Hi Israel, Jack and Ali, [inlines] Best regards Nio Den 2016-02-06 kl. 21:39, skrev Israel: > Hi Nio > (inlines) > On 02/06/2016 11:19 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> ... >> Until you get a faster computer, you can plan for overnight tasks :-) > Actually, I do it while I am doing other real life stuff at home. > I just boot the live OS in VirtualBox, use the oh so convenient zmktbl > (with an edit to use the super duper compression) and let it compress it > to another virtual drive > > Once it is done, I boot up an exiting virtual ToriOS with openssh-server > installed > I use Filezilla to access it, and download the tarball to the ISOmaker dir. > > Then I cdISOmaker (an alias to get me to the right directory) > and > ./ISOmaker > > then I interact a few times (no don't install GRUB to my real MBR, yes I > want English keyboard, enter my password) > > And then I test it. > > If everything goes well, I upload to phillw's server overnight (when no > one needs internet) and make my computer suspend when it is finished. > > It is long but this process is MUCH easier than the initial WillNio9w > copy paste days :) > And it is much easier to do things in the VM than to have a physical > computer I have to boot.
This sounds like you have a good working method :-) >>> ... >>> Is this within the same session? Or are you rebooting and trying again? >>> Not sure why this could happen. >> I'm rebooting and testing (in the same computer) between each attempt. I >> have tried cold boot too. > Odd... I wonder if this is an issue with the grub config file, or if > there is something going on with the MBR? > I have noticed that /mnt is still mounted after the install, so there > must be something that is not getting finished fully (hence the odd > randomness) > I have looked into it, but it is not a *major* show stopper so it is one > of those things I mess with when I have time. >>>> ... >>> At least you can boot >> Yes. > This is actually really good, it means we are still getting grub > installed correctly. > just updating grub doesn't exactly work always. I agree, it is not a show stopper. >>>> *2. And I know of a bug in mkusb* >> I have been thinking about it, and given some time it should not be too >> hard to do the programming. I hope to do it within a few days - faster, >> if it is as easy as I think now. > I do hope it is easy to fix. Those are the best bugs. It is something > like this SSD via USB or GRUB not always working bugs that are > unpleasant to fix, because they are hard to reproduce sometimes, and > have no clear reason they do not work. I made a quick fix last night and uploaded it to the unstable ppa and to Phill's server, mkusb 10.5.1. I have done some testing, and it seems to be able to create persistent live drives with Ubuntu (flavours), Debian, Torios-Precise and ToriOS-Debian. It is not tested by anyone else, and needs testing to be sure that it works, before we can move it to the stable 'ppa:mkusb/ppa'. @ Israel, Jack and Ali, Please test making a persistent live drive with mkusb 10.5.1 running in ToriOS live and ToriOS installed :-) You get it via sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mkusb # if you want mkusb-nox sudo apt-get install mkusb-nox # or if you want both mkusb and mkusb-nox sudo apt-get install mkusb mkusb-nox or via https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/gui#from_phillw.net >> -o- >> >> *Finally a question about multimedia support* >> >> Have you tested how well ToriOS-Debian performs various multimedia tasks >> compared to ToriOS-Precise? What about the meta-package >> >> 'restricted Extras' in firstrun? Is it similar to > Actually this was the bug I spoke about the other day. > I tried the existing firstrun, and noticed the issue. > now that this is fixed, it should potentially be easier than Ubuntu > (since it is presented in a dialog from the get-go) > I just looked at the package contents for the ubuntu-restricted-extras > and found all the Debian equivalents, and even go to the trouble of > informing the user of the issues surrounding it, and even > download/install the libdvdcss package if the user accepts it. > Assuming it works in the newest version of firstrun... which I will test > in a little while. Great progress :-) Multimedia performance is something that really needs testing (in ToriOS-Debian). >> lubuntu-restricted-extras >> >> This is something that I have not spent time testing, but I think many >> end users want it to work well. (At least some years ago, Ubuntu based >> systems were easier than the other linux distros with non-free software.) >> >> Best regards >> Nio > I recently rebuilt the newest version of JWM, as it has a minor, but > nice feature (there are lots of fixes since my last general JWM update). > But now Windows can have the title centered > > This is opposed to it always being on the left, it is minor but nice > visually. I think most DE do this, right? Yes. > -- > Regards > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
