Re: USB Persistency

2007-05-01 Thread Jonathan Hall
The instructions on wiki.flimzy.com include a program called 'moo' that you could possibly run in a cronjob. The trick there is that after every 7th backup, a reboot is necessary (Because it mounts the newly-created backup image as an additional branch in the unionfs, and only 8 loopback devices

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Jonathan Hall
http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Debian_on_USB I am using this system on 2 production LVS routers now, and on my home router... it still has room for improvement, but it seems to work pretty well :) On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:41 +0200, LluĂ­s Gras wrote: I was wondering... Does anyone have a

[Patch] casper: Add support for alternate live media mountpoint

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan Hall
This patch allows the user to specify livemount= on the kernel commandline, to specify an alternative location for the live media to be mounted on the booted system. For example, livemount=/boot will put the live media on /boot instead of /live_mount when the boot process is complete. diff -ru

Bug#409980: Undocumented command line options

2007-02-06 Thread Jonathan Hall
Package: casper Version: 1.79+debian-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch There are several command-line options recognized by casper that are not documented. This patch adds documentation for these features to the casper(7) man page. I have attempted to group these options logically with related

[Patch] Allow specific ordering of images in /casper directory

2007-02-06 Thread Jonathan Hall
This patch causes casper to mount images in the /casper directory in alpha-numeric order, rather than in the previously undefined, psuedo-arbitrary order. It also adds support for an optional config file, /casper/order.lst, to define a specific order to load images (and to omit any images not

Bug#409300: mountroot() calls find_livefs() with improper timeout values

2007-02-01 Thread Jonathan Hall
Package: casper Version: 1.79+debian-1 In the script 'casper', find_livefs() does a -lt comparison between ${timeout} and ${LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT} which requires numerical values. However, mountroot() passes a mixture of numbers and letters as arguments to find_livefs() which become ${timeout}. This

Bug#409308: casper should depend on 'file'

2007-02-01 Thread Jonathan Hall
Package: casper Version: 1.79+debian-1 Severity: serious /etc/rc0.d/S89casper attempts to use the 'file' command, but 'file' is not required by the package. ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org