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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,

Great to read that we are getting close to the ToriOS alpha iso :-)

Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-08-29 21:03, Israel skrev:
> 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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