While the project does not have any repositories yet, there are some initial live ISO images available for testing. Keep in mind that these may have various issues and are pre-alpha quality.
You can download images for the following targets:
x86_64
- graphical (GNOME)x86_64
- console onlyppc64le
- graphical (GNOME)ppc64le
- console only
All images are available here.
The graphical images are universal (you can boot them either into GUI or into console depending on the bootloader menu entry).
The x86_64
images can boot on either BIOS or UEFI machines. The ppc64le
images require a SLOF-based or OpenPOWER machine with at least POWER8
processor or equivalent (VSX support is required).
The images are hybrid (you can boot them off either USB stick or optical media).
At least 1GB of RAM is recommended for graphical desktop. You may need more than that if you choose to boot with the ramdisk option, as the whole system is copied into RAM in those cases. Console images should be able to boot with much less (likely as little as 128MB).
The GNOME images by default boot into Wayland, unless that is not possible for some reason. If you want to force X11, there is a special bootloader option for that.
It is also possible to boot the images via serial console. You can do
that by editing the right bootloader entry and adding a console=
parameter,
e.g. console=ttyS0
for x86_64 machines and console=hvc0
or console=hvsi0
for POWER machines. The image will detect this and enable the respective
agetty
services.
Log in as either anon
or root
with the password chimera
. Graphical
boot will log in automatically straight into desktop.
For the time being, the ISO images contain the complete toolchain to bootstrap
the cports
tree from source code without using bootstrap.sh
. This will not
be the case with production images with binary repositories available.
There are also installation instructions.