Re: SalineOS 1.5 Stuff « Reply #31 on Oct 10, 2011, 9:09pm »
I've hit one strange thing with the upgrade. I share a /home partition between several different distros, with a different user name for each distro, but all using the same UID.
After the upgrade, I find that I have a copy of the user manual pdf in all of the home directories, not such the one for my SalineOS user.
I've hit one strange thing with the upgrade. I share a /home partition between several different distros, with a different user name for each distro, but all using the same UID.
After the upgrade, I find that I have a copy of the user manual pdf in all of the home directories, not such the one for my SalineOS user.
Paul.
From what I understand you only have "One" home directory in the shared partition, it should have a copy of the User Manual in it. It would not matter if the user name is different with each Distro.
« Last Edit: Oct 10, 2011, 9:51pm by beardedragon »
I've hit one strange thing with the upgrade. I share a /home partition between several different distros, with a different user name for each distro, but all using the same UID.
After the upgrade, I find that I have a copy of the user manual pdf in all of the home directories, not such the one for my SalineOS user.
Paul.
From what I understand you only have "One" home directory in the shared partition, it should have a copy of the User Manual in it. It would not matter if the user name is different with each Distro.
Sorry, badly expressed. I have a home partition, which is shared between Salix, CentOS, Mint (not that it is in use...) and SalineOS. I have a different user for each distro, and each user has their own individual home directory. Since just about every distro with the exception of REL (and thus CentOS) use a starting UID of 1000, each of the home directories will have a UID of 1000 associated with it (even CentOS - I modified my CentOS user ID to 1000 to make it easier getting things from one home directory to another).
I've got a copy of the SalineOS user manual in ~/Desktop for all of the distros - 4 copies in all. Not really a problem, just a bit strange.
Re: SalineOS 1.5 Stuff « Reply #35 on Oct 12, 2011, 8:21am »
Alright, a new archive is up on the web server.
Changes: Patched setup script to only put a manual into the home folder if one already resides there. Patched installer to fix the fact that custom labels broke the UUID code. Patched grub-doctor to only show partitions when asking the user to select the root partition, it was showing drives as well. Fixed a couple things in the user manual, thanks to Richard as always. Removed will now exit from the last grub-doctor prompt, it was kinda pointless.
Changes: Patched setup script to only put a manual into the home folder if one already resides there. Patched installer to fix the fact that custom labels broke the UUID code. Patched grub-doctor to only show partitions when asking the user to select the root partition, it was showing drives as well. Fixed a couple things in the user manual, thanks to Richard as always. Removed will now exit from the last grub-doctor prompt, it was kinda pointless.
I just done a couple of fresh installs and everything worked correctly, your the man
One minor matter concerning the installer, when you do a new install the keyboard info in the pic is correct but if you change the keyboard and remastersys it and then do an install using it you still get the same message about a default US keyboard.
Re: SalineOS 1.5 Stuff « Reply #37 on Oct 15, 2011, 9:54am »
You might want to check the "Cancel" control in Grub Doctor before you release it into the wild, it doesn't cancel the app or reliably step back through the previous screens.
The "Screensaver" option doesn't display in the "Xfce 4 Settings Manager" menu but I think it's present in the /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu text file
I manage to do an install where my clock was one hour out and I failed to find anywhere in the menus to correct the time I eventually installed NTP and ran a script http://lin.me.uk/saline/scrips/nzk that did it for me.
The script came from Refracta, an OS very similar to SalineOS being based on Squeeze and using Xfce and also they are developing snapshot/Installer(Remastersys type) scripts and others in bash that might be of interest to you, info at http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1363 posts 1 and 6. Refracta forum http://refracta.freeforums.org/
Re: SalineOS 1.5 Stuff « Reply #38 on Oct 16, 2011, 12:49pm »
A new archive is up at the web server. I changed the dialog in localizesys about changing the languages, this script can be run at any time and is only called by the installer. I wrote it this way on purpose. As long their language packages use the same naming convention as Debian Stable, derivatives of Debian can use Localizesys to set keyboard and language settings. Deleting the folder /etc/localizesys/manual-locale will disable the User Manual updates that it does for SalineOS.
Grub Doctor has gotten quite a few little updates. Now if you click cancel without selecting anything it doesn't move forward, it just shows you the same screen. There is an "Exit" option in all the menus and I set a manual height to the window so you are sure to see it. I also added a confirmation dialog before it goes through with the install, giving you one more chance to say no.
Right now there isn't a very friendly way to set the clock in Xfce without using up system resources in the background (NTP), but Xfce 4.8 includes an option when you right click on the clock to set it correctly. So the future is looking brighter on this front.
Refracta looks interesting, I have downloaded the .deb files of his scripts and will take a peek at them when I get the chance. I am always interested in nifty bash scripts. Thanks for the link
Remastersys wasn't written by me, but it sometimes works on other Debian based distributions. If I remember right Mepis uses Knoppix boot scripts? If this is the case then no, I would not expect Remastersys to work on Mepis at all. Remastersys depends and interacts heavily with the Debian-Live scripts. Magix-Driver-Installer should work on any distribution that has the same version of the Nvidia and ATI drivers as Debian Stable and has aptitude installed. As for Grub Doctor, it should run on any distribution that uses Grub2 and has the dependencies installed (core-utils, zenity and grub2), this doesn't even require apt.
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