Flawless Accessible Installation onto Old Thinkpad (X60 I think)

2019-12-20 Thread Sam Hartman
This is written as a thank you, and there are no actionable bits. So mail not a bug report to installation-reports. I had an old laptop and I needed to be able to give someone a computer to use to do office work. So I booted a 10.2.0 amd64 firmware netinst. I needed help selecting the boot devi

Bug#851628: Bugs on First CD/DVD for Jessie 8.5, 8.6, 8.7

2017-01-17 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Schmitt writes: Thomas> Hi, Thomas> Sam Hartman wrote: >> Why do we care if it mounts on a third mac? Thomas> I care in my role as upstream of xorriso. OK. I'd ask that when interacting with end users, you

Bug#851628: Bugs on First CD/DVD for Jessie 8.5, 8.6, 8.7

2017-01-17 Thread Sam Hartman
Why does mountability matter anyway? The interesting question is whether it boots on the target system, right? Why do we care if it mounts on a third mac?

Re: Do the file timestamps in ISOs matter ?

2016-09-02 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schmitt writes: Thomas> Hi, Thomas> Chris Lamb wrote: >> I just don't see this usecase of being "partly" reproducible >> being remotely useful to anyone, ever. I'm probably >> misunderstanding something, however. Thomas> All three possible behavio

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ian" == Ian Campbell writes: Ian> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 18:40 +1000, Adam Bolte wrote: >>   I'm not sure if it would be possible to use pygrub if your >> assigned volume is partitioned, which may be a problem if you >> don't control the Dom0. Ian> pygrub has supported

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Neil" == Neil Williams writes: Neil> That's the key point for me - grub sorts itself out *inside* Neil> the build environment. It is critical for reproducibility that Neil> the tools used to build the image come from inside the Neil> image. We need to be able to build the s

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-16 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Emmanuel" == Emmanuel Kasper writes: Emmanuel> Le 16/08/2016 à 17:56, Sam Hartman a écrit : >> >> Please note the follow-up to the cloud list. Emmanuel> Hi Sam Emmanuel> Thank your for this very thorough review of im

Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-16 Thread Sam Hartman
Please note the follow-up to the cloud list. Hi. I recently finished putting together a custom image of what amounts to stretch for work. Today, this is mostly not a cloud image, although that's expected to change for our future customer deployments. For my previous job I did maintain a cloud

Re: image tools

2016-08-15 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman writes: Sam> At the cloud BOF, Neil said from the front it would be helpful Sam> to get a comparison of some of the tools. Having just put Sam> together a big custom image project for work, I plan to write Sam> up m

image tools

2016-08-15 Thread Sam Hartman
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Goirand writes: Thomas> On 08/12/2016 02:27 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: >> At this point I'm quite familiar with live-build and >> vmdebootstrap and have started looking at bootstrap-vz anz, so I >> think I wo

Re: Call For Participation Debian Cloud Sprint

2016-08-12 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I'll add myself to the wiki list in the next couple of days. I'm interested in attending. I've worked on image creation with Debian and other operating systems since around 1992 or so. I've been the architect for a product that managed a bunch of Debian appliances in the cloud and been resp