Search found 8 matches

by eml-deb
Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: run_woof[_helper] usage?
Replies: 6
Views: 440

Re: run_woof[_helper] usage?

Ok, I've got that, but my problem is that run_woof and run_woof_helper don't have any documentation on how to use them.

by eml-deb
Thu Nov 07, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: run_woof[_helper] usage?
Replies: 6
Views: 440

Re: run_woof[_helper] usage?

Sorry, wasn't asking about that. The base woof-CE does claim to produce ISOs, and the builddistro script does include a lot of ISO-related stuff which isn't in your builddistro, so I was asking about that one.

by eml-deb
Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: run_woof[_helper] usage?
Replies: 6
Views: 440

run_woof[_helper] usage?

So... belatedly discovered that vanilla-dpup/woof-CE doesn't produce ISOs, so I'm having a go at the run_woof flow (vanilla-dpup was otherwise very easy to use, but only produces raw disk image outputs, which are a world away from an ISO image).

I'm running a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM, and have cloned ...
by eml-deb
Mon Nov 04, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Minimal text-only live build?
Replies: 12
Views: 1362

Re: Minimal text-only live build?

Thanks - that was it. I've added bc at line 189 in the trixie deps file you referenced (it's needed to create include/generated/timeconst.h; see the Kbuild file). I've left the build running - I'm guessing it'll take a couple of hours.

The 1download step produces an error:

/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs ...
by eml-deb
Sun Nov 03, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Minimal text-only live build?
Replies: 12
Views: 1362

Re: Minimal text-only live build?

Sorry, been trying to make a living for the past couple of weeks, but back on the job now.

I've just tried dimkr's instructions (thanks) for vanilla-dpup, if only because they seem comprehensive, and I have to start somewhere.

However, I'm not actually running on Puppy Linux (and I'm not using ...
by eml-deb
Sat Oct 19, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Minimal text-only live build?
Replies: 12
Views: 1362

Re: Minimal text-only live build?

Thanks - I'll give a directory build a go. The image can be anything at all, as long as it can fetch a remote image and dd it to a disk. It would be nice if it was a recent Debian, but it doesn't really matter.

by eml-deb
Sat Oct 19, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Minimal text-only live build?
Replies: 12
Views: 1362

Re: Minimal text-only live build?

And a question: if I'm building locally (I don't want to use github) do I need a real partition to do the build in, or can I just build in a directory?

by eml-deb
Sat Oct 19, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: Minimal text-only live build?
Replies: 12
Views: 1362

Minimal text-only live build?

I'm just about to try a Woof-CE build, but I'd like to make sure that I'm not re-inventing the wheel first.

Is there already a recipe for a text-only live build? All I need is a boot to a shell, with no graphics. I don't care which distro, or whether it's 32- or 64-bit. It needs to have a UEFI boot ...

Go to advanced search