Hi Ardour, AVL and MXM friends!
There are updated 25.1 ISOs for AV Linux and MX Moksha. If this is of interest you can read the details here:
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Great stuff. Looking forward to putting it through its paces. AIUI, Iāll get this updated automatically from AVL 25. Thanks for your efforts, Glen.
Hi, thanks! Ardour 9 is not in the Repos so you will need to get it manually from the āBSRPKGā web archive linked in the release announcement.
I see that the Belgian keyboard is there so i can start using AV Linuxā¦Thanks
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Yes in version 25 I moved to using the Enlightenment setup wizard which allows selecting keyboard layout, if you install AVL it is possible you may have to switch the keyboard from English on your first login into the new system, after that it should stay set to Belgian. You should also select Belgian keyboard when running the the installer.
Yes, i have seen your video on installing.
I now have several partitions on two actual SSDās.
On the first SSD /dev/sda there is Manjaro, there is also the grub.
On the first SSD /dev/sda3 there is Linux Mint
On the second SSD /dev/sdb5 there is Linux FX
I have a free partition on the second SSD /dev/sdb3 from 50 Gb
How would i go about it, to install AV Linux on /dev/sdb5, but leaving the Grub on /dev/sda ?
So, for now, i would like to use Manjaro as my daily OS, and use AV linux only for Audio prosessing?
If you know how i can do this, please let me know, i would really appreciate it.
Jean
Hi @germona
I really try to be very careful about giving installation advice and as a Linux user installation is not exactly my strongest point so before I even begin I canāt stress enough to have important data backed up and be extremely careful of what partitions you have selected. In this case you would want to install AVL to the root ā/ā of /dev/sdb5.
I have never done an install with the MX Installer where I did not also install GRUB so to be honest Iām not sure if deselecting GRUB in the installer will accomplish that or how reliably that works. Theoretically if you installed AVL with GRUB on the next boot into AVLās GRUB you could select Manjaro in the GRUB selections and once booted into Manjaro you could āupdate-grubā from your Manjaro install which should install and make Manjaroās GRUB the default. Another option in AVL is by using the MX Tool āBoot Optionsā you could simply make Manjaro the default booted OS in AVLās GRUB and that way the system will always boot Manjaro by default. *WARNING I havenāt tested any of these suggestions!
Thank you very much Glen,
As i wrote, i have several partitions, one being a data partition for all data from the system, so i am not afraid something will happen to that.
The linux FX partition is set up with a virtual box and an old windows XP version for some programs i wrote in Delphi 6 many years ago, but i rarely use it.
I know by experience that āupdate-grubā not always finds all the operating systems that are on the two SSD drives, why that isā¦i donāt know.
So if i have an option to deselect GRUB in the MX installer i think AV linux, will make a GRUB file on its own partition, but will not look for other OSās.
I can copy that information into the GRUB of /dev/sda/ and all will be good.
That is the plan, i let you know how it turns outā¦
Have a nice dayā¦
Well, Glen
As promissed i let you know how it turns out.
It turned out very bad. I am used to the calamares installer, so with this AV-linux installer i must have done something wrong, because after the installation my beautiful designed and tweaked Manjaro installation want boot any longer. After trying to get help from the Manjaro community i have chosen to reinstall Manjaro, and tweak everything to my liking. This is several days of work, so i hope you can understand, i want do this very soon again.
It was on my own risk, so i canāt blame anybody.
Maybe the linux community could use the same installer on all distributions, that would help.
I can still use AV-linux on a live USB stick but that is not the preferred way.
Anyway, thanks for all the work you put into this project.
Jean
Oh man, Iām really sorry to hear that and for your inconvenienceā¦ 
No worries, Glen
I really appreciate your work and music.
Jean
FWIW, that was probably rescue-able by reinstalling GRUB or something. Unless you overwrote its partition accidentally (might have happened, who knows?) ā then it was probably toast 
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As time has gone on, Iāve gotten better at recovering from what would previously have prompted a reinstall (including one particularly nasty one where a duplicate copy of libc meant that basic coreutils-type stuff failed to start anymore, let alone more complicated tools). Similar to you, I have a highly-tuned setup (Debian sid in my case) with tons of custom config. I do daily remote backups and roughly biweekly local backups (including a full / partition snapshot if itās been a while). This lets me recover relatively gracefully from issues like disk failures and means that I can easily recover the system config I want by simply dd-ing the system snapshot back onto the target partition.
Let me know if youāre interested in learning more ā most of this I learned the hard way (e.g. by losing a few weeks of data/documents).
Before installing AV linux i have made a Timeshift snapshot, but even after booting from a USB stick and restore the snapshot, the start of Manjaro was the same. It boots into some kind of terminal mode where i could logon, but did not know the command to start the GUI again.
So it looked like the underlying OS was ok, but not the Desktop Envirement.
In the past i wrote down the proces of all litle tweaks after a fresh installement and saved that text file to another partition, along with all the data. So i lost no data and could make the tweaks pretty fast.
I also make a copy of the /home/ map from time to time so after the new install i copy the /home/.config directory over the fresh one, so a lot of config files keep OK.
Thatās my approach, it works, but nevertheless it is some work.
Thanks for the advice.
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