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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
1) alsa-mixer installed and volumeicon starts as required volume last set.2) I was wrestling with the package warnings which now seem fixed after update.3) The 1m30s wait seems to be for the swap file not the cdrom file entry in fstab.4) I tried the firstrun script but browser install attempt failed...see below screensnip.
JackT.
              




Subject: Re: First Quick Observations:RE: [Torios-dev] Debian ISO
To: jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; ruzekle@xxxxxxxxx; torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxx
From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 13:14:03 -0600


  
    
  
  
    Hey Jack,

      OK a couple of things I have found/done.

      Apparently I forgot alsa-utils for the Debian install.

      the package names are kinds different in Debian sometimes
      (alsa-base and alsa)

      So, I must have accidentally removed it when I was trying to
      figure it all out.

      So, now volume should work... well in the next ISO.

      You can install alsa-utils if you like.

      If you do install from the terminal you will likely get error
      messages when running sudo apt-get update.

      This will be fixed in the next ISO.... errors due to the
      complexity of adding a PPA to Debian, but I have since gotten it
      down well enough to make things work reliably, so no worries it
      works fine in the not yet released version.

      

      

      firstrun (our initial boot into ToriOS startup script/dialog)

      I have modified this fairly heavily to allow for installing 

      Firefox

      Chrome

      Seamonkey

      Qupzilla

      Midori

      Chromium

      Opera

      in either Debian OR Ubuntu.

      

      If you know Debian you know Firefox is not normally installable. 
      So this will bring in a version from the same place we get
      seamonkey.

      The unfortunate thing about this is those browsers (as it turns
      out) are not localized at all... ONLY us English.

      But the user can easily (hopefully) install any of those other
      browsers.

      

      So Jack, if you could:

      sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
      && firstrun

      This should pull up the new version with the first item being
      "Install a web browser"

      Please test these, if you would.

      This is a first try on a fairly complicated script so hopefully I
      just did everything right the first time and made no typoos. 
      Again, installing some of those browsers is not as easy as it is
      in Ubuntu.... but some of them are equally hard :)

      

      I am going to have to test some things to find out what is up with
      the window positioning, and locale.... I am not entirely sure why
      it is not doing what you specify.  As it is, that should work
      fine.... but I will need to mess around with things.

      

      But, for the first Alpha of the Debian based ToriOS, I'd say we
      are off to an amazing start, compared to the Ubuntu version
      progression.

      

      

      

      On 01/23/2016 08:24 AM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:

    
    
      
      Hi Israel,
        

        
        obi-installer.log file attached.
        

        
        JackT.

          

          
            Subject: Re: First Quick
            Observations:RE: [Torios-dev] Debian ISO

            To: jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxx

            CC: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; ruzekle@xxxxxxxxx;
            torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx

            From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx

            Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:09:32 -0600

            

            Hi Jack!

              (inlines)

              

              On 01/22/2016 04:06 AM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:

            
            
              
              
                Hi Israel,
                

                
                Installed in VB:
                

                
                1) The OBI install progress box is back in the
                  centre again and is overlayed by all the other pop up
                  boxes; we had moved that to the bottom before, I
                  think.
              
            
            hmm.  I don't get that on mine.  It is moved to the bottom
            AFAIK... but I will look into it.

            I recently added a feature to save the install log to the
            user's $HOME.

            So check to see if that log is in your $HOME IIRC it is
            called obi-installer.log

            Send it my way if you would sir.

            This will help me look at the issue for #5 (Locale) in your
            other e-mail as well

            
              
                2) On booting there is a 'start job is running for
                  dev-disk-by\' message that delays for 1m30s and then
                  continues.
              
            
            This happened because the cdrom line is listed on the base
            OS /etc/fstab  (at least AFAIK)

            So this should be fixed when I create the new ISO.  SystemD
            is a different kind of thing all together.

            
              
                3) No well known browser installed.
              
            
            Yeah, and the ISO is over CD size... SystemD stuff takes up
            a lot more room somehow :(

            Not sure if I can slim the liveISO down more or not, to
            install a browser.  It might be good to add this to the
            firstboot dialog, right?

            Maybe offer a dialog with a choice of browsers

            Firefox

            Chrome

            Seamonkey

            Qupzilla

            Midori

            Dillo

            Opera

            (any others?)

            
              
                4) The panel volumeicon seems to always launch
                  'muted'.
                

                
              
            
            I find this is the case in my VM usually.  I don't think
            that this is the case for real machines.

            
              
                Welcome back.
                

                
              
            
            Yeah, thanks.  It took a while to get over the huge hurdles
            moving everything to Debian.

            These issues are minor compared to what I was initially
            dealing with!

            
              
                Cheers,
                JackT.
                

                
                

                

              
            
            

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