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[fredx181]

*** DevuanDog 'beowulf' and 'ceres' build system ***

UPDATE 2019-05-28: See changes and fixes Downoad links below replaced with new versions.

Update: See here for Devuandog 'ceres' build system:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028507#1028507

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Very similar as the 'mklive-stretch' build system see Here and Forum thread , but this will build from Devuan 'beowulf' branch and has many changes and improvements.

Rather than just one script it's now packed as appimage, reason is that this way it works 'out of the box' on most modern puppies.
The appimage has included e.g. yad, debootstrap, dpkg, xorriso (for creating ISO), so nothing extra is required to install. Tested on Tahrpup, Xenialpup, Dpup-Stretch, DebianDog, Fatdog (but on the latter I needed to install 'perl' first from gslapt).

Note that this doesn't build a Puppy such as when using Woof-CE, but a puppy-like 'Dog' system (see more: Dog Linux website)
See more info also here: DevuanDog 'Beowulf'

Download mklive-beowulf:
For 32-bit: mklive-beowulf32
For 64-bit: mklive-beowulf64

Download mklive-ceres:
For 32-bit: mklive-ceres32
For 64-bit: mklive-ceres64

Make executable, e.g:

[fredx181]

2019-05-28 Changes and fixes:

- mklive-beowulf, latest kernel 4.19.0-5 (at this time) now downloaded as an already prepared setup ('kernel .squashfs', vmlinuz1, initrd.img, initrd1.xz) added to the 'live' directory. (total build time is much faster because of this change)
To upgrade the kernel (if there's a newer version available) use "upgrade-kernel" (install upgrade-kernel from Synaptic or with apt-get), see here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1015138#1015138

- mklive-ceres, changed 'ceres' to 'unstable' for the debootstrap command in build script and also in /etc/apt/sources.list (the name 'ceres' worked earlier but now 'unstable' seems to work only)

[darry19662018]

Nice work fred enjoyed using Mklive Devuan and it produced an iso.

[fredx181]

[darry19662018]

I am currently using an old distro callled Linuxbbq (Debian Jessie based - no systemd) but I changed repos to Devuan and upgraded system to Devuan and the script worked on that to build ISO.

Easy and straight forward to use - using yad gui.

[musher0]

Eerie...

Darry, please explain more?
Right now I'm thinking you lost a screw or you're time traveling!

How can there be a build system for Devuan Beowulf in LinuxBBQ?
They were designed years apart.

TIA.

[dancytron]

[dancytron]

I've run it and it worked fine for me.

I used the bare script on Debian Dog Stretch.

There was one little error, something about needing to restart x for the alsa mixer, but I just hit okay and the script continued.

Seems ready for prime time.

[darry19662018]

[zagreb999]

fred
"Run on a Linux filesystem (ext2/3/4) not on FAT or NTFS , with at least 3GB free space"

for me on lenovo and hp pavilion it works
on fat32 perfectly...

thanks

[fredx181]

Thanks all for testing !

[zagreb999]

never,ever i use ext file system...
all distros -mx, ddogs, sdogs... i install on fat32

all work perfectly...
i made ddogs and sdogs with mklive scripts in fat32
and all of them work perfectly in fat32
one is euclid5.iso and is the best-very fast...

all scripts from ddogs work in fat32!

thanks!

[fredx181]

[zagreb999]

repeat!!!

i do not use never!!! ext file system!

all scripts! (repeat-all scripts) from ddog, sdog work perfectly in fat32!
(on my lenovo and hp computers.)
thanks!

[fredx181]