BW )(: Bristol Wireless Live Distro

[Adam Cheasley]

Excellent. I might have a look at that tonight out of interest as I'm  
running debian at the moment.


On 28 Feb 2008, at 10:07, Ben Green wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:50:16 -0000, Adam Cheasley  
> <adam.cheasley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> Sorry to jump into this but the subject line caught my eye. Am I
>> right in thinking that you guys have made your own distro? If so
>> where can I find it to download it?
>>
>> Adam.
>>
>>
>
> It's not really a distro as such, but a meta package and an extra  
> repository. You go from a standard debian etch install then add the  
> following repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>
> #uk-based public repository
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
> deb http://repo.bristolwireless.net/bw etch contrib
>
> and do an apt-get update, then apt-get install bristolwireless
>
> The next account you add will have the "Bristol Wireless Desktop",  
> an xfce variant, will also be member of useful groups for system  
> control. If you add that user to the powerusers group, you will be  
> able to ammend you menu bar and stuff like that.
>
> Note that this does make some fundamental additions you your  
> sources.list when you install it. It needs a lot more documentation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
>  From Ben Green
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bristolwireless mailing list
> Bristolwireless at lists.psand.net
> http://lists.psand.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bristolwireless