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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-08-13 13:53, Israel skrev:
> Hi Nio,
> (inlines)
> 
> On 08/11/2015 04:32 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi Israel and Jack,
>>
>> Finally I had time to test the current daily build of ToriOS.
>>
>> The general impression is good. It works :-)
>>
>> Minor problems:
>>
>> A. Live
>>
>> 1. The menu (in the top left corner)
> Yes, this was mentioned in my initial e-mail.

OK

>> 2. The shutdown menu (I think shutdown does not work)
> I will check this out.
>> B. Installed
>>
>> 1. ztweaks in an option in the firstrun menu, but it is not installed.
> ooops... :)  I was too busy with networkmanager to install everything :P
> that is easy to fix.

OK

>> -o-
>>
>> I could even do the following:
>>
>> a. Installed ToriOS persistent with my experimental 'mkusb-s'. I made a
>> big first parttion (FAT32).
>>
>> b. Booted into ToriOS (live persistent)
>>
>> c. Started the OBI-installer and 'stole' a chunk of drive space from the
>> first partition and made an extended partition with an ext4 partition
>> (obi-root) and a swap partition (obi-swap). See the partition table and
>> the mounted partitions in the attached file.
>>
>> d. Completed the installation of ToriOS into the stolen chunk.
>>
>> e. Booted into ToriOS (installed). I had to append the grub.cfg from the
>> live persistent system to that of the installed system. A more correct
>> and persistent (!) way would be to copy it to '40_custom' and run
>>
>> sudo update-grub
> Does this mean the grub-install doesn't work properly, or that you are
> doing some really interesting things and so grub wouldn't know you
> changed it?

Maybe I can't expect ToriOS to recognize these special things :-)

>> (It is not detected automatically.)
>>
>> And I have a drive with a persistent live system as well as an installed
>> system in the same drive :-)
>>
>> aufs mounted on / is overlayed with the 'casper-rw' partition, you see
>> from the output of df that they are the same.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> Den 2015-08-09 14:20, Jack Trice skrev:
>>
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