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Re: custom tarballs

 

Hi All,
I do not know.

You are saying you download a tarball and install it, but network
manager does not run in Tarballs that are not ours?

@Nio, will you test these tarballs with the older ISO you liked a lot to
see if they can be installed properly that way?

That might give us a clue

On 05/26/2015 12:56 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi Israel,
>
> I have been testing these custom tarballs and also other similar
> tarballs (It is easy to make tarballs with zmktbl.) I also make a
> compressed image file (file.img.xz) to be installed with mkusb.
>
> The systems installed with the OBI-installer and with mkusb work, but
> they cannot in turn install good systems via the OBI-installer. The
> nm-applet bug re-appears:
>
> There is (wired) network, yet nm-applet indicates no network (a red
> circle with a white cross).
>
> I tried these fixes:
> ----
> Apparently (not sure how) but /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> is the problem
> to fix:
> (possibly this one)
> sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
>
> (These two for sure)
> sudo chmod u+s /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> sudo chmod g+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
>
> (maybe this one)
> sudo chown root:messagebus /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> ----
> But they do not fix the issue. What can be the problem this time?
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
>
> Den 2015-05-25 18:00, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>> Hi Toriosadores,
>>
>> [Fixing an important typing error - and spell persistent correctly]
>>
>> I think the current version of ToriOS-beta.iso (May 24) is quite good,
>> and well worth testing and extending. So I installed two more kernels,
>> the 3.2 generic-pae kernel and the 3.13 generic kernel (a trusty kernel)
>> together with the hardware enablement stack for trusty, which comes with
>> the full implementation of Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. This can be useful for
>> the great majority of the computers, particularly if you have some new
>> or middle-aged hardware, that is not recognized by the original Ubuntu
>> 12.04 LTS drivers.
>>
>> You can download them by selecting *Download in the OBI* or directly from
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/2015-05/
>>
>> 1. ToriOSmay24-3ker.tar.xz (491M)
>>
>> The first tarball is quite similar to the original one, with only a few
>> added packages. An important addition is fake-pae, that makes it
>> possible to run the system of this tarball with Pentium M and Celeron M
>> processors, that have PAE capability but no PAE flag. I have tested that
>> it works in my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop with a Pentium M CPU.
>>
>> 2. ToriOShuge3ker.tar.xz (812M)
>>
>> The second tarball was built from the first one by adding several
>> application program packages, so that it is possible to perform many
>> standard tasks without installing any extra programs.
>>
>> See the (last modified) pictures at
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/pictures/
>>
>> The very last picture illustrates the available application programs.
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/pictures/25-applications_in-huge3ker.png
>>
>> -o-
>>
>> In order to download tarballs to the OBI in ToriOS live, you need to
>> have somewhere to store it (not where you intend to install from it).
>>
>> 1. If you boot from a CD disk or an mkusb-made USB drive, I recommend
>> that you create a partition on a third drive, for example a USB drive.
>> Put the label *live-rw* onto that partition, and create an ext2 file system.
>>
>> Then (re)boot into ToriOS live, press TAB and add the boot option
>> *persistent* at the end of the boot line and continue.
>>
>> 2. If you create a boot USB pendrive with Unetbootin, you must rename
>> the file casper-rw to live-rw
>>
>> Change directory to where you have that file an run
>>
>> mv casper-rw live-rw
>>
>> -o-
>>
>> You can install ToriOSmay24-3ker.tar.xz or ToriOShuge3ker.tar.xz into a
>> USB pendrive. If it is a fast USB pendrive, you will get quite good
>> performance also in USB 2 ports. These are portable systems, that work
>> well in many computers (but might have problems to boot in some
>> middle-aged hp computers, that need chainloading to boot via grub in USB).
>>
>> I tested them today, so I know that they works in different computers.
>> And you can use the OBI in these systems to install ToriOS in the
>> internal drives of computers. As a matter of fact, these tarballs make
>> systems that are similar to the original One Button Installer.
>>
>>
>> Happy testing :-)
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>


-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team



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