Trinux v1.0b (First Beta Release) Please Redistribute This Freely, Its Linux After All .
Here it is:
http://www.4shared.com/file/e50Lv-XAba/trinux-10b7z.html
You'll notice, its a part file for 7zip. There is only one part to this file. The file was originally 8gb, so I tried to split it up into 700mb chunks but apparently there was so much empty space that it compressed it all down to one single 419mb file
. You will need an 8gb (or larger) to use this. I have tested this and can confirm its working fine with my 8gb card made by sandisk. Although I know with some of the earlier releases of Trinux some people were having issues with cards that were larger than 2gb. For whatever reason, I never had that problem, my trusty 8gb card worked fine from the get-go. It works fine with this latest release as well. If anyone has any issues getting this to run on their sd card, please post back what the issue is and all the details you can provide about the sd card you're trying to use and we will look into it. I'm sure others will be willing to help out getting it running too. You will need to write this image to your sd card using Win32diskimager or a similar program. WARNING WRITING THIS TO YOUR SD CARD WILL ERASE ANY DATA CURRENTLY ON YOUR SD CARD SO EITHER BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST OR USE A BRAND NEW CARD!!!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
Launch this on your vWii using HBC, click the Trinux launcher and watch the magic happen
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Ninja_Carver created a swapfile on this image but I have yet to test it out myself (but hey they call this a beta for a reason)
. When you're on the Trinux LXDE GUI Desktop hold down CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to the terminal then type these instructions to activate the swapfile to serve as virtual memory:
That disk image already has a swap partition.
swapon /dev/mmcblk0p3
Hit CTRL+ALT+F7 to switch back to the GUI once you're done.
You are going to want to use this otherwise things will run as slow as molasses and will eventually crawl to a halt as the vWii has very limited ram, which is all we have access to at the moment. Likely this won't change until this get ported over to full Wii U mode, instead of this altered vWii state. To port this over we will need a full blown exploit for Wii U mode first.
In this release you will also need to manually activate the internet. Make sure you are using a Wii/Wii U compatible LAN adapter to connect to the internet and you have this set as your default connection in the Wii U settings. Once you've booted into Trinux and you're on the LXDE desktop hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to switch to the terminal then type (YOU WILL NEED ROOT ACCESS TO DO THIS, either login as root-not the safest bet or use the sudo su command to temporarily gain root access):
dhclient eth0 and hit 'enter'
if all goes well, it will just jump to the next line where you can type another command, no output is given in this release, not sure what's going on with this.
Hit CTRL+ALT+F7 to switch back to the GUI once you're done.
Open Mozilla Firefox to make sure your connection is working, enjoy
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Ninja_Carver if you could update the OP with this release when you have a chance, that would be amazing <3.