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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Zenwalk
http://www.zenwalk.org/ ^[ 1 ] was http://zenwalkgnulinux.blogspot.com/ ^[ 2 ] redirected from zenwalk.org

• 2015-05-15 – No bootloader installation magic.

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• Based on Slackware but has significantly diverged. Maintains binary compatibility.

• Uses Xfce, GTK.

2015-05-15 – 7.9.3 64bit ∞

• Trying UNetbootin/Windows
• Got a plain UNetbootin bootloader.
• Tried “Default”
• Custom font, but low resolution textmode
• This is not a LiveUSB – This is an installer. =/
• Good hints for setup / installation!

• I got a fatal error during install. I may have a bad liveUSB prep or some such.

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• Trying UNetbootin/Windows
• This time I unmounted before rebooting Windows.
• This time I removed/re-inserted the USB stick during the reboot.
• A simple UNetbootin boot loader
• NO way to get back to that instructional pre-logon text!
• Simple, excellent installation process
• I didn’t make a USB boot stick.
• A LILO bootloader install. I had it ask for the vesa mode on bootup
• MBR install – I hope this goes to sdc, because there’s no indication it knows what to do.
• The same old LILO installer error…
• Went back into configure to make a USB boot stick. Had to go through the font stuff to get to it, then afterwards I hd to hold ESCAPE to avoid all the rest of the installation bullshit. Bad installer.
• Rebooting to the USB stick didn’t work.
• Rebooting into the HDD didn’t work.

• Rebooting into the install USB stick and selecting “Detect/boot any installed operating system” did not work. That just boots into the same thing as “Default” – the installer.

FAIL

2015-05-08 ∞

Fail.

I’m not going to even investigate this distribution, because it has no website. I need a proper introduction detailing its features and philosophies, with installation instructions.

2015-05-11 update – I took a closer look. Muddling around a forum really does suck. I learned that this distro uses XFCE, which I don’t want, and it uses GTK applications, which I don’t want. I think I’m better off looking elsewhere.

2009-04-19 – 6.0 (on VirtualBox) ∞

VirtualBox 2.2.0 r45846

• Using it’s auto-magical auto-install.
• Oh man, it’s even slower to install on VirtualBox. Boo…
• Nice LILO boot menu.
• Has some agreements. Very nicely done and unobtrusive.
• userconfig is wonderful.

• afterwards, VirtualBox closed without error, and is listed as “Aborted”. Zenwalk cannot be used with VirtualBox. This is a known bug.

  • Bug 3529

2009-04-15 – 6.0 ∞

• It saw my swaps, but VectorLinux didn’t. Odd, since both are Slackware.
• No package selection, it just goes.
• Insanely slow install. But that’s Slackware for ya.

• I formatted as xfs for this one. That was the default recommendation. On bootup, I got VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on sda1. etc etc, and then it fails to find its partitions. FAIL.

I should have just reinstalled as ext3, but again I thought that some other distro would work.

2007-03-30 – ZenLive 4.2 ∞

Based on Slackware (minislack, from back in the day)

Uses the Xfce window manager.

root password: ZenLive
login: one (no password)

• It doesn’t figure out my video settings by default.
• Dead space at the bottom of the screen, because of the panel placement.

• Good hotkeys; control-escape does the right thing!

On my second try, some time later, it wouldn’t load X.