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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2016 04:51 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> You were probably tricked by the email client, that made two lines of
> the one-line command:
>
> just to illustrate:
>
> xzcat file.vdi.xz > file.vdi
>
> So if you use the following as one line, it should work.
>
> xzcat dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi.xz >
> dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
>
> -o-
>
> Or am I misunderstanding? Do you mean that VirtualBox does not
> recognize the extracted vdi file?
>
> After extraction md5sum should show
>
> $ md5sum dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
> ac4cd66df2fe8ccd7cd0f495c0bdea9f  dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
>
> and ls -l shows
>
> $ ls -l dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nio nio 2006974464 nov 25 11:40
> dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
>
> (approx. 2 GB, so I prefer to distribute it compressed).
>
> It works with my VirtualBox (in Lubuntu Xenial). Please tell if you
> are still having problems.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2016-11-25 kl. 11:33, skrev Cinque Port Computers:
>> Hi Nio,
>>
>>
>> I downloaded the .vdi.xz file, ran md5sum with success, but using xzcat
>> or xz on the .vdi.xz file I'm getting "File format not recognised".
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> JackT.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Torios
>> <torios-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
>> Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* 23 November 2016 20:46
>> *To:* Israel; Jack Trice; Ali M Jjawad; ToriOS developers; Phill.
>> Whiteside; torios
>> *Subject:* Re: [Torios] ToriOS Trusty
>>
>> Den 2016-11-23 kl. 15:32, skrev Nio Wiklund:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Israel helped me to make a test system for ToriOS based on Ubuntu
>>> Trusty. I am testing it now, and I intend to make
>>>
>>> - a tarball for the OBI installer in ToriOS 1.0 and
>>>
>>> - a compressed image file for mkusb, so that you can install it easily
>>> and take part in the testing.
>>>
>>> - I'll try to make a vdi file for VirtualBox too.
>>>
>>> -o-
>>>
>>> I made it in my Toshiba laptop with Intel i5 processor and Intel
>>> graphics (where it works of course). I tested it in the following
>>> computers:
>>>
>>> IBM Thinkpad T42 with Pentium M - it works but needs the boot option
>>> forcepae in order to upgrade the kernel.
>>>
>>> Dell Dimension 4600 with Pentium 4 - it works
>>>
>>> Motherboard M2NVM_DVI with AMD Athlon (64-bit) - it works
>>>
>>> Intel NUC6i3SYH - the system works, but not the internet, the computer
>>> is too new.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>>
>> Hi toriosadores,
>>
>> *Files to install ToriOS-Trusty to test what Israel develops*
>>
>> Now I have uploaded two tarballs, a compressed image file and a
>> compressed virtual disk image. You find them and their md5sums at
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/01_Test_Tarballs/
>>
>> dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.img.xz     # install with mkusb
>> ToriTrustyTest01_by-OBI-in-Trusty.tar.xz  # tarball for 'my' OBI
>> ToriTrustyTest01_by-ToriOS-debian.tar.xz  # tarball for ToriOS 1.0
>> dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi.xz     # disk for VirtualBox
>>
>> Three of the files can be used as they are by mkusb and the two OBI
>> versions. The vdi.xz file must be expanded before it is used with
>> VirtualBox,
>>
>> xzcat dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi.xz >
>> dd_ToriOS-Trusty-Test-01_7.8GB.vdi
>>
>> Connect the vdi file to a virtual machine and boot ToriOS. You should be
>> able to update & upgrade it with Israel's new versions in order to test
>> them.
>>
>> I had very low resolution in VirtualBox, only 640x480, until I set
>>
>> GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>>
>> and ran
>>
>> sudo update-grub. See the attached screenshot. After reboot the
>> resolution increased to 1024x768. (I did not install any guest
>> additions.)
>>
>> Happy testing :-)
>> Nio
>

Hi Nio,

I ran a few commands to help things along in the vdi you posted....

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade

this will install the new jwm-settings-manager 2.0 so trusty will be a
bit experimental at this point.. though AFAIK 2.0 works at least as well
as 1.1+

It works much better in some areas than the old version, and may be
missing some things that sort of worked in the 1.X branch

I also ran

cp -R /etc/skel/.config/* ~/.config

cp /etc/skel/.gtkrc-2.0 ~/

sudo cp ~/.gtkrc-2.0 /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

then logout and log back in to test a nicer looking version

:)

you might need to also

cp /etc/skel/.jwmrc ~/.

since the menus are different.  This will make firstrun show up the
first time, but you can close it if you like and move on.

-- 
Regards