Kwort 3.2rc3

[David B. Cortarello]

Hello all folks,
If everything goes right, this might be the last release candidate
before going final. I think that all known bugs are now fixed and the
iso was a little trimmed out. The mirror have been populated with more
packages requested by users.

Also, if your installation media is not recognized by the installer,
but it is by the kernel some hints have been added, and a way to
workaround those is now available.

As always, I encourage you all to join our Google Group to ask
questions, make suggestions or help another users:
http://groups.google.com/group/kwort-linux
And why not in our IRC channel where you can talk about questions of
life, the universe, and everything: irc://irc.oftc.net/Kwort

You can get the new iso from here:
ISO image: http://kwort.org/downloads/kwort-3.2rc3.iso
MD5 checksum: http://kwort.org/downloads/kwort-3.2rc3.iso.md5
SHA1 checksum: http://kwort.org/downloads/kwort-3.2rc3.iso.sha1
OFFICIAL MIRROR KDB: http://europa.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/pub/kwort/3.2/europa.kdb

Try it and let me know if everything goes as expected.

Regards.

--
David B. Cortarello
Weblog: http://nomius.blogspot.com
Kwort Linux: http://www.kwort.org

[szymon]

Hi, I've tried RC3 iso on eeepc 900 (2 ssd - 4GB & 16 GB) and every
time i try I get this error:

http://ompldr.org/vYXk5aQ
http://ompldr.org/vYXk5Zw

And Kwort installer reboots system.

Hope this helps developing Kwort ;)
Any idea how to install Kwort on dual ssd eeepc?

PS.

[David B. Cortarello]

Hello Szymon,
Does this error appears in release candidate 3?

Thanks, regards.

[szymon]

Yes.

[David B. Cortarello]

When that error appears, go to terminal 2 and execute mount and show
me the output, so I can check it out.

Thanks

[David B. Cortarello]

Nvm, Just found the issue

[David B. Cortarello]

Do you know how to re-generate the iso image?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David B. Cortarello

[szymon]

Well, it says the same as here:

http://ompldr.org/vYXk5Zw

on last two lines

[szymon]

what do you mean by re-generate? Open iso and modify some stuff?

I think i can do that on my other computer (with mac osx).

On 24 Paź, 13:45, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you know how to re-generate the iso image?
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David B. Cortarello
>
>
>
>
>
> <dcortare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nvm, Just found the issue
>
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:42 AM, David B. Cortarello
> > <dcortare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> When that error appears, go to terminal 2 and execute mount and show
> >> me the output, so I can check it out.
>
> >> Thanks
>

[David B. Cortarello]

I just uploaded a fix, re-download the iso and check it out.

Thanks.

[szymon]

So far, so good :)

Kwort installer is installing packages on my eeepc :)

I hope it will finish with a good result...

[szymon]

So, the install process went well, until intallation of bootloader
(lilo).

Here I got this error:
http://ompldr.org/vYXljbA

[David B. Cortarello]

Hello Szymon,
Let's see... Probably your partition table isn't 100% right. This is
a failure by Asus and they do it because of Microsoft.
First of all, you have to be careful with this, because messing
around with the partition table isn't something trivial and if you
break something there, you might end up needing to re-partition again
and loosing data. Having said that this is what you can do:
You could run lilo with -P ignore or -P fix (I recommend you the
first one before trying to second one). So hands on:

As your lilo.conf is already configured, I would do this right after
setting your keyboard going to tty2:
mount the device where you installed Kwort in /mnt/install
cp /mnt/install/etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf
Then run lilo like this:
lilo -r /mnt/install -m /boot/map -C /etc/lilo.conf -P ignore
reboot

Check if lilo is there and if you can boot from it.
If not, try fixing the partition table with lilo doing the same
before but with -P fix (instead of -P ignore).
If -P ignore works for you, it's important to note that the problem
in your partition table stills there and lilo just "worked around".

Regards

[szymon]

Thanks for your help & time.

