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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio
(inline below)
On 03/15/2018 03:12 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2018-03-13 kl. 23:29, skrev Israel:
>> On 03/13/2018 02:48 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Den 2018-03-13 kl. 18:08, skrev Israel:
>>> ...
>>> Hi Israel,
>>>
>> Hi Nio
>> (inlines below)
>>> I downloaded the current iso file and tested it.
>>>
>>> 1. zsync failed for me (I tried twice). I have a user at phillw.net,
>>> and I could identify the file and get it (and the md5sum) via sftp.
>>>
>> Hmmm... it may be because I zsync the symlink... I just amended this!
>>> 2. I logged into the live graphical desktop environment. It looked
>>> good, but I did not really test it this time.
>>>
>> Great!
>>> 3. I rebooted and selected the OBI in text mode. It worked and I could
>>> install ToriOS (at the basic OBI level) :-)
>>>
>> Excellent!
>>> 4. I tried to reboot into the installed system. But the computer shut
>>> down instead. Is this by intention?
>>>
>> Hmmm... not sure why this happened.  I will look into things.... might
>> be a systemd quirk
>>> 5. I booted into the installed system and it works. I did only some
>>> superficial tests.
>>>
>> This is great, I am glad it works at the most basic level!!
>>> I hope to get better time for more tests later.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>>
>>
>
> Hi again,
>
>
> 1. Looking more into the text mode installer:
>
> - At the advanced level it offers 'Use gparted and show help', but
> gparted is a GUI tool.
>
> This should be changed somehow, for example to suggest to select
> graphics mode and use gparted, or to use some text mode partitioning
> tool (possible but more difficult). On the other hand, in a computer,
> that does not work at all with ToriOS live in graphics mode, ToriOS is
> not a suitable operating system.
>
> It is reasonable to do the partitioning in graphics mode, then reboot
> and run the installation in text mode (which needs less RAM).
>
> Anyway, it works via 'obiroot' and 'obiswap' as it should :-)
>
> ... and the installation was successful, a working system was
> installed, and the previous system was available via the grub menu :-)
>
This is a very good point.  I had not thought of this, and will have to
do some reconsidering here.  I suppose I could offer to launch the
Graphical Desktop, or use parted if the user chooses.
It would be good if I could somehow make a tool to provide the same
functionality, but that is too complex for ToriOS 2.0  maybe in 2.5/3.0
>
> 2. RAM management
>
> - In the installed system I notice, that the available RAM reported is
> only 2675 MiB (but 4096 MiB is installed). It seems that the PAE,
> Physical Address Extension, does not work correctly although it is
> supposed to be an i686 version of Debian.
>
> It is the same with ToriOS live, while for example Lubuntu Bionic i386
> (which also has an i686 linux kernel) reports 3918 MiB (some of the
> 4096 MiB is used for some administration).
>
> - Testing the available RAM in ToriOS 1.0 (based on Jessie):
>
> - The live system is i586 (non-pae) and free -m reports 2680 MiB,
> which is what should be expected.
>
> - I installed ToriOS 1.0 including the PAE kernel, linux
> 3.16.0-5-686-pae.
>
> Free reports 3928 MiB, similar to what Lubuntu Bionic reports.
>
> So there is something fishy with the new ToriOS based on Stretch.
> Either it really uses a non-PAE kernel, or a PAE kernel that is not
> really working correctly. Have you checked if there is a separate PAE
> alternative available from Debian?
>
>
> Best regards
> Nio


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