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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=void
http://voidlinux.eu/

I think that if and when I go through another round of distribution, this ought to be high on my todo list.

The last time I tried it, bootloader installation wasn’t automagical.

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• Raspberry Pi support.

• CubieBoard2 support.

  • But what about CubieBoard3?

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• T.C Void Linux Subsite

  • Why Void Linux?

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• 2015-05-07 – 4.0.1_1 x86_64

2015-05-07 – 4.0.1_1 x86_64 ∞

• dd works as expected:

\sudo \
  \dd \
    if=filename.iso \
    of=/dev/sdx \
    bs=4M

• Booting up gave the proper textmode size and font.

• It doesn’t boot into a GUI.

  • I guess I needed one of their flavours.
• Before logging in, there are instructions which include things like the usernames and passwords to use to log in and test/install.

• cfdisk is nicer than what I’m used to from Lubuntu.

  • There’s a pseudo-tree collecting partitions.
  • it has colour
• The default shell isn’t Bash.

• bash isn’t nice — colour, nicer prompt, etc

  • I guess this is an upstream problem, and the void crew doesn’t care to provide a nicer liveUSB because of the difficulty of maintaining it.
• Slackware-esque text installer.
• I had to sudo void-installer to actually get an install to work. I don’t think the initial pre-login instructions included that.

• Only needed to do a few steps

  1. Partitioning — Minimum 600MB root.
  2. Mount points
  3. Install
• I could not get networking set up. I’ve no clue why and didn’t bother to investigate. If that shit isn’t automagical then it’s a serious penalty in my review.
• Btrfs is available on the liveUSB. Yay!

• eCryptfs is not available on the liveUSB. Boo.

  • I don’t know if it would be installable in some easy way, but since I could not get networking going I didn’t investigate.

Of course I had nonsensical issues..

Failed to install GRUB to /dev/sdc
Check /dev/tty8 for errors

(/dev/tty8 is alt-f8)

• The root cannot be Btrfs? I tried ext4.

  • This is unsurprising. I don’t think GRUB can handle btrfs yet.

• GRUB-multiple partition labels – not supported

error: filesystem 'btrfs' doesn't support blocklists.

I’m supposed to know what a blocklist is?

I tried with everything as ext4 and it still didn’t work:

/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.

I suppose I needed to follow these instructions:

github.com/voidlinux/documentation/wiki/Installer-Partitioning [ 1 ]

Second try ∞

• I did a regular boot, not from RAM
• This time, networking worked!
• There’s no textmode browser?
• This time, selecting partitioning from the installer gave me cfdisk.

• There’s no parted on the iso. So isn’t the documentation wrong? If the partitioning thingy give me cfdisk, shouldn’t that work?

  • github.com/voidlinux/documentation/wiki/Installer-Partitioning

What are “multiple partition tables” ? Gods, GRUB blows. Fuck this distribution if it can’t work out of the box..

Footnotes

1. probably now https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/live-images/partitions.html[ ↩ ]