Zenwalk 6.2 BETA has been released !

hyperion · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:22 pm

Zenwalk 6.2 BETA has been released !

Zenwalk 6.2 is an up to date and improved version of Zenwalk 6.0, as we think that the 6th serie has reached the maturity level in terms of features.

However, 6.2 is mostly new code (most packages have been updated), and the base system has been modified (EXT4, GRUB2, kernel 2.6.30.2).

You will notice that our installer is getting simpler with each new version : our goal is to create the easiest GNU/Linux installer : a first 20 minutes step, that you launch,... and forget.

With this version, the user has no hardware choice to perform : everything is automatically detected ( the only exception being the keyboard layout : azerty, qwerty, ...).

Here's a summary of the important changes :

- Kernel 2.6.30.2
- EXT4 as main filesystem
- The new XFCE 4.6.1
- Openoffice 3.1.0 (fast optimized version)
- GRUB2 boot loader with automatic configuration (will detect all your partitions, including alien OS)
- New Netpkg featuring a refined interface, rollback support and instant install with dependencies control
- Faster boot (tuned init scripts)
- bus auto-detection in the installer (will choose appropriate kernel depending on the architecture, sata, pata, scsi)

Please test this beta version, we need you to find the remaining bugs before we can reach the final quality level.

Have fun !
JP

Downloads :
http://zenwalk.enialis.net/people/jp/24 ... .2BETA.iso
http://ftp.nux.ipb.pt/pub/dists/zenwalk ... .2BETA.iso
ftp://ftp.nux.ipb.pt/pub/dists/zenwalk/ ... .2BETA.iso

(more mirrors to come...)

ursvik · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:42 pm

thanks "diabolo"

i installed 6.0 , 10 minutes ago, then i found this $:-\$

aburkon · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:43 pm

I'm downloading it... $\!D/$

Zenwalk addict · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:46 pm

I wonder the eth interfaces switching problem has been solved. Its really annoying me in 6.0. :'(

davec51 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:53 pm **Posts:** 75

I just installed 6.1 Beta with great hopes. Alas, Grub2 still didn't find my Puppy Installation (it's a frugal installation, however, on a partition with its own Grub). I did find a Vector installation on yet another partition, but the kernel panicked when I tried to boot it, so I guess the parameters weren't right.
Oh, well. I'll go back to playing with these toys, hoping someday the plane will fly and the elephant will trumpet.
I still think ZW is a beautiful and promising thing, but I also think some supermodels are beautiful, without ever hoping to possess them.

Shador · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:12 am

davec51 wrote:

I just installed 6.1 Beta with great hopes. Alas, Grub2 still didn't find my Puppy Installation (it's a frugal installation, however, on a partition with its own Grub). I did find a Vector installation on yet another partition, but the kernel panicked when I tried to boot it, so I guess the parameters weren't right.

It's hard to guess the right parameters for other installations. So all grub can create is a somewhat very basic entry. So best copy the parameters from the distros own bootloader configuration.
Sorry, frugal installations probably are going to be never supported, because they may hide anywhere on the partition.

That's the output of the debian tool os-prober on my machine used by grub2 to create basic entries:

Code:

  No volume groups found
/dev/sda1:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
/dev/sda11::Arch:linux
/dev/sda4:Slackware Linux (Zenwalk 5.4):Slackware:linux
/dev/sda9:Slackware Linux (Zenwalk 6.0):Slackware1:linux

The good thing is that it really detected all the installed OS (for Windows the bootloader to chainload is enough, so it mustn't detect my other Windows XP installation and it detected Windows 7 as Vista). On the other hand it doesn't always and can hardly give grub2 the parameters needed to boot their kernel. Except Windows whose bootloader must just be chainloaded.
If you're interested what tests are performed to detect OSs look into /usr/lib/os-probes/ and for tests used to determine linux parameters have a look at /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/.

Hm, I just detected a bug in the lilo.conf parser (readlinks are not performed relative to the right root). A new package fixing this is in FIFO.
Now linux-boot-probes outputs this:

Code:

/dev/sda9:/dev/sda9:Zenwalk:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.7:/boot/initrd.splash:ro resume=/dev/sda10 swap swap defaults 0 0 splash=silent raid=noautodetect vga = 794

With a working lilo.conf, a grub.cfg or a menu.lst it should be able to generate a working menu entry now.

hyperion · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:14 am

sg2conf.desktop has not been fixed yet

JP

franco · **Joined:** Fri Dec 28, 2007 2:36 pm **Posts:** 1287

6.2 Alpha
To install txz pkg from home whit right click - install do not work. I had to install them using pkgtool
I don't know if this has been reported.

hyperion · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:50 am

it's fixed

JP

anekdoten · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:24 am

Like on 6.2 Alpha, Grub2 did not configure automatically my Windows XP partition.

hyperion · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:47 am

it should... this will be handled by the Grub2 packaging team

Thanks for reporting

JP

Shador · **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:24 pm

anekdoten wrote:

Like on 6.2 Alpha, Grub2 did not configure automatically my Windows XP partition.

I did some testing and the problem is the ntfs filesystem driver. os-prober needs it to mount the partition to detect Windows. To mount ntfs using ntfs-3g it needs fuse.
This means the installer should (try to) load all available filesystem modules including fuse before running grub2conf-launcher which will use os-prober to guarantee that all supported filesystems will be detected os-prober.
Actually os-prober tries to load the modules yet, but as it is in chroot it is working quite inreliable, because there's no guarantee that the modules in chroot are suitable for the running kernel version.

rexroom · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:25 pm

It probably should be noted that I am unable to make XFCE to keep my selected desktop screen resolution between logouts/restarts. Not exactly a showstopper, but annoying for sure.

EDIT: Also, play/sox doesn't work - but I guess we'll have to wait for slackware to do it.

kopavel · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:35 pm **Posts:** 10

Zenwalk now have a problem with BlueTooth. if i try to install Bluez - dependencies require "Kernelive" - it's a pre 2.6.30 kernel, and we have no ext4 support, and no boot... if try to not install kernelive, have a some misconfiguration with MessageBus rules - all request from bluez are denied, have a mesage about this in /var/log/message, no way to send or get files from mobile...

muchi · **Joined:** Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:58 pm **Posts:** 16

Try Bluez 4.46 - works for me, almost, I have to replug dongle after start
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