uloop integration [Was: running livecd from a hd without installing it]

2008-05-18 Thread Hadar Weiss
Sorry for the delay... I must say: Great idea! uloop sounds very interesting, and it can help implement cool features many of us wanted (other than HD boot). I read the thread on aufs list, and it seems that you've managed to boot debian-live with ulooped device. Can you please post the necessary

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi It's kind of frustrating when you keep ignoring suggestions that are not exactly the way a specific live distribution behave. On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:01:24AM +0200, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: I searched for some info about using grub as the liveCD boot-loader Have you looked

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:01:24AM +0200, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: [...] So, any more ideas? Well, there are still loadlin[1] (but only for DOS, w95, w98 AFAIK) and CoLinux[2]. No idea how well they would mesh with a live system, but the

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Jordi Pujol
Hello, Also I think so, seems me a very heavy work to copy the complete operating system to disk to get better performance. have you tested other alternatives as faster USB memories (example of type SHDC turbo SD) or USB hard disks, along with an squashfs file system with block of 256 KB and

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle Saturday 10 May 2008, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ha scritto: Hi all, Dyne:bolic has a feature called docking where the user is able to simply copy the system directory from the CD to a partition (what can be done from inside a windows system too) and boot using it instead the cd

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Thanks again for all the answers, The most important thing here is that I'm trying to use the liveCD system with the best performance possible, that's why I thought at first on running it from the hd. When I have more time maybe I will make some experiments with grub and

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Jordi Pujol
Hello, Looking into the net I have found a utility that is part of the files distributed with aufs, its name is uloop. This tool mounts a filesystem in loop devices and creates a cache in another filesystem. The original filesystem, by now, only could be a block device and http URLs. The

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-10 Thread Jordi Pujol
Have you tried simply copying the contents of the CD somewheer and using an alternative boot loader? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-10 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
I searched for some info about using grub as the liveCD boot-loader and heard it's not so efficient in some systems. The point is that dyne:bolic also uses isolinux, so I thought it should work with debian too. I read the boot messages from dyne and found out that it seeks for a .kmods

running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-09 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hi all, Dyne:bolic has a feature called docking where the user is able to simply copy the system directory from the CD to a partition (what can be done from inside a windows system too) and boot using it instead the cd content. I find that awesome, since I can run my system

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:14:39AM +0200, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: Hi all, Dyne:bolic has a feature called docking where the user is able to simply copy the system directory from the CD to a partition (what can be done from inside a windows system too) and boot using it