Thanks for your reply Narcis.
However it seems that on first boot, debian live does not launch lightdm
but launches lxde directly.
In fact, when I log out, I go back to tty.
I have lightdm configured with the below:
session-cleanup-script=systemctl restart lightdm
However, this applies only wh
How can I configure live-build so that on boot it will:
1. Disable auto-login
2. Load lightdm login screen
I have tried passing the noautologin parameter. The lightdm login screen
shows but as soon as I start to type, I get back to a black tty screen with
just the cursor blinking.
After some online research, with reference to this page:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/753423/must-apt-behave-in-the-same-way-regardless-of-the-order-of-the-packages
, I managed to solve it by adding the package xterm at the end of the list.
Maybe it forces a dependency to be installed?
Thanks John.
However, what if I do not want sub-menus and want just a single menu entry
called "Start Installer GUI" for example?
Also if I delete the install_text.cfg and install_start_text.cfg since I do
not want the text based installer, will the default ones take their place
since they are no
While trying to do a live-build and installing lxde-core and xorg, the
build is stopping with the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
luit: Breaks: x11-utils (< 7.7+6) but 7.7+5 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be cau
Hi,
I would like to have the following menu entries:
*B*oot System
Boot System with *P*ersistence
Boot System (*F*ailsafe)
*I*nstall System
By default the menu has 2 sub menu entries for the install which I do not
want. I just want the Install System to point to the normal installation
using GUI
Thanks again Roland for your time and help.
I will try your suggestions and let you know should I encounter any issues.
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 15:34, Roland Clobus wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> On 04/02/2024 15:18, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> > Thanks Roland.
> >
> > And
Thanks again
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 15:07, Roland Clobus wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> >> On Sun, 4 Feb, 2024, 7:08 pm Robert Spiteri, >> <mailto:rspiter...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> How can I set the user's fullname as a boot parameter?
>
> On
But this is not the hostname, this refers to the user's full name which by
default is "Debian live user".
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 14:41, Harshad Joshi wrote:
> Do not use space in between. Refer hostname rules from live installer help
>
> On Sun, 4 Feb, 2024, 7:08 p
How can I set the user's fullname as a boot parameter?
Using live-build I did lb config --bootappend-live user-fullname="Linux
User", however it does not work since in the config file it would be saved
as:
LB_BOOTAPPENDLIVE="user-fullname="Linux User"" - there is a mix of double
quotes and the lb
Robert Spiteri gmail.com> writes:
> thanks for your reply
>
> the persistence.conf file is a text file containing the character '/'
> because I want all the system changes to be persistent.
>
> I followed the stable manual...
>
> Kindly advise.
>
Daniel Baumann progress-technologies.net> writes:
>
> On 08/15/2015 02:30 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> > 7. create the persistence.conf file
>
> what's the content of the file?
>
> > 8. populated it with /
>
> what do you mean with 'populated wi
Hi,
1. I downloaded debian live cinnamon iso.
using virtualbox...
2. create a virtual hard disk of 2GB
3. booted debian live
4. formatted harddisk as ext4
5. create persistence image as per stable manual instructions
6. mounted the image
7. create the persistence.conf file
8. populated it with /
Thanks for all your help. I will go with Alsa then packaged with debian
live.
Cheers
On 3 Aug 2015 09:49, "Michal Suchanek" wrote:
> On 3 August 2015 at 09:32, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > What I mean is a distribution that supports m
ot; wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I build my own (Voyage MPD) using debian live. This is not a very
> trimmed, it still requires ~200-300MB.
>
> Anyway, I don't understand why full sound support mean. Can you elaborate?
>
> http://linux.voyage.hk/develop
>
>
> On Wed,
Hi,
I would like to build a *minimal *debian with full sound support i.e. all
the drivers/packages/files needed for a sound support on all (most)
hardware.
I do not want network support and internet access.
minimal debian with openbox (or maybe a lighter alternative) and full sound
support.
Can
Ok cheers. I understand now. Thanks for looking into this...
On Oct 10, 2012 4:50 AM, "Daniel Reichelt" wrote:
> On 09.10.2012 15:58, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> > Thanks for this. So I just remove cupsd from the list of packages? Or
> > are there any other package
Thanks for this. So I just remove cupsd from the list of packages? Or are
there any other packages which I have to exclude? Sorry if I did not
understand your answer well...
On 9 October 2012 04:15, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> > Yes I guess it is a bug unfortunately. Thanks for your time.
>
> Sorry
Hi,
I have passed my list of packages through apt-rdepends and no package
depends on xserver-xorg. However the sid build is getting xserver-xorg and
all its huge dependencies, which I do not want.
Is there a switch that should be specified please? Basically, I do not want
xserver to be included i
Ok solved the problem. Am using virtualbox and pae was not enabled...
