[wellylug] CCUX Linux

[Bill Christiansen]

Hi Rosemary,
no problem sending you the CD, 695 MB so just fits on one CD. Just
remember that it's still an Alpha release Version 0.97, they're
expecting to reach the 1.0 release later in the year (with a few more
alpha / betas in between). You will be able to upgrade to the newer
versions. The only major glitch I found post installation was the
Xdriver-trident got missed off the CD and as my display uses this X
wouldn't start but it's since been added to the repositories so all I
had to do was apt-get install Xdriver-trident. Otherwise everything is
running as stable as any distro I've tried. Email me your address off
list and I'll get the cd in the post.
Bill

On 5/4/05, Rosemary McGillicuddy <mcgillra at infogen.net.nz> wrote:
> Bill Christiansen wrote:
> > Yes it would overwrite Mandriva's lilo with grub unless you specified
> > to write the grub to the partition instead of the MBR and then updated
> > lilo to add an entry to boot CCUX. Although it may detect your
> > Mandriva and add it to it's grub menu, but I'm not sure about that as
> > I installed it on a system with no other OS. One thing you could try
> > is format a floppy disk vfat and then edit the first line (boot=) on
> > your Mandriva /etc/lilo.conf to say boot=/dev/fd0. Then run /sbin/lilo
> > (as root), this should write your Mandriva lilo to the floppy. Then
> > reboot and test if you can boot from the floppy to your Mandriva (it's
> > just a way of getting back into Mandriva if the MBR gets messed up,
> > but there are other ways such as livecd's / rescue cd's so it wouldn't
> > be difficult to recover your Mandriva).
> 
> Apparently the another way is to use lilo and add a stanza for CCUX ...
> 
> > CCUX (not sure how you say it) currently only has about 900 packages
> > in it's repository (but growing all the time) and all of the common
> > one 's like latest versions of firefox, thunderbird, OO, KDE 3.4
> > (Gnome 2.10 is coming soon).
> 
> Sounds like it's got everything I need and use ... mandriva has heaps of
> things I don't touch.
> 
> Packages are RPM based with a synaptic
> > front end (read as apt-get for CL lovers). Dev packages are available
> > and there's a build your own RPM howto so there's something for oldies
> > and newbies :-)
> 
> Don't think I'll be looking at dev packages until I can afford a second
> computer for just 'playing' :-)
> 
> Any chance you could send me a copy if I send you CDs?   If so how many
> does it take?
> 
> regards
> 
> Rosemary
> 
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