Monday, October 19, 2009

XBPS: x86 first live ISO image for pre-testing

I didn't want to make this public yet, because there are some critical features missing in XBPS but a friend of mine has put it publicly so here it is... I have built a live image (thanks to my infamous xbps-mklive shell script!) of the GNU/Linux distribution I'm building with XBPS for x86 (more archs to follow in the future).

This contains the minimal base system packages, you can look at the full list in the top level directory of the ISO image (packages.txt). The bootloader (isolinux) will show you three options to boot from, live image, live image running from RAM and boot first HD detected by the BIOS.

Obviously if you have more than 105MB of RAM you can choose the 2nd option, it will run much faster. By default it will use a spanish keymap/locale, you can override it in the bootloader (pressing the TAB key and changing keymap and locale to your prefered settings).

http://lolcathost.org/b/xbps

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