dCore-wheezy for x86 now posted.

[Jason W]

dCore  v5.14.04.01 for  x86 has been posted.  No major theme this  go around, just some fixes and enhancements.

Available at:

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release/

Full changelog viewable on our git page:

http://git.tinycorelinux.net/index.cgi?url=dCore-scripts.git/

dCore provides a suite of scripts to allow import of Debian packages. Currently amv7 and x86 are supported.

* Note:  I am now using the same release announcement format as for armv7, one sticky topic, one post per release.  Please raise bugs, questions, or issues in their own thread for better organization. 

*** Found a bug and reposted on 9pm EST.  If you downloaded before then, please re-download.

[Jason W]

dCore  and ub-dCore v5.14.05.26 for  x86 has been posted.  More bug fixes and enhancements.

Available at:

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release/

Full changelog viewable on our git page:

http://git.tinycorelinux.net/index.cgi?url=dCore-scripts.git/

dCore provides a suite of scripts to allow import of Debian packages. Currently amv7 and x86 are supported.

[Jason W]

dCore  and ub-dCore v5.14.06.13 for  x86 has been posted.  Fixed a bug in importsce as well as now using a rotating dash instead of echoing dependency names in the terminal as part of the dependency gathering routine.  On my machine this results in up to a 40% performance increase in calculating dependencies when using a normal size xterm window. 

Available at:

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release/

Full changelog viewable on our git page:

http://git.tinycorelinux.net/index.cgi?url=dCore-scripts.git/

dCore provides a suite of scripts to allow import of Debian packages. Currently amv7 and x86 are supported.

[Jason W]

Uploaded a new cut to release candidates as there were some extensive file changes with udev.

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore.gz
http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore.gz.md5.txt

[netnomad]

hi jason,

i experienced some problems with this cut and i guess the notification is outdated for the cut in june.

i cannot restore my backup-file properly and it's difficult for me to examine the causes for these problems:
my extensions cannot be installed, is there a problem with labeling devices in the boot-process?
is there are problem with bootlocal.sh or bootsync.sh?

thank you for your help.

ps: by the way, i have similar problems with dcore-jessie, so i cannot use my really extensive configurated backup

[Jason W]

As the changes were to udev, there probably is an issue with devices.  I will look into it.

[Jason W]

I am booting the release candidates of dCore.gz and dCore-jessie.gz with no issues on 2 very different machines.

Are you using the tinycore.net location and not a mirror like ibiblio?  Ibiblio right now has different dates of those files and I did have a bad cut of both of them fore a small time period. 

[jls]

Hi
I experience the same problem as netnomad. The extensions are not loaded.
I've used the tinycorelinux.net

[Jason W]

Have you downloaded a new dCore.gz today?  I will look into it.

[netnomad]

hi jason,

tinycore.net offers me dCore-wheezy from 2014.09.01 and dCore-jessie from 2014.09.04.

[Jason W]

Ok, I see, device naming varies across reboots.  I had my sda hard drive and sdb usb drive switch naming a few times with the newest release candidate dCore.gz  .  A change in the one of the udev rules files which allowed the /dev/disk/by-* to be populated fully has also perhaps removed a more persistent naming of devices.  I will look into it tonight.

[Jason W]

Good news, I think I have found a solution via the 60-persistend-storage.rules from udev-extra.tcz in the 5.x repo.

Please try it out, it creates the needed files in /dev/disk and hopefully is better about consistency across reboots in device names versus the Debian/upstream udev files.

Posted new gzs:

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore.gz
http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore.gz.md5.txt

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore-jessie/dCore-jessie.gz
http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore-jessie/dCore-jessie.gz.md5.txt

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore-jessie/dCore-jessie-5.14.09.03.iso
http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release_candidates/dCore-jessie/dCore-jessie-5.14.09.03.iso.md5.txt

[netnomad]

hi jason,

sorry, but i see no improvement for my setup.
it could be caused by the configurations of my backup?

thank you for your help.

[Jason W]

Ok, what is your device setup?  Usb drives, hard drive partitions, etc and how are they getting assigned device names.  (HD is sda1, sda2, usb is sdb1, second usb is sdc1, etc).  Are the device names attached to different ide or usb changing across reboots?  (Normal for Linux, but for some reason prevented in previous dCore releases). 

How is the backup not getting restored, not getting untarred, or do scripts in the backup not run, etc?

[netnomad]

hi jason,

my boot-device is /dev/sdb1.

these are my boot-commands:
kernel /live/dcore-current/boot/vmlinuz waitusb=5:LABEL=tc protect restore=LABEL=tc tce=LABEL=tc/tce lst=sceboot.lst vga=795 psmouse.proto=imps settime tz=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3 laptop kmap=de multivt lang=de_DE.UTF-8 mydata=dcore blacklist=snd_usb_audio intel_rng.no_fwh_detect=-1 printk.time=1 cron desktop=fluxbox log=3 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode showapps
append initrd=/live/dcore-current/boot/dCore.gz