Re: Help building a live iso on a running live system with 8G RAM and no HD

2013-02-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/04/2013 05:44 AM, b galka wrote: I assumed the configuration parameter --packages-lists "xfce-desktop" would build a complete xfce-desktop into the image but for some reason it is not. there's no '--package-lists' parameter anymore in live-build 3.x; if you want an xfce-desktop, is sugge

Re: Re: Help building a live iso on a running live system with 8G RAM and no HD

2013-02-03 Thread b galka
Thanks for the hint.   Ok I've got the live build to actually build an image on the thumb drive.  Merely inserting the thumb drive into the laptop mounted it at /media/scratch but "mount" showed it indeed was mounted as "nodev".  I have no idea what that means but it was apparently breaking the

Re: Does debian live recompile from source?

2013-02-03 Thread Mark Schneider
Am 03.02.2013 23:28, schrieb Brian Gunlogson: I need to modify a package that exists in Debian already, by patching its source code. Must I rebuild my source package into a binary package BEFOREHAND and then tell debian-live to install the compiled .deb? Or does debian live support recompilin

Does debian live recompile from source?

2013-02-03 Thread Brian Gunlogson
I need to modify a package that exists in Debian already, by patching its source code. Must I rebuild my source package into a binary package BEFOREHAND and then tell debian-live to install the compiled .deb? Or does debian live support recompiling my source package itself? Brian Gunlogson