Nio, worked like a charm on my Dell C400 with 13.04 tarball. Do you plan to release a dd image (or a tarball for lubuntu 13.10 too?
Thanks! F. 2013/10/14 Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com>: > On 10/13/2013 05:27 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > Hi, > > The OBI has taken the step from [pre]version 0.7 to version 1.0: > > 1. The dialogue has been improved by using screens made with the linux > program dialog. It means a menu style similar to that of the alternate > installer and the mini.iso. See the attached pictures. Feedback from > several persons made me understand, that the previous interface was not > good enough for the majority of computer users, so this was necessary. > There are still some rough edges, but the basic usage should be easier > and more appealing now. And in the near future I intend to remove the > rough edges (that I am aware of). > > 2. The compression of the dd-image files and the tarballs is improved. > The original compression was using gzip. It is still available, but now > xz compression is also available, and xz compression is more than 20% > more efficient, often 30% (meaning that the size of the compressed file > is 20-30% smaller than a gzipped file). xz is slower and needs more > memory, but not too much. During a test with low RAM, 128 MB, extracting > the tarball with xz used 62 MB while extracting with gzip used 49 GB. > Downloading is usually the bottleneck, so small files are preferred. > > The default compression for making an own tarball is using gzip. In the > present version 1.0, you must run mktbl from the bash shell to create an > xz tarball, which is one of the rough edges. > > See this link > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw/OBI > > Best regards > Nio > > > > Nio: > > That looks good. > > The warnings are more than adequate, which is a good thing. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
