Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-20 Thread David Douthitt
Jorn Eriksen wrote: Investigatet that a little bit. Altough it's a good idea it would require different versions for different OS/*nix variants and as much explanations as a simple image. With my limited knowlegde of this type of script, the saving would be in the "creation" process and not nec

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-20 Thread Jorn Eriksen
me deeper knowlege that can enlighten me more? Best regards Jørn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Douthitt Sent: 5. april 2006 21:33 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: >

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-13 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Hi Jorn; any success building a new image? kp Am Montag, 3. April 2006 20:48 schrieb KP Kirchdoerfer: > Jorn; > > Am Montag, 3. April 2006 20:41 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > > KP & All, > > > > >>Did you format from  Windows? > > > > Nop - Debian Sarge 2.6 kernel with msdos,fat & vfat modules loaded

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-05 Thread David Douthitt
KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: Here's another idea for you all: 3) a "pendrive-script", which creates a bootable USB stick by using the ISO image and some modifications for USB - nothing to test yet, but maybe soon. (I like to add vfat or ex

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-03 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Jorn; Am Montag, 3. April 2006 20:41 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > KP & All, > > >>Did you format from  Windows? > > Nop - Debian Sarge 2.6 kernel with msdos,fat & vfat modules loaded > > I guess it got to late yesterday.  Looking trough my notes I saw that I > forgott to format it with mkfs.vfat > mkdi

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-03 Thread Jorn Eriksen
then. I guess the reformat will take care of the umbunto issue as well. Best regards Jørn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KP Kirchdoerfer Sent: 3. april 2006 18:44 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-03 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Jorn; Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 23:27 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > KP & All, > > >>A default leaf.cfg like in the floppy images would be nice. > >>Eric pointed to the modules problem (they are truncated in the latest > > image). > I've taken the leaf.cfg from the floppy and converted to the stick image

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-02 Thread Jorn Eriksen
oerfer Sent: 2. april 2006 18:28 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 14:36 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > Hello all; > > >>We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: > >>1) a complete image whic

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-02 Thread Jorn Eriksen
L PROTECTED] Cc: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image Hello Jorn, > Hello all; > > > >>> We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: >>> 1) a complete image which can be dd'ed to /dev/sda and is ready to >>> boot;

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-02 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Am Sonntag, 2. April 2006 14:36 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > Hello all; > > >>We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: > >>1) a complete image which can be dd'ed to /dev/sda and is ready to boot; > >>this is what Jorn, Eric and Andrea tried to build and provided for > > testing. > As f

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-02 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Jorn, > Hello all; > > > >>> We currently have three ideas how to provide an USB image: >>> 1) a complete image which can be dd'ed to /dev/sda and is ready to >>> boot; this is what Jorn, Eric and Andrea tried to build and provided >>> for > testing. As far as I can see - my image is ready f

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-02 Thread Jorn Eriksen
s could be used as a "base" for thus using the loopback image model. Best regards Jørn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KP Kirchdoerfer Sent: 1. april 2006 18:03 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-01 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Moin Moin; Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2006 02:22 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > Hello Everyone, > > Some more results from testing of USB Sticks. > > Looking at the physical properties on the USB sticks it seams we are in for > some fun.  It seams to me that they all have different physical attributes. > I te

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-04-01 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Moin Moin; Am Mittwoch, 29. März 2006 02:22 schrieb Jorn Eriksen: > Hello Everyone, > > Some more results from testing of USB Sticks. > > Looking at the physical properties on the USB sticks it seams we are in for > some fun. It seams to me that they all have different physical attributes. > I te

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-29 Thread Natanael Copa
Jorn Eriksen wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Some more results from testing of USB Sticks. > > Looking at the physical properties on the USB sticks it seams we are in for > some fun. It seams to me that they all have different physical attributes. > I tested with some other ones as well including t

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-29 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
Hi; first my Bios is an Award bios... I tested all three available images with mixed results. Am Dienstag, 28. März 2006 22:39 schrieb Mike Noyes: > All testers, > How well are the submitted usb flash drive images working? > > http://www.ccl-network.com/leaf/stick.img.gz Downloaded tod

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-28 Thread Jorn Eriksen
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Noyes Sent: 28. mars 2006 22:39 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:36, Eric Spakman wrote: > Using David's tip I also created an usb image, this is just a small one > for testing it o

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-28 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:36, Eric Spakman wrote: > Using David's tip I also created an usb image, this is just a small one > for testing it only contains the packages also available on floppy. > The image will show up in a few hours (when viewCVS is updated) at: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcv

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello all, Using David's tip I also created an usb image, this is just a small one for testing it only contains the packages also available on floppy. There was a small error in the dd command, with a blocksize of 1024k it would create an image of 20Gbyte :-) The blocksize should be 1k. The imag

