[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.3 PRE-RELEASE installs w/o a hitch onto Raspbian!

[James Aubury]

Sounds good!
I'll give it a test to my Pi3 HDD setup in the next couple of days and see 
what happens.

On Tuesday, 13 June 2017 11:28:07 UTC+1, holt wrote:
>
> George Hunt loudly curses my name every day when he remembers he gave up a 
> comfortable retirement on the gold course to... *write software for 
> children + medical students in emerging countries instead ???*
>
> But the communities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti love him 
> nonetheless, as in coming weeks they will receive the product of his epic 
> work...
>
> Thanks in no small part to Tim Moody & Josh Dennis pulling off a very 
> challenging refactoring over the past weeks, rebasing a decade's worth of 
> code into far-more future-proof repositories, under our new 
> "Internet-in-a-Box" name ( http://github.com/iiab !)
>
>
> *So for those who now want a sneak preview install on Raspbian Pixel or 
> Raspbian Lite immediately, our 1-line installer is:*
>    curl download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load.txt | bash
>
> For me this completes in 1.5 hours, essentially flawlessly bringing us all 
> a very powerful new version of Kiwix -- but do let us know what works for 
> you!  And just for fun, read the instructions here too, so you learn 
> from+with others:
>
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/6.3
>
> Know Issues:
>
>    - your offline documentation (http://box/info) has a couple glitches 
>    we'll be working on in coming weeks
>    - some commands within /usr/bin have not yet been convert from prefix 
>    "xs-" to prefix "iiab-"
>    - a reboot is needed after installation, if you want OpenVPN to work
>
>
> PS final release date is undecided, but hopefully this will happen well 
> within the coming weeks!  There is so much to offer from our repertoire of 
> rapid community action / deployment efficiencies (even an 
> smartphone-friendly "Instant Off" button requested by medical clinics!)  
> But much more about our rising UX focus in coming weeks, as we write up our 
> release notes~  FYI far cleaner TeamViewer integration onto Raspbian, as 
> summarized here within http://FAQ.IIAB.IO here is another 
> transformational step forward allowing churches & small NGO's (even 
> sometimes Peace Corps voluntters in the field etc) to *co-develop their 
> community's very own Internet-in-a-Box*, even while separated by large 
> distances:
>
>    FAQ #21 How can I remotely manage my Internet-in-a-Box? 
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#How_can_I_remotely_manage_my_Internet-in-a-Box.3F>
>
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