CrunchBang Linux

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Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Hi, just thought I will share these links with you folks, It's the full i386 version. Hope someone will try it out !?

http://starvinghacker.org/crunchbang-9.04.01.i386.iso
http://starvinghacker.org/crunchbang-9. … 86.iso.md5
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page= … 043f4230ea

Lite version:
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page= … d5f25fcf3d

Last edited by cut_copy (2009-05-11 00:07:51)

ZAP

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Howdy -

Gonna try downloading this tonight and if I get time I'll use it to reinstall on my Eee 701 tomorrow. I'll report back how it went once I've been able to give it a try. THANKS for making this available!

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

No problemo ZAP ! Thanks for trying it out

GuruX

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Where do these isos come from? It'd be nice with some info on that.

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

It's based on the Ubuntu 9.04 minimal iso and corenominal's crunchbang-installer-9.04.01 script, then processed with the remastersys scripty thing to make it bootable and installable.

vicshrike

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

installed and running smoothly so far, thanks cut copy, and it looks nice too, #! everybody

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Toolz

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

It runs well in VirtualBox. I'd love to wrestle with remastersys and cook my own but way too many other things to do. It's a toss-up as to whether this or Mint 7 RC goes on my laptop in a couple of days.

vicshrike

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Works, looks, feels great, don`t understand why I were in doubt. #! certainly rocks.

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

There were a few problems that corenominal was having with creating iso's based off this script, hence no release prior to going on his honeymoon. Unless bandwidth is an issue I still think the minimal install and script are the best way to go at this stage.

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

The 'unofficial' release has worked just fine for me so far....was a small color-issue bug at first, which has somehow resolved itself, so it's all good so far.

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Thank you! The minimal CD failed to configure my network hardware (it hung forever),  but this live cd worked flawlessly!

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Minimal cd failed to connect to mirror, and the live cd image just stops, saying "could not find kernel image".

On asus eee 900 with an usb stick.

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Get the 'unofficial' iso and unetbootin.....use that to put #! on usb stick....should work just fine.

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sorry I wasn't clear enough....I tried the unofficial iso, and that wont boot : could not find kernel image

EDIT: And yes i used UnetBootin...:)

EDIT: tried the direct download instead of the torrent, and it worked. Installing as I am writing this !

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Toolz

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

So you're having problems with the 'Live' part? Can you install instead?

Check if you have a folder 'isolinux' and a file 'isolinux.cfg' in there.

EDIT: Good news. You have a hulluva good connection there! Which torrent downloading software were you using and did you check the md5?

Last edited by Toolz (2009-05-09 16:54:30)

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I'm the kind of retard who never uses MD5....I never do backup either. I probably have to learn the hard way at some time. I use transmission...and yeah a 25Mb cable connection helps me overcoming my impatience

EDIT: installed, and it looks great...and finally connecting to hidden wpa2 works out of the box . But eeeh how to make bottom dock transparent/change color ???

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

But eeeh how to make bottom dock transparent/change color ???

There is a transparent theme for bmpanel in my new artwork package for 9.04.01

Install it then change the bmpanel entry in autostart.sh to:

# Launch panel
bmpanel crunchbang-transparent &

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

cool, thanks a lot

EDIT: MUCH better imho...I'm just about to have a platonic loveaffair with my #!EEE ....nice work omns !!!

Last edited by enderleit@#! (2009-05-09 22:08:55)

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Just installed it. Everything seems to work alright for me so far.

Thanks for putting the .iso together.

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ZAP

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Tried this out last night, and it worked very well for me (as did the Unetbootin package from Jaunty's repositories, which was the very first time I've been able to make Unetbootin work on Ubuntu).

The only issue that I have is that the installer doesn't have the encrypted home directory option, so I couldn't choose to do that. With the regular Jaunty Live CD you can add a flag to the startup string and the option appears in the installation process, but I don't think there's a way to do that with the #! Live CD. I think this is far too important an option to leave out (a laptop without encryption is an identity theft waiting to occur).

Info on installing with this option here:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/ … ories.html

I couldn't figure out where to add this flag to the installer script, so if anyone else has any ideas please post them. In the meantime I think I'll try creating a new user with an encrypted home directory and then deleting the original user created by the installer. I expect that will work, but it's not straightforward.

I was also surprised by the quantity of software installed by default, since my previous #! systems have been Cruncheee installs (and I removed software from those). Personally I would prefer a more minimal system by default, but everyone has a different opinion on what should be included so I'm not complaining. All in all I'm very happy to have Jaunty #! on my Eee.

THANKS again for making this ISO available!

Toolz

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Ran this from Live USB on Eee 901 today. Everything went very well. It's noticeable how much better wifi reception is on all the Ubuntu 9.04 derivatives.

I too was surprised at the amount of software installed in this Crunchbang.

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I was also surprised by the quantity of software installed by default, since my previous #! systems have been Cruncheee installs (and I removed software from those). Personally I would prefer a more minimal system by default, but everyone has a different opinion on what should be included so I'm not complaining. All in all I'm very happy to have Jaunty #! on my Eee.

This is still an unofficial build, I believe in the coming official build, a lite version will be optional...

I too am running #! on an EEE, and to me it seems like it is much lighter on cpu performance, on my previus cruncheee install, idle was around 10-20%, now it is 1-8 %.....NICE

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ZAP

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Alrighty so here's what I did to set up an encrypted home directory using this installer (since the option is not enabled when installing):

1. Install #! from the Live CD, making sure that the user name that you enter is not the one that you want to use when you're done (let's call this user "robot").
2. Reboot, login as robot, and create a new user with encrypted home directory (now using the name that you really want):
sudo adduser --encrypt-home new_user_name
3. Open the Users/Groups control panel from the Openbox System menu and add your new user to the admin group (you may also want to give this user other permissions at this time)
4. Reboot again (or just logout if you're feeling confident) and login as the new user
5. Delete the temporary user account (robot):
sudo deluser --remove-home robot

That should be it!

I'm sure there's a way to enable the encrypted home directory option when installing, but I'll let someone else figure that out.

I've just now done this and it seems to be working as expected, but if others have problems or suggestions please let me know.

In addition, you may want to backup your randomly-generated mount passphrase (supposedly this is required to recover data in the event of a problem; I'm not sure what the security issues may be with having this around so perhaps someone who is can comment on this):
sudo ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase

You may also want to read the Important Caveats on this page, especially the issues with swap partitions:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/ … ories.html

EDIT: A very weird thing happened when I changed my user password: My entire home directory was replaced by a default (and empty) one! Everything was restored after I changed it back and rebooted, but encrypted home directories seem to be hard-wired to your original password so be warned!

Last edited by ZAP (2009-05-11 06:43:27)

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

I have added the lite version, just torrent for now. Build the same way as the full version.
Hope someone finds it useful.
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page= … d5f25fcf3d

Last edited by cut_copy (2009-05-11 00:50:37)

ZAP

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Re: Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download

Question: How the heck do you move or resize the panel in this version?