antiX-14-a4 available for testing

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-12-31 13:01

Lots of bug fixes in this version, but I'm sure there are some we missed/overlooked. Be patient with us if you had previously reported the bug.

So, sysvinit 32 bit version only for development testing so the dev team can focus on getting this done right and then we will move on to 64 bit and systemd version. (systemd is not our priority at the moment)

Get it here:

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Note: the F4 option to check md5sums shows an error with initrd.gz. Don't worry just continue to boot.

Features:

* a customised 3.16.7 antiX kernel
* live setup is now done during the initial boot (initrd)
* daves desktop should work better
* option to set default repos to Jessie before installation
* minimum windows manager option at boot (good for very limited boxes)
* herbstluftwm included, wmii removed
* new default icon theme
* slightly re-organised menu layout
* reorganised boot menu
* isolinux/syslinux boot menu altered
* splash disabled at boot. To add type splash=v and choose an old option from F7

Please test and post issues, comments here.

There are still quite a lot of todos including

* localisation
* UEFI support for installer (?)
* new antixsnapshot in the works
* documentation

thriftee · posted: 2014-12-31 13:16

Should I try it on the old 512mb PIII m, nVidia and USB 1.1 laptop?

I'd like to give the OpenBox a run in a difficult environment like that if I can...

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-12-31 13:27

Sure, test it on as many machines as possible. In fact, the older, the better! Enjoy!

thriftee · posted: 2014-12-31 13:30

Great! Will do. I'm burning the flashdrive now.

male · posted: 2014-12-31 16:12

anticapitalista wrote:So, sysvinit 32 bit version only for development testing so the dev team can focus on getting this done right and then we will move on to 64 bit and systemd version. (systemd is not our priority at the moment)

I would like to note here that the

antiX-14-a3-RD_x64-full.iso
and
antiX-14-a3-RD_386-full.iso

work completely problem free. Each week a running
apt-get dist-upgrade

Perhaps one has to be noted that systemd and an"old machine" are not mutually exclusive !.

thriftee wrote:Should I try it on the old 512mb PIII m, nVidia and USB 1.1 laptop?

About all your threads on the topic I have not even read by the dd-method. I'm only doing so to the ISO to the USB stick and from there to obtain the installation on the HDD ...

thriftee · posted: 2014-12-31 17:13

I was not successful booting from flashdrive via floppy,but maybe that was a plop problem.

I was successful booting from dvd, but had to give up because the dvd drive kept going into retry trying to run the install.

I will try with the flash again and try the 3 permutations of usb settings in plop to see if i can get any of them to work. I am able to read the flashdrive once booted via dvd, but it wants toinstallfrom dvd,not flashdrive,and i don't know how to change the source to the flashdrive instead.

PS: for some odd reason this time it booted from flash via plop floppy, so i'm running the install from flash now. that has always been reliable. If anyone else is trying this with a flash created under windows, unetbootin was the only way that worked. Not sure why. It could be a hardware issue with the adapter the flashdrive is in because it is new.

PSS: install from flash completed and the machine is running fine. It seems slow, but I haven't done any tweaking yet.

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-12-31 18:04

Here I go again.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.16.7-antix.2-486 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-14-a4-RV_386-full Killah_P 28 December 2014
Machine:   Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-16D3 v: REV:1.0 Bios: American Megatrends v: E16D3IMR.10B date: 06/01/2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Core i5 M 450 (-UP-) cache: 3072 KB speed: 2400 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.2.901 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.03hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.7-antix.2-486
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 40:61:86:af:d7:2a
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 74:f0:6d:32:de:66
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 501.1GB (0.4% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS54505 size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 1.0GB
Partition: ID-1: swap-1 size: 1.57GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 92 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 207.7/3459.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16

I know I have been using linux-image 3.16.? on my antiX13.2 and that has been stable.

Presently trying Icewm. Love the conky. Simple and effective with the stats.

Some one at church is supposed to give me an old HP desktop. I'll see what it is and what I can do with it.

