On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction Rob, really appreciate it. > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > 9) With your USB drive inserted and not mounted: > > > > (replace "X" with the proper letter for your device) dd if=binary.img > > of=/dev/sdX > > Several questions regarding this step: > > - what's the underlying file system does the binary.img have, vfat? Yes, it is vfat. However, I think if your image is over a certain size it is created using a different filesystem (I can't remember which, and I can't remember exactly where I read that).
> - what bootloader does it use? syslinux. There is an option in lh_config to specify "--bootloader grub" or "--bootloader yaboot" if you want/need to use one of those. > - is there any other way to install the content, say copy into a ext3 > partition? I think you should be able to mount binary.img as a loopback interface. You might need to specify "-t squashfs" in your mount command, and for that you might need some special squashfs tools. I think I did this once, but I don't remember the steps. If you're concerned about adding packages w/o using "-p mylist", you can add "--interactive enabled" into the lh_config command. That'll give you a shell before the image is created (after you run lh_build). There you can add repositories, install software, etc. When you exit the shell, the build will continue. > - how can I create an .iso file instea? Use "-b iso" instead of "-b usb-hdd" in the lh_config command. I'm not sure if/how persistence would work if you create a live CD. I've never tried it. > > I know all above questions are of RTFM ones (though scattered all over > the places), so please ignore me if they bother you. > No problem. There are many conflicting sets of instructions floating around on wikis, etc. It took me a long time to get this stuff figured out. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org