Re: Announcing live test CD version 4

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I have a wireless connection to a computer running talkingarch, but was unable to bring wireless up permanently on debian on any of the two computers I use. Debian was able to install using the wireless connection on the amd k8 athelon but post-install I couldn't figure out how to get wireless up at all. The acer aspire 5003 notebook acted like the debian firmware disk didn't have firmware drivers on it when I tried installing the firmware disk on the acer. I probably wipe debian off the acer and replace it with talkingarch just to get the notebook on the internet after this.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:

Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 08:45:56
From: Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Announcing live test CD version 4

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce that I've found a temporary hosting arrangement for my Debian-based live rescue CD. It is not an official Debian CD, but it's based on live-build. It still needs lots of work and testing, but I find that it works well enough. I've used it successfully on two machines and KVM. I got reports that some things don't work on some machines such as wireless, but I don't have wireless networking here to test. Also, I got a report that it boots but sound doesn't work. However, I was able to use it to copy two hard drives and it should come up talking automatically. If your machine has DHCP, it will start an ssh server automatically. Any and all feedback is appreciated. Please use the contact information in my signature. Thank you.

Here is the download link:

http://classicradio.us/iso/livetest4.iso

If you look at the raw directory listing, you'll see livetest3.iso, but it is currently only a partial file, so please don't download it yet. Version 4 has had minimal testing and uses kernel 3.16 which ships with Jessie. When the CD boots, you'll need to log in. For some reason, autologin with Systemd on live CDs doesn't seem to work. Here are the two accounts:

Username: user
no password

Username: root
Password: root

Again, please test thoroughly. I have included non-free firmware, so most wireless adaptors should be detected, but I have no way to test. I'm especially interested if sound isn't working for you. It should play a startup sound, but that might be broken at the moment. I eventually hope to support running Debian-Installer from the CD, but that's also not currently working. I included the standard accessibility packages I could think of, but please let me know if something is missing. I don't have a Braille display, but brltty should detect any USB Braille device automatically. If there are missing packages, please let me know, but space is very limited.

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Tony Baechler, founder, Baechler Access Technology Services
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