DebianDog - beta version.
by saintless
17 May 2014
https://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=93225
This is beta version of DebianDog iso started as Light-Wheezy+Porteus-Wheezy in this development thread:
https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90660
DebianDog is very small Debian Wheezy Live CD shaped to look like Puppy and act like Puppy. Debian structure and Debian behaviour are untouched and Debian documentation is 100 percent valid for DebianDog. You have access to all debian repositories using apt-get or synaptic.
To test DebianDog for first time you need to burn it on CD or to extract /live folder on top of a partition or USB and edit manual your boot grub menu.lst For the moment DebianDog has installer for USB grub4dos frugal install.
DebianDog is set to autologin as root. If you like to use it as multiuser system it is recommended to start XDM login manager. Just type in terminal xdm-start and reboot. xdm-stop will reverse back autologin as root.
Login details: root with password root puppy with password puppy
Two versions are available for download:
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DebianDog-Porteus-jwm_icewm-beta.iso -112 Mb:
https://smokey01.com/saintless/DebianDog/DebianDog-Porteus-jwm_icewm-beta.iso Default WM - JWM with option to switch to IceWM. Default File Manager - XFE with option to use Rox. Default Internet Browser - Dillo. -
DebianDog-Porteus-openbox_xfce-beta.iso - 149 Mb (from Fred):
https://smokey01.com/saintless/DebianDog/DebianDog-Porteus-openbox_xfce-beta.iso Default WM - OpenBox with XFCE. Default File Manager - Thunar with option to use Rox or XFE. Default Internet Browser - Firefox.
md5sum check;
https://smokey01.com/saintless/DebianDog/md5sum.txt
DebianDog has kernel 3.2.0-4-486. If it works for your hardware you need nothing more. If it doesn't, please, read here how to boot easy with different kernel:
https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=774459#774459
For modern multi-core machines it will be better to use 022-kernel-686-pae.zip - Debian kernel-3.2.0-4-686-Pae separate module from the link above.
We have 3 different initrd files included which gives 3 different boot and save file options. I will explain them proper in the next post.
Please, read also Examples-boot-codes.txt for boot options:
https://smokey01.com/saintless/DebianDog/Examples-boot-codes.txt
After testing the boot methods and save file options and decide which one is best for you, just remove 2 initrd files to save 15 Mb space from the system.
Both versions have a lot in common as boot and save file options. The difference is in the WM and applications choice.
In post five on this page you will find information how to install packages in Debian with Synaptic (GUI) or apt-get (CLI).
DebianDog has a lot of tools similar to Puppy. You can load puppy SFS modules and many of them will work out of the box. You can create easy separate sfs modules and remaster the system with all personal changes. I will give more information about the available tools in one of the next posts.
I like to give my Thanks to Smokey for hosting DebianDog project, to Debian team for keeping Debian such flexible system, to this forum for the opportunity to work on a project different from puppy linux, to our forum members working on DebianDog development: Fred (fredx181), Terry (sunburnt), William (mcewanw), Sergey (sklimkin), and for the valuable advices to: jbv, sfs, catsezmoo, big_bass, emil, dancytron, anikin from our forum and dzz from www.debianuserforums.org And to Sickgut for his original idea that made possible DebianDog to exist.
Toni