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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel and the ToriOS developers,

I re-discovered a bug, which is independent of guidus. It has been 
around for a long time also with mkusb (without fixing).

The persistent live system of ToriOS 1.0 has a different directory 
structure for booting compared to the live system, and the tarball is 
not where the OBI-installer expects it to be. It can be found and 
selected, and used. I did that in order to create the installed ToriOS 
system, where I tested that guidus works.

In a normal persistent live system:

/lib/live/mount/persistence/sda4/live/tarballs/

In a persistent live system with ramdrive, boot option 'toram':

/lib/live/mount/medium/live/tarballs/

-o-

I remember that you asked me, Israel, a long time ago, why I located the 
tarball outside the root partition (and located it hardcoded into the 
drive). I said that we could avoid 'double passed through compression', 
which is good, but it does cause trouble in the persistent live system.

a. Do you think we should move the tarball into the root partition (and 
the squashfs package)? It would remove this problem.

b. Or do you think I should fix it with mkusb/dus?

c. Or do you think it is a minor issue, and we should focus on other and 
more urgent problems? (In other words, do you think anybody except me 
has tried to make a persistent live drive with ToriOS, and if someone 
has, did that person intend to use that system to install ToriOS?)

Best regards
Nio