Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-30 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, Thank you very much for testing the OBI and several versions of Lubuntu tarballs (so also Lubuntu). I hope that our work will be useful for many current and future users. There will be a pause until I can upload a new version of the OBI, but I want to do it as soon as possible. Best

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-30 Thread Federico Leoni
Tested both the OBI install on my notebook and a liveCD on virtualbox.: the "language support is not installed completely" message is related to a single package, hunspell-en-ca https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+package/hunspell-en-ca " This is the English_canadian dictionary for use with the hu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-30 Thread Federico Leoni
Good morning Nio, I'll test both today but as far as I remember the language is never completely installed, even the english one. Let me confirm or deny this behavior installing a classic desktop from a live CD. F. 2013/10/30 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-30 01:04, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> On 2013-10-3

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-30 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-30 01:04, Nio Wiklund wrote: > On 2013-10-30 00:59, Federico Leoni wrote: >> 2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : >>> On 2013-10-29 23:11, Federico Leoni wrote: >>> >>> I think this convinced me to make the system ready for the end user >>> (skipping the oem-stage). >>> >>> Would there still be a ne

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-30 00:59, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : >> On 2013-10-29 23:11, Federico Leoni wrote: >> >> I think this convinced me to make the system ready for the end user >> (skipping the oem-stage). >> >> Would there still be a need for an open text file with simple >> instructi

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-29 23:11, Federico Leoni wrote: > > I think this convinced me to make the system ready for the end user > (skipping the oem-stage). > > Would there still be a need for an open text file with simple > instructions? In that case, what instructions? If you skip t

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-29 23:11, Federico Leoni wrote: > Well Nio, you put a lot of questions for a project born to be a > super-simple installer that is already working fine. This means, at > least for me, that we are ready to enter into phase two of the > project. Good. > > Using the xorg.conf is not a good

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Federico Leoni
Well Nio, you put a lot of questions for a project born to be a super-simple installer that is already working fine. This means, at least for me, that we are ready to enter into phase two of the project. Good. Using the xorg.conf is not a good idea because is obsolete but can override a configurat

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico and other Lubuntu Users, See replies inline and at the end. Best regards/Nio On 2013-10-29 18:33, Federico Leoni wrote: > Quick reply without quote: > > 1. Better leave the xorg config completely automated. I fear it will > cause troubles on system with different GPU . OK, so without

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Federico Leoni
Quick reply without quote: 1. Better leave the xorg config completely automated. I fear it will cause troubles on system with different GPU . 2. Try to force another geo location or install without network up. 3. I'm on the dark side of OEM. I prefer tarball as is but it's a thing that we need to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, See replies inline and at the end. Best regards/Nio On 2013-10-29 17:59, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/29 Federico Leoni : >> 2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : >>> On 2013-10-28 19:22, Federico Leoni wrote: 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-28 19:07, Federico Leoni wrote: >

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/29 Federico Leoni : > 2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : >> On 2013-10-28 19:22, Federico Leoni wrote: >>> 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : On 2013-10-28 19:07, Federico Leoni wrote: Maybe you test the tarball, and when it needs no more tweaking, I'll make a combo img.xz file with the OBI

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/29 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-28 19:22, Federico Leoni wrote: >> 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : >>> On 2013-10-28 19:07, Federico Leoni wrote: >>> >>> Maybe you test the tarball, and when it needs no more tweaking, I'll >>> make a combo img.xz file with the OBI + the Lubuntu 13.10 OEM tarball. >>

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-29 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-28 19:22, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : >> On 2013-10-28 19:07, Federico Leoni wrote: >> >> Maybe you test the tarball, and when it needs no more tweaking, I'll >> make a combo img.xz file with the OBI + the Lubuntu 13.10 OEM tarball. >> > > Agree. Let me test the tar

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Phill, Do you mean to have a choice in a screen (made with the dialog software package), or do you mean to focus on xz for high compression, and let it be slower? (xz need more RAM than gzip, but *not* too much.) Best regards Nio On 2013-10-28 18:07, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hi Federico and N

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Federico Leoni
OEM! I'm ready to test. :D F. 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-28 17:44, Federico Leoni wrote: >> 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : >>> Hi Federico, >>> >>> I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) >>> >>> OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less memory-greedy >>> g

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-28 17:44, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : >> Hi Federico, >> >> I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) >> >> OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less memory-greedy >> gzip compression, but I listen to your advice, so I will prepare to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Federico and Nio, That makes sense to me :) Regards, Phill. On 28 October 2013 16:44, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : > > Hi Federico, > > > > I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) > > > > OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less mem

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/28 Nio Wiklund : > Hi Federico, > > I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) > > OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less memory-greedy > gzip compression, but I listen to your advice, so I will prepare to make > xz compression standard in the next version

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-28 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, I'm glad that your system is portable via the tarball :-) OK, I was conservative, and kept the simple, fast and less memory-greedy gzip compression, but I listen to your advice, so I will prepare to make xz compression standard in the next version. I guess you know that xz is slower

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-27 Thread Federico Leoni
Hi Nio, I successfully "transplanted" a tarball created with my P3 notebook starting from the tarball of Lubuntu 13.10 for the OBI installer. The target was my netbook, an Hp Mini 1030nr with 16 Gb SSD and 2gb ram (specs here http://phillw.net/hardware/bqba4zbd). All worked fine, I've installed

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Federico Leoni
I'll already tried to manage fstab and grub on OBI installer but didn't work. The error si still here... Perhaps with boot repair but I need to install a graphical interface. I'll try now. F. 2013/10/25 Nio Wiklund : > Yes, Federico. > > That issue at AskUbuntu is similar, but unfortunately there

