LinuXP - An Important Announcement

[Arnox]

Development on LinuXP will be temporarily halted until I get my hands on a 32 GB drive somewhere for further testing. If the download links expire and you need the OS reuploaded, please don't hesitate to contact me somehow (preferably via PM) to let me know that you'd like the links refreshed.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

Development on LinuXP will be temporarily halted until I get my hands on a 32 GB drive somewhere for further testing. If the download links expire and you need the OS reuploaded, please don't hesitate to contact me somehow (preferably via PM) to let me know that you'd like the links refreshed.

You can accomplish same thing with virtualbox, just create the size disk you want and develop from there. :)

 

[Arnox]

Development on LinuXP will be temporarily halted until I get my hands on a 32 GB drive somewhere for further testing. If the download links expire and you need the OS reuploaded, please don't hesitate to contact me somehow (preferably via PM) to let me know that you'd like the links refreshed.

You can accomplish same thing with virtualbox, just create the size disk you want and develop from there. :)

That would work for a local installation, but the OS is designed to be portable, so I don't think the VM can help me simulate that all the way.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

being portable would need to work across multiple architecture such as intel vs amd, radeon vs nvidia, linux mint has all that covered in the xorg drivers, inculding virtualbox video driver, you shouldn't have to worry about any of that. Unless you're making a distro from gentoo, where code is compiled for a specific processor using CFLAGS="-march=CPU_ARCH" you shouldn't have to worry much about anything except the fstab and grub.cfg uuids poiting the same place, which they will if you image it from vbox drive.

 

[Arnox]

being portable would need to work across multiple architecture such as intel vs amd, radeon vs nvidia, linux mint has all that covered in the xorg drivers, inculding virtualbox video driver, you shouldn't have to worry about any of that. Unless you're making a distro from gentoo, where code is compiled for a specific processor using CFLAGS="-march=CPU_ARCH" you shouldn't have to worry much about anything except the fstab and grub.cfg uuids poiting the same place, which they will if you image it from vbox drive.

OK, but how would I install it? I don't think there's any way to "plug" a USB drive into the VM that has Clonezilla running unless I'm much mistaken.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

there is a little usb icon at bottom of running machine, while running click on that little icon and select usb
you have plugged in.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

also when setting up machine, make sure the usb setting is set to 1.0 or 2.0 not 3.0, 3 fails on vbox

 

[BitXdDimensional]

Let me know if it works.

 

[Arnox]

Let me know if it works.

Again, dragging my feet with this. Figuring out this distribution shit is a pain in the ass and really unexciting. But it has to be done.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

If you stick with debian/ubuntu based distros to make yours from, really the only thing you need to figure out is what will make your distro different than the rest and the easiest possible way for a non linux user to use it on a usb and have it be persistent like, live usb creator you can create bootable ubuntu distro on usb that will maintain changes you make to it after you log out.

 

[Arnox]

If you stick with debian/ubuntu based distros to make yours from, really the only thing you need to figure out is what will make your distro different than the rest and the easiest possible way for a non linux user to use it on a usb and have it be persistent like, live usb creator you can create bootable ubuntu distro on usb that will maintain changes you make to it after you log out.

Live USB Creator, though useful, is actually inferior to LinuXP due to limited persistence. My OS has absolute persistence. As to specific perks besides that, there are already some, but I can't really work on it further until I sort out this distribution method.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

I know exactly what you want to do, it's exactly what I did with your LinuXP image, You want to have boot, swap and root partitions ext4 file system all on a single usb stick, That's simple and can be done with the mint xp installer, if you turn your LinuXP into a Live usb or dvd you can then use installer to install it to anything that plugs into a computer, just squashfs your linuXP and replace the mint squash.fs and boom, there you go.

 

[Arnox]

I know exactly what you want to do, it's exactly what I did with your LinuXP image, You want to have boot, swap and root partitions ext4 file system all on a single usb stick, That's simple and can be done with the mint xp installer, if you turn your LinuXP into a Live usb or dvd you can then use installer to install it to anything that plugs into a computer, just squashfs your linuXP and replace the mint squash.fs and boom, there you go.

But will the installer configure GRUB correctly? Because I actually tried 3 different installers and they ALL used the wrong config.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

What 3 installers?

 

[Arnox]

What 3 installers?

Bodhi Linux and... Um. Actually it was probably just Bodhi and Mint.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

for mint installer you need to make sure that the usb drive is selected after you setup partitions, it's barely noticeable and easy to over look. It defaults to first drive on system(sda)

 

[Arnox]

for mint installer you need to make sure that the usb drive is selected after you setup partitions, it's barely noticeable and easy to over look. It defaults to first drive on system(sda)

I think I did that already and it didn't work, but I'm not too sure.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

Try it inside virtualbox, create a linux machine don't worry about creating virtual disk, attach linux mint iso as cd drive, insert usb and install like that. That would be the best way to make sure grub isn't looking at all your other installations on your machine.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

Try it inside virtualbox, create a linux machine don't worry about creating virtual disk, attach linux mint iso as cd drive, insert usb and install like that. That would be the best way to make sure grub isn't looking at all your other installations on your machine.

Just tried this then put usb in my laptop and booted right up.

 

[Arnox]

Try it inside virtualbox, create a linux machine don't worry about creating virtual disk, attach linux mint iso as cd drive, insert usb and install like that. That would be the best way to make sure grub isn't looking at all your other installations on your machine.

Try it inside virtualbox, create a linux machine don't worry about creating virtual disk, attach linux mint iso as cd drive, insert usb and install like that. That would be the best way to make sure grub isn't looking at all your other installations on your machine.

Just tried this then put usb in my laptop and booted right up.

Yeah I think I actually disconnected all my HDDs and it still didn't work correctly for me. I still had to do some work myself.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

I used linuxmint-19-xfce-64bit-v2.iso attached it to virtualbox, insert my usb, clicked on install from desktop, when it was done I took it out of my desktop pc put in laptop and booted right up into user login.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

I used linuxmint-19-xfce-64bit-v2.iso attached it to virtualbox, insert my usb, clicked on install from desktop, when it was done I took it out of my desktop pc put in laptop and booted right up into user login.

With that method, you would only need to take apart the iso, unsqaush the squashfs, chroot into it and edit it the way you want, then mksquash fs and mkiso and you will have basically your own live distro of mint with installer.

 

[BitXdDimensional]

Works with Sabayon_Linux_18.05_amd64_MATE.iso also, if you like gentoo and want that type of distro, I did data encryption with sabayon, worked as soon as I put usb in laptop and passkey for encrypted root.