Thanks for this explanation, Phill :-) Best regards/Nio
Den 2014-09-14 12:49, Phill Whiteside skrev: > The hybrid kernel (the 'live' one) can be used for either system. It is > the 'standard' kernel with some added extras to make it usable on Live > CD that ubuntu (and others) use. The additions are classed as 'patches' > and ubuntu adds them by default. > > The original kernel is more a 'server' kernel with no LiveCD capability, > as such is not needed on a server. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > > On 14 September 2014 08:41, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Den 2014-09-14 04:21, Israel skrev: > > Hi all, > > I have been looking into making a persistent USB image after our > meeting > > today, and I am not entirely sure I can, though Nio may have better > > insight here. > > > > > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/78098/how-to-chroot-into-persistent-installation > > > > I am not entirely sure if this is something we can do for ToriOS 1.0, > > but it may be very important to look into. I am sure the OBI > system can > > benefit from having persistent data, as this will make it easier > to make > > a tarball on the live system. I could be wrong about this but I > wanted > > to put this info out here in case someone wants to look into > this. I am > > not going to mess with this until ToriOS 1.0 is ready.... as it is > there > > is enough going on :) > > > > Also, I have been tossing around the idea of adding a Panel along the > > bottom with buttons for The manual and the Installer. I think this > > would be a good idea, rather than using a custom menu for the Live OS, > > it could be a custom interface... this would make the installer easily > > discoverable. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > Hi, > > @ Israel and all, > > * Persistance * > > I agree that persistence is not an urgent matter at this moment, it is > easy enough to make a portable installed system to a USB drive with the > OBI installer. This does not mess with the bootloader of the internal > drive (which the standard installers do, unless you change that > manually). > > Persistence may be straight-forward to get using Unetbootin or the > Startup Disk Creator alias usb-creator-gtk, or to do it manually > (creating a casper-rw file or partition. But in this case, it is not > possible to use mkusb, because it makes a read-only drive with the > ISO9660 file system. You can make a persistent live system if the file > system in read-write, typically fat32 or ext2. I can make a quick check, > if there is something important missing. > > It also depends on the kernel. That should be no problem in 12.04, but > in 14.04 you must select the correct non-pae kernel. I think Phill made > one for installed systems and one for live systems, and you need the > kernel for live systems also for persistent live systems. > > * Bottom panel * > > I think a significant part of the usage of ToriOS will be with the > original netboot resolution, 1000x600, and then an extra solid bottom > panel will eat desktop space, which is already scarce. So I suggest that > you avoid a bottom panel.I don't particularly like autohiding panels, > they tend to appear by mistake and damage the work flow, when you move > the cursor to a place near the autohiding panel's edge of the screen. > Instead I suggest to put the manual and the installer as desktop icons > in the live system, and the manual as a desktop icon also in the > installed system. > > -o- > > @ Phill, have you merged those non-pae kernels now, so that one kernel > works well for live as well as installed systems? > > Best regards > Nio > > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