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Nio Wiklund
Yes, Federico. That issue at AskUbuntu is similar, but unfortunately there is no reply or solution yet. I will have a second look at it. And maybe the problem will disappear, when I upgrade the OBI from the present 13.04 version to 13.10. The system behind the OBI was make with the 13.04 mini.iso

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, It is valuable information, that your old computer works best with Lubuntu 13.10. I have an old Compaq Presario 5640 with Pentium II and Rage graphics, where the 12.04 based versions work, but not later versions. So with several alternatives we increase the chances that at least one o

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Federico Leoni
Nio, I've forgot to say I'm looking informations for the error "Attempt to read or write outside of disk hd0" that seems related with grub config for me. No luck till now but I found a question (without answer for now) to a very similar situation even if the structure of the usb disk is different

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Federico Leoni
Ok. Just for the sake of the developer, Ubuntu gnome 12.04, and the derivates Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 and lxle doesn't work on my notebook. Md5sums were correct but, as already told, this release of ubuntu always gave me problems with the integrated video (i830)... Lubuntu, tarballs are working fine, I d

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-25 13:36, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/25 Nio Wiklund > > >> > About the usb script (mkusb v4), my fault didn't read this: >> > >> > 7. Alternative to running the tasks 4-6 above: use mkusb >> >> Would you suggest that I put the suggestion to use mkusb

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/25 Nio Wiklund > > About the usb script (mkusb v4), my fault didn't read this: > > > > 7. Alternative to running the tasks 4-6 above: use mkusb > > Would you suggest that I put the suggestion to use mkusb first (before > the manual method)? Definitely. The script is good and quite easy t

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-25 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, I'll try to make a tarball with Lubuntu 13.10 OEM :-) But I cannot do it until next week. Best regards Nio On 2013-10-24 21:58, Federico Leoni wrote: > Doing again the usb thumb solve the issues. Installed Gnome oem in > less than 30 minutes, not bad for a 11 old notebook! > Unfortu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Federico Leoni
Doing again the usb thumb solve the issues. Installed Gnome oem in less than 30 minutes, not bad for a 11 old notebook! Unfortunately gnome classic is too heavy for my notebook and 12.04 is not good for me, always gave me problems on this note. It's better to revert to Lubuntu 13.10 if you don't ha

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/24 Nio Wiklund : > Thanks for the detailed feedback :-) > > I'm reading and saying to myself, yes, he's right about that ... almost > everywhere. > > Questions about the 'usb maker script': Do you mean 'mkusb'? Which > version did you use? Version 4 needs less cut and paste compared to the

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-24 20:22, Federico Leoni wrote: > Got it. Unfortunately my PCMCIA usb2 card stop working and I have > installed it trough an USB1 port. And with my surprise all goes fast > enough. > > All worked fine (as with 13.04 tarball) but now, after the second try > I can report my experience. >

Re: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Federico Leoni
Got it. Unfortunately my PCMCIA usb2 card stop working and I have installed it trough an USB1 port. And with my surprise all goes fast enough. All worked fine (as with 13.04 tarball) but now, after the second try I can report my experience. The test was made on a Dell C400 with a P3 866mhz and 768

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Nio Wiklund
OK Federico, I'll do that as soon as possible. Usually Phill's site is fast (faster for me than Google drive), so it must very busy now. Best regards/Nio On 2013-10-24 14:06, Federico Leoni wrote: > Good morning Nio, > > I think you should put the tarball on Google drive too, I can't > download i

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-24 Thread Federico Leoni
Good morning Nio, I think you should put the tarball on Google drive too, I can't download it from Phill site, the speed is too low: 13kb/s max... F. 2013/10/22 Nio Wiklund : > On 2013-10-19 17:33, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> On 2013-10-19 14:41, Federico Leoni wrote: >>> 2013/10/19 Nio Wiklund :

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-22 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-19 17:33, Nio Wiklund wrote: > On 2013-10-19 14:41, Federico Leoni wrote: >> 2013/10/19 Nio Wiklund : >>> Hi Federico, >>> >>> I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball >>> already. I am testing it, mainly the portability to various computers, >>> before upload

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-19 Thread Federico Leoni
I'll will report y feedback soon, then. F. Em 19/10/2013 12:34, "Nio Wiklund" escreveu: > On 2013-10-19 14:41, Federico Leoni wrote: > > 2013/10/19 Nio Wiklund : > >> Hi Federico, > >> > >> I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball > >> already. I am testing it, mainly

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-19 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-10-19 14:41, Federico Leoni wrote: > 2013/10/19 Nio Wiklund : >> Hi Federico, >> >> I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball >> already. I am testing it, mainly the portability to various computers, >> before uploading it. I hope to upload it within a few days. >

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-19 Thread Federico Leoni
2013/10/19 Nio Wiklund : > Hi Federico, > > I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball > already. I am testing it, mainly the portability to various computers, > before uploading it. I hope to upload it within a few days. > > The latest improvement was to add pulseaudio an

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-19 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Federico, I'm glad it 13.04 works for you. Yes, I have a Lubuntu 13.10 tarball already. I am testing it, mainly the portability to various computers, before uploading it. I hope to upload it within a few days. The latest improvement was to add pulseaudio and pavucontrol to make the sound work

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] One Button Installer improved with dialog menus and xz compression

2013-10-18 Thread Federico Leoni
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 : > 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: >