Re: New Ideas for d-i cdrom images

2003-08-05 Thread Martin Sjögren
tis 2003-08-05 klockan 09.21 skrev Goswin Brederlow: > 1. One can create a seemingly writeable loopback filesystem on CD. The >CD holds a readonly loopback file and one can create a snapshot of >that together with a ramdisk or shmfs (or on newer kernels a file >on tmpfs). Any writes to

Re: broken executable flags in rootskel

2003-08-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:08:33AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > While I have not found anywhere in d-i where these files are > executed rather than sourced, we ran into a bug during debcamp > where they were not being executed without the executable bit set > (it was / could not be traced dow

Re: Boot problem

2003-08-05 Thread soupman
They were both i486 s. On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:57:46AM -0400, soupman wrote: > > Hi! > > > > This: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200302/msg00253.html > | > | > I think I only have 8MB of RAM is that maybe the problem? If s

Re: New Ideas for d-i cdrom images

2003-08-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Martin Sjögren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tis 2003-08-05 klockan 09.21 skrev Goswin Brederlow: > > 1. One can create a seemingly writeable loopback filesystem on CD. The > >CD holds a readonly loopback file and one can create a snapshot of > >that together with a ramdisk or shmfs (or on

Re: "Not an ELF file"?

2003-08-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:49:29AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:56:09AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > What is the solution to this error, which I get when I try to build d-i floppies > > > out of the current arc

Re: broken executable flags in rootskel

2003-08-05 Thread Alastair McKinstry
What did it break? It was working fine at debcamp. On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:37, Bastian Blank wrote: > mckinstry resently changed sourced files to be executable. i revert that > change and will revert any commit from him in rootskel in future as he > seems not to be able to see if his changes bre

New Ideas for d-i cdrom images

2003-08-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I talked a lot with some LVM people and a Knoppix developer about using some new LVM features for a live CD and debian-installer at the Linuxtag a few weeks back. Since then I created a test CD that implements a few of those features as feasability study and it works. So what am I talking abo

Re: "Not an ELF file"?

2003-08-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:49:29AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:56:09AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > > What is the solution to this error, which I get when I try t