This lilo "problem" is strange. I've installed SalixOS (based on
Slackware) just after Kwort and it installed Lilo without a problem
(no errors etc). Then I've removed SalixOS and again installed Kwort
RC3 and I got the same error as mentioned above, but after rebooting
lilo was there with SalixOS-look&feel and it booted correctly
installed on the same ssd Kwort.

I did have some problems with Xorg, as I couldn't type with my
keyboard or use touchpad, but that probably could be worked around
with correct xorg.conf.

Kwort has no wireless network support, which is probably due to the
fact that it is based on Crux & one have to compile modules etc. As I
don't have a wire (only wifi) I can't do anymore test atm. What I
loved about Crux and Kwort is its tiny memory usage (900MB free of
1000MB with X running!).

Thanks for your time & work. Kworts desktop looks lovely (too bad the
keyboard and touchpad didn't work).





On Oct 24, 5:12 pm, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Szymon,

[David B. Cortarello]

Hello Szymon,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, szymon <maje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This lilo "problem" is strange. I've installed SalixOS (based on
> Slackware) just after Kwort and it installed Lilo without a problem
> (no errors etc). Then I've removed SalixOS and again installed Kwort
> RC3 and I got the same error as mentioned above, but after rebooting
> lilo was there with SalixOS-look&feel and it booted correctly
> installed on the same ssd Kwort.

Are you sure you booted with Kwort's Linux kernel? To me this looks
like you're booting Kwort with the SalixOS kernel. Because of that, no
modules and very restricted hardware support.

> I did have some problems with Xorg, as I couldn't type with my
> keyboard or use touchpad, but that probably could be worked around
> with correct xorg.conf.

Same question above.

> Kwort has no wireless network support, which is probably due to the
> fact that it is based on Crux & one have to compile modules etc. As I
> don't have a wire (only wifi) I can't do anymore test atm. What I
> loved about Crux and Kwort is its tiny memory usage (900MB free of
> 1000MB with X running!).

If lspci shows no kernel modules, then you're booting with SalixOS
kernel, not Kwort's, that's why you're having all this issues.
Kwort's Linux kernel (3.0.3) is a MAINLINE kernel with all modules
built included in the VANILLA kernel.

> Thanks for your time & work. Kworts desktop looks lovely (too bad the
> keyboard and touchpad didn't work).

If you're already able to boot Kwort (at least with a foreign kernel),
you could try with lilo -P ignore, maybe salixOS is doing that.
Also, you could download grub/grub2 sourcecode and try it (I don't use
it, but maybe you can sort this out with it).

[szymon]

Hmm, after formatting ssd with Kwort installer, I don't think there is
any SalixOS part left on the disk (but I may be wrong here).

I had (even in virtualbox) problems with modprobe on Kwort, every time
I've tried to modporbe something I got an error that there is no
modules for 3.0.3 kernel or similar.

Will install Kwort again :)

[David B. Cortarello]

I've just re-installed with the latest iso and listed modules + loaded
some modules. No weird hardware:

Kwort (localhost) (tty1)

localhost login: root
Password:
Last login: Wed Oct 19 18:51:17 +0000 2011 on pts/0 from :0.
No mail.
root@localhost:~# uname -a
Linux Aquiles 3.0.0 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 22:53:06 ART 2011 i686 AMD
Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
root@localhost:~# lsmod | wc -l
15
root@localhost:~# modprobe tun
root@localhost:~# modprobe sis900
root@localhost:~# lsmod | wc -l
17
root@localhost:~#

Regards.

[szymon]

I was wrong, it did load into 2.6.3x kernel, not Kwort 3.0.3!
I did a reinstall, then lilo -P ignore and i'm now in Kwort world :)
The X is running, but I don't have wireless. Could you help me with
that?

My eeepc uses atl2 driver for wireless, it is not load as lsmod says
(atl2 = 0)

What should I do now to have wireless?

