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custom live Ubuntu based from scratch [1] and can boot "toram" [2] .. : http://madbox.tuxfamily.org/
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveC … romScratch
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM
madbox-10.10.01-i386.iso - md5 = 58d176a7ed5fd98cb560c29c9f947397
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Last edited by ADcomp (2010-12-15 19:08:24)
could you give us (me) a little "how to" do our own live-cd?
@ klanger : I can help if you have some problem. I don't think i can do more .. All is explain in "live from scratch" howto
Last edited by ADcomp (2009-07-07 19:56:28)
@ klanger : I can help if you have some problem. I don't think i can't do more .. All is explain in "live from scratch" howto
ADcomp wrote:
Yes, thank you - I'll give it a try maybe tomorrow (now I have to go to sleep - I've been up for almost 20h)
Oh and I've run your distro on my eeepc, but the keyboard map wasn't qwerty 
Last edited by klanger (2009-07-07 19:54:57)
Looking good, nice work ADcomp! 
Oh and I've run your distro on my eeepc, but the keyboard map wasn't qwerty
be (belgium) and fr (french) keyboard are AZERTY .. not QWERTY. So change it at boot time ( F2 - other options => console-setup/layoutcode=en )
You can also extract files from ISO , modify menu ( boot/grub/menu.lst ) and recreate a new iso with your boot option .. 
Looking good, nice work ADcomp!
Thanks 
The blacks and blues make it looks Fedora-ish
@ anonymous : I'm never at ease with Fedora but I really like his look'n feel ( more than ubuntu )
hi adcomp,
just using your madbox-usb-stick on thinkpad for test: everything works fine, good choice of soft, google-oriented is no-need for me but your madbox is a social-distro isn't it ? wicd is perfect as always, and midori is user-friendly.
anyway, your crunch-lite-social-xslight-adcompstyle distro is much more friendly than rescue-cd and could be good by default on an eeepc (tested a minute ago, works fine on small screen, adeskbar is very usefull on small resolution).
i really like your choice of wallpapers
just a question : what about conky ? just a small one for ram,proc&hd...
very good job. thanks for sharing madbox and sharing for #! too
Last edited by arpinux (2009-07-08 01:11:49)
Very nice work, as always!
Hi arpinux,
Thank you for your very good feedback
just using your madbox-usb-stick on thinkpad for test: everything works fine, good choice of soft, google-oriented is no-need for me but your madbox is a social-distro isn't it ?
yes and no .. I only use gmail and google reader ( with prism ). Other webapp are available ( like twitter / facebook / other google app ) and don't take much space , So I create a new bar for these
just a question : what about conky ? just a small one for ram,proc&hd...
I always disable it for testing ( virtualbox ) .. and always forget to activate it again before upload ISO
Very nice work, as always!
.. thanks !
Ok, so I've stayed up a whole night (from 2am) and the first method - link to livecd - gives me an error when booting from the new livecd - error 217 kernel panik - bleee.
I think I did what it was said in the manual, but since I'd only 2or3 hours of sleep I'm not sure
Any idea what to do with that error?
About your iso - using setxkbmap pl I changed keyboard to qwerty ... in terminal
Is there a way to change windows manager, because I'm a (new) big fan of awesome windows manager and to be honest I'm quite interesed in a way your toram distro will work will that lighting powered wm
Using logout is imposible to change windows manager (and I don't know the password, or my brain is so useless today so I can't think of any).
also a litte of topic - does anyone know how to uninstall openbox from #! ?
sudo apt-get remove/purge openbox gives me somethnig like this whan I want to update my system...
The OS works ok, I can install apps, but every time I want to update I get what is above Any idea how to remove openbox form #! "the good way" Or how to fix that update error? I really don't need it, since I'm using awesome wm.
sorry for of topic... learnig, learnig, learnig
Last edited by klanger (2009-07-09 07:36:11)
Hi Klanger, Madbox uses the Slim login manager (instead of GDM). You have to edit /etc/slim.conf and add awesome to the list of sessions, then you can press F1 at the login screen to choose between windows managers. (Or install GDM if you prefer.)
I think you would have a lot of fun building your own minimal install with awesome. The best instructions I've found are in the following link, just substitute awesome for icewm and you should be off to a good start: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
Last edited by snowpine (2009-07-09 12:40:01)
Hi Klanger, Madbox uses the Slim login manager (instead of GDM). You have to edit /etc/slim.conf and add awesome to the list of sessions, then you can press F1 at the login screen to choose between windows managers. (Or install GDM if you prefer.)
