Anybody gotten a full X on your DSL CD?
Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Anybody gotten a full X on your DSL CD?
started by: ripcrd6
Posted by ripcrd6 on Aug. 26 2004,13:59
Has anyone gotten the full X.org on DSL after removing xvesa on a DSL remaster. I posted before about needing this. It has to be on a LiveCD though. I'm in the middle of trimming down a Knoppix 3.4 (5/04/2004), but its a long slow process finding all the big packages. I also have to fix some stuff in apt/sources.list that point to germany (.de) and some repositories that don't work. I've removed about 800MB to 1GB by pulling out kde and gtk and a bunch of games. Still a lot to look for and some xinit to change.
Posted by mpie on Aug. 26 2004,20:04
apt-get install x-window-system..........works
Posted by TyphoonMentat on Aug. 26 2004,21:33
I'm creating a myDSL extension to allow X to be used.
Posted by clacker on Aug. 27 2004,01:09
When I tried to load x-windows before, I had to enter a lot of information about my system to get it to work (mouse, video, screen refresh rates). DSL seems to know these things and sets them up automatically. Is there a way to load x-windows so I can have it configure itself?How were you planning on making the liveCD? Have you been able to use the method that uses a copy of the KNOPPIX directory and the chroot and mount proc commands?
Posted by clacker on Aug. 27 2004,02:45
I was able to add it to a liveCD. What I did was:create a source directory
cp -Rp /KNOPPIX source
chroot source/KNOPPIX
mount -t proc /proc proc
dpkg-restore
<edit /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable>
apt-get update
apt-get install x-windows-system
umount proc
<CTRL-D>
Then make you liveCD remaster in the normal way. That method never worked for me before, but it seems to work now.
The only caveat was that when I rebooted my system using the liveCD with x-windows, a password box flashed up, but then went away.
Posted by ripcrd6 on Sep. 02 2004,21:19
I was following the method in the howto at knoppix.net. I have successfully chrooted into the filesystem after copying the /knoppix/knoppix compressed file to a HDD partition and then uncompressing into a /mnt/hda5/source/knx/KNOPPIX structure. While chrooted, I ran apt-get remove fora whole bunch of cruft I didn't need. Removing the libkde* seemed to kill most of KDE, dragging all kinds of packages out. I removed all games, all window managers, left X, removed libs I don't need like libsdl, removed command line tools I know I won't need, like cdburning stuff. I have to leave in the wireless stuff, because that is an integral part of my project.After all changes are done you copy and compress in a long command to /mnt/hda5/remaster/knx/KNOPPIX structure. One thing I have not done is change the /etc/init.d/xsession script, so that the remote Xserver gets queried. I also need to disable autodetection of scsi with "knoppix noscsi" since on of the laptops freezes otherwise. I also will need to run the md5sum creation command. I think knoppix uses this on all versions now. Debian's installer does something similar. There is an md5sum text file that contains many md5's, one of them is an md5 of the compressed /knoppix/knoppix file.
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Sep. 13 2004,01:07
So how big would a fullX.dsl be? Was very vaguely toying with the idea of being able to run UT2004 (linux demo) off a DSL-based 700MB liveCD 
But I have no idea as to what the requirements would be, so have no idea how to go about it...Does a full X server give 3D support (ie. nvidia, radeon...), or is that something extra?
Posted by chibiace on Sep. 18 2004,01:21
| Quote (RoGuE_StreaK @ Sep. 13 2004,09:07) |
| So how big would a fullX.dsl be? Was very vaguely toying with the idea of being able to run UT2004 (linux demo) off a DSL-based 700MB liveCD But I have no idea as to what the requirements would be, so have no idea how to go about it... Does a full X server give 3D support (ie. nvidia, radeon...), or is that something extra? |
i wish there was a dsl file for it.... would be so kool......