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-12-31 19:03

I am getting an error on md5 for"initrd.gz" during boot up. I have now downloaded the file 6 times from sourceforge. The file antix-14-a4-RV-386-fill.iso loads fine as LIVE but has no install icon or file in any menu.

anticapitalista · posted: 2014-12-31 19:05

jdmeaux1952 - ok - type minstall in a root terminal

jdmeaux1952 · posted: 2014-12-31 19:14

The install icon is only on the rox-icewm desktop. I was using the icewm. __{{emoticon}}__ Thanks anti. __{{emoticon}}__

JD

thriftee · posted: 2014-12-31 21:34

anti,

The only place I was having trouble was with gparted getting segmentation faults. Other than that, its slow, but its a slow machine, but its running just fine.

BTW, the isl3886pci driver needed to be added to firmware for the wifi card

rokytnji · posted: 2014-12-31 22:20

Just testing usb drive I made. I had to throw away my 1st one. It was fubar.

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$ inxi -zv7
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.16.7-antix.2-486 i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.1) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 dm: slim
           Distro: antiX-14-a4-RV_386-full Killah_P 28 December 2014
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: Presario CQ57 Notebook PC v: 068C110003204910000620100
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3577 v: 24.48 Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.42 date: 11/07/2011
           Chassis: type: 10
CPU:       Single core AMD C-50 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 1995 speed/min/max: 1000/800/1000 MHz
Memory:    Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6250] bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:9804
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.2.901 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.03hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PALM GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.7-antix.2-486
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:5390
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: wlan0 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 252.1GB (2.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500BEVT size: 250.1GB serial: WD-WX91A5196405
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: DataTraveler_2.0 size: 2.0GB serial: 899810270000000000000041-0:0
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: hp DVDRAM GT31L rev: MR52 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition: ID-1: /live/boot-dev size: 1.9G used: 695M (37%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 label: N/A uuid: AE32-1632
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 5.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8
           label: N/A uuid: 0cc96d73-6c68-4b68-b8a9-e7d8c03ed16e
RAID:      No RAID data: /proc/mdstat missing-is md_mod kernel module loaded?
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 0.21G label: SYSTEM uuid: 10703818703806CE
           ID-2: /dev/sda3 size: 15.63G label: Recovery uuid: EE34B6F134B6BBC1
           ID-3: /dev/sda4 size: 4.26G label: HP_TOOLS uuid: E4C1-BF34
           ID-4: /dev/sda5 size: 130.26G label: N/A uuid: 01CF54DDED227E00
           ID-5: /dev/sda6 size: 10.74G label: N/A uuid: e04a6a3e-1446-4b49-9d77-be0631ab4db2
           ID-6: /dev/sda7 size: 83.89G label: N/A uuid: 11f34a48-8ae9-4ef6-ad1f-09a8414d6c52
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 59.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 59.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 89 Uptime: 4 min Memory: 119.0/3535.2MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.1
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in roxterm) inxi: 2.2.16

I will be putting this usb through the rodeo later on my older gear. Right now my priority is playing with my
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that Santa brought me.

Edit. Booted up OK on My IBM T23 using my PLOP CD and USB 1.1 port with no special keystrokes needed from me with my 2 gig Kingston Data Travler usb drive.

No touching F keys, leaving defaults.
Boots to screen OK but CPU is hammering at 100%. I figured a graphics driver issue since
the screen got worse with scrambled sections of screen. Hard shutdown was required.

Next boot. Used F5 key for safe graphics. Knew something was up again as the mouse arrow
dragged as it moved across the screen. Conky showed CPU hammering again at 100%.

3rd boot. Picked Vesa in F5. Mouse moved crisply. Spacefm Icons showed OK. No Conky.
No taskbar in Icewm.

I right click and menu shows up OK. Cool. I open terminal and do a

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xrandr

1600x1200

I am surprised but not freaked yet. so I

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xrandr -s 1024x768

My screen becomes unreadable. Cntrl+Alt+Backspace gives me the pretty AntiX wallpaper planet
earth screen and nothing else. So Cntrl+Alt+Delete to reboot. No dice.

Hard shutdown. Power up. F5=vesa again since cpu seems to like that one.

