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Allgemein November 3rd, 2012
Neptune 3.0 will ship a completely new feature that might be helpful for some of you.
Do you ever wanted to have a stable, save and reliable basic system that just works ?
Do you ever dreamed of a live Neptune system that you could install on a normal harddrive ?
Now you don’t have to dream anymore. Neptune 3.0 introduces ‘Nested Installation’ which allows you to perform an installation as a live system on your harddisk. This installation just needs a linux partition (like ext4 or jfs) with 2.5 GB of free diskspace. Just like the live usb system you are able to create a persistency file or a persistent partition if you need to save changes. This persistency file can be on your harddrive or your usb stick.
The cool thing about this installation type is that if you mess up any configuration you can always disable persistency and boot a clean working environment to fix all things.
Nested Installation will be introduced with Neptune 3.0 and will only be available as seperate installation method like the advanced installer (just execute neptune-installer-nested as root to get it going)
If you are a beta user and want to already test this. Please upgrade the neptune-installer package.
December 4th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
This is very interesting. I think this is equivalent to frugal install in puppy or porteus. Besides, it saves lots of space. Does it support modular apps?
December 4th, 2012 at %I:%M %p
Modular apps are not yet implemented. Currently we think there is no urge for it and conceptionally I don’t think they are a good idea. I mean the effort for the packagemaintainer is too high.
But were are open to suggestions here and implementations.
December 21st, 2012 at %I:%M %p
A sort of ‘boot bug’ is present in Neptune 2.5 and 3.0b2. When a user installs GRUB to the ‘/’ partition, none of the “boot managers” (GAG, OSL2000, Easy-BCD, PLoP, BooIT, etc.,) are able to start it. I know it will start with GRUB but find it odd that dozens of other Debian-based distros start without a problem. Sure hope you can cure that someday as I love your live disks.
Sincerely,
Mars Bonfire