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Author: fsmithred
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Installing fresh copy of x86_64 Beowulf?
On 7/31/19 9:08 AM, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote:
> On 7/28/19 6:33 PM, golinux@??? wrote:
>> On 2019-07-28 09:29, rgsidler@??? wrote:
>>> Hi, with the actual image, I encountered only one problem. I tried to
>>> install it from a USB-stick, but the installer mixed up the partitions
>>> and installed on /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda. You have to correct
>>> grub and the fstab respectively to avoid a non bootable  system. And
>>> be aware, that there won't be a gksu-package anymore and you should
>>> check, if there aren't any consolekit-related packages installed
>>> erroneously. Replace them with the whole lot of elogind-stuff and
>>> everything will just work fine 👍😃.
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>>
>>>
>>> Roland
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> There is no official Beowulf image because Beowulf hasn't been released
>> yet.
>>
>> golinux
>
> Ok. Thanks everybody
>
> The approach I tried was to install a minimal Ascii setup and then
> s/ascii/beowulf/ in sources.list then do an upgrade and a dist-upgrade.
> It seem to work ok for a server, I've had it running the last few days..
> I've not run into new errors, just old ones.
>
> /Lars
>


I've used the same method to upgrade a Refracta (ascii) install, and it
worked well. This is with xfce and desktop apps installed without
metapackages.

If you try to upgrade a desktop system that was installed from tasksel
(with task-<desktop-environment>-desktop), you'll probably run into
dependency conflicts.

One other way to get there is to make a beowulf live-iso with live-sdk. I
haven't tried it in a few months, but it worked fine when I did it.
Results of that are here (no-X):
https://get.refracta.org/files/testing/
and here (openbox, no dbus):
https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/refracta10-nodbus_amd64-2019-04-16.iso
(Blend files available on request. Modify and make your own.)

fsmithred