kagashe
November 13th, 2008, 03:31 AM
March Linux 2.0 is based on Arch Linux with openbox, pcmanfm, lxpanel, lxappearance etc. The developer has built a Live CD using Linux Live scripts and SLAX kernel. Beta1 iso (http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/marchlive/MarchLinux2.0/MarchLinux2.0-beta-1.iso) of the Live CD is available here (http://downloads.tuxfamily.org/marchlive/MarchLinux2.0/) for testing.
I tried the Live CD and liked it. Although, installation is not possible directly from Live CD, the developer started writing a procedure (http://marchlinux.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.DirtyInstallation) on its wiki (http://marchlinux.tuxfamily.org/wiki/).
I tried to install but it failed at Kernel installation stage at Step 6. The developer advised to use this procedure (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_from_within_another_distro#Prepare_Sy stem) on ArchWiki. I had to create /proc /sys /dev directories before starting the ArchWiki procedure, which was required only for kernel installation. All the packages were already available on the hard disc through Step 4 (Unsquashing modules) of March Linux wiki page.
Grub could not be installed properly but I could boot the system after adding following lines to existing /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Marchlinux (on /dev/sda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title Marchlinux (on /dev/sda3) fallback
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
Before booting I created /etc/fstab and configured /etc/rc.conf file.
I could run the installed system on the hard drive. I created a user before starting X.
Since it is based on Arch Linux I could upgrade to the latest packages on Arch through pacman. There was an error during upgrade and I had to remove a symlink /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
I am very happy to use this variant of Arch.
kagashe
I tried the Live CD and liked it. Although, installation is not possible directly from Live CD, the developer started writing a procedure (http://marchlinux.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.DirtyInstallation) on its wiki (http://marchlinux.tuxfamily.org/wiki/).
I tried to install but it failed at Kernel installation stage at Step 6. The developer advised to use this procedure (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_from_within_another_distro#Prepare_Sy stem) on ArchWiki. I had to create /proc /sys /dev directories before starting the ArchWiki procedure, which was required only for kernel installation. All the packages were already available on the hard disc through Step 4 (Unsquashing modules) of March Linux wiki page.
Grub could not be installed properly but I could boot the system after adding following lines to existing /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Marchlinux (on /dev/sda3)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title Marchlinux (on /dev/sda3) fallback
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
Before booting I created /etc/fstab and configured /etc/rc.conf file.
I could run the installed system on the hard drive. I created a user before starting X.
Since it is based on Arch Linux I could upgrade to the latest packages on Arch through pacman. There was an error during upgrade and I had to remove a symlink /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
I am very happy to use this variant of Arch.
kagashe