On 8 September 2012 11:44, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Please any help on this? Didn't find any help online...
>
>
> On 7 September 2012 20:08, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am c
Please any help on this? Didn't find any help online...
On 7 September 2012 20:08, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am compiling a debian live sid image, with linux-flavours "486 686". The
> build suddenly stopped with the following error:
>
> df:Warning:
Already did. But the video-all package was not installed...
Hi,
Am compiling a debian live sid image, with linux-flavours "486 686". The
build suddenly stopped with the following error:
df:Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems : No such file or
directory
/usr/sbin/iucode_tool: cpuid kernel driver unavailable, cannot scan system
processor sign
I have built a live cd including the package xserver-xorg. The live cd
works fine in virtualbox and boots correctly. However when I burned the ISO
to a CD and booted it, the system stopped and output "Fatal: No Screens
found"
As soon as I installed xserver-xorg-video-vesa, the GUI loaded with no
p
Solved the problem with a while (true) bash script that executes on openbox
startup. The script sleeps for 1 second not to spike CPU usage to 99%...
On 26 August 2012 14:27, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Yes I did. But pcmanfm does not have an option to include the trash
> desktop icon unle
s I remember Trash
> service works through gvfs.
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. I have created a desktop file to show the trash
> icon
> > on desktop. I mean that is the way I found it should be done. I need to
>
and how
> often you
> willing to check, (I am just curious)?
>
> Pcmanfm couldn't handle standard gvfs Trash and change icon accordingly?
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > I need to make a cron job to check if a particular directory i
I need to make a cron job to check if a particular directory is empty or
not. The cron job is supposed to be readily available when the live system
boots. How can I do that?
My intention is to change the trash icon to a full one when a file is
deleted. I will be using pcmanfm.
thanks in advance.
That's it mate. Just add MENU CLEAR after each label to clear the screen...
Thanks a lot for your help...
On 25 August 2012 12:49, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Yes I just found that in fact and am gonna try it right now... Thanks
>
> Will post again soon...
>
>
> On 25 Augu
Yes I just found that in fact and am gonna try it right now... Thanks
Will post again soon...
On 25 August 2012 12:47, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov wrote:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux#Clear_Menu ?
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
>
to do that, see
>
> https://github.com/crayxt/kazsid/blob/master/tmp/001-rename-kernel-and-initrd.binary
>
> But I also use my own boot menu files, see
> https://github.com/crayxt/kazsid/tree/master/config/includes.binary
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Robert Spiteri
>
Please can someone provide any input on this? I am kind of lost and I could
not find any releavant documentation online...
On 24 August 2012 09:47, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> I am using menu.c32 to display the syslinux menu in my debian live cd.
> However when I choose an option to boo
I am using menu.c32 to display the syslinux menu in my debian live cd.
However when I choose an option to boot, the cursor homes to the top but
the menu is not cleared.
Is that something to with the syslinux version in the debian squeeze
repository or am I missing something please?
--
Robert
Thanks a lot. That's exactly what I needed
On 18 August 2012 12:43, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 12/08/12 01:58 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> > If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify at
> > boot?
> >
> > persistence-lab
Ok thanks. So should I use persistent-subtext= ?
And how should the label named? I mean if I have a partition called "work",
shall I specify persistent-subtext=work at boot?
On 18 August 2012 12:39, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 18/08/12 03:02 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> >
I am using the live-build version of debian squeeze... What version of
live-boot does it contain?
On Aug 18, 2012 4:00 AM, "Richard Nelson" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > If I want to use more than one persistent
Ok that's what was needed. Thanks for your help...
Cheers
On 17 August 2012 14:49, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> It says...
>
> W: Local packages must be named with suffix '_all.deb' or
> '_$architecture'.deb'
>
> Is this why it is being ignored? Sho
cified the correct directory
> config/chroot_local-packages.
>
> What's in a build.log? Build it with lb build 2>&1 | tee build.log
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > I am using Squeeze...
> >
> >
> > On 17 Augus
I am using Squeeze...
On 17 August 2012 14:23, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov wrote:
> Which distribution are you using, sid?
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > The problem is lb config does not create any directory called
> > packages.chroot...
The problem is lb config does not create any directory called
packages.chroot...
On 17 August 2012 14:11, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Put the file into correct location, which is config/packages.chroot
> directory
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at
Hi,
I want to include the teamviewer .deb package in my live-build. I
downloaded the deb file and put it in config/chroot_local-packages/.
However it did not get installed but was ignored. Shall I specify something
else in lb config?
Thanks
--
Robert
If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify at
boot?
persistence-label=OR
persistent-subText=
Because in the manual it says persistence-label but I found other
documentation online which uses persistent-subText.
Thanks
> Do you have build-logfiles available before/after 2012/07/29?
