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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/17/2014 12:43 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2014-12-17 07:03, Israel skrev:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I have been working on fixing a few of the minor issues in the settings
>> manager.  It now is becoming more portable!  It will now use the user's
>> $PATH to check for the executables we are looking for.
>> I have also looked a little more at some of the sdesk stuff, and have
>> been talking with technosaurus (of Puppy fame : ) and may have a working
>> battery monitor soon... one that does not require a power manager.  It
>> is also written in C and is only a dozen or so KB when compiled.. so
>> this will be a huge gain for memory and usability (if all goes well). 
>> There is also some preliminary code in there for a wireless applet...
>> but I am not working on the program at all right now... just trying to
>> understand it so I can use it (and modify it for versions after 12.04
>> that do not use /proc/acpi/battery/BATT*  but rather use
>> /sys/class/whatever_it_is_i_am_tired)
>> It looks promising!
>>
>> I still hope to get the ISO released this year :)  But I have been very
>> busy in non-digital world... and building the ISO and testing can take a
>> lot of time.  I also could not even boot the mini.iso on my old
>> computer... which is funny because ToriOS boots just fine.  Not sure why
>> mini would have problems... but hurray for ToriOS working well on old
>> computers!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
> Hi Israel,
>
> Interesting as always to read your progress report :-)
>
> Are you trying to boot the mini.iso from CD or from USB? The 12.04 LTS
> mini.iso does not work from USB (but the 14.04 LTS does).
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi Nio,
I burnt an actual disc...  I haven't spent much time trying to figure
out why it wont boot past the initial screen.  I did turn off 'quiet'
and saw a kernel panic... but other than that I really didn't put much
effort into booting it.  I may be getting my other x86 laptop back to
play with, and that one boots from USB.  I do think I booted it from
USB... but that computer I have to use GRUB to boot from USB anyhow, so
it is possible if you already have GRUB2 installed, but I have not tried
booting it from a computer that boots from USB normally.  The old one
doesn't even initialize the USB through BIOS (maybe they were added in
later... I don't remember if they are an expansion card or not) the
kernel does that.. so I cannot boot from USB even with GRUB on that
really old computer.

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team