Hi Ben, >> I thought we discussed the possibility of using squeeze, and you were going to try that out ...
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 resolution of the image by default was 800x600 so I thought I would add an xorg.conf (if I am right) to override the default settings. Also there were some icons in xfce which were not visible and some other little things which needed some tweaking. >> As a workaround, you could just go to http://packages.debian.org/live-boot and http://packages.debian.org/live-config to get the latest squeeze versions of these packages and drop them in your config/chroot_local-packages/ directory. Thanks for this. Right now I am building a lenny image with nosudo switch just to try it now. Will let you know the outcome. I will consider this workaround definitely if anything else fails. >> Or if you would just build squeeze images instead, it would solve a number of issues for you (the things we discussed earlier this week) as well as this one, without any workaround needed. live-initramfs in squeeze is now just a transitional metapackage that installs live-build and live-config, and 'noroot' is supported with these newer packages. My only concern would be the lejos deb package. I wrote to the person in charge but got no reply. Right now in this image I managed to configure everything manually but it would 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 <sy...@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote: > On 08/28/2010 01:50 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > > is it maybe *nosudo*? found it from the manual page of live-initramfs > > can you please confirm? thanks > > > I don't have the old live-initramfs man page handy, but I don't know if > that helps. It may still be possible for people to gain root with the old > package. I simply can't remember. > > live-build and live-config are current in squeeze/sid and that's what we > recommend people use (even for building lenny images). Did you say you're > still building lenny images? I thought we discussed the possibility of > using squeeze, and you were going to try that out ... > > If you really do need to stay with lenny, you should at least use the > latest stable live-build and live-config versions in squeeze (the 2.x > series). A couple of weeks ago I would have suggested you use the live > snapshots repo -r live.debian.net to accomplish this, but as that has now > moved forward to the unstable 3.0 branch which is only suitable for those > tracking development, we'll have to do something else. > > As a workaround, you could just go to http://packages.debian.org/live-bootand > http://packages.debian.org/live-config to get the latest squeeze versions > of these packages and drop them in your config/chroot_local-packages/ > directory. > > Or if you would just build squeeze images instead, it would solve a number > of issues for you (the things we discussed earlier this week) as well as > this one, without any workaround needed. live-initramfs in squeeze is now > just a transitional metapackage that installs live-build and live-config, > and 'noroot' is supported with these newer packages. > > Regards, > Ben > > -- Robert http://www.weavefx.com
