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Re: Live Image

 

Hi Everyone,
I am uploading the ISO to
torios.org/ISO/ToriOS-alpha.iso
It will be a while before it is up... does anyone know much about making
torrents?
If so help by making us a torrent.  If there is something that needs
uploaded to our site, send it my way.

Release Notes:
This is alpha, so expect issues :)

-there is no plymouth screen in the live version
-the image is almost 700MB (681.6MB) so it *may* not fit on a CD... the
reason it is so big, is we are using OBI, which requires an entire
imaged HD.... plus this is the first version, so there is still some
fine tuning to be done :)
To install to an actual HD you will need to do it from the first screen,
rather than booting into the live environment... but the live
environment is pretty much the same as the installed environment.  *IF*
you install it, it should be pretty stable and solid.  The main issues
are the nice things we expect to 'just work' or be 'easy to find'
But since this is alpha, they are not done.

I have a script that will build everything automatically... but you need
a tarball for it to work right.  I will upload it to lp when I clean
everything up a bit, and fix the last few issues that are somewhat nagging.

This script is ONLY for OBI, not ubiquity.  Jorn has a great ubiquity
script (which I borrowed a little bit from).  My script is mainly from:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch
but I also use parts of Nio/Will Haley OBI script to build the OBI portions.

I'll upload everything to some branch somewhere :)

Oh... I edited Rafael's image slightly as I wanted a bit of texture in
the image... it was a bit too slick looking for me... I just made it
slightly easier to stare at for long periods of time, nothing major at all.


On 08/29/2014 09:51 AM, Israel wrote:
> Hi Ali!
> Sounds good, I am working on trimming down the size and fixing the last
> little issues before it is ready to be tested.  This is pretty exciting :)
> I am doing a complete re-run of the script so if everything goes as
> planned I will upload the script somewhere as well with all the needed
> files and we can go from there...  I may have to edit a few things to
> make a nice INSTALL option in the menu... but for right now some of
> these issues are not as important as having a working Live ISO, as the
> text based installer will work, and it is a fairly minor issue to add a
> menu item :)
>
> On 08/29/2014 09:00 AM, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>> Hi,
>> This super quick email. We need to talk. Will do my best if not today then tomorrow.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Sent from my smartphone.
>>
>> Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I just thought I'd update you all on the progress of the image.
>>> I have a working ISO!
>>> I also have a working script that builds everything automatically.  I
>>> modified Nio's OBI script as well as using some things from the LiveCD
>> >from scratch web page.
>>> There are a few minor things (to me... but not to an average tester) I
>>> need to take care of, but I should have an image up on the site later...
>>> basically I need to make the menu installed in the live image.  Yes...
>>> there is a Live environmnet for ToriOS.
>>> The image is 729.8MB, and uses the OBI installer  I may end up tweaking
>>> things a bit to trim down the size.. so it will safely fit on standard
>>> CDs... but as this is an alpha I am not terribly concerned about the
>>> size of the first iteration.
>>> It is based on 12.04.
>>> I will try to set a background and things like that and rebuild the ISO
>>> part later, but it is basically ready to go :)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
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