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

fluxflux.

fluxflux wrote:

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.

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.

Last edited by Surfer Dude (2008-03-30 10:35:00 am)

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.

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.

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.com/translate?u=http% … mp;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.

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...

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/isos/fluxflux-eee-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 ...

Last edited by fluxflux (2008-03-31 5:27:36 pm)

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.

Last edited by fluxflux (2008-06-04 2:07:35 pm)

Can't create a bootable USB stick

This problem arises in connection with:
. fluxflux-eee-de-2008-12.iso
. Eee PC 901
. 2GB PNY USB stick
. stock Xandros system (up-to-date)
. a verified MD5 sum

I followed SurferDude's directions to create the FAT32 partition for fluxflux:

/home/user> sudo fdisk /dev/sdc

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 2020 MB, 2020539904 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1         361      705002    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2             362        1010     1267497   83  Linux

intrd901.gz was copied to initrd.gz and syslinux901.cfg, to syslinux.cfg (in the top-level directory)

The output of bootinst.sh is:

Flushing filesystem buffers, this may take a while...
Setting up MBR on /dev/sdc...
The Master Boot Record of  /dev/sdc  has been updated.
Activating partition /dev/sdc1...
No partition table modifications are needed.
Updating MBR on /dev/sdc...
Setting up boot record for /dev/sdc1...
Disk /dev/sdc1 should be bootable now. Installation finished.

The Eee has been booted from USB previously. I did a full restore once from the recovery DVD.

After ESC during POST, I select the USB entry and the result is a two line message to the effect that a "proper" bootable device should be plugged in, after which a key is to be pressed. From there the process proceeds directly to the GRUB menu on sda.

I have been through this scenario at least a dozen times trying various alternatives (e.g. copying the files from the iso via mount -o loop, burning a CD, using mtools to copy them).

I would really like to try this distro but I'm stuck

Edit: Upgrading from BIOS 1101 to 1703 appears to resolved my difficulties booting from USB.  Jetzt läuft alles perfekt.

Yes, all the files were copied and the partition boot flag was set on, as can be seen from the output of fdisk posted previously.

I think this must be BIOS-related. I have a very early 901 imported from Taiwan before the devices were available in the U.S.

Just for fun, I tried reinstalling the recovery program from the supplied DVDs, just to be sure that the box was in fact still bootable from USB, as I had previously done twice.

The partition that the recovery DVD puts on the stick looks like this:

/home/user> sudo fdisk /dev/sdc

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 2020 MB, 2020539904 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1        1016     1984217    6  FAT16

Notice that the partition is not bootable. But it still works. The recovery utility still starts up; the terminal reads something like "Uncompressing linux ... Ok, booting the kernel"

I tried putting your vmlinuz and initrd.gz in the /boot directory and tweaking the grub menu with your kernel command line, but, once again, I do not even get that far. The system rejects the stick with that old message about inserting a "proper" one.

So I think I will look into installing onto sdb because I haven't really started to keep anything important on this box yet anyway.

Last edited by rickythesk8r (2009-01-31 4:01:00 pm)

Due to the big changes in PCLinuxOS you can NOT update single packages!

Please update the whole system (about 500 MB of packages) or wait for the new fluxflux-se-release (including the eeePCs, available in about 3 weeks I think) ...

Thomas.