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Warren's feedback got me thinking about having a go at coding with Qt. One thing that bothers me (and others, I gather) during the install is the inability to set the timezone during the installation

So, I got the minstall source code and had a go. Attached is my first attempt. It's worked in a test Vbox installation and anyone is welcome to try it. The change is at Step 7c.

The file is a simple replacement for the real 'minstall' binary found in /usr/sbin/. The way I got it working in a liveDVD session is by putting it on a USB stick and running it from there as root.

Please let me know your thoughts and comments. I'll forward the changes to Warren when I've got confirmation from at least one other person that it works

Edit: Please note this is 32bit binary. Judging from m_pav's experience it won't work with 64bit systems.

Great to see some Community development work be done this cycle! I will test this in a bit and get back to you.

EDIT: that seems to work fine. I fired up the M11 A4 LiveDVD, used a USB stick to move it into Downloads, then ran it from there with ./minstall. Installed to a partition with Europe/Paris time, then checked the file /etc/timezone and the correct one had been written. Did not check further than that.

Questions: 1) the Help page facing your changes says that EST is the default--is it still? Warren would probably want that default. 2) are there any changes to that Help page that your revision requires?

Tested on antiX live system and set timezone to Europe/Athens and it works just fine.

Thanks Jerry and Anti for testing it

I've not changed any of the help text yet. That's an easy fix compared to the code itself. No, the default is 'Europe/London' ...but that's also easily changed.

I'll give it a whirl on my EEE tonight using NZ timezone.

Mike P

Booted my netbook from a flash drive with M11 A4 64-bit, I copied the file to the flash drive from my regular notebook, then to /home/demo/Downloads, extracted it, checked that it was executable, opened konsole, su to root, cd to Downloads and the remainder is below. Because it failed, I exited root back to demo, typed xhost +, su'd back to root and tried again, still no joy, connected to my wireless, re-downloaded and tried again, still no joy.

My impression is that the executable will not work from a live-usb, it must be looking for a file in a different location

Mike P

Ah, I should have said this is a 32bit binary. I guess your problems are due your using 64bit. I'll try and get a 64bit binary for you.

I did wonder about that, but as it was not specifically stated, I wondered if the installer would be OK for either platform.

Will eagerly await the package

Mike P

I don't think it's 64 bit problem, if you try to run a 32 bit binary it tells you that it cannot find the 32 bit libraries for it (if you don't have them installed on your system) not that the file is not there, it's something else going on I think.

Try starting it as a regular user, using kdesu.

For instance I have it extracted to my /tmp directory and
from either the command line in konsole or the <Alt>+<F2> Run Command will start it up.

{Other than start it up, I haven't run the new minstall because I was running it from an existing install instead of a LiveDVD session.}

edit: I am using 32bit