Sorry I do not have any log files...
> Do you remember to have been running cupsd (on the host, not within
> chroot) at build-time? I can remember that as relevant but sadly not
> exactly how...
Yes I was running the cups on the hos
Just wanted to point out that this problem arised end of
July/beginning of August. I built an image on the 29th of the July
including cups-pdf and no password was asked, therefore the build was
entirely automatic.
On 10 August 2012 20:04, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Thanks for your reply...
>
Thanks for your reply...
> By either putting the .deb in the appropriate directory of the lb config
> tree or by apt-pinning.
I prefer not to use apt-pinning because I prefer my deb files to be
from the stable repository but thanks for the tip.
> I haven't tried to include cups-pdf since then. I
> version that is installed in your build?
The version that is automatically downloaded by live-build from the
stable repositories is 2.5.0-16
How can I setup live-build to install a different version of cups?
On 10 August 2012 11:40, Rui Bernardo wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:15:
Am using live-build including cups-pdf and am being asked for the root
password? This breaks automation of build.
Is there something to be setup in the lb config which I am not aware of
please?
System: Debian Squeeze (stable), kernel version 2.6.32-5-686
--
Robert
I just built a debian live cd, disabling the syslinux menu and using the
default prompt
"Press F1 for help, enter to boot"
When I pressed enter, it says "Cannot find kernel live"
However when I type "/live/vmlinuz" it loads normally...
--
Robert
http://www.weavefx.com
Sorry... forgot to read the manual pages...
On 9 August 2011 08:26, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Is there a way of knowing what values each switch can have?
>
> Like for example, in the chroot config file
>
> LB_PACKAGES_LISTS="standard"
>
> but what other values can
Is there a way of knowing what values each switch can have?
Like for example, in the chroot config file
LB_PACKAGES_LISTS="standard"
but what other values can it have, excpet from "standard"?
Any documentation which I have not yet encountered pls?
--
Robert
http://www.weavefx.com
using lb config, how do you specify what packages to exclude, using the
command line?
I need to make everything execute automatically in a bash script
--bootstrap-exclude does not seem to be working. maybe I am missing
something?
thanks in advance
--
Robert
http://www.weavefx.com
Hi,
I tried to build an image using the mentioned online app and it failed at
the end with the following output:
binary.sh: line 5: isohybrid: command not found
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
End: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:11:08 -0600
Here are the build details:
# live-build.cgi "2.0.3-1" build
thanks for your reply Chris.
However my question is:
Imagine I have a pendrive of 512 MB with debian live standard usb image on
it. Can i have a loopback file of 1 GB on the hard drive and not on the
pendrive? And will the live usb search for any mountable partition for the
live-rw file and not j
Can a casper-rw loopback file be on a separate device and then be used by a
debian live cd?
ex: booting from a usb pendrive and then using casper-rw file which is on
the harddisk
in that case, any boot parameters that need to be specified?
thanks in advance
--
Robert
http://www.weavefx.com
2 will be designed in
a different way, based on what I was told from this mailing list in much
more detail.
Thanks again for your time and help.
On 1 September 2010 21:37, Richard Nelson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> >>>
be in the image
>> or on the net.
Ok thanks Richard cause I thought that the passwd hook did the trick.
Now I get your point, cheers.
On 1 September 2010 16:40, Richard Nelson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> >>>
010 03:33, Richard Nelson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Robert Spiteri
> wrote:
> > By default I assigned the name of the live user as domabot.
> >
> > I already made a hook that adds a group named 'lego'.
> >
> > Now I need t
By default I assigned the name of the live user as domabot.
I already made a hook that adds a group named 'lego'.
Now I need to find a way to add user domabot to group 'lego'. I cannot use
adduser domabot lego since it is telling me that user 'domabot' does not
exist.
--
Robert
http://www.weave
:
> On 29/08/10 12:33 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> My method worked however I am open to new ideas. If I work the way, you
>> suggested how can I design a way to make it easier for the students to
>> switch between different layouts?
>>
>
> According to the liv
s to change the keyboard layouts. If more than one is
> specified, the tools of the desktop
>environment will allow to switch it under X11. There is no
> default value set.
>
>
>
> On 29/08/10 09:31 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> SOLVED:
>
> I made a script calle
t 2010 16:42, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Robert,
>
>
> On 29/08/10 06:29 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> >> Let's address that. No, you shouldn't need an xorg.conf. What was the
> video hardware? Or did you do that in a VM? Specifically, Virtualbox with
> lenny
12:29, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> I have 2 main issues as regards the keyboard:
>
> 1. By default, I want the live cd to use the uk keyboard layout. So I
added the locales package and specified:
LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="locale=en_GB.UTF-8 keyb=uk". I am using xfce4 and added
a
I have 2 main issues as regards the keyboard:
1. By default, I want the live cd to use the uk keyboard layout. So I added
the locales package and specified: LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="*locale=en_GB.UTF-8
keyb=uk*". I am using xfce4 and added a package called xfkc to manage the
keyboard layout. However wh
Thanks Ben. Very helpful as always.
