I intend to get back onto tackling some of the issues that you guys have reported for EasyOS. There was a little holiday, and the last couple of days did a resurrection of Quirky:

https://bkhome.org/news/202005/quirky-881-unofficial-release.html

Seems to work OK, but don't get the bluetooth ...

Dear Barry,
Before you stop development of Quirky Linux, would you mind to upload your last woofQ for "Quirky Beaver64-8.7.1"? Thank you very much. Thank you created Quirky Linux.
Best regards,
C.H.Lee

Hi Barry,
I frugal install Easy 0.6 to a USB disk and boot Easy 0.6 successful. Thank you very much.
After that I tried Easy boot in RAM, it failed to boot. Below was the boot message:
Finding drives
Creating compressed zram, using 6081510k of RAM
sda sda sdb
Boot-partition: sdb4 Working ...

Dear Barry,
Could you help us to add below files to the packages-templates of woof?
Package: glibc (libc6_2.23)
Location: /usr/lib/gconv/ or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/
Files: BIG5HKSCS.so BIG5.so EUC-CN.so EUC-TW.so GB18030.so GBBIG5.so GBGBK.so GBK.so libCNS.so libGB.so
Remark: These files ...

Trying to boot from a manual frugal install from iso files yields a kernel panic!
What should the kernel arguments look like? ... the same as for the iso?
install_specs=UUID=7093-9400:vfat:xerus
You need to add the "install_specs" argument for frugal install.
The "7093-9400" is my disk's ...

To install Quirky Werewolf 64-bit 7.4 is easy. First please download the werewolf64-7.4.iso from:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/amd64/releases/werewolf-7.4/

Then you can use any one of below way to install:

1. For user with any Linux OS installed.
a. Download the "installquirky ...

BootManager
I forgot the "BootManager"!

I blacklist the kernel mode driver from the "BootManager" and press the save button to save the session. After reboot and run xorgwizard, I can use the VESA display driver now. Thank you very much.

Very happy to see you new Quirky Installer and initrd ...

Hi, I have some problems with Intel, Nvidia and ATI display card when I try "frugal install". The default display driver of Werewolf-7.3.3 is kernel mode setting driver. Sometime the resolution is not correct, I want to use the VESA driver. When I run the xorgwizard, it need reboot to change to VESA ...

I am thinking fast CD boot for Werewolf. Can we take out the q.sys from initrd.q?
All werewolf's files (initrd.q, vmlinuz and q,sys) put into the "werewolf64" folder.
Then no need to change anythings, the CD should boot as the USB boot.
After wasted three CD, I succeeded to fast boot from CD. I ...

I am thinking fast CD boot for Werewolf. Can we take out the q.sys from initrd.q? The new init script used the blkid to find the boot device. The blkid can not list the CD UUID, but it can list the CD label as below:
# blkid
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="test" UUID="5a5c3cc1-6479-4f64-b025-c6874bbddaef" TYPE ...

Just test your new init script, no need to wait for USB ready and boot fast.
One problem, you haven't update the /BOOT_SPECS file. So, it keep the BOOT_DEV=UUID=xxxx-xxxx, it break the "Save Icon"(save script).

If you move below code before you save the /BOOT_SPECS file, then you no need to use ...

Compare to old puppy, I think the Werewolf's frugal install is better.

1. The size of old "save file"(xxxxsave.3fs) is fix(eg:128MB), it waste many room of the USB disk. The Werewolf's "save file"(s.sfs) is a compressed file system, if you have 10MB data, you only need about 6MB room. The s.sfs ...

USB Boot for Werewolf64
1. I tried to frugal install the Werewolf64-7.3.3 to USB disk manually. But got kernel panic. After checked with few PC and added 3 seconds delay to init script, the problem solved.

2. It is hard to make the USB disk boot from different PC. Because different PC have ...

I upgraded from 6.01 to 6.1 with the service_pack-6.0.1_TO_6.1-quirky6.pet.
The Upgrade manager and Snapshot manager inside the Multimedia menu. ??
I tested the Snapshot manager, it made a Snapshot(in /audit/snapshots/). It size was 6MB, very nice. I haven't test the restore function yet. Thank Barry.

syslinux 5.10 in Quirky 6.0 missing mcopy

Install Quirky6.0 on a 1GB(or more) size USB disk
The actual size of Quirky6.0 is below 1GB, so we could install it to a 1GB(2GB,4GB or 16GB) USB flash disk.
Assume you downloaded the Quirky6.0 on /mnt/sdb1/tmp,
your USB disk mounted on /mnt/sdc1 and /mnt/sdc2, like my last post.

1 ...

Install Quirky6.0 on a DOS partition table
Currently, Quirky6.0 install on a GPT partition table. Because kernal need to find a specified linux rootfs by below boot parameters:
root=PARTUUID=AA2B8242-B2F6-40CB-AFC3-5C888A55380D rootwait
Here the "AA2B8242-B2F6-40CB-AFC3-5C888A55380D" are the ...

so I now think I should reflash with this Novo7 - Aurora_0322 - v02 . rar
I think I should chose the non LG driver zip? from the downloads page at http://gadgetfreakz.co.uk/ainol-novo-7-aurora-android-4-0-7-ips-tablet.html
ok now that is provisionally solved we can get back to lui arm mele :wink ...

aarf wrote:
yes everything is as you say. thanks for taking a look. good luck.
OK, I will check your evb.bin when I have time.

Could you tel me the model number and version number of your Ainol Novo7 Aurora?
You could check it with:
Setting>about tablet>version.

There are below firmware in ...

aarf wrote:
yes everything is as you say. thanks for taking a look. good luck.
OK, I will check your evb.bin when I have time.
Please note:
When the tablet booting, if you could find the LCD backlight turn on (even it is black colour), please wait for 2~3 min more. You should see the X window ...