*nosudo* worked Ben. It even disabled the CTRL-F1(etc) to enter into console mode.
Wanted to ask you however to be 100% sure. If I build a lenny image and drop the latest squeeze versions of the packages you mentioned in the local-packages directory, the build should replace the old ones with these packages right? And so noroot will work... thanks and regards, Robert On 28 August 2010 19:37, Robert Spiteri <rspiter...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-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. >> >> 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 > -- Robert http://www.weavefx.com
