Hi Lou The Live Manual (that is a live-build, not live-wrapper, package) wasn't written for official stretch based releases. The reason for this is official stretch live releases are built with live-wrapper not live-build. I, personally, believe the "live manual" should be re-written and note the differences between the 2 build systems. Last time I looked the official documentation for live-wrapper was extremely minimal so it could certainly do with some work and, in order to stop alot of what I see as confusion because people keep talking about current debian live as though it is live-build based and not live-wrapper based, including both systems in it would be very helpful.
Cheers. On 3 November 2017 at 07:14, Lou Poppler <loupopp...@cableone.net> wrote: > I would like to point out 2 small corrections to the debian-live manual > http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/live-manual/stable/ > manual/html/live-manual.en.html > > At this point I am far from able to create and commit changes myself, > so I offer them to this list, hoping someone else might propagate them. > > In section 4.2 the URL given for older, upcoming, and unofficial live > images > http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/cdimage/release/ > is 404. I would suggest instead listing this URL: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ > > In section 4.5.3 the suggestion for adding a partition to extra space at > the end of a live image USB stick says to use parted or Gparted. > For the current live images, with a xorisso-style partition layout, > (for example the file debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso) > parted (as of 3.2-17) and gparted (as of 0.25.0-1+b1) do not detect > the first partition, containing the entire .iso, they only notice > the small 500KB EFI partition 2, embedded inside it. They see the > first partition as empty space, and will allow using the space after > partition 2 in creating a new partition 3. Thus these programs are > no longer appropriate in this case. Regular old fdisk (as of 2.29.2-1) > works correctly for this; gnome-disks (as of 3.22.1-1) works correctly > for this. These 2 would be good suggestions for this section of the > webpage. I also checked KDE partitionmanager (as of 3.0.0-1) and it > does not see the partition 1, and incorrectly offers to include part > of it in a new partition, like parted on which it is based I think. > > Thanks to anyone who can help update this documentation. > >
