Awesome! I've been looking forward to Vanilla OS 2.0, so I'm glad to see it is progressing well. I'll give the preview a spin on a VM here once I've got some spare time to sit down with it!
Some notes from my experience of trying to test this:
There is no live-cd functionality, just the installer, so don't expect to try before you install.
The installer will tell you that it needs at least 28.1Gb of space. I tried installing to a 32Gb (virtual) drive which allowed the installer to proceed, but then the installation failed with a "No space left on device" error.
After increasing the virtual drive to 50Gb the installer then failed with an error that it failed to run grub-install
I didn't get any further than this. I was attempting to install in a VirtualBox VM.
Interesting, I'm not too sure what could be causing that, but if I had to take a guess VirtualBox's UEFI implementation doesn't allow for writes from the VM, at least by default. It's been a long time since I've used VirtualBox (since before UEFI was even really a thing), I don't suppose there's any sort of setting that might resemble making it writable?
If you're using UEFI in VB, definitely update to the latest version. UEFI support in older VB was pretty bad. Works a lot better now, though I haven't had time to test this new version of Vanilla OS, so YMMV.
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russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net · 11 pts · 2y
Awesome! I've been looking forward to Vanilla OS 2.0, so I'm glad to see it is progressing well. I'll give the preview a spin on a VM here once I've got some spare time to sit down with it!
drspod@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
Some notes from my experience of trying to test this:
grub-installI didn't get any further than this. I was attempting to install in a VirtualBox VM.
russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net · 10 pts · 2y
Regarding the failed install error, you need to make sure that VirtualBox is using UEFI - Legacy Boot isn't currently supported at the moment.
Had the same issue while using Boxes, switching it to UEFI allowed the install to complete successfully!
drspod@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Thanks, it gets a bit further, but this time fails with:
russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net · 7 pts · 2y
Interesting, I'm not too sure what could be causing that, but if I had to take a guess VirtualBox's UEFI implementation doesn't allow for writes from the VM, at least by default. It's been a long time since I've used VirtualBox (since before UEFI was even really a thing), I don't suppose there's any sort of setting that might resemble making it writable?
drspod@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
My version of VirtualBox is a few years old so I wouldn't be surprised if it was lacking some features.
jayandp@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
If you're using UEFI in VB, definitely update to the latest version. UEFI support in older VB was pretty bad. Works a lot better now, though I haven't had time to test this new version of Vanilla OS, so YMMV.
Rhabuko@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y
Great news. Should there be someday a community version with KDE, I will definitely give it a try. Anyway, I wish them success,
00@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y
Nice! Im very happy about the debian base!