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Re: Mini ISO and virtual box

 

Den 2015-01-03 23:45, Paul Sutton skrev:
> 
> 
> On 03/01/15 22:14, Israel wrote:
>> On 01/03/2015 03:30 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> It seems there are issues with installing the mini ISO in virtual
>>> box too.
>>>
>>> It boots fine, gets to about the point where it is asking for
>>> which archive to use,  then it just produces a purple screen with
>>> no dialogue box or suggestion as to what it is doing.  So that
>>> needs more investigation.
>>>
>>> I will try the PPA from my mint install inside a virtual box,
>>> this is set up I just need the PPA info.
>>>
>>> However I also need to document this.
>>>
>>> The testing section of the manual is going to get very messy
>>> given that there are several methods of testing toriOS.
>>>
>>> 1. Use PPA in side an existing installed OS 2. As above inside a
>>> virtual machine 3. OBI on to a empty hard disk 4. Virtual box or
>>> other VM software
>>>
>>> So I need to be careful how I document things.
>>>
>>> It may be better to move some of this to the website or have a 
>>> separate manual for testing,  We need to discuss tonight, once we
>>> have that sorted and have full access to a website it will be
>>> easier.
>>>
>> Yeah the purple box is a bug... if you wait for a REALLY long time
>> it will get past the purple box bug
> 
> 
> 
> I will go with nio's suggestion and look at the mini iso he posted
> for,  yeah it was the 12.04 mini iso.
> 
> I take it that bug is not on all the iso's ?
> 
> Paul
> 
Hi,

The mini isos at the new location are fully functional - no eternal
delay. I used them last week :-D

Best regards
Nio


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