On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:45:30AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/28/2011 10:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Where is that documented? > > man lb_config and look for -b virtual-hdd in connection with > --virtual-*. if you build with --initramfs none, you'll get a non-live > image, if you build with --initramfs live-boot (default), you'll get a > live image.
Version 3.0~a21-1 of live-build (from sid) does not document a virtual-hdd value of the -b option. (No idea if the code actually supports it or not.) The manual page includes the string "virtual-hdd" exactly once, in the documentation for the --virtual-root-size option, but no explanation of what a virtual-hdd is. The lb_binary_virtual-hdd manpage exists, but also does not explain what the format is. Having to hunt for this information is annoying (but seems typical for live-build documentation), so I'll just ask: is virtual-hdd a RAW disk image, with partitions and boot loaders and the root filesystem, and can I dd it to a hard disk or USB drive and boot a real computer off of it? If so, then live-build (now?) does about what vmdebootstrap does, except more, and in a more complicated fashion. (My vmdebootstrap is essential qemu-img + parted + kpartx + debootstrap + extlinux: intentionally quite simple, even simplistic, and I don't intend to make it much more complicated.) The complexity in live-build is probably warranted, since it does so much more. I don't intend vmdebootstrap to compete with, never mind replace, live-build. However, I wish the complexity wouldn't extend to finding out anything about live-build, including how to use it. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110728100755.ga11...@havelock.liw.fi
