Ubuntu Openbox Remix RC2_*

[Taco.22]

Finally have Virtualbox up and running with the Obubuntu ISO.

Just two queries -

1- Is there a way that the build can be "burnt" to a USB stick easily?  I think Remastersys installs Isolinux in its remaster process with the option of burning to a cd or dd-ing to a stick.  It sure makes life a lot easier, and although I can now do things in Virtualbox, there are good reasons why it hasn't been on my computer until now.
 
2 - The logout dialog box is cute, but I will make the same point I made in a post somewhere else either on this forum or the previous - it requires three clicks to do what takes just two clicks on a standard OB menu.  In terms of user efficiency and system simplicity I fail to see the point.

Will download RC2_2 and give it a whirl.

[melodie]

USB : Please, look at the two new posts in the tips and tricks section.

About obsession : you can also use your keyboard shortcuts while the "Exit" menu is also available for people not used to keyboard shortcuts.

[konaexpress]

OK, tried to install this one and ran into the same problems. It wants to download updates during install. The check box for this option is grey out so I can not change it at install. I have a screenshot if you need it.

[konaexpress]

How do I get Obubuntu to boot from a USB stick?  I tried "dd" which just went through to installed grub, and then I tried Unetbootin but after Plymouth runs for a few seconds it dumps into a Busybox built-in shell.

Hey Taco, Sorry this took so long for me to find. Here is a link to the program I was talking about.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/

[melodie]

OK, tried to install this one and ran into the same problems. It wants to download updates during install. The check box for this option is grey out so I can not change it at install. I have a screenshot if you need it.

Hi,

Have you checked the md5sum ?

and about what I said last time related to "brigde" or "nat" for the network, can you look if you have the same as here ?

[konaexpress]

I understand what you are saying and yes, it is all good. VBox is not the culprit.

Screen shot 2013-02-25 at 2.37.18 PM by The Kona Express, on Flickr

VBox is always conected to the internet on my rig. I have seen this before on other distros but they install just fine for me. If there was no internet then why is it trying to download updates?

[melodie]

I would suppose it is greyed precisely because it can't connect to internet. I told you I think, it is a recent phenomena, a "ubuntu+vbox" issue which I solved really by chance because I didn't think of it.

Please don't mind if I insist, would you check that you can do a ping in console, in direction of any website ? For instance, "ping -c4 www.linuxvillage.org" from within a console in the vbox machine should return something such as:

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ping -c4 [url=http://www.linuxvillage.org]www.linuxvillage.org[/url]
PING [url=http://www.linuxvillage.org]www.linuxvillage.org[/url] (212.85.158.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from web.tuxfamily.net (212.85.158.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=47.7 ms
64 bytes from web.tuxfamily.net (212.85.158.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=48.2 ms
64 bytes from web.tuxfamily.net (212.85.158.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=47.2 ms
64 bytes from web.tuxfamily.net (212.85.158.4): icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=48.3 ms

--- [url=http://www.linuxvillage.org]www.linuxvillage.org[/url] ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.293/47.899/48.317/0.478 ms


[djohnston]

konaexpress,

I'm getting a different result. The md5sums match.

md5sum obubuntu-12.04-i386-RC2_2.iso
ae4a704a09a9f77ff13d90242edcbac7  obubuntu-12.04-i386-RC2_2.iso

cat obubuntu-12.04-i386-RC2_2.md5sum
ae4a704a09a9f77ff13d90242edcbac7  obubuntu-12.04-i386-RC2_2.iso

If I choose Install from the menu, I get the following result:



If I choose Try from the menu, I get the same result after double-clicking the Install icon on the desktop:

[konaexpress]

Then what the heck am I doing wrong? I am able to run the live version just fine.

Hi by the way.

[djohnston]

Then what the heck am I doing wrong? I am able to run the live version just fine.

Hi by the way.

Hello, John. I really don't know. Have you checked the md5sum of the downloaded iso? Have you tried pinging google.com from the live CD session? Those are the only variables that come to mind right now. The screenshots I posted are from VirtualBox, too.

You could also examine your network configuration from a virtual terminal within VBox. To do so, during the live CD run, press RightCtrl-F1. That should put you in virtual terminal #1, with a $ prompt, indicating you are already logged in. At the prompt, enter (no password needed):

sudo ifconfig

[konaexpress]

OK, I will try and reinstall it today, I really want this to work.

[konaexpress]

For whatever reason, I can not get this to run in VBox. It has some kind of connection problem that I can not overcome. It is strange as I can run just about anything else beside BSD in it. I even took the time to reinstall Vbox. Not sur ewhat to tell you on this.

[melodie]

Hi John,

Can you just tell us what you find when you do as djohnston showed you, or as I have shown you ?

[djohnston]

For what it's woth, my network settings look like this:

[konaexpress]

I have to give this a break for a while, been at it all day. I just can't get into now......

See you guys tomorrow .