Hi all,

I'm uploading a live image of gnuinos in amd64 architecture (and shortly
in i386) without desktop environment, taking Devuan Alpha2 as a base
(~390 MB). Network connection and quick installation. Download zone:

http://mirrors.gnuinos.org/?dir=DEVUAN-BASED%20IMAGES

The web site is not updated, but this distribution will be definitely
based on Devuan.

Regards,

Aitor.

El 14/08/15 a las 22:16, dng-request@??? escribió:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:27:49 -0400
> From: Steve Litt <slitt@???>
> To: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] Alpha2 without desktop environment
> Message-ID: <20150814132749.5da7a5dc@???>
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> On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:01:11 -0400
> Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:
>
>
>>> > > Rereading your original post: Do you want to not have a Display
>>> > > Manager such as lightdm, kdm, gdm etc, or do you want your computer
>>> > > not to have X at all? If the latter, just deinstall X. If the
>>> > > former, you need to find your display manager, based on ps axjf.
>> >
>> > The aim is to boot to a console prompt, log in as root, install xorg
>> > and fluxbox. That gives me X and a window manager but no desktop
>> > environment.
> What you describe above is *precisely* how I want things to go. Your
> box and my desktop are the same except I use Openbox instead of
> fluxbox. I love startx so much my wife is getting jealous.
>
>> > At present I get a log in prompt and can log in as user
>> > in console, but for some reason root log in not working. I suppose
>> > that when I provided a password I mistyped.
> :-) If this were Ubuntu, I'd tell you to do sudo su -
>
>> >
>>> > > Anyway, luckily for you, you're on Devuan with sysvinit, so I'm
>>> > > pretty sure almost any way that you could disable plymouth and
>>> > > lightdm would bring you to CLI, from which you could run startx
>>> > > which would work with a properly configured ~/.xinitrc.
>> >
>> > You describe a complicated scenario. I've never had to go through all
>> > that because I've always simply done expert install, avoided
>> > installing a desktop environment, and then in console install xorg and
>> > fluxbox. Over the years never had a problem.
> Yes, you're right, it's too complicated. I was thinking in Ubuntu-eze,
> where the entire distro is designed to never let you boot to command
> prompt. At least up to Wheezy (I haven't used Jessie), Debian was
> designed to allow booting to CLI via installation, in the manner you
> voiced earlier: Install base, install X, install fluxbox, done. In
> Debian (and therefore I assume Devuan), what I described should only be
> used for troubleshooting purposes.
>
> SteveT