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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/02/2016 09:24 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2016-03-02 kl. 21:13, skrev Israel:
>> Hi everyone,
>> zmktbl is part of OBI, as you may/may not know.
>> I recently added a quick question dialog to allow adding the -9e option
>> for the xz comression.
>> This is mainly a feature for me, but AFAIK I am the largest user of
>> zmktbl (in the torios version of OBI that is....)
>> I am currently rebuilding the base OS again (I added in dunst and the
>> firmware for the ralink wireless dongle)
>> This should make things nicer and easier for all our users.  There may
>> be a few bugs still, but this update will allow us to test things more
>> thoroughly.
>> I may have to rebuild again before it is ready to upload, as I need to
>> make sure a few things work before I release it for testing.  I am sort
>> of a pre-testing tester some times, and intend to release a nice version
>> for testing.
>>
>> Also, if anyone is interested in making their own builds of ToriOS (i.e.
>> you have a computer that is newer than mine.. 2008+) please let me know.
>> I would not mind having others build this, and would appreciate the
>> ability to have our work available for others to do...
>>
>
> Hi Israel,
>
> Great news :-)
>
> It will be a valuable improvement in zmktbl to have that flag for
> extreme compression.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by 'own builds of ToriOS'. But maybe I can
> use my ageing but still powerful HP xw8400 workstation with 2x2 xeon
> processors to build an ISO file with a PAE kernel or even an amd64
> kernel. Please advice what I need and how I should do it :-P
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi Nio,
The quickest way is to get the ISOmaker scripts from github.
(if you have git installed)
git clone https://github.com/Israel-/ISOmaker.git
otherwise, go to
https://github.com/Israel-/ISOmaker
and download the zip file.

You will need a tarball of the base OS.
You can extract the one from the Debian Jessie ISO save it in the
ISOmaker directory.
then run ./ISOmaker
This will begin setting up your computer.  You will create the
debootstrap tarball.
IIRC you will have to run it again to build the ISO, but it has been a
looooong time since I had to do this.
Either way it will download everything and archive the packages to your
harddrive in a folder.  These will be reused each time you build.
The base OS will need to be tweaked, but I am doing that currently. 
When I have a better version I will upload it.
You can install the base OS on a machine and tweak it, or you can build
ToriOS from the Debian mini ISO yourself and start from scratch.  If you
want to do that ask, and I'll give you the script, and the pointers.

-- 
Regards