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#1 2005-07-09 01:37:36

syamajala
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archie17

i had a great idea for a live cd, or a "flavor" of archie. the live cd would use e17 instead of kde, so people can try arch and e17 (hence the name arche17) at the sametime. i'm still trying to figure out how to go about doing this. it will be x86 only. anyone wanna help?

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#2 2005-07-09 01:46:24

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Re: archie17

great idea. I would really like to try out e17. A live-cd is probably the best way to try it out, at least for the first look. I don't really know anything about making live-cds but I'm willing to learn so if you need help, I could spend a little bit of my precious precious time.

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#3 2005-07-09 01:57:22

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Re: archie17

Archie uses xfce4.  I think there will be a KDE version in the future.  There some info in this forum about custom iso. Maybe you could use the archie build tools/scripts. Try posting/searching  in the archie forum: http://user-contributions.org/forums/us … x.php?f=17

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#4 2005-07-09 01:57:53

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Re: archie17

ok, also thanks for coming up with the name leif!

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#5 2005-07-09 11:36:00

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Re: archie17

could one of the moderators change the title to archie17?

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#6 2005-07-09 11:39:16

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Re: archie17

I think you can do it by editing your first post.

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#7 2005-07-09 11:44:05

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Re: archie17

thanks

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#8 2005-07-10 10:34:23

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Re: archie17

I´ve been planing exactly this, and than i read this topic. funny big_smile
Creating such a live-cd wouldn´t be very hard. I think we´ve just have to figure out which packages we wanna have inside the live-cd. And than anyone (maybe me) have to install a new Arch with this packages somewhere on his HD and just run the archie-scripts at the end.
So let´s start a new topic to discuss which packages should be included.

I´m thinking about the same live-cd with some nice fvwm-themes from here, because in my eyes fvwm is the greatest ever. Although it´s much harder to get it look beautiful than e17.

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#9 2005-07-10 12:25:21

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Re: archie17

i already have a base arch system setup. i was planning on using the packages in rensel's repo http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/ … ur/rensel/
i can post a list later if you would like to go over it and make any suggestions

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#10 2005-07-10 14:19:22

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Re: archie17

its really nice to see Archie accomplishes its goal - having multiple variants, each customized on its own, all featuring Arch linux smile

best of luck on your Archie17 journey, i promise to be among the 1st to dl and test it wink

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#11 2005-07-10 14:48:58

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Re: archie17

and me smile

ziggy - where is the HOWTO for creating and archie cd?

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#12 2005-07-10 16:11:46

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Re: archie17

it is t3H d0'//n50rz3d!!1!1!0nE1!! tongue

it's down, I know because I have been trying to make my own varient for a few weeks, the ill-fated custom install cd of mine big_smile

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#13 2005-07-10 17:11:02

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Re: archie17

Rasat took the wiki down sometime ago. he said he'll bring it back once his host will change something on the server... im still waiting, just like u... :?

until he'll do that, ill post the basic steps on the forums.

[edit]
i posted basic instructions here. hth smile

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#14 2005-07-10 21:24:50

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Re: archie17

thanks!

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#15 2005-07-11 00:13:19

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Re: archie17

here is the package list:

