#1 2016-03-29 10:39:55

daggoth

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Howto do a Frugal install of BL

Is there a way to do a frugal of bunsenlabs please?

I would like to try BL without committing myself to a full install yet. And most LiveCDs won't boot on my UEFI laptop. But a frugal install would be the next best thing. So I ask, is there a frugal install howto for BL please?

Thanks again.

Eraph

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Re: Howto do a Frugal install of BL

The most frugal method if I'm not mistaken would be to start with a netinstall Debian installation, and then run the BunsenLabs install script as described at the bottom of the installation page. I managed this fine so it can't be that hard to do
Be sure to follow the README fully before going through with it, there are a couple of gotchas you can easily get caught out on.

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Re: Howto do a Frugal install of BL

daggoth, if possible, keep the idea open for using a VM, like virtualbox. That way, you can install the virtualbox player, and install as many copies of bunsen, as your memory permits..That way, you don't need to even worry about a 'frugal' install. You can fire up bunsen in your vm environment, play around with it, break it, take it out to dinner, wine and dine it, then leave it and never call again.
   but seriously, it's a thought.

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daggoth

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Re: Howto do a Frugal install of BL

The most frugal method if I'm not mistaken would be to start with a netinstall Debian installation, and then run the BunsenLabs install script as described at the bottom of the installation page. I managed this fine so it can't be that hard to do

I've done netinstalls before, and they are easy enough. But no, I'm not looking to do a full install yet. Anyway, I have gotten my frugal install to work now...

Having booted into my existing distro, I first made a folder for the frugal install...

$ mkdir -p /boot/frugal/bunsenlabs

I then extracted the contents of the iso into that folder...

$ mount -v -o loop bl-Hydrogen-rc2-amd64.iso /mnt/temp
$ cd /mnt/temp
$ cp -rp * .disk /boot/frugal/bunsenlabs/. 

I then appended a new entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom...

menuentry "bunsenlabs.iso" {
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod ext2
        set root='hd0,gpt10'
        linux /boot/frugal/bunsenlabs/live/vmlinuz boot=live components quiet splash live-media-path=/boot/frugal/bunsenlabs/live
        initrd /boot/frugal/bunsenlabs/live/initrd.img
}

and finally I updated grub...

$ update-grub2

after which it just worked :-)

Eraph

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Re: Howto do a Frugal install of BL

Very interesting! I misunderstood what you were asking but I'm glad you figured it out and clarified for us, I didn't even know you could do that.

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