Bug#536796: use swap files on boot up

2009-07-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
the ground work for this is already done, however, i personally prefere to not add the missing parts in old live-initramfs and do it in live-initramfs 2.x this fall. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Interne

Bug#536796: use swap files on boot up

2009-07-13 Thread Tong Sun
Package: live-initramfs Severity: wishlist Hi, To many people, Debian-Live base distros are one-time-quick-fix things, but to me, it is a solution to use my Linux on boxes otherwise impossible. More often than not, I'm faced with boxes that have little ram, and impossible to have the luxury to c

Re: Configurable persistent device names

2009-07-13 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:46:43 -0500, Richard Nelson wrote: > perhaps adding a boot param for persistent custom name that could be > appended to existing names would be an easy solution. Then the user who > wanted live-rw-sid would call the param with paramName=-sid and then we > could document how

Re: Configurable persistent device names

2009-07-13 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 13 July 2009, 03:46:43, Richard Nelson wrote: > > Currently live-initramfs will look for hard-coded partitions labeled > > "live-rw"/"home-rw", and files called "live-sn*"/"home-sn*" for > > persistent and snapshot partitions or files. > > > > This will cause problem when trying to run/t