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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Israel,

1. I found that by setting the palette to Tango instead of Solarized
dark in sakura, there will be coloured prompts.

2. I complained that your English is bad, and my English was bad in that
very sentence 'Now I think is bad English' :-P

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-01-31 kl. 16:18, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> 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.
>>Now I think is bad English
>> 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
>>
>