[ANN] CIYAM Safe - offline tx's using QR codes for comms - page 5.

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Quote from: jl2012 on January 06, 2013, 09:33:33 AM

The system fail to boot on both MSI WindPad 110w and ASUS EEEPC 900

On WindPad, no matter I choose "failsafe" or not, it crashed with a messed screen

On EEEPC, no matter I choose "failsafe" or not, after the penguin screen, it stopped at "[sdd] No Caching mode pange present" and "[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through". About 2 minute later, the system reboot autometically

Okay - you did use ImageWriter to create the USB image from the .raw file (also note that this is a 32 bit image)?

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The system fail to boot on both MSI WindPad 110w and ASUS EEEPC 900

On WindPad, no matter I choose "failsafe" or not, it crashed with a messed screen

On EEEPC, no matter I choose "failsafe" or not, after the penguin screen, it stopped at "[sdd] No Caching mode pange present" and "[sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through". About 2 minute later, the system reboot autometically

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:24:08 AM

There's no viewer for PNG files installed unfortunately. I'll go grab a viewer first...

Just use Firefox (File Open and select Images from the File Type) and Ctrl-+ to enlarge the size (and F11 for "full-screen" to make it even easier for the online computer's webcam).

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There's no viewer for PNG files installed unfortunately. I'll go grab a viewer first...

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:14:12 AM

Nope, can't find the usage.html file in the home directory though. Running init now..So is this netbook meant as the 'airgapped' computer?

Hmm... usage.html should be in /home/tux (file:///home/tux/usage.html - just checked on my offline computer and it is there - you did run "./install" and you got the right directory?) and *yes* the whole idea is that the offline computer only communicates to the online one via QR codes.

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Quote from: CIYAM on January 06, 2013, 09:08:12 AM

Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:07:12 AM

Done, and I'm looking at a white console, logged in as 'tux'. Where should I proceed now? Grin

Okay - the instructions are in "usage.html" (use Firefox to read them).

The first thing you need to do in the "console" is:

./install
and then

./init

(also don't stress about what User Key and Password you use - just make sure they are not empty and you write them down so I can check that they will let me unlock the "tux master" GPG private key to verify your work)

Nope, can't find the usage.html file in the home directory though. Running init now..So is this netbook meant as the 'airgapped' computer?

PS: the init script is throwing some warnings, but I think it's still going strong. Cheesy

PPS: Found the usage.html after running init. Plowing through the information now...

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:07:12 AM

Done, and I'm looking at a white console, logged in as 'tux'. Where should I proceed now? Grin

Okay - the instructions are in "usage.html" (use Firefox to read them).

The first thing you need to do in the "console" is:

./install
and then

./init

(also don't stress about what User Key and Password you use - just make sure they are not empty and you write them down so I can check that they will let me unlock the "tux master" GPG private key to verify your work)

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Quote from: CIYAM on January 06, 2013, 09:06:29 AM

Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:04:42 AM

It's loading up, albeit fairly slow on my HP netbook. I'm looking at the penguin pic with flying white particles on the screen for over 5 minutes now.

Yup - the *first* boot can take quite a while (subsequent boots are much faster).

Done, and I'm looking at a white console, logged in as 'tux'. Where should I proceed now? Grin

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:04:42 AM

It's loading up, albeit fairly slow on my HP netbook. I'm looking at the penguin pic with flying white particles on the screen for over 5 minutes now.

Yup - the *first* boot can take quite a while (subsequent boots are much faster) - am pretty sure as long as it doesn't "freeze" altogether it should be working.

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It's loading up, albeit fairly slow on my HP netbook. I'm looking at the penguin pic with flying white particles on the screen for over 5 minutes now.

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 09:01:26 AM

Do document the use of ImageWriter, especially for persons like me who've never touched SUSE. Cheesy

Good point - will be adding that to the distro description then.

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Quote from: CIYAM on January 06, 2013, 08:59:39 AM

BTW - feedback about anything not well documented, etc. would be greatly appreciated (although making the UI nicer is not a priority for me unless others are interested to work on this).

Do document the use of ImageWriter, especially for persons like me who've never touched SUSE. Cheesy

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BTW - feedback about anything not well documented, etc. would be greatly appreciated (although making the UI nicer is not a priority for me unless others are interested to work on this).

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 08:50:21 AM

I renamed the .raw file to .iso and extracted it successfully. The 0.img file within crashes unetbootin, however, so I'm taking your route with imagewriter now.

Yup - exactly what I had tried. Cheesy

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Quote from: uuidman on January 06, 2013, 08:46:51 AM

This seems interesting, I will try to test the project.

Great - much appreciated (and I think a very good chance that you'll get 2 BTC for your efforts).

Any problems just post questions here and I will answer them (this is not a competition but instead an example of exactly how CIYAM Open will be doing its work).

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Quote from: CIYAM on January 06, 2013, 08:45:08 AM

Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 08:36:06 AM

Okay, I'm now trying to install.
I'm using unetbootin to install it to my pendrive, and boot from a spare laptop. Do I need to extract it down to the .raw file to install?

I would recommend using ImageWriter from SUSE Studio http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Install_ImageWriter instead (as I tried to use unetbootin and had no luck) but yes it is the .raw file you need to use (if it does work with unebootin please let us know).

I renamed the .raw file to .iso and extracted it successfully. The 0.img file within crashes unetbootin, however, so I'm taking your route with imagewriter now.

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This seems interesting, I will try to test the project.

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Quote from: John (John K.) on January 06, 2013, 08:36:06 AM

Okay, I'm now trying to install.
I'm using unetbootin to install it to my pendrive, and boot from a spare laptop. Do I need to extract it down to the .raw file to install?

I would recommend using ImageWriter from SUSE Studio http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Install_ImageWriter instead (as I tried to use unetbootin and had no luck) but yes it is the .raw file you need to use (if it does work with unebootin please let us know).

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Okay, I'm now trying to install.
I'm using unetbootin to install it to my pendrive, and boot from a spare laptop. Do I need to extract it down to the .raw file to install?

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Quote from: jl2012 on January 06, 2013, 04:51:03 AM

Does it requires webcams? I don't have it

Hmm... a big part of the test is really the whole "gapped by air" comms - if you have a smartphone then you could still work it out by sending the image on the offline computer's screen via email and then scanning using zbarimg (rather than zbarcam).

This approach is a little more clumsy I'm afraid - but it is definitely doable (as I originally was testing things using a Galaxy Tab as a "go between" before I remembered that I had an old webcam lying around that I could use with my offline computer).

BTW - timezone is not an issue (you just need to post a solution within 48 hours of your *own* initial post to this topic) - if you end up with a little more time to "edit your result" because no-one quoted your "result" then that will not be a problem (I have to sleep at sometime and am not trying to be too anal about the rules).

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