Debian Live configuration files and revision control systems

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Lamb
aka. "Why you shouldn't check config/{binary,bootstrap,chroot,common,source} into revision control" From lurking on conversations on IRC and Googling a bit, it seems that pretty much everyone is still checking the chroot, common, binary (etc.) files into revision control. It's okay, I used to

Re: more debian-installer hooks

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Owen
I am interested in the firmware issue. too late to expand on my ideas now though Alex 2008/10/21 Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > >> or a separate config/binary_debian-installer-includes to work as other >> -includes, files with full path to be included in the initrd > > I think this is the

Re: more debian-installer hooks

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi, > or a separate config/binary_debian-installer-includes to work as other > -includes, files with full path to be included in the initrd I think this is the best solution: * We already have -includes directories, so the concept is familiar. * It's not magic; it just copies files. * It co

Re: A few questions about customization

2008-10-21 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:51:03AM +0200, Dieter Scholz wrote: [...] > > add the boot parameters to LH_LIVE_BOOTAPPEND. > > Ok, I found out that if I add "locale=de" as boot param most keys on the > German keyboard work as expected. Is there a way

Re: Mounting partitions fails

2008-10-21 Thread Ronny Standtke
Short additional remark: The bug also rises its ugly head when building and using an iso instead of a usb-hdd... Regards Ronny -- Ronny Standtke Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Dozent MedienpƤdagogik / ICT PƤdagogische Hochschule Telefon: +41 32 627 92 47 Obere Sternengas

Re: Mounting partitions fails

2008-10-21 Thread Ronny Standtke
I did the same test with: # lh_config -p gnome -b usb-hdd # lh_build The bug is also visible when you use GNOME. Double-click on "Computer" and then on any volume you see. Everywhere I tested, I only get the following error message: "You are not privileged to mount this volume" Please, can anyb

Re: A few questions about customization

2008-10-21 Thread Dieter Scholz
Hello, thanks for your help. > > * I would like to boot the iso using a default keyboard layout > > of "de-latin1-nodeadkeys" and a locale of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not using boot > > parameters). I managed to set the locale by using an interactive debconf > > mode but failed to achieve setting the k

more debian-installer hooks

2008-10-21 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi all, I found some use cases for having a tool to include things directly in ithe debian-installer initrd. We already have some infrastucture to handle d-i initrds like the Repack_initrd() function in helpers/lh_binary_debian-installer which is now used to include the preseed.cfg (all *.cfg)