- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] light weight mobile TeXmacs system
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:24:07 +0100
Hi Chu-Ching,
Thanks for the work !
Best wishes, Joris
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:02:53AM +0800, chu-ching huang wrote:
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Hi all,
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Recently, I try to build a bootable platform with Texmacs. Slax is a
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flexible
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live linux based on Slackware Linux. Slax linux owns elementary necessary
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functions and is under 200 Mbytes. The best is that it allows user to scale
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the whole system by adding independent "modules". At this moment, slax
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official site supports only texmacs-1.0.6.lzm, which lzm is named by its
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compressed method.
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Based on last slax version, slax rc7, I rebuilded guile-1.8.3.lzm,
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TeXmacs-1.0.6.12.lzm, maxima-5.14.lzm (to solve the library dependency).
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With
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other modules gnuplot-4.2.1.lzm etc, a light weight
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live linux system with TeXmacs is created with size only about 330 Mbytes!
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I will upload it to ftp://math.cgu.edu.tw/pub/slax
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You can try it as mobile TeXmacs system!
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P.S.
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1. This platform can be smaller after burn to cdrom if unnecessary
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modules are removed, for examples, blender, python, libtools etc.
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2. In future update, you can download the newest slax from official site and
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copy original modules into "/slax/modules" directory.
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3. You can also make a read/write USB pendriver bootable Linux. First
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create a
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cdrom version. Prepare a 512 Mbytes USB pendriver, copy all the directory
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into
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USB pendriver and execute /boot/bootinst to make it bootable.
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Then a USB Linux with TeXmacs is created. Remember it is "writable" without
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any configuration after created. If you want to make a new image based on
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your
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whole environment, just execute /slax/make_iso.
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Best regards,
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cch
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