CAELinux 2013: development and testing

Hello, Joel!

Thanks for responding so quickly.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks!

Josh

Hello Dear Joel Cugnon,

I am trying to install caelinux213 (beta 1) in a sony vaio vgn-ar61zu, which as a two (2 x 250GB) disk Raid configuration which as two disk partition, one is the recovery partition (about 12GB) and the second (about 480GB) partition with the windows 7 working installation.

(Installation form a live usbpen)

When installing caelinux2011 I have no problem, everything installed automatically. Two new partitions are automatically created, one for caelinux2011 and another for the swap partition and grub installs fine. I just have to install the grub customizer manually and easily change the OS order, as I prefer to boot windows 7 by default.

When installing caelinux2013 I get two options available when starting the installation from the live usbpen, the first option to clean everything in the c: disk drive and the second option to make changes manually in the partition table. I pick this second option and I see in the second menu the partition table with every partition in double. Because I do not fell comfortable working with Linux creating new partitions, I went back to windows and I created both partition there, one for the caelinux2013 with 90GB and a second one with about 4GB for the swap partition. Then I went back to the installation process and I picked (at the second menu) the 90GB partition for caelinux2013 and the second (4GB) for swapping (both previously created in windows), then everything seemed to work fine until the end. Then at the grub installation an error appear and I get stack because the installer does not accept any partition I select to be the root partition. (The final status of the partition table is that I boot normally windows 7 because no grub installation was done).

Can you please help? I would like to be able to install caelinux2013 as I did with caelinux2011.

Thank you very much for your help and great work making this possible!

Hello Dear Joel Cugnon,

Thank you so much for your fast reply.

The computer is a Sony Vaio VGN-AR61ZU. It as SCSI interface built-in and equipped with two 250GB hard disks in place.
It as the default configuration RAID 0, full 500GB of storage and the 12GB recovery partition is normally hidden.

Caelinux2011 installed well and run just great. Installation was done fully automated. Just selected a side-by-side to run caelinux2011 along with windows and that was all.

Sorry to bother you about this point. Please keep on with this grate project by making it possible.

Hello,

I have a stupid question. I am trying to run CAELinux, and more specifically Code-Saturne on a computer, knowing that I have a lot of studies already made with the same CS version (CS 3.0.0) on another machine but where the installation folder for CS is different :

one is installed in "/opt/Code_Saturne_3.0/Prod/code_saturne-3.0.0/bin" for the old one with Kubuntu 12.04
and the new one is installed in "opt/saturne-3.0/bin", for the Xubuntu 12.04 (CAELinux2013)

But this is the exact same CS version : 3.0.0. I would like to re-use the different studies I have done with the first install, so I change the path in the saturnegui file located in the data folder, and it opens CS without any problem. But even if I change the runcase path as well : from export PATH="/opt/Code_Saturne_3.0/Prod/code_saturne-3.0.0/bin":$PATH to export PATH="/opt/saturne-3.0/bin":$PATH but the calculation is not launched. I cannot understand how this is possible, as I change the path in the saturnegui file. I succed to launch a calculation, but I was obliged to create a dummy study that generates a runcase file, which i copied into the appropriate folder. Once this is done, the calculation starts. it looks like if there is tag on the runcase file that does not allow the "old" runcase to be used by the new installation.
I still have the solution I gave above for making the old studies worked on the CAELinux2013, but I would like to understand if there is something else to do to prevent this manipulation. Thanks.

fred

Hi Joel,

Installation went fine on HP8570W notebook, using liveUSB and the "something else" type installation, allocating swap, root and home in 3 different partitions.
The CAELINUX menu entry seem to have disapeared from the "dash"
All the programs are now listed under "education"
Perhaps, because I did not format the "home" partition, as it still had data on it, so it might have used hidden data files for the dash menu... I'm not that deep into linux.

I also only got a minor error:
Failure to download extra data files
The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.
flashplugin-installer
The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection.

and I do have an active internet connection...

did not try all programs, salome starts well...

So, in general, great, thanks

Marcel