SYS 0.22 - Install DVD

[Werner Landgraf]

Name: SYS
Version: 0.22  -  Install DVD
Type: KDE Other Software
Depend: KDE 3.5.x
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=80356

Description:
 snapshots: [i]plenty applications, 3d effects[/i]



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[b]Description[/b]  


 SYS is a Linux distribution easy to install and
to use for beginners but even so with plenty
applications for advanced users.
 
 Its previous name was Monkeynet Linux, however it
hadn't an install CD, only packages since '6/07.
 
 All principal packages, inclusive linux (kernel),
X 7.3, mesa 7.0.1, glibc 2.7 ,
compiz-fusion/emerald , gimp were build by meself,
since a long time, for using them on my server.
Download of packages: sys-linux.yi.org/sys .
 
 SYS contains a system that permits to dump an
existing installation to a bootable/re-installable
CD/DVD. This is very easy to use for
backups/clones of your own 
 personalized system, inclusive for making
sometimes releases and reinstall the cleaned-up
system when developed forwards. Either
additionally to reinstall the system or 
 exclusively, either after reinstalling or at the
first use, one also can install packages, copy
files, etc., what makes the system very flexible
and good maintainable. It also contains a tool to
compile programs from source-code and pack them.
 
 This is not a Live CD. The philosophy is
contrary: in the time a Live CD needs to start, or
worse even to install, one can already have
installed a definitive system. Also , coming to
Linux should be more determined than 'trying' a
lot of times a Live CD and continue with the old
system installed. And the production of new
install DVDs works immediately and don't depend on
special kernel modules or versions.
 
 Once you put in the install CD and boot from it,
SYS Linux installs within 15-45 minutes and asks
nothing -- nor if one want it. It comments out in
lilo.conf other systems, but on the 
 desktop is visible a folder with it. Also, wine
is installed. Anyway the users can use their files
etc., like before.
 
 SYS has a rescue system, who starts within 15
secs and who has good tools, like mc, ntfs-3g,
testdisk/fotorecover, foremost, etc., to do plenty
things, including to access/save files from a
broken Windows system.
 
 [i]That's an ideal system for beginners, but also
for advanced users.[/i]
 
 It's pretended as a long-term distro, because the
compilations/packages of new program versions I
make anyway for my server and for my
neighbours/friends to which I continue to install
SYS.   SYS has an excellent update politics.  

  The backup/install-system permits the immediate
creation of a install-DVD with corrections or
updates. Before any version, normally have some
-rc 's , and after, some -r 's for which are
published also corresponding service packages
which can be applied on an earlier installation. 
The download links below are given to the folders,
pls. take always the most recent install DVD, or
service package for apply on an existing
installation.
 
 SYS also includes compiz-fusion and mesa, and who
has a graphic card for which exists an open/mesa
driver, can use the 3D desktop and start it with
compiz-manager 
 (however one have to substitute or configure
xorg.conf in the folder /etc/X11, depending on the
graphic card).
 
 Support Forum: http://SYS-Linux.yi.org/phpBB3,
before:
http://copaya.yi.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=11
 


 [b]Installation[/b]
 

 The installation is EXTREMELY EASY -- nothing to
answer or to do -- only put the CD in the drive,
restart the computer, wait until the CD comes out
and remove it. Messages in Portugues and German
but abbreviated also in English. By default, there
is no root password after the installation.
 
 Before, please verify in BIOS that your DVD drive
is selected as the 1st boot device (typing DEL
when the computer starts, and then search under
the BOOT item).
 
 The installation needs appr. 4x the space of the
install .iso , currently 18 GB. This has to be
present, either as unpartitioned space on the
disk, or as the empty part of any formatted
primary partition or the first logical partition,
which then will be re-dimensioned (when you have
Windows installed, it is good to execute chkdisk,
before 
 install SYS). The installation fails when there
isn't enough space.
 
 When, by any reason, the installation fails,
please make a next attempt: choose at the first
question 'rescue'. Then type ./init, and now
select 'install'. At the end, when 
 removing the DVD, press CTRL-C and type 'logout'
or 'exit', in order to come back to the rescue
system. There, please type 'mc' and inspect the
logfile , to find any problems, 
 that you can mail to the author or to the support
forum.
 
 
During the installation, potentially, the
following problems can occur:
 
 · Problems with burning the install .iso after
downloading. What's working is #growisofs
-overburn -Z /dev/dvd=SYS_Linux-0.22.iso (instead
of dvd you can put hdb or the name of your DVD 
 burner)
 · Problems reading the DVD. The installation
needs a long time without finishing. Burn the DVD
again, and when that won't help, use another DVD
burner/reader.   When mounting the .iso or the DVD
manually, pls observe it is of format udf , not
iso9660 (see below)
 · Defects on the hard disk. The system doesn't
work correct or starts, reclaiming about missing
files and that the file system has errors.
Beginners can simply install it a 2nd time,
affirming that expressively at the advice that SYS
is already installed. That installation will be
placed more at the end of the hard disk, hopefully
on a space without problems. Advanced users can
enter into rescue, localize the defects, make
after it 18 GB or more unpartitioned space and
repeat the installation. 
 · The rescue system can be used
before/without/for making space of the hard-disc,
resize partitions, save files.  Also for burning a
DVD, either by mounting the downloaded .iso with
#mount SYS_Linux-0.22.iso /cdrom -t udf,ro,unhide
and then 
 go there with #cd /cdrom, or by downloading the
rescue/backup system, unpack it into a folder and
then go there, and after that type #chroot . and
then #mount proc /proc -t proc .
 

Changelog:
 Of almost all programs the most new version.  Of
some programs are included development versions
when stable enough, but the last official packages
can be download from 2 mirrors.    OpenOffice
3-beta , Gimp 2.5