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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
Installed v209 of obi-installer in Live session and installed ToriOS okay this time in VB.  Booted installed system okay and ran updates all in VB. 
Cheers,JackT.


> Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] New upload
> To: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx
> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 12:32:35 -0500
> 
> Hi Nio and Jack,
> My intel NUC has a SSD inside so it is fast, with 8Gig RAM it works 
> quite well, and cost 130USD for the NUC (plus ram and HD) cheap 
> effective and it is intel so everything works nicely (in 16.04, it does 
> not work in 14.04)
> I user virt-manager with KVM, this works better for me to build the base 
> OS than VirtualBox did.
> I have not had time to test before asking you to test because I have 
> just enough time to make changes and upload them to be built.
> I also have a USB 3 SATA enclosure and have booted from it/ installed 
> onto it.  But rebooting the machine just to test takes more time, which 
> is the thing I have less of.
> My time is limited by real life, plus I am the sole maintainer of all 
> the programs, including OBI which was your program, that I have modified 
> to allow us to create users, and use zenity (looks nicer and things are 
> more clear for many users), etc..
> I have done things to make maintenance easier like making dialog-chooser 
> to control the backend of all our programs (which is pretty cool you can 
> run torios-shutdown from a TTY and get a nice dialog shutdown without 
> needing password, very handy to use)
> 
> making 2 branches is a good idea.  I will make an unstable and then 
> merge into stable when things work correctly.
> 
> The unstable will be:
> ppa:israeldahl/obi-unstable
> 
> There is nothing in that repo yet...
> 
> I am currently testing revision 209 and things work well.  I got past 
> things to add the user, etc..
> 
> The overall progress is at the bottom of the screen and the other 
> windows above.
> If you test with your configurations and things work I will rebuild and 
> we can release it.
> 
> 
> On 04/24/2016 10:43 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> > Hi Israel,
> >
> > Would it help if I donate a computer to ToriOS, and you can dedicate 
> > it to testing? (This current bug appears in VirtualBox too, but maybe 
> > your computer has not got enough horsepower and memory for VirtualBox.)
> >
> > A separate computer with a fast SSD, that you use as a temporary 
> > device, so that nothing is stored in it. This way you will have a fast 
> > way to test that the most basic things in the iso file are working 
> > plus the very feature you are improving. And after that Jack and I can 
> > test with other eyes and test other features to get a more complete 
> > test until we go ahead and release it.
> >
> > Once released, I suggest that you have separate PPAs similar to 
> > mkusb/ppa and mkusb/unstable. Things should not go into the stable PPA 
> > until tested by a few people, typically for some weeks.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> >
> > Den 2016-04-24 kl. 17:17, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> >> Hi Israel,
> >>
> >> Now it stops directly after the splash. It is meaningless to ask us to
> >> test like this. You must test yourself that at least the most basic
> >> features work before you ask us to test.
> >>
> >> The log file says:
> >> OBI version in apt is:
> >> CANCELED
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Nio
> >>
> >> Den 2016-04-24 kl. 16:37, skrev Israel:
> >>> Hey Jack and Nio,
> >>> I am building a new version of OBI in Launchpad...
> >>> it will be revision 207
> >>> just update in the ISO, and if you get something like:
> >>> obi-installer - 3.1.1ubuntu0-207~ubuntu14.04.1
> >>> This is the one to test.
> >>> I tried fixing what is there all ready (all my work to fix the
> >>> shellcheck errors etc...), but if this doesn't work I will revert
> >>> totally to 202 (the working version) and add Nio's minor fix and leave
> >>> all the other shellcheck issues to rest until we release 1.0.
> >>>
> >>> ALSO:
> >>> Could you please send the $HOME/obi-installer.log when you test it!
> >>>
> >>> This is in the live ISO, AND if it installs successfully this will 
> >>> be on
> >>> the installed computer as well in the user's $HOME that you created.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 04/24/2016 04:21 AM, Cinque Port Computers wrote:
> >>>> Hi Israel,
> >>>>
> >>>> Latest zsync and install attempt in VB seems to fail with msg
> >>>> something like "0 ext4 partitions found in /mnt/fstab should be 1..."
> >>>> after tarball is expanded and copied to /dev/sda, with /dev/sda1 as
> >>>> root and /dev/sda2 as swap.
> >>>>
> >>>> ...so can't install.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> JackT.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> >>>>
> >>>> To: nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx; torios-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> From: israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:12:35 -0500
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] New upload
> >>>>
> >>>> On 04/23/2016 05:13 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     <br /><b>[confirm-partition]</b><br /> 0 ext4 partitions in
> >>>> /mnt/etc/fstab, should be 1
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Nio,
> >>>> This is the line you are talking about.
> >>>> confirm-partition is indeed the 'advanced' version.
> >>>> I did change a few things, but nothing that should cause issues.
> >>>> I think I need to add a way to get the version of OBI into the
> >>>> logfile, that way I can track the commit better.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you update OBI in the live session and see if things work better.
> >>>> I cleaned up a bunch recently using shellcheck to go through and make
> >>>> things better (hopefully).
> >>>>
> >>>> Let me know if the newest works better.
> >>>> It should be:
> >>>> obi-installer - 3.1.1ubuntu0-205~ubuntu14.04.1
> >>>> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Etorios-dev/+archive/ubuntu/torios-core/+build/9621613> 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 205 is the important number...
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> Regards
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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