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* On first boot, syslinux might complain that it can't find video mode number 317. Entering the hex value "F00" (text mode, 80x25) will get around this. | * On first boot, syslinux might complain that it can't find video mode number 317. Entering the hex value "F00" (text mode, 80x25) will get around this. | ||
* If the USB device is formatted with a non-Linux file system, you will see the error "A Windows Filesystem (FAT, NTFS) or other non-posix compatible filesystem has been detected on /porteus/." If you intend on creating a save.dat file, you can press 'enter' and ignore it. Or, you can format the key with a Linux file system (/EXT[1-4]/, XFS) prior to [http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-installing/114-official-porteus-installation-guide-v-10.html installing Porteus]. | * If the USB device is formatted with a non-Linux file system, you will see the error "A Windows Filesystem (FAT, NTFS) or other non-posix compatible filesystem has been detected on /porteus/." If you intend on creating a save.dat file, you can press 'enter' and ignore it. Or, you can format the key with a Linux file system (/EXT[1-4]/, XFS) prior to [http://porteus.org/info/docs/37-installing/114-official-porteus-installation-guide-v-10.html installing Porteus]. | ||
* On boot, Porteus Linux will mount all of the file systems it can see on the host machine. Use caution when deleting or copying files! | |||
* The [http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ wicd] applet on the toolbar works well for setting up wireless. It's also polite enough to get out of your way once it's done. | |||
All of these commands must be run as root: | All of these commands must be run as root: | ||
Revision as of 22:06, 16 October 2011
This process assumes:
- You've booted a clean copy of Porteus Linux v1.0 or later.
- You've checked the Porteus .xzm modules we built for Byzantium out of SVN, installed, and enabled them.
- You've checked the source tree for Byzantium out of the Git repository.
The process of installing Byzantium has not been automated yet. These notes should be used in the development of the official installer, at least until we get the official byzantium.xzm module built. I get the feeling that it's going to be pretty big because we're going to have to package all of the dependencies along with it for efficiency's sake (at least, that's what Ben the Pyrate says because he's messed around with union mounts more than I).
Gotchas:
- On first boot, syslinux might complain that it can't find video mode number 317. Entering the hex value "F00" (text mode, 80x25) will get around this.
- If the USB device is formatted with a non-Linux file system, you will see the error "A Windows Filesystem (FAT, NTFS) or other non-posix compatible filesystem has been detected on /porteus/." If you intend on creating a save.dat file, you can press 'enter' and ignore it. Or, you can format the key with a Linux file system (/EXT[1-4]/, XFS) prior to installing Porteus.
- On boot, Porteus Linux will mount all of the file systems it can see on the host machine. Use caution when deleting or copying files!
- The wicd applet on the toolbar works well for setting up wireless. It's also polite enough to get out of your way once it's done.
All of these commands must be run as root:
- mkdir -p /srv/controlpanel
- cp -rv Byzantium/control_panel/srv/controlpanel/* /srv/controlpanel
- mkdir /etc/controlpanel
- cp Byzantium/control_panel/etc/controlpanel/* /etc/controlpanel
- mkdir -p /var/db/controlpanel
- cp -rv Byzantium/control_panel/var/db/controlpanel/* /var/db/controlpanel
- cp Byzantium/scripts/traffic_stats.sh /usr/local/bin
- cp -rv Byzantium/control_panel/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d
For the control panel to work, NO network interfaces should be configured at the outset. The Porteus configuration apps make this easy, but conflict with our needs.