Here is a Linux install milestone in its useful, slightly untidy form: AuziX now installs from live media to a blank disk and boots the installed root.
The test target was a disposable Proxmox VM with a 32 GiB SCSI disk. The alpha
ISO booted, SSH came online, and its EFL installer created an unconfirmed JSON
plan. A separate execution gate revalidated the plan and required /dev/sda to
match the disk reviewed by the operator before destructive work began.
The first attempt found a real old-school boot problem. BusyBox fdisk inherited
legacy CHS geometry and placed the first partition at sector 32. GRUB correctly
refused an unreliable blocklist install because there was no usable embedding
area. Moving the first partition to sector 2048 fixed it. The corrected run
installed GRUB and rebooted with:
root=LABEL=AUZIXROOT auzix.root=LABEL=AUZIXROOT init=/init rw
After disk boot, /dev/sda1 was mounted at /; SSH, Xorg, Enlightenment, user
state, and the AuziX repository returned. Package Control refreshed more than
100 package candidates, and AbiWord and Gnumeric launched in the installed
session.
What still needs fixing
This is experimental media, not a general-purpose installer:
- the tested image lacked
mkfs.ext4, so installation fell back to ext2; - hostname application is incomplete;
- display mode and the preferred sci-fi theme still need manual selection;
- Midori's profile/trust UI needs cleanup despite successful system TLS checks;
- advanced partitioning, encryption, LVM, RAID, and multi-disk installs are not implemented.
Use a disposable VM or an empty spare disk.
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The corresponding source and build notes live in the AuziX repository.