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello David, Thanks for the help! I will try your suggestion and also create an image. Eric > To answer Eric's question, here's Andrea's tips "adjusted" slightly: > > > Andrea Fino wrote: > >> I did a working usb this way: >> >> >> 1) build the env with buildroot, so I got the lrp in packages >>

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
To answer Eric's question, here's Andrea's tips "adjusted" slightly: Andrea Fino wrote: I did a working usb this way: 1) build the env with buildroot, so I got the lrp in packages 2) these commands: mkdosfs /dev/sde1 mount /dev/sde1 /mnt cd /root/packages cp -pr * /mnt umount /mnt syslinux /d

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Eric Spakman wrote: The same question to you, do you know a way to create an image without using a physical USB stick? Should be easy, right? Just replace "/dev/usb/#" with "/home/myhome/usbfile". Under UNIX, devices look just like files to the programs involved. Thus, you should be ab

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-27 Thread David Douthitt
Natanael Copa wrote: (firefox tried to display the binary and since link didnt work it isn't possible to right-click -> "save as") You could let Firefox "display" it, then select "Save As..." and save the "page" and it would be fine... Just a matter of one wants to wait for Firefox to "downl

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-26 Thread Eric Spakman
-- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Noyes > Sent: 23. mars 2006 18:10 > To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:44, Jorn Eriksen wrote: > >> This is really no

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-25 Thread Andrea Fino
Hi, I did a working usb this way: 1) build the env with buildroot, so I got the lrp in packages 2) these commands: mkdosfs /dev/sde1 mount /dev/sde1 /mnt cd /root/packages cp -pr * /mnt umount /mnt syslinux /dev/sde1 3) syslinux.cfg: PKGPATH=/dev/sda1:msdos and so LEAFCFG put initrd_usb.lrp

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-25 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Noyes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 02:31, Jorn Eriksen wrote: >> I have Gzip'ed the image and it now take around 20Mb. Is there a place >> where I can upload it so that more people can test? > > Charles, > Do you have available space for this

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:06, Jørn Eriksen wrote: > The typo is fixed now! Hopefully it has not caused to much trouble. Jørn, Thanks for taking the time to correct the issue. I hope testing provides a workable image. :-) -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf,

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Jørn Eriksen
Mike & All, The typo is fixed now! Hopefully it has not caused to much trouble. Best regards Jørn - > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:24, Luis.F.Correia wrote: >> I wanted to give it a got, but... >> >> The requested URL /leaf/stcik.img.gz was not found on this server.

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:24, Luis.F.Correia wrote: > I wanted to give it a got, but... > > The requested URL /leaf/stcik.img.gz was not found on this server. Luis, I just got that also. Jorn, Do you know what the issue is? -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: l

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Natanael Copa
Luis.F.Correia wrote: > Hi! > >> -Original Message- >> From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:13 PM >> To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image >> >>

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Jørn Eriksen
ginal Message- >> From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:13 PM >> To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image >> >> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:25, Jorn Eriksen wrote: >> > Here&

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Luis.F.Correia
Hi! > -Original Message- > From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:13 PM > To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image > > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:25, Jorn Eriksen wrote: > > Here&#

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 15:25, Jorn Eriksen wrote: > Here's the URL > http://www.ccl-network.com/leaf/ Everyone, Has anyone else had a chance to try Jorn's usb flash drive image yet? -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Jorn Eriksen
Mike & All, Here's the URL http://www.ccl-network.com/leaf/ Best regards Jørn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Noyes Sent: 23. mars 2006 18:10 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:44, Jorn Eriksen wrote: > This is really no big issue - I can just place it on one of my servers and > give you guys a link. I asked because I thought that it was,sort of > anyways, smart to have it on the leaf site.. Jorn, The other option, if KP thinks the image is read

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 02:31, Jorn Eriksen wrote: > I have Gzip'ed the image and it now take around 20Mb. Is there a place > where I can upload it so that more people can test? Charles, Do you have available space for this image on leaf.steinkuehler.net? Note: SF still hasn't made the pro

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Jorn, > Eric & All, > > >>> I don't know what happens if you backup >>> initrd (if initrd_usb.lrp or initrd.lrp is back-upped). Didn't you >>> change leaf.cfg and can you still backup packages to the usb-stick? > Good point. Did not test that. Had a look just now, and in the Backup > menu,

RE: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Jorn Eriksen
l@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image Hello Jorn, Thanks for given it a go! > >>> -copy the packages to the stick (replace initrd.lrp with >>> initrd_usb.lrp and rename it to initrd.lrp) -Change leaf.cfg and >>> syslinux.cfg to use t

Re: [leaf-devel] Flash Stick Image

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Spakman
Hello Jorn, Thanks for given it a go! > >>> -copy the packages to the stick (replace initrd.lrp with >>> initrd_usb.lrp and rename it to initrd.lrp) -Change leaf.cfg and >>> syslinux.cfg to use the correct boot device > Used the ISO image as a base - just changed the syslinux.cfg file to > point