Re: apt-get install "Failed to fetch" "404 Not Found" IP ...

2017-05-06 Thread Ed Dixon
Years ago (not sure about current builds), I was in a similar situation where my deployments had to remain offline and can highly recommend apt-offline as an excellent solution to this problem. If I recall correctly all that is required is a portable drive, python (any OS), and a reliable connectio

Re: Virtualbox on Debian Live

2016-03-11 Thread Ed Dixon
It was possible and still should be. I used his setup a lot while teaching a network program at a local college here covering both windows and linux servers and desktops OS / config / etc, etc and it worked great! Ran dl from ram with persistence only back to the hard drive (booting from usb disk)

Re: Bug#804315:Namespace issue

2015-11-10 Thread Ed Dixon
+1 Here Please! On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:27 PM chals wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Michael . wrote: > > Good afternoon Neil McGovern. > > > > As a user of Debian and user of Debian Live I am personally contacting > you > > to express my disappointment over the issue named in the ti

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-10 Thread Ed Dixon
I agree with the last few posts here it is a huge mess now and it is up to Debian to continue this work and support our downstream efforts since they have decided to do this to Daniel and our Debian-live efforts. As much as I love and support Debian I am honestly not expecting that but this is now

Re: [ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread Ed Dixon
Be sure to share Daniels story via social media using the buttons on his blog. I hope it wakes up the entire community to what happens when you actually do something right around here! https://t.co/NwWs9AfW87 Thanks, On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:15 PM Richard Newton wrote: > I agree, shame on those

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Ed Dixon
So sorry to hear this Daniel! I feel what they have done here is so wrong, but I have noticed they are very totalitarian in their processes. To do this to someone who has contributed so much though is really stupid on their part! I will definitely be forking here as prior versions fit my needs perf

Re: Bug#804315: [Vmdebootstrap-devel] Namespace issues

2015-11-08 Thread Ed Dixon
I can not think of a worse way to go about doing this if your intent was a collaboration with Debian-live! The only one here who has a right to any hostility would be Daniel and others who have put a lot of effort into the packages you freely admit you are building upon, instead of making contribut

Re: Live Systems, live-build web-frontend - Build 20150101.095643.495345192

2015-01-02 Thread Ed Dixon
I have no idea what he said but it could be a bug depending on version, using debian-next branch here building live jessie with user-setup and sudo included in package list can not login as well... ran into this last night. On Fri Jan 02 2015 at 1:36:15 PM chals wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5

Re: Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian

2014-12-31 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, I have been using the xtrlock package which allows the screen to still be viewed while locked to good effect in classroom situations. It takes the current users password by default. I may be missing something here but as far as I am aware all current Debian screen locking mechanisms fill this n

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-09 Thread Ed Dixon
Wow that will be a major change! I will be testing live persistence here as soon as it is available! Thanks to both of you for your hard work in all of this! On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 1:54:21 PM Daniel Baumann < daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > On 12/09/14 20:55, Ben Hutchings wrote

Re: FYI: final versions for live-* for jessie

2014-11-10 Thread Ed Dixon
Absolutely! Thank You Thank You Thank You On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Richard Newton wrote: > Thank you and your employer! > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Baumann < > daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > >> Thanks to my employer, I can spend quality time

Re: (Solved) Persistent File Storage on NTFS

2014-11-03 Thread Ed Dixon
fragmentation or an attribute is being added to the file at some point? Suggestions appreciated. On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Ed Dixon wrote: > Hi, > > Just posting this here in hopes of helping others. This may be old news to > some,and the documentation has said this is possible

(Solved) Persistent File Storage on NTFS

2014-11-02 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, Just posting this here in hopes of helping others. This may be old news to some,and the documentation has said this is possible since the 2.X series but I have never had any luck with it and others have asked about it in the past as well. With the latest 4.X build I was successful in loading a

Re: Closing on the Jessie Cycle and Starting the Jessie+1 Cycle

2014-08-28 Thread Ed Dixon
One word: *AWESOME!* On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Daniel Baumann < daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > I've uploaded live-* 4.0.0 yesterday concluding the main jessie cycle > for debian-live. There will no doubtly be a few follow uploads with > translation updates, dropping o

Debian Live Team Rocks! 4.0~alpha39-1

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Dixon
I just wanted to say congrats after a flawless build here from current live-build from GIT! I love the python transition! That's what I call progress! WOW! Keep Rockin!

