Re: yet another auto builder :-)

2008-08-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:03:02 +0100 Kai Hendry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So with: http://build.webconverger.com/logs/2008-08-04.sid.txt I can tell unstable/sid isn't building today. Cool. Any suggestions are welcome! Sure. In red, put Build failed or in green Built successfully on this

Re: How to specify the binary.img size ?

2008-07-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:24 +0100 Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm confused about a few things here; why do you need it to be a fixed size? Also, why do you need it to be 1G?) The binary.img already contains partitioning information; you just need to dd it directly onto the target

Re: stuck in ubuntu-mode?

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:31:13 -0700 Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That didn't work. Reading the scripts, it turns out that this is set according to the host system. When I run it in debian those get set to debian values unless you set them in config/binary. All variables

Re: Using Debian Live

2007-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
John, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:23:32 -0400 John Lauterbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be either a lack of pointers to information or the information needed to use Debian Live to help repair a system that will not boot on account of a repairable hard drive error. In particular,

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: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:18:09 +1200 Angus McMorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:906588 287164 619424 0 41908 173652 -/+ buffers/cache: 71604 834984 Swap:0 0

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:33:49 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the default Etch kernel it isn't. $ grep CONFIG_HIGHMEM /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486/.config CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set Aha! Yet another reason etch is a bad default (which is

Re: [patch] incorrect default value for LH_INITRAMFS

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
This patch is not correct. On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:07:14 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When a value for LH_INITRAMFS is not set, defaults.sh will set it to 'auto' rather than setting it to something sensible (as is when it is set explicitly to 'auto'. The rationale for setting

Re: [patch] incorrect default value for LH_INITRAMFS

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:50:51 +0300 Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, this is where this test is implemented. I just want to apply the same logic for both auto and an empty value. With the original script, if I set it to auto this snippet would set it to a distro-specific value but

Re: live.debian.net repository GPG error

2007-07-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:00:09 +0200 spea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how i can import the key and using http://live.debian.net; repository without GPG error ? Johann, Your problem is that you are only importing the key into your build system, not into the chroot for the live CD. You need to put

Re: It's practical to dump an image to a Pendrive ?

2007-07-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:21:26 +0200 Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install Consider also that if you use the -rw support instead of -sn (snapshot), he flash drive is added to the union and so is constantly read from and written to. This

Re: usb img build

2007-07-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:14:30 +0200 Albert Czarnecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at moment when I install grub on pendrive I get error sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda3 --no-floppy '(hd1)' Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation fault when

Re: usb img build

2007-07-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:41:15 +0200 Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this error is a warning for xfs boot partitions, as the boot partition is formatted in fat32 or ext3, the warning has no sense. I assume, but have not checked the doc to verify, that the error occurs because the install

Re: swap partition in Flash drives

2007-07-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:43:40 +0200 Jordi Pujol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I disagree with you technically, Ben, when you said that a swap partition is not necessary on an USB flash drive, If the computer has enough memory, the swap partition will not be used, But if the computer has

Re: Security risks?

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:59:22 +0200 Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this really a secure setup? no :) True. But it's not as bad as it might at first appear. You can't login remotely to a livecd system. And even if you were to start an ssh server, you

Re: Missing bits and pieces in make-live?

2007-05-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 5 May 2007 23:34:23 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using this command as a root user: #make-live --bootstrap debootstrap --distribution sid --username usblive --filesystem ext2 --bootloader grub -b hdd -p standard generates a 'debian-live' directory,

Bug#281246: Debian-live needs this

2007-04-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Followup-For: Bug #281246 This isn't merely a matter of convenience for Debian-live. The live CDs produced by live-helper use casper which sets no root password. Instead the live user uses sudo. Thus, the aptitude menu entry that starts aptitude in a terminal

Re: [patch] casper: configure gksu+kdesu to use sudo

2007-03-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:49:47 -0300 Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. It will need some adjustment. It creates /.kde not /home/user/.kde I'll do more testing with kde tomorrow and post a correct patch. OK. I have attached a revised patch. This not only fixes the location of ~/.kde

[patch] casper: configure gksu+kdesu to use sudo

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
I have tested this patch with gnome but not kde yet. Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1

Re: [patch] casper: configure gksu+kdesu to use sudo

2007-03-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:46:55 -0300 Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested this patch with gnome but not kde yet. Ah. It will need some adjustment. It creates /.kde not /home/user/.kde I'll do more testing with kde tomorrow and post a correct patch. Ben -- ,-. nSLUGhttp

Re: Saving GUI settings inside the ISO

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:22:05 +0100 Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gracie wrote: What is the best way to save parameters from a GUI to the final ISO file? I don't know of any smarter way (suggestions welcome) but to: * chroot into the image (--hook bash), * launch firefox on

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:53:49 -0400 Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory I think this is doable with the proposed 2 partitions selectable at boot arrangement via grub-reboot, though I've never tried this. On second thought, where would info about the new kernel to boot be stored

Re: live and install in one CD?

2007-01-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:28:06 -0800 Jimmy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Live CD with an Install Me Icon on the Desktop, like other distro's are doing would be real sweet. In theory I think this is doable with the proposed 2 partitions selectable at boot arrangement via grub-reboot, though I've

Bug#400247: casper: non-standard mount option syntax is confusing

2006-11-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: casper Version: 1.77+debian-5 Severity: minor In scripts/casper: mount -r -o move ${copyto} ${copyfrom} Just because busybox considers -o option and --option to be the same (probably done so that the option processing code can be streamlined, saving precious bytes) doesn't mean you