One Button Installer version 2.7

[Israel]

On 01/03/2015 01:09 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ...
> Hi Aere,
>
> The OBI does not clone, it makes tarballs, which is an advantage,
> because it does not need a drive or partition of the same size or larger.
>
> Making a tarball works if your whole system is in the root partition (it
> does not manage a separate home partition). You should use the same tool
> (also same version) to make the tarball and to use the tarball.
>
> For example, the standard OBI is built into Lubuntu Trusty. Israel is
> creating ToriOS, which is built from Ubuntu mini Precise. If you use
> Israel's ppa, keep track of the version of the host system (where you
> install it, and use the same Ubuntu version for both making and using
> tarballs, otherwise the installation will fail, I think because of
> differences in grub between Ubuntu versions).
>
> -o-
>
> *At the basic OBI level*, you select drive and the installer uses the
> whole drive, makes one root partition and one swap partition. This
> corresponds to the basic mode in the Ubuntu standard installers - 'use
> the whole disk'.
>
> *At the advanced OBI level*, you are expected to re-use existing
> partitions or create/edit partitions with *gparted* before starting the
> OBI. You select the root partition and the swap partition from menus.
> This corresponds to 'Something else' in the Ubuntu standard installers.
> It is easier to use, but does not have all the bells and whistles. If
> you add the following labels to the created partitions in gparted:
>
> obi-root
> obi-swap
>
> the installer at the advanced level will find and select them
> automatically. It helps but is not necessary.
>
> -o-
>
> In both cases, if there are other operating systems that you want to
> dual boot, boot into the now installed ToriOS and run
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> which will make a new grub menu with all recognized operating systems.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
Hi,
One small note... you don't have to only install ToriOS :) though it
will be very nice for old computers :)

You can tar an entire device and install whatever the tarball is, be it
Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc... anything that uses Debian as a
base should 'just work'.  Not sure if Fedora based systems, or others
will work... but they may.

-- 
Regards