Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:11:25 +0100, Thomas Lange a écrit : > >>>>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux > >>>>> said: > > > has a cable plugged, to run ipconfig on this one. I can give it > > if someone is intereste

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:11:25 +0100, Thomas Lange a écrit : > >>>>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux > >>>>> said: > > > has a cable plugged, to run ipconfig on this one. I can give it > > if someone is intereste

Re: Serial console on /dev/ttyS0

2009-11-10 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:49:34 +0100, Olof Tångrot a écrit : > Thanks but, > this seems to make ttyS0 the primary system console. > > Can this be avoided? I think so : try using "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0" : the last console defined is the primary system one. Fred. -- To UN

Re: Serial console on /dev/ttyS0

2009-11-09 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:33:07 +0100, Olof Tångrot a écrit : > What mechanism rebuilds inittab? > > How can I make a proper change to the compressed filesystem that works > as intended? Hello Olof, The live-initramfs' scripts already handles serial console ; to enable it, give info that

live-manual small update.

2009-10-06 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Hello, you'll find joined to this e-mail a patch to give indications about using klayout/kvariant parameters to specify keyboard layout, and about hostname parameter. Fred. diff --git a/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml b/xml/chapters/live-environment.xml index 087eac6..c12c3be

Re: LiveCD doesn’t find persistent file

2009-07-27 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:09:02 +0200, "os.n...@gmx.de" a écrit : > Can someone help me please and is willing to post a detailed > description (more detailed than the manual and FAQ) how to make a > persistent file and how to use it? Thank you, Oliver Hello, I didn't used persistent part

Re: problem with Debian Live when /etc/resolv.conf is a symbolic link

2009-04-08 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:45:49 +0200, Pierre Bauduin a écrit : > Hi, > > Debian Live is great, and everything works :)... except one or two > things. > > If in the chroot I create a symbolic link like this: > ln -s etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf etc/resolv.conf > > But I can't build a Debian Live

Re: small addition to the manual

2009-02-03 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:56:19 +0100, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > applied, thanks! > > i've changed a few things though: it's 'Debian Live', not 'Debian > live', not 'Debian-live' and not 'Debian-Live'; and in english, one > doesn't do a space before punctuation marks, e.g. 'Is this correct?' > and

small addition to the manual

2009-02-02 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Hello, I've added some explanations I felt useful about Debian-live system, and some description about using grub on an ext2 usb key to boot a Debian-live system : feel free to use/fix it ... Fred. patch.20090202 Description: Binary data

Re: Persistent partitions not on the same device

2009-01-23 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:31:51 +0100, Marco Amadori a écrit : > On Thursday 22 January 2009, 08:36:18, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: > > > Looking in live-initramfs's script/live code, I've found that the > > device where is found live-rw (global persistent partitio

Re: Persistent partitions not on the same device

2009-01-22 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le jeu 22 jan 2009 09:31:51 CET, Marco Amadori a écrit : > Then it is a bug, only the partition should be excluded from the search > (e.g. /dev/sde4, not /dev/sde). So I'll record it in a bug report ... Thanks for your note, Fred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Persistent partitions not on the same device

2009-01-21 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello Debian-live people, I've tried to setup a Debian-Live with persistent partitions, so I built the Debian-live system, wrote the binary.img on a USB stick, and then manually added two ext2 partitions on the left space of USB stick, labeled 'live-rw' and 'home-rw', and booted it with

Re: Debian Live Lenny with live-getty on serial port

2008-12-17 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mar 16 déc 2008 17:13:38 CET, "Alex Owen" a écrit : > That is odd! > I wrote the original live-getty and auto serial console code. > I have not looked at the current code but if we NEED "console=tty0" > followed by "console=ttyS0,38400n8" for a serial console prompt then > that is a BUG! Yes,

Re: Debian Live Lenny with live-getty on serial port

2008-12-15 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 15 déc 2008 10:11:28 CET, Mark Gannon a écrit : > Folks, > > I'm trying to build a Debian Live USB implementation based on Lenny. I would > like to redirect the login prompt from VGA to the serial port. > > In reading through past posts on the subject, the following boot paramters > s

Re: problem with live net and language

2008-12-15 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le ven 12 déc 2008 19:08:59 CET, Chamillard Gilles a écrit : > Hello, > > Good idea for the LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE but i forgot to mention > that it contained already locale=fr_FR keyb=fr. > > I try locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 keyb=fr and even blocking... > The bizarre is that it works with ISO and not with

Update to the Debian-live Manual...

2008-11-24 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello, I've done a modification to the manual (patch joined), does somebody can check it and integrate it  ? Thanks, Fred. --- live-manual/xml/chapters/basics.xml 2008-11-24 10:27:19.0 +0100 +++ live-manual.mod/xml/chapters/basics.xml 2008-11-21 17:21:40.

Re: Notes on handling of defaults

2008-10-22 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mar 14 oct 2008 13:39:38 CEST, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > How are defaults beeing handled in live-helper? > --- > ... > The hierarchy of methods in order to manipulates values of variables is > the following (earlier methods are ov

Re: problems with ip-config in live-initramfs

2008-10-13 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le dim 12 oct 2008 20:39:13 CEST, Joseph Rawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I have been using the net images a lot, and I have been experiencing > intermittent problems when the ipconfig is being run. The init process > always pauses at this point, often for a minute or so. I've noticed th

Re: Net (PXE) boot from a two interfaces computer

2008-10-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello Andreas and Debian-Live folks, I've updated the script a bit, as I found that Debian-Live's init script don't really use the initramfs.conf file to know if it's a NFS net boot, but use kernel command line options instead. As a side note, the lh_chroot_hacks script adds a stanza

Re: Net (PXE) boot from a two interfaces computer

2008-10-03 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mer 01 oct 2008 16:28:57 CEST, Andreas Teuchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hello, > > as I had the same problem, I wrote a script which tries to find the > first NIC which has a cable plugged in and uses it to get an address via > DHCP. For me it works (two NICs, one with cable, one witho

Re: Net (PXE) boot from a two interfaces computer

2008-10-01 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mer 01 oct 2008 16:28:57 CEST, Andreas Teuchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hello, > > as I had the same problem, I wrote a script which tries to find the > first NIC which has a cable plugged in and uses it to get an address via > DHCP. For me it works (two NICs, one with cable, one witho

Bug#500677: live-helper: update lh_binary_rootfs to better support wildcards in file exclusion

2008-09-30 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le mar 30 sep 2008 13:56:50 CEST, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Frederic Boiteux wrote: > > about using "-wildcards" to mksquashfs to achieve this, but it is used only > > when LH_CHROOT_BUILD=disabled. > > ...because if you build chrooted, you can just remove the files, since >

Net (PXE) boot from a two interfaces computer

2008-09-30 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello, I'm trying to boot a Debian Live system from network (with PXE) on a PC with 2 ethernet interfaces. It doesn't work because the bootable ethernet interface (only one of the two) is recognized as 'eth1' by udev, the other one as 'eth0', so the Debian Live system send its DHCP reque