Salix Live Xfce 14.2 beta1
Posted: 5. Sep 2016, 05:12
Salix Live Xfce 14.2 beta1 is ready.
This release is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, while the 64-bit iso supports booting on UEFI systems.
The software included in this release mirrors that present in a standard Salix Xfce 14.2 release as closely as possible. (grub and isomaster are included, which are not exist in the standard Salix Xfce 14.2 release ). Of course, the Salix Live Installer (SLI) is included, so you can install Salix from within a running live system on your hard drive as well as on a USB stick.
The Salix Live Installer includes the following:
- supports many filesystems (ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, reiserfs).
- You can choose between grub and (e)Lilo boot loaders. Grub is default.
- You can use a different partition for /home
- You can find and add Windows partitions in grub.cfg. Note that if you use eLilo as your bootloader, you will not be able to boot Windows partitions.
For users installing in UEFI/EFI GPT partitions, if a GPT partition table does not exist, will have to be created using GParted running from the Live System. The following partitions should be created:
- the first partition has to be at least 300MB and use the FAT32 filesystem
- the second partition has to be a Linux partition of any type. NOTE: if you choose grub then the partition cannot be in xfs filesystem because system will not boot after installation, as grub does not support xfs properly. If you want to use xfs as your filesystem you must also use the eLilo boot loader.
- you can optionally add a third partition for /home
- and of course a swap partition
- Important! Before proceeding with the installation you must flag the first FAT32 partition as bootable. You can also do this using GParted.
If you want to transfer the live iso to a USB stick, make sure you read the instructions in this README.
For live environment, standard user is “one” with password: "one"
User “one” is a super user. This is what you need to use applications need super user privileges.
Changes are:
Many improvements have been done under the scene to make live iso better which are not obvious to the end user which i will not mention all here.
When booting with 64bit iso efi partition is detected and if it is exist it is mounted to /boot/efi. So user can use the guefi graphical tool.
User can mount any partition with file manager.
Both isos has been tested for a week including installation with grub in 32 and 64 bit.
You can also use the dd command to write the iso to a USB stick, but some features like persistence, will not be available.
You can download this release using the following links.
Salix Live Xfce 14.2 beta1 (32-bit, i686)
(size: 1019 MB, md5: 67ef789f7c3dcbb5115c8c73b81947a2)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Salix64 Live Xfce 14.2 beta1 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 1016 MB, md5: 6fc597566cf63fd80dd86320eddc90ac)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
NOTE: if you are booting with persistence, the very first time the live system will boot will take a while. This is because the persistence file is created at that point and that is somehow a lengthy process. However, the system will boot much faster at every consecutive boot.
I suggest users to not boot with persistent for the first time.
It is better to use the script to create a persistent file. And in next boot to use persistent.
Thanks for testing. Have fun.
Dimitris Tzemos
Salix 14.2 beta 1 "Xfce Live" Look At
This release is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, while the 64-bit iso supports booting on UEFI systems.
The software included in this release mirrors that present in a standard Salix Xfce 14.2 release as closely as possible. (grub and isomaster are included, which are not exist in the standard Salix Xfce 14.2 release ). Of course, the Salix Live Installer (SLI) is included, so you can install Salix from within a running live system on your hard drive as well as on a USB stick.
The Salix Live Installer includes the following:
- supports many filesystems (ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, xfs, jfs, reiserfs).
- You can choose between grub and (e)Lilo boot loaders. Grub is default.
- You can use a different partition for /home
- You can find and add Windows partitions in grub.cfg. Note that if you use eLilo as your bootloader, you will not be able to boot Windows partitions.
For users installing in UEFI/EFI GPT partitions, if a GPT partition table does not exist, will have to be created using GParted running from the Live System. The following partitions should be created:
- the first partition has to be at least 300MB and use the FAT32 filesystem
- the second partition has to be a Linux partition of any type. NOTE: if you choose grub then the partition cannot be in xfs filesystem because system will not boot after installation, as grub does not support xfs properly. If you want to use xfs as your filesystem you must also use the eLilo boot loader.
- you can optionally add a third partition for /home
- and of course a swap partition
- Important! Before proceeding with the installation you must flag the first FAT32 partition as bootable. You can also do this using GParted.
If you want to transfer the live iso to a USB stick, make sure you read the instructions in this README.
For live environment, standard user is “one” with password: "one"
User “one” is a super user. This is what you need to use applications need super user privileges.
Changes are:
Many improvements have been done under the scene to make live iso better which are not obvious to the end user which i will not mention all here.
When booting with 64bit iso efi partition is detected and if it is exist it is mounted to /boot/efi. So user can use the guefi graphical tool.
User can mount any partition with file manager.
Both isos has been tested for a week including installation with grub in 32 and 64 bit.
You can also use the dd command to write the iso to a USB stick, but some features like persistence, will not be available.
You can download this release using the following links.
Salix Live Xfce 14.2 beta1 (32-bit, i686)
(size: 1019 MB, md5: 67ef789f7c3dcbb5115c8c73b81947a2)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Salix64 Live Xfce 14.2 beta1 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 1016 MB, md5: 6fc597566cf63fd80dd86320eddc90ac)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
NOTE: if you are booting with persistence, the very first time the live system will boot will take a while. This is because the persistence file is created at that point and that is somehow a lengthy process. However, the system will boot much faster at every consecutive boot.
I suggest users to not boot with persistent for the first time.
It is better to use the script to create a persistent file. And in next boot to use persistent.
Thanks for testing. Have fun.
Dimitris Tzemos
Salix 14.2 beta 1 "Xfce Live" Look At