Re: persistent option

First of all, does your computer BIOS support booting from a USB stick at all? Also, have you made sure that your partition (should be the first one on your USB stick of filesystem type 'vfat', normally seen as '/dev/sda1' by Linux) is marked as bootable? You can use fdisk to achieve this.

make-live creates unusable binary.img

I have retrieved the latest live-helper package from sid and then ran the command make-live --bootstrap cdebootstrap -d lenny --username usblive -b usb-hdd --packages xorg xfce4 which resulted in a 'debian-live' directory containing, among other stuff, a 'binary.img' file. I copied

Re: Where is live-initramfs

Thank you, I can now retirve it. J.Neuhoff ___ Debian-live-devel mailing list Debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel

No DNS resolution in chroot

Having created a debian-live with the 'make-live' tool, I then did a chroot debian-live/chroot hoping to be able to add more packages via the 'apt-get'. However, within the chroot jail, it is unable to find any internet site, such as the http://ftp.debian.org, because it it is unable

Re: cow persistency again

read. Reason: The Unionfs doesn't respect the 'noatime' option for the /cow branch. Hence, I'd not recommend using a 'casper-rw' partition on a USB stick for /cow persistency. J.Neuhoff On Tuesday 22 May 2007 21:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a Debian Live for USB-HDD with the current

Re: cow persistency again

Reason: The Unionfs doesn't respect the 'noatime' option for the /cow branch. Hence, I'd not recommend using a 'casper-rw' partition on a USB stick for /cow persistency. thanks for finding out, didn't know that. maybe aufs is behaving differently, did you already try that? I havn't tried

cow persistency again

I created a Debian Live for USB-HDD with the current make-live make-live --bootstrap cdebootstrap -d lenny --username usblive --filesystem squashfs -b usb-hdd My USB stick has a 2 partitions, one for the Debian live (vfat) and another one labeled 'casper-rw' (ext2) for the the

Security risks?

Having created a live Debian for a USB stick with 'make-live' using among others the '--username usblive' option I noticed that the USB stick always boots into the 'usblive' user account. And any command which require root privileges are to be preceded by the 'sudo'. Questions: Is this

Re: testing live-helper_1.0~a9-1

I am using debootstrap 0.3.3.3 on a Debian Lenny system. well, that's a debootstrap issue, not related to live-helper. Although you are free to use debootstrap, I stronly recommend cdebootstrap for one reason: it has less bugs and is actively maintained (debootstrap is on 'NMU if you think

/live_media not mounted after 2nd reboot with 'persistent'

I have created another a Debian live system on a USB stick with the help of the make-live from live-helper_1.0~a9-1 and I tested it again. It seems that after a 2nd reboot from the USB stick with the 'persistent' option /live_media wont't be correctly mounted anymore. Here is what I did: 1)

Re: testing live-helper_1.0~a9-1

it works for me here, what errors do you get (both lenny or testing)? what version of cdebootstrap or debootstrap are you using? The error message is: E: Unknown suite lenny I am using debootstrap 0.3.3.3 on a Debian Lenny system. - For casper, the option 'quickreboot' has no effect. After a