Re: DeLi Linux, results
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
> > I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not
> > a "live CD".
> >
> > !. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get
> > it right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says "run cfdisk". I
> > did it and made a linux and swap partition on one disk image. Cool. This
> > works. Then proceded with deliinstall. One chooses one (count 'em)
> > keyboard and later one and only one language. The thing will make your
> > swap after warning you that this is dangerous if swap is active. Do it
> > anyway. It offers three ways to run lilo. Using its default simple method
> > is adequate. It now asks where to put the mbr. After accepting its
> > default, I actually fixed it by using a virtual knoppix session on the
> > disk image file and put the mbr where it belongs using fdisk.
> >
> > 2. Made a virtualbox vdi using its conversion tool. The iso and this file
> > as well hung the system on boot. Virtualbox has a weakness of not
> > emulating a known video device. In this case, this is fatal.
> >
> > 3. The fixed up disk image will boot nicely in qemu. Run delisetup.
> > Either choice of windowmanger yields the "failsafe" X with a vterm and
> > blank gray screen. Ran abiword. Could not resize the window. Got stuck in
> > its help. Alt control/D out. A beginning user with his/her 166mhz
> > Pentium-antique will not be able to figure out how to get the beautiful
> > screenshots on the site and how to correctly shutdown the system.
> >
One must run as a normal user (it sets up root but one must run adduser to set
up non-root users. New to Linux? O Well.) xwmconfig. Now when one startx's,
it comes up very nicely.
The WIKI linked on their site gives these three more steps:
1. As root: Delistup-->set up tiny-X-server
2. As user: xwmconfig
3. startx.
> > 4, OK, will run nicely with a little resources. But needs more UI work to
> > be really practical.
At least mention the above. Better, do them on reboot if possible.
> > 5. Only provides added software from its CD. Weakness.
This is for low memory usage. There are a few packages requiring 32meg
(jeepers!) firefox, gnumeric and vlc.
Needs: firewall!!
> Nothing like a bad review of another distribution to make my day.
Not really. UI design is an art. I might not have gotten my Debian set up were
it not for starting with Knoppix.
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