D3D Live ISO

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Instructions

These instructions are compiled from the file File:USB INSTALLATION.txt, and other documentation at porteus home page.

Ubuntu-instructions

  • Optional: Format USB stick to ext4. Most USB sticks are preformatted with FAT filesystems. This complicates writing to the USB from within Porteus.
  • Follow this guide, except format to ext4 instead of fat32.
  • Open iso with Archive Manager, extract contents to USB folder
  • Run the script Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com. It resides in the directory called boot on your USB stick. Root privileges (sudo) might be required, depending on your system.
  • Navigate to USB directory
cd /media/<user>/<USB-stick-name>/boot
  • Once in USB boot directory
sudo ./Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

Porteus-instructions

  • Open Porteus Installer program
  • Open the Start Menu (top left corner)
  • Choose "System"
  • Choose "Porteus Installer"

Other systems

See porteus.org's official installation instructions.

Introduction

The D3D Thesis project aims to provide participants a Live ISO. This is an operating system that resides on a CD, DVD or USB stick that can run on all common computers, independent of the state of their computer's hard drives, thereby bypassing installation procedures for 3D printing related programs.

The idea is that we do 2 things to make the D3D Distributive Enterprise spread far and wide, which is part of Viral Replication Criteria:

  1. Enable an average user with clear instructions for downloading our ISO, and installing on a USB drive in Linux, Windows, and Mac.
  2. Providing USB sticks at the workshop to users who have not already installed the 3D printer software. The assumption is that we will preload the firmware onto the controller board.


Links

Tobben's Notes While Developing ISO

Porteus uses modules, Slackware style. We want our ISO to have modules for

  • Printrun (most importantly Pronterface)
  • Slic3r
  • Point-and-klick environment like KDE
  • GNU IceCat Web browser (see Wikipedia article)

We need three separate ISOs:

  • USB stick, 32-bit
  • CD, 32-bit
  • DVD, 32-bit

New ISO's are created within Portheus with script /mnt/sdXN/porteus/make_iso.sh.

Maybe useful: 

save-changes - dump whole changes from the live session into a module

Wrote ISO to USB stick 

sudo dd if=Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc

Didn't work. Re-formatted USB stick, extracted contents of ISO file and put it on USB stick. Mounted USB-stick, copied Portheus files over there and ran the script 

/media/torbjorn/Porteus/Porteus/boot/Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com

This produced a final message: 

Installation finished successfully.
You may reboot your PC now and start using Porteus.
Please check the /boot/docs folder for additional information about
the installation process, Porteus requirements and booting parameters.
In case of making tweaks to the bootloader config,
please edit: /media/torbjorn/Porteus/Porteus/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg file.

Didn't work. Made new ISO with following changes

  • UEFI support
  • 32-bit
  • FAT32 filesystem on stick

That did work, but FAT32 prevented anything from being stored on USB stick while in Porteus. Changed to ext4. Worked fine.

Guide to package creation and manipulation at porteus.org

Created xzm package that allows Pronterface to be run from source. File:Pront-package-incomplete.xzm

Made changes to /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg to tailor a boot-mode for D3D Workshops.

Old ISO images

32-bit

Porteus_with_Pronterface_Slic3r_Arduino_and_D3D_Conf_v0.iso.

Communications

Torbjorn: Configured a 32-bit (64-bit machines can also use it) Porteus Live OS ISO today, taking up 412 MiB space, but looks quite good (KDE4), runs very very fast, includes Pronterface source code and starts Pronterface on boot.

I'm on a slow connection, so iso will take another hour to upload...

See if you can get it to work. We can step through it at the meeting tomorrow. http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/D3D_Live_ISO#ISO_images

Mac Work

Steps to boot Porteus on Macbook Air 2011

  • Shut Down computer
  • Insert USB thumb drive with Porteus 64-bit and EFI support installed (D3D ISO will be uploaded soon)
  • Hold left "alt"-key while turning on the computer.
  • Keep holding alt pressed for several seconds. A boot screen should eventually appear.
  • The Porteus USB thumbstick will be represented by a yellow icon (sometimes with the text "windows", see picture). Choose Porteus using arrow keys and enter.
  • The Macbook air should now boot Porteus

Above steps tested and shown to work by Tobben on Feb 22 2016.

Research

Ubuntu.com article

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

States: 

Most Macs with Intel processors will work with either 64-bit or Mac images. If the 64-bit image doesn't work, try the Mac image.

Their DVD instructions simply consist of burning the iso onto the DVD with Disk Utility.

Recommends CD instead of USB.

Converts iso to an .img or .dmg file before using Disk Destroyer to burn the image onto the USB.

