Installing Nimblix

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Installing Nimblix

Postby .ronin » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:24 am

The following is a tutorial on adding Nimblix to Katana:

1) Download Nimblix ISO from http://nimblex.net

2) Burn or extract the ISO into a local directory on your system.

3) On your Katana Drive, create the file nimblix.cfg in the /boot/menu directory. (This is the menu for Nimblix.) Open nimblix.cfg in a text editor and copy and past the following into it:

Code: Select all
PROMPT 0
#TIMEOUT 90
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32
MENU BACKGROUND /boot/wallpaper.png

MENU WIDTH 30
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 12
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU TABMSGROW 27
MENU CMDLINEROW 27
MENU HSHIFT 24
MENU VSHIFT 0

   menu color screen   37;40      #00000000 #00000000 none
   menu color border   30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none
   menu color title   1;36;44    #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   #menu color unsel   37;44      #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
   menu color unsel   37;44      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color hotkey   1;37;44    #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
   #menu color sel      7;37;40    #ffffffff #00000000 none
   menu color sel      7;37;40    #ffffffff #00000000 none
   menu color hotsel   1;7;37;40  #ff808080 #ff60CA00 none
   menu color scrollbar   30;44      #00000000 #00000000 none

   menu color tabmsg   31;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color cmdmark   1;36;40    #ffff0000 #00000000 none
   menu color cmdline   37;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color pwdborder   30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color pwdheader   31;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color pwdentry   30;47      #ffff0000 #00000000 std
   menu color timeout_msg   37;40      #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
   menu color timeout   1;37;40    #ffaaaaff #00000000 none
   menu color help      37;40      #aaaaaa00 #00000000 none
   menu color msg07   37;40      #90ffffff #00000000 std

MENU TITLE Nimblix

LABEL xconf
MENU LABEL Boot in KDM
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash=silent changes=/nimblex/ autoexec=xconf;kdm


LABEL kde
MENU LABEL Boot in KDE
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw vga=791 splash=silent quiet changes=nimblex.data autoexec=startx


LABEL copy2ram
MENU LABEL Boot in RAM
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash toram changes=/nimblex/ autoexec=startx


LABEL cli
MENU LABEL Boot in CLI
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimblix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimblix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw


LABEL fresh
MENU LABEL Always Fresh
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimblix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimblix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;telinit~4


LABEL kiosk
MENU LABEL Kiosk Mode
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash autoexec=kiosk


LABEL back
MENU LABEL ..
KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/main.cfg
TEXT HELP
                        Back to Main Menu
ENDTEXT

4) Create the directory /boot/syslinux/nimblix in Katana. Copy the vmlinuz-**** and initrd-****.gz files from the Nimblix /boot directory into the newly created directory. Rename them to vmlinuz and initrd.gz respectively.

5) Copy the /nimblix directory from the extracted ISO to the root of Katana.

6) Finally, on the Katana Drive; open /boot/menus/main.cfg in a text editor and add the following to the end of the file. This will add Nimblix to the main boot menu.

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    LABEL nimblix
    MENU LABEL Nimblix
    KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
    APPEND /boot/menus/nimblix.cfg
    TEXT HELP
                             More about currently selected:
       
                             Nimblix is a minimalistic
                             distribution based on Slax.
    ENDTEXT

You should now be able to boot Nimblix from Katana.
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