Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on list only though. ] Pravin wrote: > I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. > I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for enabling iscsi booting, > but booting over iscsi is 3 times faster than booting over HTTPFS :-) i

Re: fat32 dosfsck

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tom Deblauwe wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I'm using the debian live project and so far it is working great. Thanks! welcome :) > I have a project where I need to save some config data on the boot disk. > I use FAT32 for the binary. So I have made a new directory "config" > where my program saves the p

Re: sysvinit...

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
yban...@gmail.com wrote: > -d sid > > I: Configuring sysvinit... > W: Failure while configuring required packages. this was a bug in sid. please do not report general sid breakages that are unrelated to debian-live (which failures to bootstrap definitely are, see the debootstrap stage information

Re: setting language/keyboard at boot

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
intrigeri wrote: > Hello, Hi, > We also desperately need such a "easily choose locale at runtime" > feature, as appending parameters to the kernel command line is > unfortunately too complicated / bothersome for most of our users. don't worry.. i'd like to get that too, as default for squeeze, b

Re: LXDE and qemu

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Achim Gädke wrote: > Hi there! Hi, > qemu -cdrom debian-live-501-i386-lxde-desktop.iso > > When I open a window (e.g. the terminal) the window pops up, without > borders, vanishs, pops up, some pixles deeper and so on... > Could anyone help me, to configure the window manager? in order to rule

Re: [HOOK] losetup lukshome - working and tested encrypted home

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Rui Miguel Bernardo wrote: > Your welcome :) I didn't expect this to get into the examples hooks, > so here are some improvements to make this hook more worthy of being > included in examples. applied in git, thanks you. > I think it's better now. Maybe it's not. I could try to make less > change

Re: [PATCH] Do not add boot options to bootloader that are unavailable

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Following my patch to add the ability to disable the use of the GTK > graphical d-i installer, I've created this patch which modifies > lh_binary_grub, lh_binary_syslinux, and lh_binary_yaboot to not add the > boot options for unavailable frontends by checking to ensu

Re: [PATCH] Add option to disable use of GTK debian-installer

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > I've created a patch to add the ability to disable use of the GTK > graphical debian-installer. Folks may want to do this to reduce the size > of their images or if the necessary files aren't available. applied, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunders

Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure when retrying build at deconfiguring file /bin/hostname

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > So, I've created a patch to have > lh_chroot_hostname look to see if 'chroot/bin/hostname.orig' exists > before attempting to move it to 'chroot/bin/hostname'. the test -s is overly strict. as there's nothing that would create hostname.orig in the first place, except

Bug#541863: marked as done (Please include conffile.template)

2009-09-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:26:55 +0200 with message-id <4a9e021f.5040...@debian.org> and subject line Re: Please include conffile.template has caused the Debian Bug report #541863, regarding Please include conffile.template to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the probl

Re: How to overcome bug in grub

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Fredrik Israelsson wrote: > Hi! Hi, > I am trying to automate the custom install procedure described on the wiki > (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Custom_Install) not just that this page is totally unsupported, it is also the wrong way to do it. better let debian-installer handle insta

Bug#541857: live-helper: --categories option not documented in manpage

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
tag 541857 pending thanks this has already been done quite some time ago in git. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Processed: Re: live-helper: --categories option not documented in manpage

2009-09-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 541857 pending Bug #541857 [live-helper] live-helper: --categories option not documented in manpage Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator

Processed: Re: live-helper: typos/patch

2009-09-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 543868 pending Bug #543868 [live-helper] live-helper: typos/patch Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs databas

Bug#543868: live-helper: typos/patch

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
tag 543868 pending thanks Hi, patch does not apply, had to do it manually. please make sure that next time when sending a patch, you do it against the git tree, not against the last upload. however, applied in git, thanks. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3,

Bug#544583: Need to control ramfs size

2009-09-01 Thread Tong Sun
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Tong Sun wrote: >> I've bumped into "out of disk space" problem when using Debian >> Live. I am using the persistent root and a big swap partition, >> but mount tmp on ramfs -- in fstab: > > i don't understand. if you use (root) persistency, y

Bug#544583: Need to control ramfs size

2009-09-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tong Sun wrote: > I've bumped into "out of disk space" problem when using Debian > Live. I am using the persistent root and a big swap partition, > but mount tmp on ramfs -- in fstab: i don't understand. if you use (root) persistency, you don't have a ram disk at all, but all writes are dumped to

Bug#544583: Need to control ramfs size

2009-09-01 Thread Tong Sun
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.157.2-1 Severity: minor Hi, I've bumped into "out of disk space" problem when using Debian Live. I am using the persistent root and a big swap partition, but mount tmp on ramfs -- in fstab: /dev/ram7 /var/tmpramfs defaults,rw,auto,dev