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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio
revision 242 is to test (when it builds)
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On 05/05/2016 04:45 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi Israel,
>
> Good catch :-)
>
> I did not notice that it involved problems with sharing swap, but now 
> that you tell us it is easy to understand. I'm ready to help testing, 
> when you have something to test ... And I understand, that it may take 
> time to get something that is good enough to release. I think the main 
> problems are with the installer. The installed system (in the tarball) 
> is pretty stable, if I understand things correctly. I hope this is the 
> final bug-fix. I have a memory of problems also when I installed 
> without any swap, but you have improved many things after that, so it 
> may be no problem.
It may be a similar thing, but now we comment out swap line in fstab (I 
think... but if not we should test and check this issue)
> How easy would it be to move problematic chroot stuff to an automatic 
> 'firstrun' process after installation? That would be lighter and 
> probably also better than using ubiquity as I do to create a user 
> environment and 'finish' the installation.
I think the problematic stuff should be solved here... I hope.
I made a rather simple/complicated fstab checker script to change the 
UUID in ALL partitions (other than the current one obviously)
Not sure if this will work... so do test carefully :D
> *ToriOS-precise*
>
> If we are in a hurry to publish something to a wider group of people, 
> it will be possible to offer the previous version, that I created in 
> November, and updated during these last days. There is a tarball for 
> 'my' old One Button Installer and a compressed image file for mkusb of 
> ToriOS-precise (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).
>
> 'ToriOS-trusty'
>
> I ran 'do-release-upgrade' and got a Trusty version (upgraded to 
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS). After a couple of fixes this version works fairly 
> well too. But it is far from ready to be officially released, because 
> it uses too much RAM (at least when tested in two laptops of mine).
Yeah... you also should re-enable the PPAs when you do this!
We might have to do a wrapper somewhere to do this...
> See this link to
>
> 'ToriOS - ultra-light distro based on Ubuntu and the window manager JWM'
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2302798
>
> Best regards
> Nio


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