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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Toriosadores,


I think the current version of ToriOS-beta.iso (May 24) is quite good,
and well worth testing and extending. So I installed two more kernels,
the 3.2 generic-pae kernel and the 3.13 generic kernel (a trusty kernel)
together with the hardware enablement stack for trusty, which comes with
the full implementation of Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. This can be useful for
the great majority of the computers, particularly if you have some new
or middle-aged hardware, that is not recognized by the original Ubuntu
12.04 LTS drivers.

You can download them by selecting *Download in the OBI* or directly from

http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/2015-05/

1. ToriOSmay24-3ker.tar.xz (491M)

The first tarball is quite similar to the original one, with only a few
added packages. An important addition is fake-pae, that makes it
possible to run the system of this tarball with Pentium M and Celeron M
processors, that have PAE capability but no PAE flag. I have tested that
it works in my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop with a Pentium M CPU.

2. ToriOShuge3ker.tar.xz (812M)

The second tarball was built from the first one by adding several
application program packages, so that it is possible to perform many
standard tasks without installing any extra programs.

See the (last modified) pictures at

http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/pictures/

The very last picture illustrates the available application programs.

http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/torios/pictures/25-applications_in-huge3ker.png

-o-

In order to download tarballs to the OBI in ToriOS live, you need to
have somewhere to store it (not where you intend to install from it).

1. If you boot from a CD disk or an mkusb-made USB drive, I recommend
that you create a partition on a third drive, for example a USB drive.
Put the label *live-rw* onto that partition, and create an ext2 file system.

Then (re)boot into ToriOS live, press TAB and add the boot option
*persitent* at the end of the boot line and continue.

2. If you create a boot USB pendrive with Unetbootin, you must rename
the file casper-rw to live-rw

Change directory to where you have that file an run

mv casper-rw live-rw

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You can install ToriOSmay24-3ker.tar.xz or ToriOShuge3ker.tar.xz into a
USB pendrive. If it is a fast USB pendrive, you will get quite good
performance also in USB 2 ports. These are portable systems, that work
well in many computers (but might have problems to boot in some
middle-aged hp computers, that need chainloading to boot via grub in USB).

I tested them today, so I know that they works in different computers.
And you can use the OBI in these systems to install ToriOS in the
internal drives of computers. As a matter of fact, these tarballs make
systems that are similar to the original One Button Installer.


Happy testing :-)

Best regards
Nio