Re: generating netboot images

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Creel
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ruben Vos wrote: > Fellow debian-live users, > > For the past few months I have only been able to generate working > netboot images using an old live-helper version. Whenever I try to use > the newer git-versions, all generated netboot images result in a > white/gr

Re: generating netboot images

2009-09-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/11 Ruben Vos : > Fellow debian-live users, > > For the past few months I have only been able to generate working > netboot images using an old live-helper version. Whenever I try to use > the newer git-versions, all generated netboot images result in a > white/gray “circle” on the machines t

generating netboot images

2009-09-11 Thread Ruben Vos
Fellow debian-live users, For the past few months I have only been able to generate working netboot images using an old live-helper version. Whenever I try to use the newer git-versions, all generated netboot images result in a white/gray “circle” on the machines that attempt the actual PXE boot (

Re: How to enable sudo for all users by default

2009-09-11 Thread surreal
I am attaching the /etc/sudoers file present on the live dvd This file gets replaced on hdd installation. 2009/9/11 surreal > Is there any way of enabling sudo to all users without having to know their > names? > > > > -- > Harshad Joshi > -- Harshad Joshi sudoers Description: Binary da

Re: How is the stable CD build?

2009-09-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Daniel Baumann schreef: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> I have tried to build an iso with the version what was used, but it did >> not work ("could not find kernel image: live"), and I see a different >> boot-menu. > > then there's something wrong; what version did you want to build? The problem wa

Re: How to enable sudo for all users by default

2009-09-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44:53AM +0530, surreal wrote: > Is there any way of enabling sudo to all users without having to know their > names? The sample /etc/sudoers has the following text: # Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL --

Local swap partitions are now forcefully enabled

2009-09-11 Thread intrigeri
Hi, since commit 3d5d6074e339e5d2e to live-initramfs, the default behavior wrt. local swap partitions has been changed once again. It used to be opt-out, has then been switched to opt-in in commit 35dafe02ca09da6c79 after discussion on the list, and is now forcefully on: if $NOSWAP is empty, loca

Re: [PATCH] Fix for Ubuntu netboot image builds with d-i enabled

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Here is a second patch for helpers/lh_binary_syslinux i squashed it together with the first patch, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panth

Re: [PATCH] Fix for Ubuntu netboot image builds with d-i enabled

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Please see patch attached to > this e-mail which correctly sets DI_REMOTE_BASE and DI_REMOTE_BASE_GTK as > well. applied, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet:

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

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Sure thing; see attached patches. nicely done, happily applied, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/

Re: [PATCH] Lower tarball compression level

2009-09-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > I'd like to propose the attached patch which changes "--best" to > "--fast" in the lh_binary_tar helper. Using "--best" (the highest level > of compression) can take 20% longer to complete but only provides 4-5% > better compression. This performance impact can quickl