FaunOS: New Release Available

raymano · 2007-06-05 12:31:01

We have released a new version of FaunOS at:

http://www.faunos.com

This release includes many enhancements over the first release. You can find a list of new features and current packages on the web site. We have also improved our download area with more bandwidth.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks,
Raymano

Sigi · 2007-06-05 12:48:06

I haven't tried FaunOS yet but it looks cool!
I've built my own live-usb-system but haven't used it much since I made it a few month ago...

FaunOS looks professional and well-polished! Keep up your (as-far-as-I-can-tell) good work!

raymano · 2007-06-05 12:49:58

Sigi wrote:

I haven't tried FaunOS yet but it looks cool!
I've built my own live-usb-system but haven't used it much since I made it a few month ago...
FaunOS looks professional and well-polished! Keep up your (as-far-as-I-can-tell) good work!

Thanks, Sigi. Give FaunOS a shot. You might like it

bt · 2007-06-05 14:44:37

Just tried the new version. Very nice, but two items.

1. After connecting successfully through pppoe-setup, I still cannot use pacman -Sy or firefox. just doesn't connect.

2. I burned the DVD-R with k3b, but at the end of the session the message is: "media not appendable". This may take some configuration of k3b. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Other than those two items (so far), I'm ready to may it an alternate mobile office distribution by adding other programs that I need.

raymano · 2007-06-05 14:58:19

bt wrote:

Just tried the new version. Very nice, but two items.
1. After connecting successfully through pppoe-setup, I still cannot use pacman -Sy or firefox. just doesn't connect.
2. I burned the DVD-R with k3b, but at the end of the session the message is: "media not appendable". This may take some configuration of k3b. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Other than those two items (so far), I'm ready to may it an alternate mobile office distribution by adding other programs that I need.

Thanks bt.

I don't know much about pppoe-setup so I can't help you there. Maybe someone else could help out on this issue.

Your 2nd question: I'm investigating and will let you know. For now the save session feature is really meant for the USB version.

atlas95 · 2007-06-05 17:00:08

What is the user and password please??

Thanks!

raymano · 2007-06-05 17:00:49

atlas95 wrote:

What is the user and password please??
Thanks!

username root password root
username guest password guest

I'll put that on the web site.

EDIT:
guest is also setup to do a lot of thing through sudo.

You can, for example:

sudo pacman -Syu

as guest.

Last edited by raymano (2007-06-05 17:03:01)

raymano · 2007-06-05 18:21:19

Here's some new screenshots with Beryl+AIGLX

lilsirecho · 2007-06-05 20:37:44

Downloaded the 02b version.

I tried three boot options but did not get display as before with 01e version.

Perhaps the root-guest info s/b given at the boot prompt.

Boot splash of faun OS displays and cli of myfaunos: displays.

C2r boot ends with DONE in right top corner and a mouse of large proportion...no display of KDE.

Will try entering the guest passwd...

Raymond

EDIT: Cannot download via wget.....error 404

No KDE desktop with any option...No startx

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raymano · 2007-06-06 00:09:07

lilsirecho wrote:

Downloaded the 02b version.
I tried three boot options but did not get display as before with 01e version.

You need to get a better computer

Just kidding.

There are 2 terminals that are created. If X doesn't start then use ctrl-alt-f2 or ctrl-alt-f3 to get to a terminal and login as root, password root. You can then change /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your likiing and restart kdm by issueing: "/etc/rc.d/kdm restart"

lilsirecho wrote:

Perhaps the root-guest info s/b given at the boot prompt.

That's a great idea, will do for next release.

lilsirecho wrote:

Boot splash of faun OS displays and cli of myfaunos: displays.
C2r boot ends with DONE in right top corner and a mouse of large proportion...no display of KDE.
Will try entering the guest passwd...
Raymond
EDIT: Cannot download via wget.....error 404

You've had unique download problems before. If anyone else is experiencing download problems please let me know.

lilsirecho wrote:

No KDE desktop with any option...No startx

Restart X with "/etc/rc.d/kdm restart"

raymano · 2007-06-06 10:11:32

lilsirecho,

Could you please post your full wget line that results in error 404? I checked the logs and looks like you are hitting an invalid URL.

