Re: mount /var & /tmp on tmpfs?

2008-12-01 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, 07:54:17, Neo Willis wrote: > I'm using debian-live on my usb stick with persistence. In order to > decrease writing times on the stick, can I mount /var & /tmp on a ramdisk? > tmpfs? How can I do that? This should be already in place, look at live-initramfs manpage,

mount /var & /tmp on tmpfs?

2008-12-01 Thread Neo Willis
I'm using debian-live on my usb stick with persistence. In order to decrease writing times on the stick, can I mount /var & /tmp on a ramdisk? tmpfs? How can I do that? -- neowillis at gmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup [solved]

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: > my version of mount was too high (2.14~rc2-0 from experimental) and somehow > conflicted. oh, ok. that's strange though, would not have guessed that. > Thanks for your help Daniel you're welcome. btw, your report did make me find and fix another inconvenience http://git.d

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup

2008-12-01 Thread Didier Raboud
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Didier Raboud wrote: >> Happened again. As attached. > > thanks; now we have a proper failure message. > >> Any idea ? > > what is the output of the following command on your *host* system? > > ls -al /sbin/losetup* > mount version 2.13.1.1-1 0 $ ls -al /sbin/losetup*

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup [solved]

2008-12-01 Thread Didier Raboud
Didier Raboud wrote: > Hi. Sorry… > > I did exactly this : > > $ sudo -s > (…) > # LANG=C lh_clean --purge ; lh_build > (…) > > Happened again. As attached. > > Any idea ? > > OdyX Hi again, my version of mount was too high (2.14~rc2-0 from experimental) and somehow conflicted. Thanks for y

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: > Happened again. As attached. thanks; now we have a proper failure message. > Any idea ? what is the output of the following command on your *host* system? ls -al /sbin/losetup* -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAI

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup

2008-12-01 Thread Didier Raboud
Daniel Baumann wrote: > Didier Raboud wrote: >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> It fails in losetup in "configuring syslinux" as attached. > > your build got 'out of order', do rebuild the whole thing: > > lh_clean --purge ; lh_build > Hi. Sorry… I did exactly this : $ sudo -s (…) # LANG=C lh_clean --purg

Re: Science live DVD

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Walker wrote: > Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1] > to /usr/share/live-helper/lists? yes; and preferably you would send a file (like /usr/share/live-helper/lists/debian-science) that contains all the stuff you guys consider to be 'debian-science' so that we includ

Re: usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Didier Raboud wrote: > Hi, Hi, > It fails in losetup in "configuring syslinux" as attached. your build got 'out of order', do rebuild the whole thing: lh_clean --purge ; lh_build -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet

usb-hdd flavour fails in losetup

2008-12-01 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi, I would like to build a Live+Installer to have on a USB-key. It fails in losetup in "configuring syslinux" as attached. Any idea why ? And what can I do to debug/solve ? Regards, Didier Raboud -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse − http://www.swisslinux.org config.tar

Science live DVD

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Walker
There has been some interest in the past in a science live DVD, and a USB key version would also presumably be useful. Is it really as simple as adding the science metapackages[1] to /usr/share/live-helper/lists? I'm currently stuck on getting apt-get to use the packages mounted on my filesyste

Bug#507477: regression: Integrity Checks does not work anymore

2008-12-01 Thread Marco Amadori
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.154.1-1 Severity: important Booting with "integrity-check" halts the boot process, probably because the default "md5sum" binary in that context, is still the busybox one, which does not support the "-c" option. Moreover the "reboot" command tries to redirect t