Makeuseof.com article

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-boot-a-linux-live-usb-stick-on-your-mac/

Tested on 2011 Macbook pro.

Uses FAT32 ant master boot record partition.

Uses EFI boot.

Uses iso images that are somehow customized for mac.

support.apple.com article

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201663

Says we need GUID partition

rEFInd article

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Explains difference between boot manager and boot loader.

Says this about (U)EFI 

Prior to mid-2011, few computers outside of Intel-based Macs used EFI; but starting in 2011, computer manufacturers began adopting UEFI in droves, so most computers bought since then use EFI.

Randomtutor article

http://randomtutor.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/installing-ubuntu-on-retina-macbook-pro_19.html

Uses Ubuntu USB for Mac OS X article mentioned above with 64-bit Mac iso image.

Installs and uses the rEFInd boot manager: 

cd ~/Downloads/refind-bin-0.7.7  
./install.sh --alldrivers

NOTE: If you have Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) installed, then the rEFInd installation needs to be handled differently. See [1].

Porteus Forum Thread 1

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=4177

Says that Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com script installs a boot loader.

rEFInd Forum Thread 1

https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/b9c7cefa/

Suggests we should try rEFInd and Porteus with EFI boot first. Note that Roderick W. Smith is the rEFInd dev himself.

Earlier Work

http://rafaelalcocer.com/downloads/index.php?dirpath=./3D-printer&order=0

A Porteus user that created a lot of related i486 xzm packages. His blog: [2].

The aruino.xzm of D3D Porteus uses his packages jre-7u40-i586-1.xzm and 010-avr-package-v0.3-1-1b.xzm to back up Arduino.

Stripping it down

Time order Change Measured in MiB saved
0 Replaced KDE with Xfce iso size 41
1 Removed dictionaries from Firefox Deployed size 0.6
2 Removed developer tools (make, gcc, etc) iso size 72
3 Removed changes folder Deployed size 80
4 Removed optional packages Deployed size 1.7
5 Removed unused geany scripts in avr package Deployed size 0.1
6 Removed geany plugins docs in avr package Deployed size 6.4
7 Removed man pages in avr package Deployed size 5.6
8 Removed kicad from avr package Deployed size 17
9 Removed /usr/share/doc from avr package Deployed size 13
10 Removed /usr/share/geany and geany-plugins from avr package Deployed size 2.6
11 Removed /usr/share/locale from avr package Deployed size 4.4
12 Removed geany binary from avr package Deployed size 2.3
13 Removed pcbnew and eeschema rests from kicad in avr package Deployed size 4.4
14 Removed kontrollerlab binary from avr package Deployed size 1.3
15 Removed ponyprog2000 from avr package Deployed size 0.8
16 Removed remaining kicad files from avr package Deployed size 1
17 Removed usr/lib/geany and geany-plugins from avr package Deployed size 1.5
18 Removed folder x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu from /opt/arduino/hardware/tools/avr Deployed size 0.9
19 Removed /opt/arduino/reference Deployed size 25
20 Removed /usr/doc and man from python deps package Deployed size 53
21 Removed locales from /usr/share/locale in python deps package Deployed size 9
22 Removed gtk-doc in python deps package Deployed size 14

Choice of Compiler Version

Porteus v3.1 that we're building upon ships with gcc-4.3.2 by default (inside the devel-package). D3D Porteus versions with OpenSCAD pre-installed ship with an additional gcc-5.3.0 package, because of this bug: SegFault: Linux, gcc-4.8.2 #514

Compiling GCC From Source Within Porteus 64-bit

These instructions are compiled from Installing GCC found on gnu.org.

  • The devel-package in Porteus v3.1 contains the prerequisities we need, make sure it is activated.
  • Download the source code to a hard drive. I use my computer's installed SDD disk found on /mnt/sda. See list of mirrors for download.
  • See list of gcc5 changes to know what you're installing. Note for example the new ABI for libstdc++. This could play a role in Porteus V3.1 since the package manager's binaries are probably compiled with gcc4. Be careful when using multiple compilers.
  • Create a build directory (called objdir in the gcc documentation) separate from the directory containing gcc source code (called srcdir in gcc documentation) and configure from objdir
mkdir /path/to/objdir
cd /path/to/objdir
/path/to/srcdir configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info \
                          --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++,lto,fortran --enable-threads=posix \
                          --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.7/site-packages \
                          --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libssp --with-gnu-ld \
                          --verbose --disable-gtktest --with-arch=x86_64 --target=x86_64-slackware-linux \
                          --host=x86_64-slackware-linux
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