shadichy / esi

ExtOS build tools, installer, and post-install scripts

- ExtOS System Installer Project -

I. Introduction

Welcome to the official github page of ExtOS System Installer project.

The os and the installer is still WIP

1. About the OS

The Extreme OS (formerly called ExtOS) is created and maintained by Shadichy. It aims to bring minimal, portable but fast, functional and customizable experience to the end-users. The OS is minimal enough to be installed on a sd card within 4GB of storage and plugged to any machine that match the requirements.

Based on Arch Linux or Debian, users can choose between init systems like systemd, openrc,... Depend on purposes, users can select different build/preset to suit their works

Features

• Optional base OS/distribution
• Choices of init systems
• User-preferred suits for office, gaming,...

Minimum Requirements

• CPU: i686/amd64 from the 2000s
• RAM: depends on installation types (Minimum 512MB)
• Storage: depends on installation types

Installation Types

Full installation

• Contains apps, softwares, utilities that work out-of-the-box
• Minimum storage requires 8GB
• Recommend RAM: 2GB (Minimum 1GB for installed system and 2GB for live iso)
• Rolling release
• Graphic cards supported

Frugal installation

• Integrated in the live iso, copy directly to the destination
• Contains only necessary softwares
• Minimum storage requires 2GB
• At least 512MB ram (Recommend 2GB)
• Simple theme, jwm as window manager
• No graphic cards support, install manually
• Static release
• Uses SquashFS filesystem
• Slow upgrade speed
• Manually configuration
• Uses old lts kernel

2. About the installer

The ExtOS System Installer is a ncurses-based terminal user-interface installer for ExtOS. It is based on jorgeluiscarrillo/arch-setup, contributed and maintained by Shadichy Khang, a young developer. The setup tools are contained in the official ISO images, but also can be downloaded from archiso live environment. Offers various of choices, users can select presets from the list best suite for them or whatever they prefer to work/play, with a few pre-configurations from our contributors :>

II. Installation guide

Will have docs soon

Videos

Nothing here, still WIP

1. Download and flash the ISO

Download the ISOs from link.

Beta version, contains lots of bugs

Use flash tool

After downloading iso file, use either Rufus, Unetbootin, import ISO and flash it into the destination disk

Don't try this

Extract

In case the above methods did not work, try Format the des disk as FAT32 filesystem (also works with NTFS, ext2/3/4, exFAT, but not recommended), label it "ESI" and extract the iso contents to the destination disk

(Linux users: flag destination disk/partition as bootable)

Loopback using GRUB

Create menu entry

Ai rảnh mà làm

WIP

Use GRUB shell

Simply just run all Create menu entry commands without menuentry {} wrapper

Load extracted iso from GRUB

Create menu entry

Ai rảnh mà làm

WIP

Use GRUB shell

Simply just run all Create menu entry commands without menuentry {} wrapper

2. Để viết sau

III. FAQ

IV. Update dự án

Hiện tại, preset design, server, security, devl office cho debian amd64 đã đầy đủ :))