fru...@freaknet.org writes: > I own an eeepc 701 (4GB SSD).
For hardware support reasons, you should roll out Squeeze, not Lenny. Simply dd'ing the iso-hybrid or usb image directly onto the 4GB drive should Just Work. > How would you do it? I would set up two partitions; /boot (ext2 or vfat) and / (squashfs). I'd then use live-media=/dev/sda2 to point the ramdisk at the root filesystem. For persistence, I'd probably make /home a directory within the boot filesystem, and have live-boot bind-mount it. If I needed to upgrade packages, I'd roll a new root filesystem, rather than trying to make persistent changes to the existing one. Note: that's how *I* would do it, not how *you* should. > Since there is still no support for grub2 As at current squeeze, live-build appears to support grub (presumably grub2) for USB images, but not ISO images. If you're rolling images by hand, i.e. using live-boot and live-config but not live-build, then obviously you can do what you want. > what whould you suggests as bootloader, nevertheless would you do hdd > image or iso image? I have a strong personal preference for extlinux (syslinux), because it does what I tell it to, whereas grub seems to delight in trying to guess what I want, and guessing completely wrong. YMMV. For your trivial 701 system, Grub will probably work fine. > and to update and install stuff is the snapshot feature duplicating > the space used and then how to remove the old snapshots? Unless something has gone horribly wrong since I last looked at the code, snapshots are copy-on-write at the file level. That is, if you create or modify a file, the snapshot will consume the (new) size of that file, and no more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4lvsns7....@cybersource.com.au