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xrandr -s 800x600

give at least a readable screen. But not really. Just better than the previous 1024x768 option.
Seems like with Vesa driver. 1600x1200 is my only clear desktop with taskbar and conky and some applications that can be opened and not seen on the screen.

So I guess either my USB is the problem. I will burn a cdr to double check.
Or a command line install is the only option on this

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harry@biker:~
$ inxi -zv7
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.14.3-dreamlinux-liquorix i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.6.2)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 dm: slim
           Distro: antiX-13_386-full Luddite 01 June 2013
Machine:   Mobo: IBM model: 26474MU
           Bios: IBM v: 1AET64WW (1.20 ) date: 10/18/2006
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium III - M (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (pae sse) bmips: 2397 speed/min/max: 1197/798/1197 MHz
Memory:    Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics:  Card: S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 5333:8c2e
           Display Server: X.Org 1.12.4 drivers: savage (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller
           driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 1c00 18c0 bus-ID: 00:1f.5 chip-ID: 8086:2485
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.14.3-dreamlinux-liquorix
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller
           driver: e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI port: 6400
           bus-ID: 02:08.0 chip-ID: 8086:1031
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI
           driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:0601
           IF: wlan1 state: up mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: irda0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A IF: wlan1 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (46.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST980815A size: 80.0GB serial: 5LY3WEDN
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N
           rev: 0213 dev-links: cdrom,dvd
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw state: running
Partition: ID-1: / size: 73G used: 34G (50%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           label: / uuid: 6011bbe8-33ac-450c-a316-2a4c3d87d960
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.12GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
           label: N/A uuid: bf00fd58-e1c6-45cb-8846-dc65256c8790
RAID:      No RAID data: /proc/mdstat missing-is md_mod kernel module loaded?
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0C mobo: 49.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 113 Uptime: 27 min Memory: 397.0/1006.6MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.2.371 running in roxterm) inxi: 2.2.16 
$ inxi -f
CPU:       Single core Mobile Intel Pentium III - M (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           speed/max: 798/1197 MHz
           CPU Flags: cmov cx8 de fpu fxsr mca mce mmx msr mtrr pae pge pse
           pse36 sep sse tsc vme

But Hey! It booted OK! __{{emoticon}}__

james c · posted: 2015-01-01 06:00

A total of 2 failed install attempts. Both cd's md5 and burn verified. Freshly formatted ext4 partition (sdb13).

First failed attempt ...small JWM version.Cli-installer froze at the configuring grub stage.Waited about 15 minutes...no progress ...aborted.

Second failed attempt...AntiX full. First,would not install Grub.No problem so proceeded.

Could not create user directory...attempted several times...... failed so aborted install again.

Happy New Year.

james c · posted: 2015-01-01 06:05

Hardware info from a3.....

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.15.2-antix.1-486 i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-14-a3-RV_386-full Killah P 11 October 2014
Machine:   Mobo: MICRO-STAR INTL model: MS-7037 v: Ver 0A
           Bios: Phoenix v: 6.00 PG date: 06/08/2004
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           speed: 3000 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: Intel 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.2.901 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@85.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 865G x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
           driver: snd_intel8x0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.15.2-antix.1-486
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
           driver: 8139too
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:11:09:27:3b:5a
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 400.1GB (1.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD2000JB size: 200.0GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2000JB size: 200.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 3.7G (27%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda12
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.20GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 83 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 214.7/2011.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16 
james@antix1:~

james c · posted: 2015-01-01 06:30

Successful install on a different box.....chose first hdd on this attempt.

Trying again on the Intel box as well but using sda this time.

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 3.16.7-antix.2-486 i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-14-a4-RV_386-full Killah_P 28 December 2014
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: N68-S UCC
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.70 date: 03/03/2011
CPU:       Single core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB
           speed: 2712 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.2.901 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.7-antix.2-486
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (0.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 49G used: 2.5G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda14
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 47.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 94 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 216.9/3539.6MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16 
james@antix1:~

Would much prefer to use the second hdd (sdb) on both boxes but apparently there is a problem there.