Raymano

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samoturk · 2007-06-06 11:30:29

Great work!

You should advertise this on Distrowatch!

raymano · 2007-06-06 11:54:10

samoturk wrote:

Great work!
You should advertise this on Distrowatch!

Thanks. All in time.

lilsirecho · 2007-06-06 16:54:38

Was able to get a display after modding xorg.conf: however, the next time I booted it was back to the original xorg.conf and when I try to modify it again, I get a new error in /etc/xinitrc which I do not know how to handle.

Why does the xorg.conf not remain as I changed it? I answer YES to the save session upon reboot but it comes up with the original xorg every time.

Just trying to be of help in testing your OS with my bad computer.....

EDIT: wget -c -T 1800 http://www.faunos.com/faunos02b.img

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raymano · 2007-06-06 18:06:38

lilsirecho wrote:

Was able to get a display after modding xorg.conf: however, the next time I booted it was back to the original xorg.conf and when I try to modify it again, I get a new error in /etc/xinitrc which I do not know how to handle.
Why does the xorg.conf not remain as I changed it? I answer YES to the save session upon reboot but it comes up with the original xorg every time.

This is by design. Currently xorg.conf gets overlayed so that is automatically generated at each boot by Xorg -configure. But I can see in a case like yours this is not a good thing. However there is a work around which I might include permenantly in the next release depending on how widespread your issue is.

Before rebooting FaunOS, copy your working /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/myxorg.conf

Add the following line to your /etc/rc.local :

cp /etc/X11/myxorg.cong /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Reboot and save session. On the next bootup you should get your xorg.conf.

lilsirecho wrote:

Just trying to be of help in testing your OS with my bad computer.....

I was just kidding about getting a better computer
I really do appreciate you taking the time to try out FaunOS. Every problem that is discovered results in a better and more complete FaunOS in the future.

lilsirecho wrote:

EDIT: wget -c -T 1800 http://www.faunos.com/faunos02b.img

You are hitting the wrong URL. Try:
wget -c -T 1800 http://www.faunos.com/downloads/faunos02b/faunos02b.img

Thanks for your patience,
Raymano

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lilsirecho · 2007-06-07 03:01:21

Performed your suggested procedures after re-burning the flash drive.

Successfully re-booted into faunos.

Wondering if ....sudo pacman -S opera vlc ... download should be saved on reboot with save session?

System booted into memory with no problem, other than much memory in use. Removing the flash drive permits much greater free memory.

Google Earth plays ok whereas in my arch it flunks out the session.

Can I change the host to my root instead of guest permanently?

raymano · 2007-06-07 05:01:26

lilsirecho wrote:

Performed your suggested procedures after re-burning the flash drive.
Successfully re-booted into faunos.

Yes!

lilsirecho wrote:

Wondering if ....sudo pacman -S opera vlc ... download should be saved on reboot with save session?

Yes. They would be saved.

lilsirecho wrote:

System booted into memory with no problem, other than much memory in use. Removing the flash drive permits much greater free memory.

Remember the entire image of the root is about 3 GB. So yes. I think it's pretty cool to be able to load up all that in compressed mode into about 1.2 Gig of ram. If you specify some swap space you can load as much as you have swap. You can also create a swap partition on the USB drive if you have some leftover space and use that.

lilsirecho wrote:

Google Earth plays ok whereas in my arch it flunks out the session.

We've tried very hard to make every piece of software installed, work out of the box. That is the main goal of FaunOS.

lilsirecho wrote:

Can I change the host to my root instead of guest permanently?

I'm not sure if I understand this question. Can you explain?

lilsirecho · 2007-06-07 15:43:31

My install of opera and vlc was not saved, using ....sudo pacman -S opera vlc.........

My host as it is right now in faun OS is ....guest@n6re#.....

Perhaps if It were.....root@n6re#... I could get opera and vlc to be saved on reboot.

I have 2GB ram and 2GB swap(flash). Faunos is on 2GB flash as well.

System is running at good speed...boot into faunos was 52 seconds....1 min 36 sec in memory boot.

