Build image without compression?

2007-06-12 Thread gomporra
Hello, there are any way to build de image (iso/img) without compression , i don't want to use filesystem.squashfs,i only want the files. Thanks to all. -- Electrònica, Telemàtica, Informàtica i Audiovisuals a la Politècnica de Mataró.

custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
Typical problem I am solving with custom kernel for years is installation system onto hardware not supported by Debian. In most cases this is disk (raid) controllers supported by drivers in binary form only (no open source) available for limited list of distributions like suse or redaht. Few

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:11:51PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: Typical problem I am solving with custom kernel for years is installation system onto hardware not supported by Debian. In most cases this is disk (raid) controllers supported by drivers in binary form only (no open source)

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:33:42PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Why do you need a plain (rather than squashfs) filesystem? Is it because your custom kernel does not support squashfs? ^^^ First of all this is not my kernel. If we need custom kernel, we should think about

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:09:36PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: available in binary form only. In this case You should use binary kernel from redhat or suse. Yes, even in this case You can take appropriate kernel source and compile kernel modules, but this is addition work. I don't

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: LIVE_LINUX_PACKAGES=kernel-2.6.22 LIVE_LINUX_PACKAGES=none otherwise lh_chroot_linux-image still installs a debian kernel. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: And with this correction, do You think I will get what I need? yes; otherwise i would have added other points to solve/do/$whatever in the last mail of mine :) And what You think about to include this feature to standard configuration? That is, instead of making

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:24:49PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: i do not understand. you don't need to make kernel packages yourself, debian offers binary packages for the linux kernel. what /excately/ do you want? Daniel, please read whole this thread from beginning. If we are using debian

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: Custom kernel is not debian kernel nigher binary nor source. i do not care about kernels beeing not packaged in a .deb. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet:

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:04:22AM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:24:49PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: i do not understand. you don't need to make kernel packages yourself, debian offers binary packages for the linux kernel. what /excately/ do you want?

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Vladimir Stavrinov
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:03:44PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: i do not care about kernels beeing not packaged in a .deb. Why? I don't like hardware with non-open source drivers, but in real life we often should make such systems for ours customers. **

Re: custom kernel

2007-06-12 Thread Trent Buck
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:27:51PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:09:36PM +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote: available in binary form only. In this case You should use binary kernel from redhat or suse. Yes, even in this case You can take appropriate kernel

Re: initramfs dropping to shell without login

2007-06-12 Thread Mr Alk3
I apologize for not searching the list. I will do that for now on before asking a question. From what I extracted from previous conversations, my problem is that initramfs isn't finding my CD ROM. I tried to boot from a CD with a burned ISO on a separate machine- it was a no go. Either I