I failed to create a bootable system in vmware workstation 16 on an intel 7th generation laptop, neither runlevel 2 nor runlevel 5 provided a login prompt. Stuck at "previous runlevel: n, new runlevel 5", but just sits there for 15 minutes now on a fast laptop with fast ssd.
The general idea seems nice to me, but more bugs than i expect.
User interface sometimes confusing, what needs to be done to proceed.
Will try 21.7 next but if it doesnot work in vmware workstation i will not try anything else.
Version: 21.7 Rating: 7 Date: 2021-07-11 Votes: 3
The system is actually pretty nice, you can choose to install it by prebuilt ISOs with default settings or compile by yourself all the settings. This second passage can be made with a custom lua+bash script that simplify the operation.
You can choose different init system, package list and various optimization, also is possible to edit and customize all the tools before finalazing a installation ISO.
Then the custom iso can be installed as a normal system with tui installer and all the configurations are applied.
There are problems: the lua script is slow as hell, the script in desktop mode download too many packages as "required", the documentation is old and updated to version 8.0 (not that's a problem, the fundamentals works the same and the scripts are graphical)
For the one who wrote zero: that's not a T2 problem, that's a MX problem, don't use crap
Version: 21.7 Rating: 2 Date: 2021-07-10 Votes: 2
Spent half a day on this and encountered major issues between tool state and documentation. HTML handbook says:
"T2 requires just a few prerequisites for building:
a Bash shell: as the T2 scripts take advantage of some convenient Bash specific features and shortcuts
ncurses: for the scripts/Config tool
cat, cut, sed & co: for the usual shell scripting"
In reality (on MX host), I needed to install subversion, lzip, zstd and kcc. Build still aborted saying '-E bad option' so the Debian version of kcc did not include that option. I hunted for an hour or so trying to find the source code before giving up.
BTW, I am no newbie, I regularly build Gentoo and LFS.
I failed to create a bootable system in vmware workstation 16 on an intel 7th generation laptop, neither runlevel 2 nor runlevel 5 provided a login prompt. Stuck at "previous runlevel: n, new runlevel 5", but just sits there for 15 minutes now on a fast laptop with fast ssd.
The general idea seems nice to me, but more bugs than i expect.
User interface sometimes confusing, what needs to be done to proceed.
Will try 21.7 next but if it doesnot work in vmware workstation i will not try anything else.
The system is actually pretty nice, you can choose to install it by prebuilt ISOs with default settings or compile by yourself all the settings. This second passage can be made with a custom lua+bash script that simplify the operation.
You can choose different init system, package list and various optimization, also is possible to edit and customize all the tools before finalazing a installation ISO.
Then the custom iso can be installed as a normal system with tui installer and all the configurations are applied.
There are problems: the lua script is slow as hell, the script in desktop mode download too many packages as "required", the documentation is old and updated to version 8.0 (not that's a problem, the fundamentals works the same and the scripts are graphical)
For the one who wrote zero: that's not a T2 problem, that's a MX problem, don't use crap
Spent half a day on this and encountered major issues between tool state and documentation. HTML handbook says:
"T2 requires just a few prerequisites for building:
a Bash shell: as the T2 scripts take advantage of some convenient Bash specific features and shortcuts
ncurses: for the scripts/Config tool
cat, cut, sed & co: for the usual shell scripting"
In reality (on MX host), I needed to install subversion, lzip, zstd and kcc. Build still aborted saying '-E bad option' so the Debian version of kcc did not include that option. I hunted for an hour or so trying to find the source code before giving up.
BTW, I am no newbie, I regularly build Gentoo and LFS.
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