persistent option

I'm trying to use the persistency feature and I succeded usgin qemu for executing the image and adding an hda virtual disk for persistence. What I'm failing doing is using a real USB device, booting the real computer from the live CD. I tried bot with casper (stable) and live-initramfs from

Re: persistent option

First of all, does your computer BIOS support booting from a USB stick at all? Also, have you made sure that your partition (should be the first one on your USB stick of filesystem type 'vfat', normally seen as '/dev/sda1' by Linux) is marked as bootable? You can use fdisk to achieve this.

Re: persistent option

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:42:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, does your computer BIOS support booting from a USB stick at all? Also, have you made sure that your partition (should be the first one on your USB stick of filesystem type 'vfat', normally seen as '/dev/sda1' by

timezone

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Re: timezone

Do You know how to set timezone at boot time? It seems for now hardocded to Etc/GMT. We could have some pseudo debconf preseeding in that place like following patch does. Applied to current SVN, I use it like e.g : $ make-live --bootappend=timezone=Europe/Paris I'm actually not really happy

Re: timezone

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Mathieu GELI wrote: I'm actually not really happy with that as we could go adding zillions Don't agree. This is good idea to use kernel boot parameters. This is flexible way to customize environment manually at boot time, especially for pxe boot.

Re: persistent option

Alle giovedì 28 giugno 2007, Enrico Tassi ha scritto: I tried the live CD with qemu, and I used -hda hand_made_vfat_image and it worked placin into it the cpio file created by casper-snapshot or live-snapshot. It worked perfectly. This should be working because it is one of the two snapshots

Re: timezone

Don't agree. This is good idea to use kernel boot parameters. This is flexible way to customize environment manually at boot time, especially for pxe boot. Well yes, the two mentioned way have pros and cons. I'm thinking also to have that done in live-sysvinit, i.e in late userland, we could

Re: custom kernel in local directory

But won't that be fixed automatically if they're all on the dpkg - i command-line? the ordering based on requirements. if I install my packages like this: dpkg -i ./unionfs-modules-2.6.18-4-bootsplash-686_1.4+debian-4+2.6.18.4_i386.deb