Salix OS

Now, this is supposed to be a real RC.
That means that unless something very unlikely happens, this will also be the final release. There should be no remaining bugs with the iso... Go ahead and prove me wrong!

http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.0/iso/ ... 3.0RC1.iso
http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.0/iso/ ... 3.0RC1.md5

I do it right now

Well, the longest part of it all was organising and backing-up everything pre-installation - otherwise the installation itself was painless. I set up using the step-by-step install process, formatted my old linux installation and used the existing swap space. Setup recognised my Windows partition and also the other two NTFS partitions I have on the disk, and asked whether, where and how I wanted them mounted. I chose not to supply a usb drive to create the rescue disk ( am I in trouble now? ). Lilo configuration was also painless, I chose the automatic configuration which has set up my Windows and Salix OS perfectly (other than setting Windows as the primary OS to boot - I'll fix that later!). My screen was also set to the correct resolution from the get go (1920x1200) - nice!

Once in, I downloaded the kernel-source via Gslapt. Installed the Nvidia binary drivers available directly from Nvidia - no problems getting it all up and running, other than Gslapt seemed to freeze/crash a couple of times - simply forcing the program to close and restarting was enough the keep going.

My Wacom tablet took a bit more work, it seems the kernel does not include the linuxwacom kernel module so I has to create the "input" directory under /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-smp/kernel/drivers/usb and copied the linuxwacom kernel module into it after installing the drivers available from linuxwacom. After making the necessary modifications to my xorg.conf and a reboot - voila! My tablet works.

All in all, very happy with the process, indeed a very quick install! Thanks!

One small things:

A small typo on the French version of dotnew: Tous les fichier dotnew ont ete parcourus (-> should be: été)

Ben à ce compte là, y'a aussi "tous les fichiers" comme faute

I've been able to install it now. The hardest part was to make room for a new installation, not the installation itself.

All went well detected. But I didn't have the time to test what I found errornous the last time. I may test it tomorrow maybe or this WE (I don't have the computer I installed it near me right now).