Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: --- boot/vmlinuz* boot/initrd.img* --- It *looked* like this was the way config/binary_rootfs/excludes is supposed to be used. What did I do wrong there? i'm sorry that i forgot

Keeping boot/*, etc. out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-07-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am trying to get my ISO as small as possible without resorting to using --packages-lists minimal What can I say? I like man co. Right now, I am trying to get boot/*, vmlinuz and initrd.img out of my filesystem.squashfs. I tried using: export MKSQUASHFS_OPTIONS= -e boot/vmlinuz*

initramfs being created without udev

2008-07-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, Right now, when I create a new CD, I get the following errors when trying to boot from it: --- /init: line 174: /lib/udev/path_id: not found init: line 174: /lib/udev/cdrom_id: not found --- These lines are repeated a couple of times, and then I am dumped into BusyBox. Cursory

Re: initramfs being created without udev

2008-07-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: Right now, when I create a new CD, I get the following errors when trying to boot from it: right now as in 'with sid and live-initramfs 1.136.1-1'? 1.132.1+20080609.172901. I guess that's my issue

Re: initramfs being created without udev

2008-07-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: I guess that's my issue, then. I have 'deb http://live.debian.net/debian/ ./' in my sources.list, and the latest version I can see is 1.132.1. Where do I find the good new stuff? ...which is a bit

Re: Live-Helper USB Image Error 'syslinux'

2008-07-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Stephen, 'usb' has not been a valid option for binary-images for quite a while, having been replaced with usb-hdd. Are you using a relatively recent live-helper? If so, usb-hdd ought to wok for you. If not, you should. Hope that helps, --J On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Yorke

live-initramfs, busybox and mount --move

2008-05-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, My recent Debian Live rebuilds (from an up-to-date) Lenny system have been working fine, except that using the 'toram' option drops me into busybox. Looking at the sources, it looks that this is due to the fact that 'mount --move' (as opposed to 'mount -o move') is used a few times in

BusyBox Strikes Again?

2008-04-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, It seems like my previous problem is a thing of the past, but I still can't get past BusyBox: I am building a very basic sid ISO on sid (live-helper 1.0~a41-1): lh_config --distribution sid; lh_build in an empty directory. Running the ISO through qemu or from a real CD dumps me to the

Re: live-initramfs issue, I think

2008-03-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: I am rather lost. Does anybody know what may be going on here? busybox in sid is broken, wait until 1.9.2-2 hits your mirror and rebuild. I see. Sorry about blaming live-initramfs, then. Thanks

Re: Troubles with cdebootstrap-helper-diverts/start-stop-daemon

2008-01-18 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Jan 16, 2008 8:01 AM, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] either cdebootstrap has a bug and does not revert the divertion itself, then this is a bug in cdebootstrap which can be easily catch by lh_bootstrap_cdebootstrap, or we just don't do anything :) i'll check about that in

Re: Cant build usb-hdd correct on 1.0~a34-1

2007-11-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
The plot thickens: I have gnu-fdisk installed and that one doesn't deal well with loopback devices that use all-zero files. It gives an error message (Error: Unable to open /home/juergen/debian-live/test.img - unrecognised disk label.) and quits with exit code 1, which seems to be causing issues

Re: Cant build usb-hdd correct on 1.0~a34-1

2007-11-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I'm seeing the part with binary.img being created in chroot/; it seems to contain naught but zeroes, which is why it isn't bootable. Copying the contents of binary/ to my USB drive 'by hand' and calling syslinux manually works, though. -Juergen On Nov 5, 2007 12:51 PM, Peter Skogström [EMAIL

Re: sid system dumps into initramfs

2007-09-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: The ISO is built OK, but when I try to boot from it, I am dumped in the intramfs. live.log says: sid is broken, until you get 2.6.22-2 squashfs modules. squashfs-modules-2.6.22-2-48 is what I got

Re: RAM usage

2007-09-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:42:26AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote: On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] First off, use a swap partition. I can't touch the HDs of these machines - they're used for teaching by day. That's one of the benefits of the live CD approach in

Re: How can I empty var/lib/apt/lists/ in my squashfs.

