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@RobertFlexx RobertFlexx released this 31 Aug 22:23
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Bootable hybrid ISOs for SPS Linux (informally Splux). Flash, boot, run setup.

SPS the package system is separate from this distro. These images install SPS Linux. An LFS tree can still use src/sget without this installer.

This set replaces live-2026-08-31-3.

Live /bin/sh is always busybox. Installed Splux still defaults to systemd; OpenRC is the other choice. This builder has no systemd binaries, so live PID 1 is busybox init.

The squashfs is zstd, so the live root mounts in seconds. The old xz image sat on loop0 while a multi-gigabyte Plasma root decompressed. Plasma starts a UTF-8 session bus (dbus-run-session -- startplasma-wayland); the live system bus runs as root because this disc has no messagebus account.

setup copies the bundled dir recipe trees from the live image and indexes them locally. Full TTY and Plasma discs do not clone GitHub during "updating source repositories". The slim image has no recipes and still needs a network. sget install --plan plasma-full resolves (312 packages against current extra).

Images

  • sps-live-tty.iso (617M): recipes, host seed compiler, kernel modules. This is the one to flash for a console install. setup builds packages from source on the live system into the target.
  • sps-live-tty-slim.iso (31M): tools and BusyBox only. Useful to try the installer UI; it cannot compile without a compiler.
  • sps-live-plasma.iso (1.3G): copies this host's Plasma/Wayland stack. NVIDIA live graphics use nouveau. Open Konsole and run setup. A from-source Plasma install still compiles Qt and KDE and takes a long time.

Firmware blobs are omitted (they are huge). Rebuild locally with mkiso --with-firmware if you need them on the live disc.

Guided partitioning waits until the last confirmation. grub-install still needs --install-bootloader and --disk.

Flash

dd if=sps-live-tty.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

Plasma:

dd if=sps-live-plasma.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync

QEMU (serial console, TTY image):

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom sps-live-tty.iso -m 2G -nographic

SHA-256

6d85be2c95f038934c04949740dbf5547658de58b8f032aa300da8107fb2cf06  sps-live-tty.iso
aa681df5d177c22290bf9649ed2bbfac3ef2c44aa98730fb3d3690e024a32d00  sps-live-tty-slim.iso
870aac33225a0f84f719609cef6b913b3d5da6a3fb745677c923de00a497d963  sps-live-plasma.iso
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