alsa-lib 1.0.9-1
archie-scripts 0.4.3-2
aspell 0.60-4
atk 1.10.1-1
audiofile 0.2.6-1
autoconf 2.59-1
automake 1.9.5-1
bash 3.0-6
bin86 0.16.17-1
binutils 2.15-1
bison 2.0-1
bootsplash 3.2-1
bzip2 1.0.3-1
cairo 0.5.1-1
cdrtools 2.01-3
codecs 20050412-1
coreutils 5.2.1-5
cpio 2.6-1
cracklib 2.8.3-1
curl 7.13.2-1
db 4.3.28-1
dcron 2.9-2
devfsd 1.3.25-4
dhcpcd 1.3.22pl4-4
diffutils 2.8.1-2
e-cvs 100705-1
e2fsprogs 1.38-1
e_modules-cvs 100705-1
e_utils-cvs 100705-1
ecore-cvs 100705-1
ed 0.2-2
edb-cvs 100705-1
edje-cvs 100705-1
eet-cvs 100705-1
embryo-cvs 100705-1
emotion-cvs 100705-1
engage-cvs 100705-1
engrave-cvs 100705-1
epeg-cvs 100705-1
epsilon-cvs 100705-1
esd 0.2.36-1
esmart-cvs 100705-1
eterm 0.9.3-1
evas-cvs 100705-1
ewl-cvs 100705-1
examine-cvs 100705-1
expat 1.95.8-1
file 4.14-1
filesystem 0.7-5
findutils 4.2.23-1
flac 1.1.2-2
flex 2.5.31-2
fontconfig 2.3.2-1
freetype1 1.3.1-2
freetype2 2.1.10-1
gaim 1.4.0-1
gcc 3.4.3-2
gdbm 1.8.3-2
gettext 0.14.5-1
glib 1.2.10-4
glib2 2.6.5-1
glibc 2.3.4-2
glitz 0.4.0-1
gnutls 1.2.5-1
grep 2.5.1a-1
groff 1.19.1-3
grub 0.97-1
gtk 1.2.10-4
gtk2 2.6.8-1
gtkspell 2.0.10-1
gzip 1.2.4b-2
hotplug 2004_09_23-4
imlib2-devel 100705-1
initscripts 0.7-10
iputils 021109-4
kbd 1.12-1
less 382-2
libao 0.8.6-1
libast 0.6.1-1
libgcrypt 1.2.1-1
libgpg-error 1.1-1
libidl2 0.8.5-1
libjpeg 6b-3
libmng 1.0.9-1
libogg 1.1.2-1
libpcap 0.8.3-1
libpixman 0.1.5-1
libpng 1.2.8-1
libtasn1 0.2.13-1
libtheora 1.0alpha4-1
libtiff 3.7.3-1
libtool 1.5.18-1
libungif 4.1.3-1
libusb 0.1.10a-1
libvorbis 1.1.1-1
lilo 22.7-1
logrotate 3.6.5-3
m4 1.4.3-1
mailx 8.1.1-2
make 3.80-2
man 1.5p-3
man-pages 2.05-1
mawk 1.3.3-6
mktemp 1.5-1
module-init-tools 3.1-2
mozilla-common 1.0-2
mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-1
nano 1.2.5-1
ncurses 5.4-2
net-tools 1.60-10
opencdk 0.5.7-1
openoffice-base 1.1.4-4
openssl 0.9.7g-1
pacman 2.9.6-2
pam 0.79-2
pango 1.8.1-1
patch 2.5.4-2
pciutils 2.1.11-3
pcre 6.1-1
perl 5.8.7-1
pkgconfig 0.18.1-1
popt 1.7-2
ppp 2.4.3-1
procinfo 18-2
procps 3.2.5-3
psmisc 21.6-1
raidtools 1.00.3-3
readline 5.0-3
reiserfsprogs 3.6.19-1
rp-pppoe 3.5-1
sdl 1.2.8-1
sed 4.1.4-1
shadow 4.0.7-1
slocate 2.7-2
squashfs 2.1-1
startup-notification 0.8-1
sylpheed 1.9.9-1
syslog-ng 1.6.8-1
sysvinit 2.86-1
tar 1.15.1-1
tcl 8.4.9-1
tcp_wrappers 7.6-6
tk 8.4.9-1
udev 060-5
unionfs 1.0.12a-8
usbutils 0.70-2
util-linux 2.12-7
vim 6.3-5
wget 1.10-1
which 2.16-1
wireless_tools 27-1
xine-lib 1.0.1-1
xorg 11R6.8.2-2
zlib 1.2.2-2

i'm not sure if its to much, because that whats a normal desktop for me consists of (plus anjuta). any suggestions?

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#16 2005-07-11 02:20:18

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Re: archie17

Maybe you could add xine-ui, gimp, inkscape.  I don't know how much space is availiable because you have openoffice which is quite big.  If you want, you can compare your list with the Archie list to check if you didn't forgot anything.

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#17 2005-07-11 03:02:29

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Re: archie17

yeah actually i think i got carried away because its more than 900mb right now ;-p i'll see how much it shrinks after mkliveiso.

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#18 2005-07-11 04:41:58

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Re: archie17

I think 2.5 bg fits compressed n a live cd

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#19 2005-07-11 07:29:10

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Re: archie17

Well, there's plenty of space on archie, so far its about 300mb. Uncompressed and installed, that 300mb becomes a whopping 1gb.

z4ziggy though, says that it becomes substantially slower the more you install to the liveCD.

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#20 2005-07-11 07:43:12

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Re: archie17

i'd consider the new xorg unless loads of bugs have been reported for it - works great for me

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#21 2005-07-11 12:54:53

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Re: archie17

I might drop OO and use abiword or something.

Snowman: i'll add xine-ui, i also think there is a e17 player that uses emotion (which uses xine-lib) i'll look for a package for that. Gimp and inkscape i'll see what i can do.

I think another problem with having a big root (other than that it becomes slower) is that i don't think people will like downloading a huge a$$ cd. Like i think one of reasons that archie is successful is because of the size of the cd. 340mb isn't a bad download, i think its also something a dialup user could handle. one thing i personally hate is waiting for a 700mb iso to download. so i'll see what happens after i fix the test iso (silly me forgot to install a kernel d;-})

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#22 2005-07-11 17:42:52

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Re: archie17

I've created a small page for Archie17:
http://genesis.blogdns.net/archie17.php

It still wants some information. I'm not really sure it should be a part of the Arch64 site, but as one of syamajala's projects that's a good location for it for now. Knowing syamajala, this project is partially an experiment in creating live CDs so that he can figure out how to make an Arch64 live CD. ;-)

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#23 2005-07-11 18:24:35

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Re: archie17

hehe you figured out my plan ;-}

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#24 2005-07-11 20:36:19

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Re: archie17

I'd be happy to contribute, of course  wink


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#25 2005-07-12 01:23:12

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Re: archie17

syamajala: Try abiword and gnumeric, gnumeric can be compiled with --without-gnome.

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