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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

HI Israel,

[Replying inline after installing in my Toshiba with Intel i5 CPU]

Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-08-30 18:06, Israel skrev:
> Hi Nio,
> 
> I used mktrbl to make the tarball of the entire drive.  I have looked
> inside the tarball and everything looks fine.  The tarball is the basic
> 32bit 12.04 ToriOS... the live environment mimics this almost entirely
> (still a few things I need to address).
> 
> OBI says it can find the tarball, but that it cannot write to the
> device... I will test this in more depth... if you like you can test it
> as well.

I installed in text mode. I had to find manually the tarball, which is
fairly easy for me, I have used the tool before. But you should have a
soft link to the location to make it more convenient. (I don't want to
have the tarball occupy valuable RAM-disk space, so it is in the 'cdrom
emulating partition'.

free -m: 68 MB RAM idling after boot in graphical DE :-)
uname -a: Generic PAE kernel
lsb_release -a: Ubuntu 12.04.5
df -h: Used 1.4G

At login (torios,torios) I had a complaint: "Unable to contact the Wicd
daemon due to an access denied error from DBus. Please check that your
user is in the netdev group."

ping 8.8.8.8: Network is unreachable; I have wired internet, and most
other distros work flawlessly.

-o-

ToriOS looks good and is very responsive :-)

It was hard to get out of it. The Shutdown menu was dead, but I could
log out, and from the text interface shutdown (poweroff).

Best regards
Nio

> I made the tarball from your original ToriOS ISO in which your live
> environment was using debian as the base... but it seems to me that you
> simply dd the whole sda (or whatever) into a tarball with xz
> compression.  This shouldn't be effected by what OS it is run from, as
> it shouldn't remove any files, etc...
> 
> We should talk more about the entire OBI setup, I sent you another e-mail
> 
> On 08/30/2014 10:59 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> Hi Israel,
>>
>> 1. Have you tested that the tarball is good (using it from another
>> location)?
>>
>> 2. Have you tested if the problem is that the tarball is found or not
>> found by the shell-script?
>>
>> 3. Did you create the tarball in the same environment as you intend to
>> use it? If you create it in 9w (debian wheezy) and try to use it in
>> ToriOS (ubuntu precise or trusty) it might not work.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> Den 2014-08-30 17:53, Israel skrev:
>>> Hi everyone, I have been testing the ISO on a real machine, and have
>>> found that the OBI (text mode) does not work in its current state...  So
>>> there will be some needed testing for this.  If anyone wants to test the
>>> terminal mode, or see if they can figure out how to make the text-mode
>>> OBI work, please do!
>>> The tarball is not in a sane place, sorry..  it is in a really odd
>>> location... something like image/live/image/live/tarball/ToriOS.tar.xz
>>>
>>> I will be doing some work to integrate OBI into the image better so the
>>> end result will be an easy to install system.  My main goal was to
>>> simply get something available for people to test on real hardware.
>>>
>>> Thanks!!
>>>
> 
>