[lubuntu-devel] OBI

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Phill,

*Xenial 32-bit tarball*

I made a minimal portable text screen system from the Ubuntu Xenial 
32-bit mini.iso. This system is very small, and it is not affected too 
much by the current bugs. I hope to make a corresponding system from the 
64-bit mini.iso in the near future, (before I make Lubuntu specific 
tarballs).

The tarball

Xenial-32-txt.tar.xz   # user: guru, password: changeme

is uploaded to your website

http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/OBI/trusty/tarballs/

and it can be installed easily with the current One Button Installer,

dd_blank-obi_7.8GB_32_LubuntuTrusty.img.xz

There are menu options in the installed minimal text screen system to 
make it is easy to build one of the desktop flavours: Lubuntu Core, 
standard Lubuntu and also the other main Ubuntu flavours plus a really 
light-weight system with Fluxbox. See the following links

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI/Xenial-32-txt

When used months later, new (and debugged) program packages will be 
installed. I hope and think that this tarball will be useful for a long 
time.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2016-04-23 kl. 01:35, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> Hi Phill,
> [inlines]
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2016-04-22 kl. 20:12, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>> I've taken the liberty of pasting the 1st part of your answer about
>> mkusb and time scale for OBI to the lubuntu-facebook page.
>
> That's fine :-)
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On 22 April 2016 at 19:05, Phill. Whiteside <phillwuk at gmail.com
>> <mailto:phillwuk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     32 bit, 64 bit, ppc - alternate and desktop :) That's 6
>
> I see. But I would say that it reduces to two versions: 32-bit and
> 64-bit PC.
>
> The installed systems of the desktop and alternate ISOs should be rather
> similar, and I have no access to any PPC. So I think there will be two
> Lubuntu tarballs for the OBI, maybe one mini version too.
>
> -o-
>
> I have not tried, but it is possible that mkusb works in PPC. It needs
> bash and some tools (for example pv and zenity), and they should be
> available in older versions of Lubuntu for PPC. But I don't think it
> works in MacOS, even if there is bash. It is probably too different.
>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Phill.
>>
>>     On 22 April 2016 at 17:47, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321035&p=13474909#post13474909
>>
>>
>>         Den 2016-04-22 kl. 18:27, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>>
>>             Hiyas,
>>
>>             some people having issues with USB sticks.... You can follow
>>             on Fb
>>             ubuntu-official [1]... At present, with others failing I can
>>             only
>>             suggest disk-destroyer - which is scary with a sudo for
>>             people not
>>             overly familiar with CLI and finding devices.
>>
>>             So, OBI for all 6 versions, please :D :D
>>
>>             Many thanks,
>>
>>             Phill.
>>             1. https://www.facebook.com/groups/lubuntu.official/
>>
>>
>>         Hi Phill,
>>
>>         The first option would be to suggest mkusb, which works
>>         seamlessly across the versions, and mkusb-nox for text mode. It
>>         works now.
>>
>>         https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
>>
>>         I intend to make Xenial tarballs for the OBI, but had planned to
>>         wait for at least a couple of weeks, maybe one month, to get rid
>>         of the worst remaining bugs - and create a nice installed system
>>         up to date via update/dist-upgrade.
>>
>>         Please explain what do you mean by all 6 versions: different
>>         Lubuntu iso files or Kubuntu, Lubuntu, ... Xubuntu), or
>>         time-wise versions Precise ... Xenial?
>>
>>         Best regards
>>         Nio
>>
>>
>>
>