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1 DEVUAN ASCII DESKTOP-LIVE 2 3 4 This is Devuan 2.0 ASCII desktop-live edition. It contains the same package 5 selection as the default desktop in the regular installer isos, with the 6 addition of a few packages for the live system, wireless firmware, a 7 live-cd installer and remastering tool to make your own live-CD/DVD image. 8 9 You can burn the iso to DVD or use dd or cat to image a USB thumb drive. 10 11 User name: devuan Password: devuan 12 Admin name: root Password: toor 13 14 15 maintained by fsmithred (key id 0xA73823D3094C5620 on pgp.mit.edu) 16 built with the Devuan SDK, live-sdk module 17 18 19 Contents 20 1. Set language/locale at boot. 21 2. Wireless (non-free) firmware 22 3. Install to hard drive 23 4. Remastering 24 5. Bug reports and support links. 25 26 27 28 BOOT TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE 29 30 Choose the "Other language" option from the boot menu. 31 Press TAB to edit the boot command. 32 Backspace to erase "it_IT.UTF-8" (Ignore the repeating lines. Bug 33 or misconfigured?) 34 Type your locale code in its place and then ENTER. 35 Note: When you install the system, your chosen language will be the 36 default in the installed system. 37 38 39 40 41 WIRELESS (NON-FREE) FIRMWARE 42 43 To set up wireless networking, use wicd network manager or run setnet.sh 44 from a root terminal (or with sudo). 45 46 Wireless firmware is already installed. Most of the firmware packages 47 come from the non-free repository, however the non-free and contrib 48 repositories are not enabled. If you want to install packages from 49 non-free or contrib, you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list or add them 50 through Synaptic Package Manager in the System menu. 51 52 You can remove all the non-free firmware after you reboot into the new 53 installation by running (as root or with sudo): 54 55 remove-non-free-firmware 56 57 If you need to reinstall a firmware package, they are located in /firmware 58 and can be installed with: 59 60 dpkg -i <package-name> 61 62 63 Here is the full list of non-free wireless firmware packages installed: 64 65 firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-brcm80211 firmware-intelwimax firmware-iwlwifi firmware-libertas firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-myricom firmware-netxen firmware-qlogic firmware-realtek firmware-ti-connectivity firmware-zd1211 66 67 68 69 INSTALLER 70 71 This Devuan live-iso comes with Refracta Installer, which will copy the 72 running system to hard drive and install the GRUB bootloader. Any changes 73 you make to the running system will be copied to the installation. This 74 includes desktop configuration, software added or removed, language/locale 75 settings and other changes in system configuration. 76 77 The installer will allow you to create a separate /home partition and/or 78 a separate /boot partition if needed. 79 80 There is no automatic partitioning. You can create the partitions before 81 you start the installer or from within the installer. Gparted, cfdisk and 82 gdisk are all installed and available. For a legacy bios install, the 83 minimum needed is a single partition for the system. For a uefi install, 84 you must also have an EFI partition. Refer to the installer help 85 document. (See /usr/lib/refractainstaller/readme.refractainstaller.txt 86 or press Help from within the installer.) 87 88 IMPORTANT NOTE: grub-efi-amd64 is installed. If you boot from bios, the 89 installer will find the grub-pc package and ask if you want it copied 90 and installed or if you would like to proceed without a bootloader. 91 92 If your hardware needs a 32-bit uefi bootloader with a 64-bit operating 93 system, install the grub-efi-ia32 package before running the installer. 94 This is true for both graphical and cli installers. 95 dpkg -i /grub-efi-ia32 96 97 Note: UEFI implementations in motherboards vary in their adherence to 98 standards from one manufacturer to the next. Read the Help in the 99 installer, read the additional links in the help, and be prepared to do 100 some manual fixing of your bootloader. 101 102 That said, you should not be surprised if it all works perfectly. 103 104 HP WARNING!!! If your computer was made by Hewlett-Packard and uses UEFI, 105 read these before installing! 106 107 https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=15 108 http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html 109 110 111 You can also start the installer from a root terminal (or with sudo): 112 refractainstaller # Starts the text-only installer. 113 refractainstaller-yad # Starts the graphical installer. 114 115 116 117 You can encrypt the filesystem if desired. (root filesystem and /home). 118 The installer will use an existing swap partition. If there is no swap 119 partition or if you un-check that option, the installer will create a 120 swapfile in the root of the filesystem. The default size is 256MB, but 121 this can be changed by editing the config file. (/etc/refractainstaller.conf) 122 This installer will not let you encrypt a swap partition; use a swapfile 123 on an encrypted partition instead. 124 125 If you want automatic partitioning, LVM or RAID, you must use one of the regular installer isos. 126 If you want to install on uefi hardware with an installer that has had more extensive testing, 127 use one of the regular installer isos. 128 129 130 131 REMASTERING (Make your own live-CD/DVD/USB) 132 133 Run Refracta Snapshot from the applications menu or refractasnapshot-gui 134 in a root terminal for the graphical version. 135 Run refractasnapshot from a root terminal for the text-only version. 136 137 The program will copy your installed system and pack it into a bootable 138 iso that can be burned to optical disk or imaged to a usb stick. 139 See /usr/share/doc/refractasnapshot-base/README.gz for details. 140 141 142 143 BUG REPORTS AND SUPPORT LINKS 144 145 Comments, suggestions, criticisms, and bug reports are welcome. 146 Please report bugs on the official Devuan Bug Tracking System: 147 148 http://bugs.devuan.org 149 150 Full list of community links can be found at: 151 https://devuan.org/os/community 152 153 Support: 154 IRC Channel on freenode.net: #devuan 155 Support forum: dev1galaxy.org 156 157 158 159