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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,
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Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-09-21 23:32, Israel skrev:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I found a page that confirms my suspicions about using deboostrap/chroot
> to install on hardware.
> It basically uses the same principles as the script I am using to build
> the OS.  Though I was actually searching for something else :)

This is very good news :-)

> http://www.debian-administration.org/article/426/Installing_new_Debian_systems_with_debootstrap
> 
> So... I think it would be very possible to use the current script (with
> modifications of course) to setup a NEW computer.
> I think we can write a very simple UI using dialog/zenity and simply
> 'copy' the current OS' packages over (minus a few ones we wont need,
> such as nodm and live-boot)
> and simply chroot into the hardware we are installing on after running a
> quick partition program. based on a couple of choices.
> Like:
> 
> 1. *Erase EVERYTHING* and install ToriOS ONLY
> 2. Install alongside ${DETECTED_OS}
> 3. Manual partition and install

Ubuntu has big problems with several users every week destroying
valuable (and not backed up data plus Windows) because the 'Install
alongside' option does not work properly. Sometimes it does not
recognize Windows, and in such cases it erases everything without
telling the poor user. So I warn you, do not port such a feature to
ToriOS !!!

Manual partitioning is much safer, but there should be a strong warning
(that must be seen and checked), that things can go wrong, and a fresh
backup of everything is important.

> So this is definitely something I will be looking into, especially now
> that I have some hardware to install ToriOS on in every single way I can
> think to try.
> I can safely do crazy things to it, because well... that is its only
> purpose (for now).
> 
> Since I am currently adding a lot of error checking, and cleaning up the
> process for building the ISO I will be putting the code on github soon.
> I think it would be a wise decision to make a ToriOS github page, so we
> can host everything related to ToriOS there... or at least link to it.
> 
> I will be putting the script for ToriOS on GitHub soon, well... when I
> am satisfied with the quality of it for others to use.
> @Nio
> Do you mind if I include the 9w directory with it, since the script uses it?

It is free and open source software, so you are welcome to upload it :-D

> Also, once this script is refined to a point I am happy with I will copy
> it and attempt to modify a few simple things to see if I can reasonably
> set up an automated script to install torios from a chroot.
> As, this would be a good second option to have, since I personally
> always have a separate /home partition and would like that feature to be
> available for ToriOS at some point.
> If it is too complicated I may wait to do it until 1.0 comes out.... but
> if it is a fairly simple change to the current version I can write a
> simple front end from Zenity that asks a couple questions and lets the
> user configure everything the way they want right from the get-go.
> I can make a archives.tar.xz of all the /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
> files  and then extract it into the new install's
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ and we could include a lot of languages, and
> some extras an still stay under a CD limit (i think).
> 
> -- 
> Regards
>