Full screen mode in vmware?

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Creel
With regard to my previous question about autologin to KDE, thanks. The following elements in a package list # KDE konqueror konsole kate kpdf katapult kcontrol ksnapshot ksysguard ksysguardd kde-core kdm combined with lh_config --mirror-bootstrap http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/; \ -a amd64

Re: Full screen mode in vmware?

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Creel
On Nov 13, 2007 11:02 AM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Creel wrote: Now to a new minor problem - when the image is booted up under VMware, the screen resolution is too large to fit, and I'm unable to switch to fullscreen mode. Most live CDs (parallelknoppix, grml, etc

Strategy for customized home dir

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Creel
To create a customized home dir, I'm thinking of using the script #!/bin/bash echo extracting pkuser home dir cd /home/pkuser tar xfj /live/image/pkuser.bz2 chown -R pkuser.pkuser /home/pkuser echo done extracting pkuser home dir following the suggestion in item 16 of the FAQ,

how to NFS mount /home ?

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Creel
I need to figure out how to have the live CD image nfs mount /home. To be exact, I need to execute mount 192.168.0.1:/home /home in a way so that this is not subsequently undone by the normal creation of /home/user. By the way, live-helper is fantastic. Thanks in advance, M

Re: how to NFS mount /home ?

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Creel
On Nov 13, 2007 10:50 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Creel wrote: I need to figure out how to have the live CD image nfs mount /home. To be exact, I need to execute mount 192.168.0.1:/home /home in a way so that this is not subsequently undone by the normal creation

net-root-path?

2007-11-19 Thread Michael Creel
I'm trying to get a live-helper created CD to netboot copies of itself, similar to what the Knoppix terminalserver does. I tried making a netboot image with the --net-root-path=/live/image, and /live/image is NFS exported from the Debian Live instance that is operating as the server. When the

announce: PelicanHPC

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Creel
. Sid didn't work the last time I tried. Comments, suggestions, etc. are very welcome. Cheers, Michael - script follows - #!/bin/sh # Copyright 2007, 2008 Michael Creel [EMAIL PROTECTED] # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under

Re: announce: PelicanHPC

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Creel
Hold off on testing this for a bit, I put a bug in it right before posting, like an idiot! I'll post the fixed version in a moment. M. On Jan 2, 2008 12:06 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Creel wrote: I am posting a script below that creates a live CD for HPC clustering

new version of PelicanHPC script available

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Creel
A new version is out, available at http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/download/make_pelican-v1.1 One thing I'm not happy with is the generation of the tfpboot configuration, which is the section of the script that reads ## tftpboot stuff for nodes ## # this section should

Re: Live-usb with persistence

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Creel
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Friday 15 February 2008 14:39:12 Erwan Le Gall va escriure: Hello, Hello list, In the second hand, I found the few lines about initramfs and live-snapshot which could be an alternative. But I'm unable to create

Re: Problem with running the image

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Creel
On Feb 17, 2008 6:56 AM, Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 16, 2008 8:03 PM, maybeway36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Creel made a replacement lh_binary_rootfs that you can use with Lenny: http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/download/lh_binary_rootfs This is probably

Re: Request for lh_config switch to set default password

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Creel
changes and fixes, On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:52:09 Michael Creel va escriure: Hello all, This has been discussed on IRC a little, but I wanted to summarize why I think that a means of letting the user

syslinux splash screen?

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Creel
Hello, I am unable to figure out how to activate a customized syslinux splash screen. With live-helper-1.0-a37 I could get one by copying my image into config/binary_syslinux/splash.rle and using the lh_config switch --syslinux-splash 'config/binary_syslinux/splash.rle' With newer versions of

Re: syslinux splash screen?

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Creel
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Michael Creel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:59:14PM +0100, Michael Creel wrote: Hello, I am unable to figure out how to activate a customized syslinux

Re: syslinux splash screen?

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Creel
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:55:38AM +0100, Michael Creel wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Michael Creel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: SMP support

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Creel
This issue came up in relation to PelicanHPC. The answer is yes, it is easy to use a SMP kernel. See this forum post http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=15755581framed=y M. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Adam Faulconbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Debian-live to run a

Re: Cross packaging issues with module-assistant

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Creel
When you work in a chroot, you still are running a amd64 kernel, so the corresponding headers get downloaded. One way around this is to do all of this in a virtual machine of the appropriate architecture. That can be relatively slow, though. M. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Giorgio Pioda

Re: [PATCH]: Fixes and Features, misc things

2008-05-23 Thread Michael Creel
I regularly do builds using the parallel capabilities of mksquashfs, and have never seen any problems. All of the PelicanHPC releases were made this way, and I haven't received any bug reports. M. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanatermesis [EMAIL

robust netboot image

2008-06-16 Thread Michael Creel
Hello all, Working on PelicanHPC, I have found that ISO images always boot on diverse hardware, but that the same configuration used to make a netboot image sometimes fails to boot. I personally have seen the netboot image fail on a Dell desktop machine, while loading firewire drivers. Users of

Re: Live-Helper PXE/TFTP server DebianLive error

2008-06-25 Thread Michael Creel
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Stephen Yorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HEYA ALL… I am getting an error when trying to mount my source via my exports file: /srv/debian-live *(ro,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) When I boot my LiveCD I get the error: exportfs:

Re: Live-Helper PXE/TFTP server DebianLive error

2008-06-30 Thread Michael Creel
PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Creel Sent: Wed 6/25/2008 4:50 AM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: Debian Live Subject: Re: Live-Helper PXE/TFTP server DebianLive error On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Stephen Yorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HEYA ALL... I am getting an error when trying to mount my