Re: Re: USB system with modified kernel and minimal software

2007-09-17 Thread Rene Sonderegger
Justin, thank you for your comments! I've downloaded: http://live.debian.net/debian-snapshots/live-helper_1.0~a29~20070917.124122_all.deb and http://live.debian.net/debian-snapshots/live-initramfs_1.102.2~20070917.110439_all.deb I did not see any information about downloading lh_helper scripts,

Re: Re: USB system with modified kernel and minimal software

2007-09-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:13:40AM -0600, Rene Sonderegger wrote: I did not see any information about downloading lh_helper scripts, so I followed the information at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/05/31/create-your-own-live-linux-cd-or-usb-distribution. This was the reason for my

Re: USB system with modified kernel and minimal software

2007-09-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:13:40 -0600 Rene Sonderegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not see any information about downloading lh_helper scripts, so I followed the information at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/05/31/create-your-own-live-linux-cd-or-usb-distribution. This was the reason

Re: d-l and --quiet

2007-09-17 Thread Daniel Baumann
Justin Pryzby wrote: Is there any reason d-l doesn't spawn all relevant tools with some incarnation of --quiet? Like aptitude. there is only one reason: nobody really did fix that, please send patches. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Bug#442922: live-helper: d-l overwrites its own files due to symlinks

2007-09-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0~a27-1 File: /usr/share/live-helper/data/debian-cd/ On an amd64 machine which had the following upgrade path: .../dpkg.log.1:2007-08-31 install live-helper none 1.0~a24-1 .../dpkg.log:2007-09-04 upgrade live-helper 1.0~a24-1 1.0~a25-1 .../dpkg.log:2007-09-06

Re: USB system with modified kernel and minimal software

2007-09-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:24:08PM -0600, Rene Sonderegger wrote: Justin and Ben, thanks for your comments! lh_config -d etch -b usb-hdd -p minimal --linux-packages none cp /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.20.19-rt_1_i386.deb config/chroot_local-packages Are you sure this has the modules for

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote: On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] First off, use a swap partition. I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by day. That's one of the benefits of the live CD approach in

USB system with modified kernel and minimal software

2007-09-17 Thread Rene Sonderegger
Justin and Ben, thanks for your comments! lh_config -d etch -b usb-hdd -p minimal --linux-packages none cp /usr/src/linux-image-2.6.20.19-rt_1_i386.deb config/chroot_local-packages Are you sure this has the modules for squashfs and either aufs or unionfs (depending on and consistent with the

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-17 Thread Angus McMorland
On 18/09/2007, Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote: On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] First off, use a swap partition. I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by