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VSIDO Debian ISO's updated 2013-May-15 19:55 CST

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded with no issues this evening

     Removed gFTP


    Corrected minor menu issues


    Updated everything to current SID levels

Request for Help Testing - FluxBox/Systemd ISO

I have streamlined this ISO to have only FluxBox and it is using systemd as a default

Please test and let me know your thoughts

download from here

Interesting post by the Good Doctor xaos52 and then comments on CrunchBang regarding SID warnings from Debian

VSIDO Debian ISO's updated 2013-May-06 20:19 CST

Both ISO's were updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded with no issues this evening

• Corrected the installer so that you can now use the same password for root and your username

• Corrected minor menu issues

• Updated everything to current SID levels

I have installed Liquorix Kernel 3.8-10.dmz.1, it is crunching just fine...

Looking forward to testing 3.9

Over the next few days, many of you will see these on apt-get updates

W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG AED4B06F473041FA Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmaster@debian.org>

These are normal during the transitions from Testing to Stable unfreezing...

There is a whole lot shakin in the debian repo world right now, just be patient and they all will resolve themselves

Great contributions in April all, well done!

##Post your May 2013 Scrots Here##

VSIDO Debian ISO's updated 2013-April-28 20:52 CST

Removed remastersys data from sources.list and application/menu lists

Updated everything to current SID levels

The two ISO's were updated last night.  There are no major updates to announce, just to get the latest levels of SID for the installs in front of Debian's Wheezy to Stable changeover next week

62.5 MiB on bootup!

That is impressive

JedsDesk Blog VSIDO 32 bit announcement

Thank you jedi!

I have completed the 32 bit version of VSIDO.  It has been tested by several of the Mods and I now think it is ready for public use

Here are the links:

VSIDO 32 Bit

VSIDO 32 Bit md5 checksum

Due to the continued freeze there are dependency issues with GIMP if you try to download it with visdo-welcome it will error out. 

To resolve it run

sudo apt-get -t experimental install gimp

There were several common apps that I had to do the same thing with to get this 32 bit version to the same levels as the 64 bit.  I think it is due to the freeze on Wheezy and hopefully we will see changes soon

The ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded with no issues this evening

The wget link and Google Drive link are both updated

The primary changes were:

1: Changed the naming convention of the ISO to reflect the 3.8 kernel level only, when 3.9 comes out the name will only change then

2: Fixed the OB menu issues

3: Updated all code to the latest SID levels as of today

4: Found and removed the packages that caused the ISO to rise to 660.  These packages were part of the move to the 3.8 kernel and were not needed. The ISO size is now back to 639 MiB

Some people have reported issues with downloading VSIDO.  This how to will show you how to use wget to download it from the terminal

wget is a Linux native application that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

To use wget, in terminal just cd to where you want them and run:

NOTE - You must know and change this name to the actual ISO you want

wget https://vsido.org/iso/whatever_you_want.iso

It is recommended to use wget with the -c option in case there is an interruption

From the wget manpage:

-c,  --continue                resume getting a partially-downloaded file.

very handy for large files like iso images in case your bandwidth gets interrupted

This would be the preferred code to get the VSIDO ISO you want

NOTE - You must know and change this name to the actual ISO

wget -c https://vsido.org/iso/whatever_you_want.iso

In a post over on #!, DapperMe17 tested systemd on VSIDO

This How To will show you how to install systemd to test and how to setup grub2 correctly

This should only be done on a Debian Kernel install.  If you try it on Liquorix, you will see a Kernel Panic

It is best run on a new install of VSIDO, IMO

1: Install systemd

sudo apt-get install systemd

2: Add a kernel with init=/lib/systemd/systemd added to the grub2 boot menu

sudo medit /etc/grub.d/40_custom


#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
menuentry "VSIDO Image Build latest Debian Kernel on sdc10" {
    set root=(hd2,10)
        linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc10 ro quiet init=/lib/systemd/systemd
        initrd /initrd.img
}

# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.

NOTE - The above is what is installed on my system and needs a bit of an explanation

sdc10 is the device/partition where this VSIDO is installed. It is on the 3rd disk in my machine which represents (hd2,10).  If you have just one hard drive it would be (hd0,X), on a second hard drive it would be (hd1,X) where X represents the device number and match the sdx number (in my case, sdc10)

3: update grub2

sudo update-grub

When you reboot you will have a menu entry for this (or whatever you named it):

QuoteVSIDO Image Build latest Debian Kernel on sdc10

Once all of this is completed, you can run smxi and install the Liquroix kernel if that is your preference

As I said over on that thread, I am seeing boot times of 12 seconds and shutdowns of 3 seconds with no issues running systemd

Very good grub2 Tutorial

I prefer the 40_custom method in grub2 because that is the recommended way of adding an entry to so that update-grub and grub-mkconfig does not remove edited or added entries

The 40_custom concept was also added to help eliminate user created errors/hacks to grub.cfg that made the system unbootable

Good luck

I have seen several images posted here and of course at #!, and am curious as to why you use what you use.

I like zimagez for it's convenience it many ways, thumbs, bbc code, different image links

I also like postimage when I have to edit and reduce someone else's image (Thank the Gods and you all I do not have to do that here on VSIDO)

imagbox seems to take forever to load one of your images... As a matter of fact, it is so slow I never let it load and end up closing it before I see the image

Just curious as to the what and why...

The ISO was updated, built, installed, tested and uploaded with no issues this evening, thanks lwfitz for all your help on this one. 

The wget link and Google Drive link are both updated

The primary changes were:

1 - Debian kernel updated to 3.8.3-5 from Experimental.  Any current VSIDO user wanting to get this just needs to do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2 - Everything updated to the latest (2013-04-13 23:21 CST) levels of SID

VSIDO kernel 3.8 - Latest Upload 2013-04-13 23:21 CST

isomd5 checksum file - Latest Upload 2013-04-13 23:21 CST

##Post your April 2013 Scrots Here##

 Liquorix finally got off their butts and made the leap to 3.8

I have it installed and so far all is good including nVidia