AV Linux MX Edition is here!

[JayM]

The 32-bit iso burns and boots OK.

Question: how much free disk space do you have on your 64-bit machine?

[AVLinux]

921.4 Gb of free space on the system drive..

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[JayM]

That should be plenty. Hmm. I have no idea.

[AVLinux]

Thanks for the help Jay, hopefully we can get to the bottom of it..

[JayM]

Is your mx-iso-template up to date on that machine?

[AVLinux]

Is your mx-iso-template up to date on that machine?

Yes it is... however it is a custom MX ISO template that dolphin_oracle did up for me to allow some different artwork, it is the latest version though.. Note this template is also used in the 32bit ISO..

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isotester@avlmx:~
$ apt-cache show mx-iso-template-avl
Package: mx-iso-template-avl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 9535
Maintainer: Dolphin Oracle <dolphinoracle@gmail.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 20.10.06
Replaces: iso-template, mx-iso-template
Provides: iso-template (= 16.17.1)
Conflicts: iso-template (<< 16.17.1), mx-iso-template
Description: MX ISO template for AVL spin
  MX ISO Template is used by MX Snapshot to create a live ISO disk image from
  the running system.
Description-md5: 3a26fb76f25edfeee0d4132e3daa3d80

[dolphin_oracle]

except for the grub theme, its identical to mx-iso-template.

and anyway, the md5sum for the linuxfs file isn't generated until after the linuxfs file is created during the snapshot process.

[JayM]

Ah, so something about his 64-bit system vs. MX Snapshot then?

[sunrat]

I used cp to write 64bit version to USB and it wrote and booted fine.

[AVLinux]

I used cp to write 64bit version to USB and it wrote and booted fine.

Hi sunrat,

The waters are getting a bit muddied here, my understanding of the original problem is that the ISO can be copied to USB, booted and then installed on to a new system, but at that point there were problems making bootable snapshots from there. I tested and double tested the original ISO's with LUM and made the release video from USB keys made with LUM and I had the maintainer of one of the mirrors do the same. Other than here I don't have a lot of actual reports of the original ISO not booting and installing so I'm a bit puzzled right now... If my 64bit machine is the root cause somehow I am going to be extremely bummed out as I just upgraded from a 9 year old machine this year and made a significant investment in new hardware.