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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2016-01-30 kl. 23:27, skrev Israel:
> Hi everyone,
> this ISO fixes a number of issues.
> I had a few setbacks with the pae kernel progress, so for now it has the
> same behavior.
> Grub is installed with progress, so it is a bit nicer now.
> 
> ISOhybrid is enabled.
> 
> It is a bit larger than earlier, but I will soon look into trimming down
> the live version.  This may mean I cut a few more things, but I *may*
> see if I can build the ISO as a non-systemd version just to save the
> extra 90 some odd MB it is adding with all the dependencies.
> I will check through my build again and see where the most space is
> coming from.
> 
> zsync the latest!
> 

Hi Israel,

Testing the current debian iso file (and comparing to the previous test)

Den 2016-01-23 kl. 21:37, skrev Nio Wiklund:
>
> Hi Israel and the other developers :-)
>
> I have some time now for testing, first in my Toshiba with an Intel i5
> processor and 4 GB RAM.
>
> Live:
>
> 1. You forgot to treat the iso file with isohybrid, so I had to do that
> in order to make it work when flashed with mkusb into a pendrive.

It is a hybrid iso file now :-)

> 2. The information about the version according to
>
> uname -a
>
> is a little confusing (i586 or i686?). It does not handle more than 2 GB
> RAM well, which indicates a non-pae kernel. I will check it in my IBM
> Thinkpad with an Intel Pentium M later.

The following command works in the installed system and might work also
via chroot:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-686-pae

After reboot I get the following response, which make me convinced that
it works:

$ uname -a
Linux torios 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3
(2016-01-17) i686 GNU/Linux
$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3929        237       3691         30         18        128
-/+ buffers/cache:         90       3838
Swap:         4838          0       4838


> Installing:
>
> 1. At the basic OBI level: The window 'Select device - and continue' is
> too small (should be wider to accomodate all the text)

I did not react to this - so I guess it is good now ;-)

> 2. For some reason the SSD drive connected via eSATA is shown twice in
> this menu (minor bug but confusing).

I did not react to this - so I guess it is good now ;-)

> 3. There is no box to check in the 'Final warning' window. But you can
> click on the text 'Check this box ...' - maybe it should be changed to
> 'Click on this line to get it checked, if you are ready to go'. I think
> this is a zenity bug (or bad cooperation between zenity and jwm).

This bug remains, also found by Jack. It might be hard to get fixed.

> Installed system:
>
> 1. Apparmor init failed for me too.
>
> 2. A start job is running ... (waiting for 90 s: systemd problem?)

I did not react to this - so I guess it is good now ;-)

> 3. The tick boxes in ztweaks is missing, you have to click on the white
> space where it is supposed to be in order to activate it. The same
> zenity bug as before. In this case it does not work to click on the
> text, so it is really confusing.

As I said before, we might skip ztweaks (until this bug can be fixed).

> 4. The colours of the prompt in the terminal window are not green and red.

This is a minor bug, but it is still alive.

> 5. The panel icon for audio is bad, or should I say, the app behind it
> does not work correctly. I cannot open the mixer. I have to select
> preferences and show slider, otherwise it is mute. 'Open mixer' just
> flashes by - does not leave anything open.

This looks good now :-)

> 6. The wired network works. I can use ssh. But I have to 'sudo ping'
> (maybe this is a feature of debian, different from ubuntu).
>
> Installing:
>
> 1. At the advanced OBI level: The checkbox is missing (the same zenity
> bug as before).
> IBM Thinkpad with an Intel Pentium MI did not react to this - so I
guess it is good now ;-)
> 2. I tried to install the PAE kernel this time. But
> uname -a
> and
> free -m
> seem to display the same as before. Are you sure that there is a
> difference - that different kernels are installed?
>
> 3. I tried again and installed a third time, (to a third ext4
> partition), making sure I installed the 'PAE kernel'. This time the
> installed systems grub did not display the previous versions as lines in
> the grub menu. But it worked to run
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> to get them.
>
> Still the same result from uname -a and free -m, so I think it is the
> same kernel all the time.
>
> Pentium M:
>
> *. The live system and the installed system work in the IBM Thinkpad
> with an Intel Pentium M, and the the kernel is a non-pae kernel.
>
> It seems that we get a non-pae kernel also when we select to install a
> PAE kernel (in computers allowing it). So [I am almost 100% sure] this
> is a bug.
>
> -o-
>
> There are some bugs, but considering the short time you have been
> converting ToriOS to debian, I think you have done a very good job. Most
> things work :-)

The Final Warning window of the advanced OBI level still says

'Check this box if ...' but there is no box. Please change the text to

'Click on this line ...' or something easy to understand in both cases
(of the basic and advanced OBI level). Now I think is bad English and
maybe hard to understand for the basic OBI level.

>
> Best regards
> Nio
>