Hi, Ronny Standtke wrote (26 Oct 2014 13:48:31 GMT) : > A custom dm greeter is very nice but doesn't start it too late to ask > questions like:
Probably yes if one wants to support all possible Debian live options. Not for the usecases we use Tails Greeter. > * Do you want to use persistence? And if yes: No. We've refactored and extended live-boot's persistence code a few years ago so that we could do that in our greeter. > o What kind of storage device do you want to use for persistence? We don't allow the user to choose that interactively. A GPT partition with label TailsData, on a removable drive, that contains a LUKS volume is considered to be a valid persistence device in our context. > o Do you want to use persistence read-only or read-write? Our greeter does offer this choice. > o What kind of encryption to you want to use for persistence? We only support LUKS. > * What kind of storage device do you want to use for your live-media? > * What kernel parameters (we currently have visual support for > nolapic_timer, nohz=off, quiet, splash, debug) do you want to enable > or disable when booting? > * What other kernel parameters do you want to use when booting your > system? > * Do you want to boot this Debian Live system or > o just check the integrity of your live media? > o boot from another device? > o just show some info about the hardware? Of course a DM greeter is too late for all this. That's not what this thread is about, though :) Cheers, -- intrigeri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/85wq7n7wui....@boum.org
