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Post subject: From debian testing to sidux
 Posted: May 28, 2008 - 01:12 AM
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hi all,
can i use the debian business card to install a base system and then go to sidux?
do i only need to use sidux sources.list?
i really like debian install, sidux install keeps giving me problems, and is less flexible.
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Posted: May 28, 2008 - 05:36 AM
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| I'm not sure but maybe you could let us know what the problem is installing sidux, there may be a simple solution. |
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Posted: May 28, 2008 - 08:04 AM
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Theoretically, it is possible to convert from a debian sid system to sidux, so if you install the business card edition, and have a working sid system, you can add the sidux sources to the /etc/apt/souces.list (or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sidux.list, which is the current method, but both work) and then you could do:
apt-get update && apt-get install sidux-scripts and you'd have a system that is similar to sidux, and apt-get the slh kernel (not putting the info here because that is dependent on which version you want) and maybe the artwork and you'd basically have the same thing.
This is all theory though, I have not tested it. |
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Posted: May 28, 2008 - 11:27 AM
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hummm i will try that.
well, i installed sidux using it's installer, but i find it not flexible enough, for instance, i cannot choose a /data partition, the installer keeps hanging etc etc.
i really like debian installer it's very flexible and give a lot of possibilities.
my objectiv is to build a very bare bone install, a cli install and then x.org, openbox and only the packages i want, can i do it with sidux installer?
thank's
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Posted: May 28, 2008 - 05:50 PM
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adding a /data partition manually to /etc/fstab can hardly be considered as a problem for you, or anyone else who is comfortable with cli only systems, so that's clearly not a real issue.
Why not try this and see how it goes? All that will happen after you install your base system, upgrade it to sid, and ideally run slh kernels, unless you want to use the vanilla sid kernel, is that the sidux sources will feed sid fixes into your system automatically on dist-upgrades.
Functionally it will be more or less debian sid, with sid runlevels etc, not sidux.
I find that in general, when you have very specific interests like this, the time it would have taken you to set up a test install and make it the way you want would be far less than you've currently spent on this thread 
I also found that most issues take a long time to materialize, problems etc, so the only real way to learn the answer is to do it, run the system live, realworld. Or play around with a virtual machine test set to get a feel for it. It's all totally empirical based on your specfic setup and needs, which I doubt will have been duplicated by anyone else so far. |
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