Hi all, I'm uploading a live image of gnuinos in amd64 architecture (and shortly in i386) without desktop environment, taking Devuan Alpha2 as a base (~390 MB). Network connection and quick installation. Download zone:
http://mirrors.gnuinos.org/?dir=DEVUAN-BASED%20IMAGES The web site is not updated, but this distribution will be definitely based on Devuan. Regards, Aitor. El 14/08/15 a las 22:16, dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org escribió: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:27:49 -0400 > From: Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment > Message-ID: <20150814132749.5da7a...@mydesq2.domain.cxm> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:01:11 -0400 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > >>> > > Rereading your original post: Do you want to not have a Display >>> > > Manager such as lightdm, kdm, gdm etc, or do you want your computer >>> > > not to have X at all? If the latter, just deinstall X. If the >>> > > former, you need to find your display manager, based on ps axjf. >> > >> > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg >> > and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop >> > environment. > What you describe above is *precisely* how I want things to go. Your > box and my desktop are the same except I use Openbox instead of > fluxbox. I love startx so much my wife is getting jealous. > >> > At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user >> > in console, but for some reason root log in not working. I suppose >> > that when I provided a password I mistyped. > :-) If this were Ubuntu, I'd tell you to do sudo su - > >> > >>> > > Anyway, luckily for you, you're on Devuan with sysvinit, so I'm >>> > > pretty sure almost any way that you could disable plymouth and >>> > > lightdm would bring you to CLI, from which you could run startx >>> > > which would work with a properly configured ~/.xinitrc. >> > >> > You describe a complicated scenario. I've never had to go through all >> > that because I've always simply done expert install, avoided >> > installing a desktop environment, and then in console install xorg and >> > fluxbox. Over the years never had a problem. > Yes, you're right, it's too complicated. I was thinking in Ubuntu-eze, > where the entire distro is designed to never let you boot to command > prompt. At least up to Wheezy (I haven't used Jessie), Debian was > designed to allow booting to CLI via installation, in the manner you > voiced earlier: Install base, install X, install fluxbox, done. In > Debian (and therefore I assume Devuan), what I described should only be > used for troubleshooting purposes. > > SteveT
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