On 28 August 2010 21:58, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 28/08/10 03:05 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> *nosudo* worked Ben. It even disabled the CTRL-F1(etc) to enter into
> console mode.
>
> Wanted to ask you however to be 100% sure. If I build
the bug, if possible? thanks
On 28 August 2010 21:27, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 28/08/10 02:37 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> Yes, initially I built an image using squeeze. However I found that I had
>> to make a lot of configurations as regards for example the X server. The
>>
these
packages right? And so noroot will work...
thanks and regards,
Robert
On 28 August 2010 19:37, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
>
> >> I thought we discussed the possibility of using squeeze, and you were
> going to try that out ...
>
> Yes, initially I built an i
d great to have such a ready made deb
package.
Will let you know and thanks again for your interest and help.
Regards
Robert
On 28 August 2010 19:15, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/28/2010 01:50 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> is it maybe *nosudo*? found it from the manual page of live
is it maybe *nosudo*? found it from the manual page of live-initramfs
can you please confirm? thanks
On 28 August 2010 16:30, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> >> --bootappend-live "timezone=Europe/Malta noroot"
>
> noroot doesn't seem to work. I can still sudo su - f
>> --bootappend-live "timezone=Europe/Malta noroot"
noroot doesn't seem to work. I can still sudo su - from the console... any
ideas?
On 27 August 2010 18:20, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 12:35 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> I am also trying to code 2
Thanks Ben. Things seem simpler than I thought then.
On 27 August 2010 18:20, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 12:35 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> I am also trying to code 2 hooks.
>>
>> 1. I need to modify the timezone to Europe/Malta since the live cd time is
I am also trying to code 2 hooks.
1. I need to modify the timezone to Europe/Malta since the live cd time is
always 2 hours behind... (at least I think that is the problem)
2. I need to prevent the live user to become root since the live cd will be
used by students
any help please?
--
Robert
ht
e added:
allowoptions 0
source:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#ALLOWOPTIONS_flag_val
On 27 August 2010 16:52, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>
> On 27 August 2010 16:31, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On 08/27/2010 11:24 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>>
I am using the syslinux menu on boot, however I need help as regards how to
customize the splash screen?
The current splash screen is a red box with debian live written and a white
box at the center. The files are named splash.png and splash.svg
How can I do this please?
--
Robert
http://www.we
I am using xfce4 in my Debian live build (lenny) and I need to make the
following modifications while being in the interactive shell:
1. Remove menu items (even whole menus)
2. Modify buttons in the panel applet
3. Create launchers to be automatically displayed on the live user's desktop
Which fi
that's exactly
what I am looking for...
will keep you posted on this... thanks Ben
bert
On 25 August 2010 20:36, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 03:31 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
> >>why install eclipse? is the version in squeeze not suitable?
>
> so eclipse is
xjc right?
On 25 August 2010 20:20, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 02:52 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> 1. Build a Squeeze image
>> 2. Install eclipse, java and nxjc from the interactive shell
>>
>
> why install eclipse? is the version in squeeze not suitable?
r tar ball
7. compare differences
8. modify /etc/skel accordingly for another fresh build
thanks for your time into this Ben
On 25 August 2010 19:40, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 02:29 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info Ben. So I guess i'll have to wait for Squ
solve tab completion in vim, I would go about it using
vim and hence build a text based distro. Personally i hate GUIs and if I can
do it using console it will be great.
On 25 August 2010 19:20, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 02:07 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> How can I ins
? This is not that feasible as far as I
am seeing it...
Your opinion about that?
On 25 August 2010 18:59, Robert Spiteri wrote:
> Thanks Ben. I think I will go with the approach of comparing the user's
> home directory cause as you said it is the most feasible one.
>
> I am not plan
ng in LeJOS.
Cheers for the detailed explanation. Makes a great deal of sense.
On 25 August 2010 12:39, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Robert,
>
>
> On 08/25/2010 04:33 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am trying to build a Debian Live CD for our school where we will be
>> u
Hi, I am trying to build a Debian Live CD for our school where we will be
using nxjc compiler for the LeJOS (Java for Lego Mindstorms).
I was planning to include Eclipse and an IDE, however once I install Eclipse
I would need to make some configuration and I would prefer to work using the
GUI.
Is
I am building a Debian Live ISO and need to do the following:
1. disable the syslinux splash (which by default displays the Debian Live
logo). i just want plain text and no graphical splash
2. modify the syslinux config file to customize the menu
Which files should be modified/added in the config
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