On 24 Paź, 20:23, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just re-installed with the latest iso and listed modules + loaded
> some modules. No weird hardware:
>
> Kwort  (localhost) (tty1)
>
> localhost login: root
> Password:
> Last login: Wed Oct 19 18:51:17 +0000 2011 on pts/0 from :0.
> No mail.
> root@localhost:~# uname -a
> Linux Aquiles 3.0.0 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 22:53:06 ART 2011 i686 AMD
> Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> root@localhost:~# lsmod | wc -l
> 15
> root@localhost:~# modprobe tun
> root@localhost:~# modprobe sis900
> root@localhost:~# lsmod | wc -l
> 17
> root@localhost:~#
>

[David B. Cortarello]

Mmmmm, Are you sure of that? atl2 is for ethernet if I'm not mistaken...

[szymon]

Yes, that is correct. My mistake.
I'll look into that tomorrow, at work I have a "wire".

Thanks for your help.

[szymon]

All, is done. I have wireless networking on eeepc (Kwort).

It wasn't a software problem - it was more a human related problem...
I switched off wireless (in bios). :)

Sorry, for that.

Since I have this system up & running, I will test it now.

Will report back.

Keep up good work! Thanks for your time & help.

[David B. Cortarello]

Happy to see that everything worked out.

Regards.

[szymon]

Hello David,

I have some problems with setting Xorg correctly. It loads 800x600
resolution, not 1024x600.
Also the kpkg package manager isn't working - bash says there is no
such command (been looking for man kpkg, but also it isn't installed
on my system).

Any idea what should I do?

On 24 Paź, 22:54, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Happy to see that everything worked out.
>
> Regards.

[David B. Cortarello]

Dunno what are you doing:

Kwort (localhost) (tty1)

localhost login: root
Password:
Last login: Mon Oct 24 18:16:32 +0000 2011 on /dev/tty1.
No mail.
root@localhost:~# kpkg
Usage: kpkg OPTION package[s]
update update the mirror's database
install install local package or from a mirror
remove remove a package from the system
search search for a package in the database
provides search for files inside of installed packages
download download a package from a mirror
instkdb install a database in the mirror's path
Kpkg 4.0 by David B. Cortarello (Nomius) <dcort...@gmail.com>

root@localhost:~# which kpkg
/usr/bin/kpkg
root@localhost:~#

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:38 AM, szymon <maje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> I have some problems with setting Xorg correctly. It loads 800x600
> resolution, not 1024x600.
> Also the kpkg package manager isn't working - bash says there is no
> such command (been looking for man kpkg, but also it isn't installed
> on my system).
>
> Any idea what should I do?

About xorg: Is that a vm or real system? lspci? X -configure? What
does xrandr says?

[szymon]

Well, when I type "kpkg" or "/usr/bin/kpkg" in terminal, I get:

bash: kpkg command not found or no such file or directory

It seems that kpkg is not installed.
Is there a way to install kpkg from the iso, or from a repo (web)
etc. ?

I've seen that there are intel drivers on the disk, but without kpkg I
can't install them, right?

On Oct 25, 12:28 pm, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dunno what are you doing:
>
> Kwort  (localhost) (tty1)
>
> localhost login: root
> Password:
> Last login: Mon Oct 24 18:16:32 +0000 2011 on /dev/tty1.
> No mail.
> root@localhost:~# kpkg
> Usage: kpkg OPTION package[s]
>  update           update the mirror's database
>  install          install local package or from a mirror
>  remove           remove a package from the system
>  search           search for a package in the database
>  provides         search for files inside of installed packages
>  download         download a package from a mirror
>  instkdb          install a database in the mirror's path

> Kpkg 4.0 by David B. Cortarello (Nomius) <dcortare...@gmail.com>

>
> root@localhost:~# which kpkg
> /usr/bin/kpkg
> root@localhost:~#
>

[David B. Cortarello]

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /
tar xpf /mnt/packages/base/kpkg*

[David B. Cortarello]

YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT ABOUT THIS BUG!

I'm re-uploading rc3 right now.

This is truly my mistake and I'm deeply sorry about it.

Thanks for reporting this.

[David B. Cortarello]

Uploaded.

Thanks

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM, David B. Cortarello
<dcort...@gmail.com> wrote:
> YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT ABOUT THIS BUG!
>
> I'm re-uploading rc3 right now.
>
> This is truly my mistake and I'm deeply sorry about it.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>