Hello!

jamba · 2010-07-04 22:16:17

I am saying hi, and verifying that i am not a spambot. :-)

I just installed CrunchBang 10 Statler alpha2 on my laptop. I use Archlinux on my desktop, but I was wanting to swap up the distro on my laptop. I kept hearing about the new crunchbang alpha on identica, and I remembered being impressed with crunchbang from back when I was distrohopping. I was even further impressed that this alpha was to be based on debian instead of ubuntu.

so I downloaded the iso, and then attempted to use unetbootin on my desktop to "burn" the image onto my 1gb usb drive, however this was unbootable (I probably did not do something right). So I wound up burning image to a cd-r and got started.

Could not install from the live environment, or I could not figure out how to. So I installed using the text installer, which worked great. It even detected my Intel wifi chipset, and installed the drivers I need (after it prompted and asked me if I wanted to do so--even though the prompt said i had to provide them, I guess they were built in).

After install, my keyboard was not right. I had a lot of funny looking symbols where the @ sign should be, and after a quick look at the forums I saw this was common, and I changed my keyboard from gb to us in /etc/keyboard/default (I think that is the location), and after a reboot all is well.

Now...I still have not encountered any bugs, and I am very impressed with this just being an alpha release!

Jon
( @jrob on identi.ca )

vrkalak · 2010-07-05 02:39:53

Welcome to #!Crunchbang and the #!Forums.

There are no bugs in #! lol

I don't think you can install #! from inside the LiveCD ... it uses the Debian Installer, which for now is strictly a 'test install'

I am certain that the more you use #! and the more you 'tinker' with it . . . you'll love everything about it.

winotree · 2010-07-05 02:41:51

Hello jamba. smile

Experience suggests http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … allations/ that unetbootin and Debian don't always play well together but it sounds like you've got your installation pretty well ironed out.

EDIT -

....not a spambot....

Now that's really funny. big_smile

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jamba · 2010-07-05 10:46:10

:-)

I love the openbox window manager. It is like a breath of fresh air to get away from Gnome or KDE for a bit.

that makes me feel better, about unetbootin and Debian, maybe I wasn't doing something wrong after all. The error I got when trying to boot from the USB stick said "NO OS found" or something of that sort--like it wasn't made bootable. I dunno.

i look forward to playing with this distro more, and also looking forward to the final release coming out!

thanks guys

anonymous · 2010-07-05 13:34:55

Welcome to #! jamba smile

Sector11 · 2010-07-05 17:24:08

jamba wrote:

:-)
I love the openbox window manager. It is like a breath of fresh air to get away from Gnome or KDE for a bit.

Welcome to #! and the forums.

bobobex · 2010-07-05 19:32:49

Hi jamba, and welcome to CrunchBang smile

corenominal · 2010-07-06 03:50:06

Hello Jon, welcome to the forums! smile

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