First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for a first KaOS stable ISO for 2018
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all
As always, early test ISOs are minimal, very few apps, just a web-browser, file manager, text editor, GUI package manager. The non-free nvidia drivers are included since they are a big part of what needs testing.
New ISO is needed again due to a very large amount of updates to the base of the system (besides the usual updates like all of KDE). All the usual hardware is available again locally, so it shouldn't be as difficult a test cycle as the last one.
KaOS ISOs are not only GTK free but are Qt4 & KDE 4 free too.
This is as pure a Qt 5/Plasma 5 ISO as possible.
Plan is to have Frameworks 5.41.0, KDE Applications 17.12.0, Plasma 5.11.3 and Linux 4.14.10 on the final ISO. If all testing goes well expect the final ISO to be released in 7-10 days
Calamares version used is 3.2RC. Release Notes page is not fully updated yet, you will see some the text from the November ISO.
The ISO is using packages from the build repo, but that repo is not enabled, so if you decide to install, make sure to add the build epo to your pacman.conf.
To help with testing:
- Use a GPT partition table on BIOS system (manual partitioning)
- Use Isowriter to write the test ISO to your USB stick, plan is to remove imagewriter from the repos after this test cycle
- Use in live mode on as much different hardware as possible
- If you have an UEFI capable system, check if the ISO boots in both UEFI and legacy BIOS mode, make sure though to turn off secure boot
- test installs on real hardware are needed, not just vbox
- check as many partitioning options as possible in the partitioning of Calamares, see if all works and is clear enough
- test with vbox in Live mode and installed and adjust to full screen or resize to different resolutions
debug packages for Calamares are part of all ISOs, run Calamares with gdb if you encounter errors
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all
You can start Calamares from the Welcome app, or run it with:
sudo calamares -d
The install log will be created in the home directory of the Live user, see ~/installation.log
. It is available after the install in the target system in /var/log/installation.log
If run from cli, make sure to pastebin the full output, since no installation.log will be copied then, though that log is more complete.
The new site for testing ISOs is still in use:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2017.12.31-x86_64.iso
sha256sum:
38f5b3d3af5871f8c633f112f7534096151e78c974f79dfe110763b7a252b08b KaOS-2017.12.31-x86_64.iso
On this ISO you will find:
Linux 4.14.10
systemd 236
gcc 6.4.0
Qt 5.10.0
Frameworks 5.41.0
Plasma 5.11.4
KDE Applications 17.12.0 kf5 based
Calamares 3.1.96
Octopi 0.9dev with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool
Known issues: