[vi-tech-testers] Re: project update, annoying scripts now gone!
- From: Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: vi-tech-testers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:31:07 +0100
Hello Mo.
Great stuff! I'll test any image you create. I might not use
clonezilla, especially not on my Windows 7 machine but I'll test the
bootability etc. of the image.
Mike
On 07/07/2014 17:50, Mobeen Iqbal wrote:
> Hello Everyone.
>
> Its been very quiet on here lately. i hope people are still hanging in
> there and haven't given up completely? the last couple of weeks have
> been very busy, what with personal problems/commitments. however, the
> good news is that i've now worked out a tested way of
> including/excluding packages from the arch CD. that wasn't the
> complicated part. the complicated part was stripping out the annoying
> sound card selection script without breaking speech on startup. to all
> you seasoned linux veterans, this probably seems trivial, comment out
> a few lines and there you are. but i had to go searching for where the
> script was located, or scripts in this case, work out where they were
> being initiated from, comment them out, then i discovered that i'd
> disabled speakup from starting so had to modify the scripts again. at
> least i managed to find out how speakup is being loaded in arch! i'll
> be posting notes soon, but my priority at the moment is to get an
> image out there for people to test my changes if anyone's feeling
> brave. i've also included a welcome message because sometimes, when
> you boot the arch CD, speech is loaded but doesn't say anything until
> you type something. so i've included a welcome message that plays on
> startup to confirm that your sound is working and that you're at the
> prompt. part of the problem as well was that in certain parts, the
> readme file i was refering too was brief, so i'm looking forward to
> posting instructions online that someone would feel comfortable
> refering too if you were roling your own arch release. the next
> ultimate step will be to get a desktop installed on the cd for a
> desktop remix, though that could take a few months. it could also pose
> challenges because there are so many graphic card varients out there
> and i'm not sure how many drivers we would have to include so the
> desktop would run on the majority of hardware as opposed to a
> minority. the main problems appear now to have been solved, so it
> looks like we're very much on track to building the ultimate arch
> rescue remix!
>
> i also tried removing packages from the CD without breaking
> functionality, but this only saved around 35MB so nothing worth
> shouting about. we still have between 90 and 125MB for inclusion of
> other packages before going to a DVD release. i'll be posting later
> this evening hopefully when the new image has been uploaded for testing.
>
> thanks for reading,
>
> Mo.
>
>
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