Readme for Source Mage ISO release 0.9.6, codename "guidance" This file describes known issues with the ISO, and other post-release notes. === Errata: = We have had reports that the grimoire installed by the ISO contains a flawed glibc spell that installs a broken agpgart.h header. If your install does not build xorg properly, you should do "scribe update" and cast -c glibc = It is recommended that you rebuild your system after finishing the install and setting up compilation options and networking. This does take some time and needs to download all sources of the installed packages, but it ensures that all of your system is built tailored for your architecture and with your chosen optimizations. If you do NOT want to rebuild, please note: - An optimized (i.e. compiled, not installed from ISO) g++ does not work without an equally optimized gcc. This means: - If you install a package that needs g++ and get strange errors/behavior that break the compilation, you need to rebuild gcc and g++. The command for this is "cast -c gcc g++" (without the quotes) - It is recommended to rebuild at least glibc and gcc for your system anyway, since those will have the most impact on the speed of your system and the speed at which packages are built. "cast -c glibc gcc" is the appropriate command. = If you have trouble unpacking the ISO: Do not use tar to unpack it: tar -xjvf smgl-[...].iso.bz2 does not work. The ISO is a bzip2 compressed ISO image, not a bzip2 compressed tarball. The command to run is: bunzip2 smgl-[...].iso.bz2 You will then get a .iso file that you can burn onto a CD-R[W] and boot.