[FINISHED] BunsenLabs Lithium 32 bit Release Candidate iso available

hhh · 2020-06-27 03:26:54

DeepDayze wrote:

johnraff wrote:
Hi truscellino
truscellino wrote:
A particular case is machines with UEFI 32 bits + 64 bits CPU, like early intel mac minis (like I have), quite a few models of netbooks from 2005-2010 period. Linux 64 bits install becomes a bit tricky as you must have 32 bits EFI bootloader. You can do this with Debian multi-arch but I am getting off-topic here
This topic has come up in the past:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=5132
Support for mixed-mode installs looks like something that would be nice to have for BunsenLabs, but has been left on the back-burner for a long time. (A workaround would be to install a basic command-line Debian system from a multi-arch netinstall iso, and add BunsenLabs via the metapackage.) It's too late to add it to the Lithium CD iso now, but once the release is out I plan to have another look at the Debian multi-arch isos and see if live-build can be persuaded to build something similar. Thanks for the reminder!
Wasn't there also a script that walks the user through BL install from a Debian base system?

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-netinstall

DeepDayze · 2020-06-27 14:57:37

hhh wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
johnraff wrote:
Hi truscellino :)This topic has come up in the past:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=5132
Support for mixed-mode installs looks like something that would be nice to have for BunsenLabs, but has been left on the back-burner for a long time. (A workaround would be to install a basic command-line Debian system from a multi-arch netinstall iso, and add BunsenLabs via the metapackage.) It's too late to add it to the Lithium CD iso now, but once the release is out I plan to have another look at the Debian multi-arch isos and see if live-build can be persuaded to build something similar. Thanks for the reminder!
Wasn't there also a script that walks the user through BL install from a Debian base system?
https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-netinstall

Ahh that's the one :-)

That should still be useful too. Is it updated for Lithium?

Last edited by DeepDayze (2020-06-27 14:58:05)

rbh · 2020-06-27 15:44:48

DeepDayze wrote:

Is it updated for Lithium?

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … ee/lithium:

README
WARNING
This "lithium" version of the netinstall script is not yet ready for release.
Do NOT use it for anything other than testing.

DeepDayze · 2020-06-27 16:04:57

rbh wrote:

DeepDayze wrote:
Is it updated for Lithium?
https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … ee/lithium:
README
WARNING
This "lithium" version of the netinstall script is not yet ready for release.
Do NOT use it for anything other than testing.

OK great to see, thanks. it should soon be ready to go :-)

hhh · 2020-06-28 01:47:45

Thanks rbh. Stupid of me not to switch the branch.

DeepDayze · 2020-06-28 01:49:09

hhh wrote:

Thanks rbh. Stupid of me not to switch the branch.

Oh so the BL netinstall script is indeed ready to roll for those who need to go the netinstall route?

hhh · 2020-06-28 01:55:25

DeepDayze wrote:

hhh wrote:
Thanks rbh. Stupid of me not to switch the branch.
Oh so the BL netinstall script is indeed ready to roll for those who need to go the netinstall route?

The last commit was May 15th of this year. You break it, you get to keep the parts...

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … ee/lithium

johnraff · 2020-06-28 02:20:40

As @hhh says.
The netinstall script might be working fine already, but once the official Lithium iso is out I plan to go back and give it a checkover. If you hit any glitches in the meantime, bug reports will be welcome!

truscellino · 2020-06-29 18:19:26

Thank you all. Netinstall script looks promising!
For multi-arch experience I will probably report in the other thread mentioned by johnraff.
Cheers.

truscellino · 2020-06-29 18:31:23

OK so the script on github just needs a few tweaks... testing for stretch

# check debian version FIXME Is /etc/debian_version the best way? Use lsb_release -cs ?
grep -q '\(stretch\|\(^\|[^a-zA-Z0-9.]\)9\($\|[^a-zA-Z0-9]\)\)' /etc/debian_version && msg "Debian version: OK"|| { warnlog "/etc/debian_version reads: $(cat /etc/debian_version)"
    confirm "You do not appear to have Debian Stretch installed.
(...) }

And then the sources list also refers to helium (bunsen-netinstall/sysfiles1/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list)

deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium main
#deb-src https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium main

johnraff · 2020-06-29 23:11:36

^Yes indeed! Thank you for this.
Clearly the Lithium netinstall script is not yet ready for use.

All I've updated so far on the "lithium" branch is the package lists.

Sorry, this is going to need a week or two probably - I'm still tied up with getting the CD iso down to 700MB at the moment.

Last edited by johnraff (2020-06-30 04:23:54)

DeepDayze · 2020-06-30 01:24:27

truscellino wrote:

OK so the script on github just needs a few tweaks... testing for stretch

# check debian version FIXME Is /etc/debian_version the best way? Use lsb_release -cs ?
grep -q '\(stretch\|\(^\|[^a-zA-Z0-9.]\)9\($\|[^a-zA-Z0-9]\)\)' /etc/debian_version && msg "Debian version: OK"|| { warnlog "/etc/debian_version reads: $(cat /etc/debian_version)"
    confirm "You do not appear to have Debian Stretch installed.
(...) }

And then the sources list also refers to helium (bunsen-netinstall/sysfiles1/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list)

deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium main
#deb-src https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian helium main

Good catch. I didn't get to test the alpha lithium netinstall script yet.

johnraff · 2020-06-30 04:25:10

^ & ^^^ It might not take too long to fix it up, so I'll have a look later this week.

MartynWheeler · 2020-07-03 16:07:55

Hi,

If I were to install the rc version, would I need to reinstall when the final release comes out? Or can i just upgrade via apt? Sorry if it is a dumb question.

Thanks

Martyn

DeepDayze · 2020-07-03 16:55:35

MartynWheeler wrote:

Hi,
If I were to install the rc version, would I need to reinstall when the final release comes out? Or can i just upgrade via apt? Sorry if it is a dumb question.
Thanks
Martyn

You can upgrade to the final release by simply changing your apt sources and then upgrading.

MartynWheeler · 2020-07-03 17:00:13

Thanks, i will get installing then!

hhh · 2020-07-03 22:00:21

DeepDayze wrote:

MartynWheeler wrote:
Hi,
If I were to install the rc version, would I need to reinstall when the final release comes out? Or can i just upgrade via apt? Sorry if it is a dumb question.
Thanks
Martyn
You can upgrade to the final release by simply changing your apt sources and then upgrading.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the latest RC ISOs (both 64 and 32 bit) use our normal BL repo, so you don't have to do anything except continue to do regular updates via 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade', or via Synaptic Package Manager.

MartynWheeler · 2020-07-03 22:54:45

Hi,
I ran into an issue when installing from a bootable USB drive - it kept asking to load drivers from the cd-rom? It is an old Hp elitebook 6930p.

I had to give up in the end. Any ideas?

Thank you
Martyn

hhh · 2020-07-03 23:17:03

I'm guessing WiFi drivers. Can you remember the message the installer gave you?

MartynWheeler · 2020-07-04 13:35:01

It is at the step - detect and mount CD-rom:

It says no cd rom drive detected and asks to load drivers from removable media

It then says there was a problem reading data from the removable media? Maybe I will try another usb drive?

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