This is something really good because it is MATE, which i like very much.
So last weeks i worked on building Live isos 64 and 32 bit for Salix Mate desktop environment flavor.
Note that programs included are not the same version programs with the installation isos since a lot of updates happened since then.
32 bit ISO image support pae and non-pae pc systems.
The salix live installer is in version 1.2.3.
- Now supports many filesystems (ext2,ext3,ext4,btrfs,xfs,jfs,reiserfs).
- can choose between grub and (e)Lilo boot loaders. Grub is default.
- can use a different partition for /home
- can find and add in grub.cfg windows partition. This is a bug and has been solved. Also, note that if you use eLilo cannot boot windows partitions.
For users installing in UEFI/EFI GPT partitions, have to create a GPT partition table if does not exist with gparted.
- the first partition have to be 100MB and in Fat32 filesystem
- the second have 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, this is a grub bug) If you want the xfs filesystem the choose eLilo boot loader.
- the third partition for /home (if you want a different partition for /home)
- and of course a swap partition
- Important!!! Before proceeding with installation flag the first fat32 partition boot,esp. Just click on boot in gparted. This mark the partition EF00.
This development first happened and tested on Slackel and it is a give back to Salix. As my friend akuna said in the past, it is an ecosystem.
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Well, that's it i will not write more. You can use the Live isos and write here your opinion.
You can download the Salix Live MATE 14.1 BETA1 using the iso images found in our Sourceforge project page:
Salix Live Mate 14.1 beta1 (32-bit, i686)
(size: 852 MB, md5: 64b813d731cc519a8c0080960aefd958)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Salix64 Live Mate 14.1 beta1 (64-bit, x86_64)
(size: 858 MB, md5: 23ab7d6780635b5392702adcda39c62a)
Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download
Also grub package rebuilded and added support for finding windows efi partitions and more, but it is not on salix repos. So if you install the system do not upgrade grub package to previous version till the new package added in salix repos. This will be done soon. Thanks
Have fun!
Dimitris