I think you would have a lot of fun building your own minimal install with awesome. The best instructions I've found are in the following link, just substitute awesome for icewm and you should be off to a good start: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal
Thanks. I love to make my own little linux distro with Awesome
But... yeah there is always "but"... 
Every time I try to install mini-ubuntu or Arch or Debian on my SD card I can't boot the system. I don't know where to place Grub at SD card, so it'll boot the system.
Any idea? Below is fdisk -l of my eeepc
Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8eb98eb9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 193 1550241 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 195 490 2377620 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB, 16139354112 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1962 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000661e8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1962 15759733+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 4007 MB, 4007657472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 487 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5cd349e7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 487 3911796 83 Linux
klanger@klanger-laptop:~$ Grub should be on hd0,0 hd0,1 hd1,0 .... 
Assuming /dev/sdc is your SD card, you should put Grub on /dev/sdc (I think this is what the 9.04 installer should default to, anyway). Your problem is probably choosing /dev/sdc1 or /sdc2 etc instead of just /dev/sdc with no number. You have to install it to the MBR instead of a specific partition. I hope that helps anyway.
Assuming /dev/sdc is your SD card, you should put Grub on /dev/sdc (I think this is what the 9.04 installer should default to, anyway). Your problem is probably choosing /dev/sdc1 or /sdc2 etc instead of just /dev/sdc with no number. You have to install it to the MBR instead of a specific partition. I hope that helps anyway.
Thanks. Hope it will work with ubuntu-mini because it doesn't - hell knows why - work with debian and arch (I always get an error 21 or 17). God only knows how I hate those errors
Well, in virtualbox everything is ok, but in real life with sd, I can boot into mini-ubuntu, but it freezes with a commend "busybox something something" ... in virtualbox my minisystem starts with about 45-50MB in ram which is awesome but I can't get the iso out of VB (I don't know why but remastersys makes an iso that while booting also says "busybox.... bla bla bla".
So... I'm back with #!-awesome
Last edited by klanger (2009-07-10 10:52:16)
Hello ..
As karmic is coming soon , I 'm working on new release of my custom live "madbox" ..
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base : karmic / kernel 2.6.31-11
* openbox , slim , tint2 , xcompmgr-dana , transset-df , nitrogen , lxrandr , lxappearance , ..
* pcmanfm , thunar , xfburn , gftp , transmission , geany , xarchiver , gparted , ..
* firefox , gnome-player , aumix , viewnior , adeskbar , terminator , gnome-power-manager , ..
I upload iso image when it's ready .. ( ~ 335 Mb )
@bientot
Last edited by ADcomp (2009-09-28 03:01:29)
@ anonymous : I'm never at ease with Fedora but I really like his look'n feel ( more than ubuntu )
I like the look of my toilet better than default ubuntu...:P
Hello ..
Iso image is online :
http://download.tuxfamily.org/madbox/ma … 1.i386.iso
md5 : a93809b742d0f27a43c5b65f92930296
Feedback are welcome
will check this out when (if it finishes...) it finishes downloading and i can find my lil usbdrives. will let you know how it goes.
Hello ..
Iso image is online :
http://download.tuxfamily.org/madbox/ma … 1.i386.iso
md5 : a93809b742d0f27a43c5b65f92930296
Feedback are welcome
downloading...
some info / tips ..
openbox keybindings :
W-F5 = Reconfigure openbox
C-A-Escape = Execute xkillW-e = Execute pcmanfm
W-f = Execute firefox
W-t = Execute terminator
W-g = Execute geany
W-u = Execute oblogoutA+F2 = Execute gmrun
W+F1 = go to desktop 1
W+F2 = go to desktop 2
W+space = openbox menu
C+space = openbox windowlistW-d = ToggleShowDesktop
W-i = Iconify
W-k = ToggleShade
W-j = ToggleDecorations
W-m = ToggleMaximizeFull
W-l = ToggleMaximizeHorz
W-a = ToggleAlwaysOnTop
W-p = ToggleFullscreenW-Up = volume + ( aumix / pcm )
W-Down = volume - ( aumix / pcm )F12 = if you use guake ( quake like terminal ) : show/hide
If you want to install some app. , remember to update before :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install your_applicationif you want to install ( not recommend ! .. but work fine with virtualbox and on my netbook AAO )
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubiquity-frontend-gtk --no-install-recommends
ubiquityEt voilà ..
Last edited by ADcomp (2009-09-29 19:06:56)
Hello ..
Iso image is online :
http://download.tuxfamily.org/madbox/ma … 1.i386.iso
md5 : a93809b742d0f27a43c5b65f92930296
Feedback are welcome
Looks good so far. very stable, seems more like a beta than alpha :D do you have an ETA for the beta?
This is such a cool project!
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