dolphin_oracle's respins (updated June 23, 2024)

[dolphin_oracle]

I've made up several respins of the official isos.

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**edit** all MX-21 respins have been removed from dolphin oracle's personal sourceforge, due to sourceforge asking me to. I don't have the isos anymore, so don't ask for them please.

MX 23.3 respins are still available, and will likely get updated at somepoint to latest.

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MX 23.4 systemd-only respin is up. Its a full version of MX-23.3 64 bit, with sysVinit removed.

MX 23.3 sysVinit-only resipin is up, Full version of MX-23.3 64 bit, with systemd removed. elogind, libelogind, and libpam-elogind are utilized to fill those session management requirements.


MX-23 respins

[SwampRabbit]

nice!

[Eadwine Rose]

Way cool!

[siamhie]

Very cool. Gonna try the bare_x64 in a VM.


OK, that took only 5-6 minutes to install into a VM. Boot time is the same as my MX-21 Fluxbox on hardware. Great job.

[fehlix]

the second is a 32 bit iso with the antiX 4.9 kernel, for folks that need that kernel for one reason or another. otherwise its identical to the standard 32bit Xfce iso.

On the 32bit iso boot it gives a "SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression.
Hmm, not sure I had the impression mx-snapshot would capture this and would not allow creating zstd-compressed squashfs for antix 4.9 kernel, which does not support squashfs_zstd compression.
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for the record...
Check:

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unsquashfs -stat /mnt/iso/iso1/antiX/linuxfs| grep -i compression
Compression zstd

and

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grep ^CONFIG_SQUASHFS_ /mnt/iso/sq1/boot/config-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae 
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FILE_CACHE=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI_PERCPU=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_ZLIB=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZ4=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_4K_DEVBLK_SIZE=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE=3

[dolphin_oracle]

the second is a 32 bit iso with the antiX 4.9 kernel, for folks that need that kernel for one reason or another. otherwise its identical to the standard 32bit Xfce iso.

On the 32bit iso boot it gives a "SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression.
Hmm, not sure I had the impression mx-snapshot would capture this and would not allow creating zstd-compressed squashfs for antix 4.9 kernel, which does not support squashfs_zstd compression.

hmph...apparently not. I'll redo that one.

[Adrian]

I messed up the check? https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot ... pp#L53-L58
Do you have headers installed? I set it up so the check doesn't fail if there is no /boot/config-kernelversion

[dolphin_oracle]

I messed up the check? https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot ... cpp#L53-58
Do you have headers installed? I set it up so the check doesn't fail if there is no /boot/config-kernelversion

I'm pretty sure the headers are installed. I'll give it a check when I get home.

[dolphin_oracle]

@fehlix i uploaded new 4.9 iso, this time used gzip.

@Adrian there is a config file uner /boot called config-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae and a matching vmlinuz-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae.

uname -r reports as 4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae

[seaken64]

@dolphin_oracle , thank you. Especially for the 32-bit version. I think the 64-bit "bare" version would be good to try experimenting with LXDE/LXQT? That was brought up in another thread and I'd like to start playing with that idea.

Seaken64