Re: xorriso : FAILURE when building iso-hybrid

2014-07-21 Thread Ed Dixon
Same experience here (in fact this thread started almost exactly when I ran into the first failed build due to this). Tried using the current git debian-next branch as suggested. Many of the core *.bin and *.c32 files seemed to be missing from the binary isolinux / syslinux folders. I tried copyin

LVM2 persistence

2014-07-15 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, I am sure this has come up but I have not found anything in the mailing list regarding how to create a persistent store on a logical volume. Is it possible? Efforts here have failed. Thanks,

Overlay Managment

2014-05-20 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, First thanks all for your continued hard work on this project and the great accomplishments you have achieved. I was wondering if any one knows of a sane method of allowing control of stacked file system layers after boot in Debian live. Similar to what the docker project is doing but targeti

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2013-03-04 Thread Ed Dixon
Because this thread mentions performance of persistence, I just tried full persistence last night with " / union" in the persistence conf file and I am definitely surprised to see how much slower (est. 5 to 10 times slower) it is on my 2.0 USB thumbdrive than previous versions like squeeze. Is thi

Fwd:

2013-01-26 Thread Ed Dixon
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Debian Live Xen

2012-09-24 Thread Ed Dixon
It seems this was possible in versions past but the Xen info from the old wiki is hopelessly out of date. Can some one put me on the right path to getting a Debian Xen Dom0 live hypervisor or a Debian KVM live equivalent? Thanks,

Re: Bug

2012-08-30 Thread Ed Dixon
Thanks to chals explanation that a live-persistence.conf is required in the root of the image file this has been resolved. I have tried to close the bug report I opened by emailing 685270-d...@lists.debian.org. I do feel that the live documentation needs work regarding this feature. As it reads no

Bug#685270: doesn't mount ext4 persistence file

2012-08-30 Thread Ed Dixon
Resolved thanks to chals suggestion that a properly formatted live-persistence.conf file be included file on the root of the persistence image file system which is documented in man live-persistence.conf.

Bug#685270: Recreation of 685270

2012-08-19 Thread Ed Dixon
I hope this helps clarify the process I used to try and create the live system. 1. From a wheezy desktop create chroot image for sid. 2. Within Chrooted sid downloaded current git versions and build live-build, live-config, and live-boot. 3. Install built live-build, live-config, and live-boot

Re: Re: Bug#685270: live-boot: Fails to mount ext4 persistence file Missing messages

2012-08-19 Thread Ed Dixon
Posting this to fill in the missing messages I just clicked on what keeping the bug cc'd ment sorry. retitle 685270: doesn't mount ext4 persistence file thanks On 08/19/2012 08:40 AM, Ed Dixon wrote: > Built live from chrooted Sid and booted from disk with persistence file in root

Re: Bug#685270: live-boot: Fails to mount ext4 persistence file

2012-08-19 Thread Ed Dixon
I will check the version of live-boot the system has build in it (made the assumption that it would use the one on the building system). But as to the rest yes.

Re: Image file Persistence and documentation.

2012-08-18 Thread Ed Dixon
I just filed a bug report on this issue having now confirmed it in both wheezy and sid builds.

Bug#685270: live-boot: Fails to mount ext4 persistence file

2012-08-18 Thread Ed Dixon
Package: live-boot Version: 3.0~b1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Built live from chrooted Sid and booted from disk with persistence file in root as described in manual. * What exactly

Re: Image file Persistence and documentation.

2012-08-15 Thread Ed Dixon
After rereading the post I noticed another mistake the mount brought about by having a file named persistence should be /live/dev/sxxx not just /dev/sxx. Sorry for any confusion that may bring. Thanks,

Re: Image file Persistence and documentation.

2012-08-13 Thread Ed Dixon
Just noticed in the post that I mentioned file name persistent I also used persistence as per the manual.

Image file Persistence and documentation.

2012-08-13 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, Should the information provided here be useful please submit this as a bug. I am no stranger to code but I am just getting to know GIT, the Debian bug reporting process, and I am not sure that my setup reflects what is expected to be testing against for bug reporting purposes. I am running Deb

Re: live-boot todo for wheezy

2012-06-04 Thread Ed Dixon
This is easy to say as I am not the one doing the work but, the snapshots feature opens up worlds of possibilities and could definitely be useful in the future. I think d-l is evolving so fast that no one has really had time to explore that feature much yet, but I would hate to see us lose it.

Re: remount boot media with RW flag

2011-09-01 Thread Ed Dixon
This may help, Daniel dropped a hint about using ext formatted files as persistent storage in the 2.0 documentation and for me it has worked like a charm. I can create an image file to use with persistence on anything but NTFS so the 4G limitation applies but then still browse to live image where o

Re: Need help with config.conf and boot.conf syntax / layout

2011-08-22 Thread Ed Dixon
Thank you! I am honored to have helped a little. I had assumed everyone was getting this but me! On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/22/2011 06:10 PM, Ed Dixon wrote: >> >> I can't seem to create these files (config.conf and >> boot.conf)

Need help with config.conf and boot.conf syntax / layout

2011-08-22 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, I have been really looking over DL3 here and am just trying to get my head around all the cool changes and I really like what I am reading but, I can't seem to create these files (config.conf and boot.conf) in a manor the system will accept. Are the commands coma separated, line returned, do we

Bug#630919: live-build: --apt aptitude doesn't work because of --force-yes

2011-06-24 Thread Ed Dixon
I am not sure but I think the Bug now exists in the Squeeze Repos? P: Configuring file /etc/apt/sources.list Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-utils 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 271

Thank You Debian Live and a small request

2011-05-28 Thread Ed Dixon
Daniel and the rest of the crew, I have been working with Debian live for a long time and absolutely love it! I appreciate all the hard work, effort, and direction put into it. I have created a variant based on Debian live that helps teachers with a need for a portable network lab setup I call Edi