Unofficial CrunchBang 9.04 i386 Torrent and direct download (Page 1 of 3)

No problemo ZAP ! Thanks for trying it out

It's based on the Ubuntu 9.04 minimal iso and corenominal's crunchbang-installer-9.04.01 script, then processed with the remastersys scripty thing to make it bootable and installable.

It runs well in VirtualBox. I'd love to wrestle with remastersys and cook my own but way too many other things to do. It's a toss-up as to whether this or Mint 7 RC goes on my laptop in a couple of days.

There were a few problems that corenominal was having with creating iso's based off this script, hence no release prior to going on his honeymoon. Unless bandwidth is an issue I still think the minimal install and script are the best way to go at this stage.

Thank you! The minimal CD failed to configure my network hardware (it hung forever),  but this live cd worked flawlessly!

Get the 'unofficial' iso and unetbootin.....use that to put #! on usb stick....should work just fine.

So you're having problems with the 'Live' part? Can you install instead?

Check if you have a folder 'isolinux' and a file 'isolinux.cfg' in there.

EDIT: Good news. You have a hulluva good connection there! Which torrent downloading software were you using and did you check the md5?

Last edited by Toolz (2009-05-09 16:54:30)

There is a transparent theme for bmpanel in my new artwork package for 9.04.01

Install it then change the bmpanel entry in autostart.sh to:

# Launch panel
bmpanel crunchbang-transparent &

Just installed it. Everything seems to work alright for me so far.

Thanks for putting the .iso together.

Ran this from Live USB on Eee 901 today. Everything went very well. It's noticeable how much better wifi reception is on all the Ubuntu 9.04 derivatives.

I too was surprised at the amount of software installed in this Crunchbang.

Alrighty so here's what I did to set up an encrypted home directory using this installer (since the option is not enabled when installing):

1. Install #! from the Live CD, making sure that the user name that you enter is not the one that you want to use when you're done (let's call this user "robot").
2. Reboot, login as robot, and create a new user with encrypted home directory (now using the name that you really want):
sudo adduser --encrypt-home new_user_name
3. Open the Users/Groups control panel from the Openbox System menu and add your new user to the admin group (you may also want to give this user other permissions at this time)
4. Reboot again (or just logout if you're feeling confident) and login as the new user
5. Delete the temporary user account (robot):
sudo deluser --remove-home robot

That should be it!

I'm sure there's a way to enable the encrypted home directory option when installing, but I'll let someone else figure that out.

I've just now done this and it seems to be working as expected, but if others have problems or suggestions please let me know.

In addition, you may want to backup your randomly-generated mount passphrase (supposedly this is required to recover data in the event of a problem; I'm not sure what the security issues may be with having this around so perhaps someone who is can comment on this):
sudo ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase

You may also want to read the Important Caveats on this page, especially the issues with swap partitions:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/ … ories.html

EDIT: A very weird thing happened when I changed my user password: My entire home directory was replaced by a default (and empty) one! Everything was restored after I changed it back and rebooted, but encrypted home directories seem to be hard-wired to your original password so be warned!

Last edited by ZAP (2009-05-11 06:43:27)