Raymond

PS:On reboot a message....larch_merge_overlay...no such file or directory...

raymano · 2007-06-07 16:27:49

The reason that the install of opera and vlc did not save is that the FaunOS partition on the USB is running out of space. For distribution purpose I've had to keep the USB image as small as possible. So I have left very little (about 14 megs) of open space for saving sessions. Doing a df -ak will show you this. The "larch_merge_overlay" error message you are getting at reboot is also related to this since your last saved overlay files are incomplete and are not being used.

But you can resize the file systems on the FaunOS USB drive to any larger size you desire. The procedure below explains how. I recommend using this procedure on a newly created FaunOS USB drive without previously saved session(s):

1) Boot faunos into memory.
2) Unplug the USB drive.
3) Plug the USB drive back in.
4) Choose "Do Nothing" on the windows that pop up and want to mount the USB drive partitions.
5) Use gparted or qtparted (both included in FaunOS) to modify partition and file system sizes on the USB device as you desire.

This will allow you to save back as much sessions as you have room for on your USB drive.

EDIT: You can also use a FaunOS DVD to boot up and plug in your FaunOS USB drive and do steps 3-5 above.

And as to your question to have the system auto login as root instead of guest: Yes you can. You can change it in Administration Mode in KDE's Control Center->Login Manager under the "Convenience" tab. You'll see the auto login user is set to guest. You can change it to root.

But realize that by doing this you will not get the customizations (menus, applications, look and feel, etc.) that FaunOS provides. I'd recommend against doing this and instead use sudo or su to root on konsole. If you'd like to run some guis as root run "xhost +localhost" as guest to allow root to pop up GUIs on the desktop.

EDIT: I should add that the boot up times depend on the your USB drive's speed and can vary. They also include complete KDE startup (including amarok) which can be about 20-30 seconds on it's own.

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lilsirecho · 2007-06-07 16:53:48

The question has been well-answered and doubtless will be informative for other users as well.

Thanks:)

raymano · 2007-06-07 17:13:34

I am planning on compiling the information that surfaces from discussions in this thread into a documentation wiki for FaunOS. So keep those questions coming!

lilsirecho: Thanks for your plug for FaunOS on the other thread

Thought I'd point out the general FaunOS philosophy:

- FaunOS is to Arch Linux what Ubuntu is to Debian.

We'd really like mortals, like us at FaunOS , use Arch Linux more, since Arch is the best root distribution in the world!

bt · 2007-06-07 19:18:11

New post but same problem.

1. Finally discovered how to make an appendable dvd -- with growisofs or with a wrapper script I found called 'cdrskin'.
I used cdrskin - it very nice.

2. Internet connection -- don't know what to do since in the main arch box the pppoe-setup, start, stop - works perfectly.
In FaunOS I set it up - but no connection -- and pppoe-status shows the connecton as up... But ping does not work, nor does firefox nor pacman.

Since the internet connection is my last problem - I would appreciate some guidance .. if you can.

Thanks

EDIT: had to configure /etc/rc.conf. Internet now works

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raymano · 2007-06-07 19:29:27

I'm glad you figured out the multi-session dvd issue. I will point people to cdrskin with the same question. Thanks.

As far as the pppoe-setup problem, as I said before I don't have any experience with it.

But I will do my best to help you solve it. Don't worry. We'll figure it out together.

Let's start with this. Have you followed everything in the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PPP … _with_pppd

lilsirecho · 2007-06-07 20:07:36

Not certain I implemented your recommendation to increase the open space.

The df-ak on the present layout is as follows...
========================================================================
[guest@n6re ~]$ df -ak
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1235848 18488 1217360 2% /
/dev/sdb1 1535264 924520 549320 63% /.livesys/livecd
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /dev
none 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
none 1029872 0 1029872 0% /dev/shm
[guest@n6re ~]$

I am not certain what is to follow step 5 in order that the newly added packages will be saved

As you can see there is ~500mb of free space.

I haven't had it perform a save on added opera and vlc...always get the larch_merge_overlay error.

Whazzup?

raymano · 2007-06-07 20:28:03

I suspect you have incomplete overlay files left over from before. Mount your USB drive read/write outside of FaunOS and remove any numbered overlay file like etc0001.sqf and overlay0001.sqf. Needless to say, do not delete etc.sqf and overlay.sqf. After that reboot to FaunOS and reinstall opera and vlc and save your session on reboot.

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