We’ve been working on an Indonesian DVD version of Endless OS, and if you have a DVD burner, a blank DVD and some spare time we’d love your help testing it on different PCs and DVD drives.
Help us test!
With this first DVD-sized release, we are interested in learning if Endless OS can boot successfully from a DVD on different computers, in spite of the known issues listed below. Please download the 3.2.4.1 Indonesian DVD ISO, burn it to a DVD, and reply to this forum post with the following information:
- Make & model of your computer
- Amount of RAM in your computer
- Whether your computer has BIOS or EFI firmware (if you know)
- Make & model of your DVD drive, if it’s not built into the computer On Endless OS, you can download it with Transmission, and burn it to DVD with Brasero
- Did Endless OS boot successfully from the DVD? If so:
- Did you see anything strange during the boot process?
- Try running some apps while booted from the DVD. Do they work?
- If the DVD didn’t boot successfully:
- What did you see? Please send photos if possible
- If you have time, download the Ubuntu 17.04 ISO and burn it to a DVD. Does it boot on the same computer?
If the DVD booted successfully, collect a debug log while booted from the DVD and attach it here. If it didn’t, and your computer already runs Endless OS, please collect a debug log there. This will include the technical information above.
Background
There were two problems preventing us making Endless OS DVDs:
- The Full versions of Endless OS are all too big to fit on a DVD
- If you burned a small-enough Endless OS ISO to a DVD, it didn’t boot properly
For the first problem, we created a cut-down image which contains all the Indonesia-specific apps from the Indonesian Full image, but removes enough other large apps to make the ISO smaller than 4.7 GB. For the second problem, we have added a workaround—which, anecdotally, is used in other Linux distributions too—to allow the boot process to succeed.
Known issues
- Boot speed: currently the DVD takes around 7 minutes to boot, with very little feedback. We’re working on this. Be patient: if the DVD is still making noises, it’s still booting!
- Debug output visible: on some computers, some of the time, the first boot experience times out before it’s finished loading, then restarts. In the gap between it timing out and it restarting, you can see text-mode boot messages.
- Reformat speed: if you use the DVD to reformat your PC, it can take up to half an hour to verify and write Endless OS to the hard disk.
Other languages
At the moment, we’re only building a DVD-sized image for Indonesia. The regular Basic ISO for 3.2.4.1 should work on a DVD, too, though the Indonesian ISO contains everything that’s in the Basic ISO, and more: you can just change the language on the first page of the first boot experience.
If there’s interest, we may make DVD-sized images for other languages in future!