Re: Trouble with running on non-debian systems.

2020-11-27 Thread Alex King
Understood. After the changes I made, it is working.  In summary, to get it working, I: * modified the check for debootstrap (in the patch) * modified the execution of rsync to fail over to the tar method that was already present, if rsync fails.  Which happens with older rsync versions

Re: Load filesystem.squashfs other than using fetch as boot parameter

2020-11-27 Thread Kleber Leal
I succeeded. I didn't swap wget by curl because it is not included in Busybox. That would be the clearest solution since curl can do the same things that wget and much more. I discovered which script is called in order to read from http and added a routine to read it from a local file with file://

Re: Trouble with running on non-debian systems.

2020-11-27 Thread Michael .
Hi Alex. I'm not suggesting that you give up on this but understand that if you do keep going you will probably be the 1st person in a very long time, if not ever, to actually try this. The original developer has long since gone and the things you are trying to do originate from his work. On 27/11

Re: Trouble with running on non-debian systems.

2020-11-27 Thread Alex King
Spoke too soon there were errors related to /dev/pts, not sure if those are significant? [2020-11-27 04:13:18] lb chroot_devpts install P: Begin mounting /dev/pts... mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on devpts-live,    missing codepage or helper program, or other error    

Trouble with running on non-debian systems.

2020-11-27 Thread Alex King
Reading https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/installation.en.html#110: "Note that using Debian or a Debian-derived distribution is not required" I am trying to run it on a centos6 system.  I have all the stated requirements.  Live build is installed via git clone and

Re: Trouble with running on non-debian systems.

2020-11-27 Thread Alex King
Further to this, after commenting out the package check in /usr/lib/live/build/bootstrap_debootstrap, I got a further error about /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg not being available. So I copied /usr/share/keyrings/ from the debian-archive-keyring deb, it's now getting a lot fur