Hi, [replies inline] Best regards/Nio Den 2014-11-09 21:21, Israel skrev: > > Hi everyone (bottom) > On 11/09/2014 02:28 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> Den 2014-11-09 08:58, Ali/amjjawad skrev: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just thinking loudly here ... >>> >>> While ToriOS is made for very old machines, it's still can be used for >>> newer ones. >>> >>> Some features might be missing for whatever reason (CD size limit, etc..) >>> so, is it possible to add a script or a code to check the physical RAM on >>> the target machine? >>> >>> IF RAM = xxxMB THEN >>> ... >>> ELSE >>> ... >>> >>> For example (again, just thinking loudly): >>> >>> if RAM=1024MB then use Ubiquity >>> >>> Else use OBI >>> >>> Just a crazy idea :) >>> >>> Thank you! >>> Sent from my smartphone. >>> >> Hi Ali and all, >> >> Yes it is possible, but ubiquity will compete with the disk space within >> the CD size. It might be a better idea to supply two iso files, >> >> - one iso file for really old computers, where booting from CD is >> necessary, and/or where the RAM is so small, that ubiquity does not work. >> >> - and one iso file for other computers, where booting from DVD and USB >> is possible. >> >> We can add a lot of packages to the second iso file. It will probably be >> enough with approximately 1 GB, but I would say the limit is 4 GB for >> such an iso file. >> >> -o- >> >> On the other hand: For people who are not familiar with ubiquity, I >> think it is at least as easy to use the OBI. Or can be: if you think >> something is not intuitive, the work flow can be improved, better >> explained, or some text improved. >> >> Best regards >> Nio >> > I think the only way we could do this is if the OBI was radically changed. > The only way we could do this is if we built an alternate Ubiquity for > low-end computers. > Something that used all the di scripts (di = Debian Installer) but > functioned from much less memory... maybe just using Zenity dialogs or > something like xmessage dialogs. > I think (not 100% sure here) Ubiquity is Python... so even remaking > Ubiquity in C or C++ could improve memory consumption... if it is a > Python program.
... Or if we have 'double installers' with both the OBI and Ubiquity. That would work either with two separate iso files or with a big iso file, that can contain both installers, a lot of packages and the files necessary to install both ways. It might be better to have two separate iso files. > For this first release we have to go a bit 'Warty Warthog' on it. We > need to simply get something out that works really well and does not > have bugs. I agree > If Nio can figure out how to make persistence possible in an OBI system > we should use it! That would make things much nicer and we could make > it 'persistent'. > It would be nice to offer this in mkusb for normal Ubuntu distros and > have it tie in to their system, though I think that would be something > for a much later version of mkusb. Or [much] later version of the normal Ubuntu distros :-) > Also, I'd like to mention if anyone is using something other than mkusb > to make usb versions of ToriOS please switch to mkusb. It is MUCH > faster and very accurate. You have been wasting too much of your > precious time using something else. mkusb takes around half the time > (hmm... maybe much less that that....) to make a bootable USB from an ISO. > If you have ToriOS installed on something you have mkusb installed. It > is very fast error free and lightweight. I get much better results for > every thing that boots a USB. > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