2007-09-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:34:19PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: Hello, I am trying to keep my ISO as small as possible and would thus like to have an empty /var/lib/apt/lists (except for partial/, I guess) in my filesystem.squashfs. I suppose I could have a hook in config/binary_local

Re: installing packages

2007-08-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 09:04:17AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:16:58PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, I wanna install my packages, via apt-get or dpkg, But i don't how to use chroot along with apt-get ... I'm not sure I understand. You can list

Re: Toram boot option

2007-08-15 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:02:58PM -0500, Mr Alk3 wrote: Hello, I now searched google and the Debian Live wiki. I do know that I need to do something with syslinux.cfg. I was unable to find a single thing on how to do this for a Debian Live CD. I will keep searching. If anyone

Re: stop dhcp configuration and several issues

2007-08-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:03:29PM +0800, Deephay wrote: [...] thanks very much for the help, can I change the default hostname also? [...] If I understand your question correctly, LH_HOSTNAME (typically set in config/binary) should do that. Hope that helps -Juergen signature.asc

Where is my cow?

2007-07-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I have a little problem with the layout of the unionfs on my live CD: 'unionctl / --list' shows that /cow is part of the union, but I can't find it. I sometimes like to add branches to the union and used to set /cow read-only to make sure that all writes go to the new branch (a sort of

Re: put img in a usb with dd?

2007-06-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:11:05PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there are any way to put the img using all the space in usb, and the partition will be writable. no, because at build time, the size of the target usb stick is not know. however, as ben said, a

Re: casper is dead, long lives live-initramfs

2007-05-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:41:56PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: Is lenny OK without the backports repository? yes. Cool :) How would I add the backports to my configuration? I've gotten all confused about the different variables again. set LH_INITRAMFS

Re: casper is dead, long lives live-initramfs

2007-05-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:00:05PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: [..] Note that if you build etch images, you need to include the backports repository at http://live.debian.net/debian/ into your configuration in order to be able to use live-initramfs. Is lenny OK without the backports

Casper Modules

2007-04-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi again! I'm trying to create a few modules that could be added to the /casper directory to be automatically mounted when my Live CD boots. Yes, I am fully aware that I could just add everything I need to my package list and that I'll have to keep all those modules updated manually, but I'm

Re: permission pb

2007-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:00:23AM +0400, Philippe MONROUX wrote: Hello, In /root/debian-live/config/image I have LIVE_USERNAME=phi And I tried to populate my /home/phi so I created /root/debian-live/config/chroot_localincludes/home/phi/ with some rcfiles inside, .emacs for example

Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I was wondering... Does anyone have a good solution for keeping changes to a Debian Live system persistent? I see that Casper offers a few options, the most tempting being a casper-rw partition on the USB stick that I use to boot Debian. The only problem is that it is flash storage and may not

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 19:31, gioved?? 5 aprile 2007, Juergen Fiedler ha scritto: I was wondering... Does anyone have a good solution for keeping changes to a Debian Live system persistent? I see that Casper offers a few options, the most

lh_chroot_sources and /var/lib/apt/lists

2007-04-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I noticed something odd in lh_chroot_sources: In the remove case, /var/lib/apt/lists is emptied out, but after building a new sources.list, apt-get update (or aptitude update) is called, wich, if I am not mistaken, regenerates the files in /var/lib/apt/lists. I am looking at version 1.0~a3-2.

Re: Changing the default shell in casper

2007-04-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:49:53AM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 06:15, gioved?? 29 marzo 2007, Juergen Fiedler ha scritto: I tried adding a custom /etc/default/useradd to the chroot; it is on the live system, but casper doesn't seem to be using useradd. Casper installs and uses

Re: live-package is dead, long lives live-helper

2007-03-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:46:17PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: Hi, live-package did have some problems: it wasn't really extensible, unflexible, and a mess wrt/ to code organization and duplication. I got around to finish the reorganisation of live-package, broken up into individual

make-live ignores --without-recommends

2007-02-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I had some good success playing around with make-live, but there is one thing that I still don't get: If I try to create a standard live CD with just netwox added, there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent netwag from being installed: I use the command line LIVE_PACKAGES=netwox make-live