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Post subject: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
 Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 10:07 PM
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As you may have noticed, and as has been covered to depth in this thread, the smxi stub installer is not in sidux as of erberos final.
To install it, I created a very simple method, a zip file containing smxi, sgfxi, and svmi.
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cd /usr/local/bin; wget techpatterns.com/smxi.zip; unzip smxi.zip; smxi
Just copy and paste that line into a root console/terminal, and it will download, unzip, and start smxi.
You can do this in x/kde, you just can't run smxi in x of course, but it will tell you that when it starts.
Otherwise nothing has changed at all in smxi, sgfxi, or svmi. The scripts continue as they always have, morphing, growing, evolving, with debian and sidux.
If you like them, nothing has changed, if you don't like them, then don't use them. As I explained at length towards the end of that thread, I didn't write, and don't write, smxi for people who don't like or benefit from it, I write it for people who do like it and who do find it useful, a fairly large number of sidux users by the way.
Just speaking for myself, I wouldn't try to run sidux or sid without sidux and smxi, it's just not the way my brain works, I don't remember stuff like this unless I put it into script form, which is what smxi is.
Anyway, I hope it continues to be useful to those who like it, I'll certainly make every effort to keep it useful and safe as possible. |
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sidux Maintenance script: dist-upgrade, kernel install, general utilities: smxi
Backup script [rsync or rdiff-backup]: rbxi
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 10:12 PM
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| I appreciate your work and thank you |
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The box said "Requires Windows Xp or better."
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 10:35 PM
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| thanks h2! smxi save me lot of times... |
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 26, 2008 - 10:48 PM
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Joined: Dec 04, 2006
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Location: Cumbria, UK
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| I never a du except by using smxi. Thanks h2. |
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 03:13 AM
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h2 thanks for the great tool.
Just keep the install instructions in the manual, so we never lose/forget them;) |
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 04:02 AM
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I for one don't maintain my own automobile, and I might choose another distro if I had to maintain a sid system without smxi. That being said, as long as the manual covers smxi, it's no big deal if there's no installation stub.
I haven't installed since eros, so I can't comment on the current installation stuff, but it would be very nice if there was a hint very early in the installation process that such a gem as smxi is available. As if stands, it's covered in the very last section of the manual, and how many new and untrained users are going to drill that deep?
I'm very neutral (and certainly in the minority) on the gpl stuff. Until such time as we reach nirvana (only gpl code is available), I very much want a simplified and well-advertised method of installing useful stuff that is not gpl, and smxi fully fulfills that role.
Many thanks h2. |
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 07:24 AM
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Joined: Feb 01, 2007
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Thanks h2, a great tool for us users that have a life outside of computing.
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 11:41 AM
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Joined: Aug 08, 2007
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Thanks h2 for all your work. I would not be using sidux were it not for smxi.
And a hearty thank you to the entire sidux team!
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sidux 2008-4 on Eee PC 900a.
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 03:17 PM
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Joined: Jun 22, 2008
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Location: heidelberg
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smxi = sidux
why to reach an aim in 10 steps - spending the whole weekend .... 
if you can reach it in 2 steps too - ' '
many thanks h2 |
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Post subject: RE: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 28, 2008 - 09:29 AM
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I use smxi every week and I'm very happy with this tool. smxi is the reason why I switched from other distros to sidux. It helped me to understand how maintenance work.
thanks h2 and all other contributors of this great script. |
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Post subject: Re: smxi users: how to install / start smxi now
Posted: Jun 28, 2008 - 02:01 PM
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h2 wrote:
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cd /usr/local/bin; wget techpatterns.com/smxi.zip; unzip smxi.zip; smxi
was the first thing i did after a fresh erebos install.
Thanks a lot H2. |
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Posted: Jun 28, 2008 - 06:36 PM
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I didn't find this thread until AFTER I needed it LOL.
Thanks to Piper on IRC for giving me the help with this. And thank to h2 for the excellent sidux maintenance tool -- I couldn't deal with Sid without it.
Erebos is looking great here -- I installed it on a JFS filesystem just to see what happens -- so far it's all good. Copied my Win XP VM, installed VMware Player, and that's all good to go. Installed Nvidia beta driver 177.13, added shame's repository and got compiz installed and auto-starting, Amarok is presently finding 3 days worth of music files .... I'm in happy land. 
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Asus Eee PC 4G / 701, sidux 2009-01 "Ουρανός" Xfce
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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 07:06 AM
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Thanks once again h2
I just installed Erebos on a couple of boxes, the first a fresh start replacing what was once a Kanotix install and it had been kept pretty current to sidux with your script along the way, but it was looking a little ragged around the edges . The other box was a lenny/sid install which I kept running using available info from the Debian and sidux communities, but I decided to avoid a lot of the hassles and switch to sidux and use smxi to upgrade.
I was disheartened to not find the loader for smxi included, but a quick trip to your website solved that, I'm glad to see you continuing to maintain smxi.
I now have five boxes running sidux and consider smxi an integral part of the installations.
The community, the sharing of information and your scripts are what make sidux IMHO, sure the distro itself is nice and well thoughtout, but in essence it really is just sid with a different kernel and a few decorations.
I can understand the team wanting to keep sidux free in the gnu sense, but I think smxi should be acknowledged as a contribution and a link included in the non-free stuff.
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Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 12:07 AM
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| This thread is starting to get a little lost and think it should be a sticky so the new users don't have problems if they want to use smxi. |
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Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 01:05 AM
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kr4ey wrote:
This thread is starting to get a little lost ...
Yep, I'm presently copying it into my sidux /home partition, because I WILL forget.  |
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sidux 2009-02 "Αιθήρ" 64-bit
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