system from SD.

My biggest complaint with the stock distro is that Amarok was messing up my ipod and there's no way to update to the latest version. I have successfully installed rhythmbox (just for a change; the window's too wide for the eee) on EeeOS. I'm listening to music from my ipod as I type this (running EeeOS).

EeeOS boots up almost as fast as Xandros booting directly into the Advanced Desktop.

If there's any other specific input or help you could use, let me know. I'm off work until Jan 2 :)

[MadeAtDark]

Looks like timbobsteve has a full time beta tester till Jan 2. :P

[deadDuck]

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Looks like timbobsteve has a full time beta tester till Jan 2. :P

Full-time, I wish! We're potty-training tomorrow :(

[deadDuck]

I think that adding a user will work much better if you copy .config and all its contents from root's home directory to /etc/skel/

User cannot shut down. Need to add to sudoers (file):
all all=/usr/sbin/xfsm-shutdown-helper
(from: http://www.xfce.org/...#xfsm-shutdown)
I have tried this, and it works.

Also, because wifi-radar is in /usr/sbin/ it can't be run by a user.

Edited by deadDuck, 28 December 2007 - 06:14 AM.

[timbobsteve]

User configuration will be better once we get the Debian-Installer / Debian-Live stuff working correctly. I am actually doing this as we speak. Hopefully it all works out. The live-helper process has never really worked out for me in the past.... heres hoping. :)

[rayburn]

Many thanks timbobsteve for all your hard work, I have it up and running now.

One query I hope someone can answer, I use a wired ethernet connection, and can't find out how to get this working on Eee Linux OS.

Any help on this please?

[timbobsteve]

To be honest... wired eth is not something that I have tried.

Can you check 'dmesg' and see if Atl2 loaded and created eth0?

[rayburn]

Thanks tim, I would if I could, but working with a UK keyboard here and I can't find the 'pipe' symbol on the US keyboard!

Any clues anyone?

[timbobsteve]

Hahahahhaa... I just moved to London and had to adjust to the new keyboard too... painful. At my new job I even went so far as to request a US styled one (Australian Standard), but they said they wouldn't.... so I took in my fold-up rubber one and they said it wasn't Health'n'Safety compliant... bastards!

Anyways... the pipe symbol is on the left of the Z key on UK keyboards..... it is also backslash as well..... it's bloody useless :P and whats with the @ symbol being where the double-quotation symbol should be? and Shift+2 is now double-quotes? stupid hahahahhaa

Edited by timbobsteve, 28 December 2007 - 11:22 PM.

[rayburn]

Well, after I thought about the keyboard problem, the fix was obvious - change keymap in xorg.conf file from 'us' to 'gb'

So onto the output of dmesg, and there is no mention of Atl2 or eth0 according to grep, so where do I go from here please?

[timbobsteve]

try forcing the atl2 modules to load. Use:

modprobe atl2

Then check dmesg again... it should be the last couple of lines.... it may not create eth0 though..... try it and see what the output is and get back to me.