Bug#1018239: live-boot: please add support for subroot= option

2022-08-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Package: live-boot Version: 1:20220505 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Control: found -1 1:20190614 [Please do not Cc: me, for I’m “on the list,” so to say, and I try to reserve my inbox for private communication only. I’d have set up Mail-Followup-To:, but there doesn’t see

Re: Live

2012-11-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Ben Armstrong writes: > Vorobjov Slava wrote: […] >> 2 in terminal "sudo cp debian-live-6.0.5-amd64-gnome-desktop.img >> /dev/sdc" (/dev/sdc - it's USB-Flash Drive) > Don't use cp. Use dd. AFAIK, both of them should work almost identically there. The difference

Re: bin/live-update-initramfs: dirname / basename fixes

2012-11-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Daniel Baumann writes: > i've fixed both in git, in a somewhat less complicated way though, > thanks. Even if wc(1) is for some reason deemed necessary, ls(1) is useless in this case. Roughly speaking, the difference between $ ls foo* and $ printf %s\\n foo* is t

Debian Wheezy live images

2012-11-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 09/07/2012 06:43 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> Do I understand it correctly that a simple way to include anything >> from Sid into an otherwise Wheezy image would be to put the package >> files in ques

bin/live-update-initramfs: dirname / basename fixes

2012-11-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Please consider the (untested) patch MIME'd. Fixed two filename handling issues in bin/live-update-initramfs. bin/live-update-initramfs: Fixed: use absolute filenames while counting initramfs images (were: relative to CWD); derive their version numbers properly (were: containing the leadi

Re: Debian Wheezy live images for SFD-2012?

2012-09-07 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 09/01/2012 07:52 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Any suggestions on how we should build these (package lists, lb >> options, etc.)? > use config-*.git from live.debian.net/gitweb, BTW, there'

Debian Wheezy live images for SFD-2012?

2012-08-31 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 08/15/2012 02:03 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Aren't there pre-built “live” images for Debian Wheezy (snapshots)? > not yet. if you need one urgently, you can built it yourself, see > http://live.deb

Re: Debian Live, live-build web-frontend - Build 20120828.084824.829049573

2012-08-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Rus F Adrian writes: > On Aug 29, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Debian Live live-build web-frontend wrote: […] >> Your build 20120828.084824.829049573 was started Wed, 29 Aug 2012 >> 00:29:34 -0500 and ended Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:03:29 -0500 with status >> 'maybe-successful'. >> You can see the

Re: Debian Wheezy live-boot vs. netboot=nfs

2012-08-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 08/16/2012 12:40 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> The diff is against the versions of the files currently in >> Debian Wheezy. > these fixes area already present in git (in different ways though), > so not apply

Debian Wheezy live-boot vs. netboot=nfs

2012-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 08/15/2012 04:41 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> I vaguely recall that there was a kernel command line option for the >> “live” initramfs to use live-media-path= as the root directory >> (subject to aufs,

[OT] www.*

2012-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 08/15/2012 04:31 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> That being said, the “www.” DNS prefix is mostly useless nowadays, > it makes a few things more 'organized' if you have multiple things on > one domain (

Re: Debian Wheezy live images?

2012-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Daniel Baumann writes: >>>>> On 08/15/2012 02:03 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Aren't there pre-built “live” images for Debian Wheezy (snapshots)? > not yet. if you need one urgently, you can built it yourself, see > http://live.debian.net/m

Re: Debian Wheezy live images?

2012-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Manfred Lichtenstern writes: […] > http://live.debian.net/manual/ is not working for me. > dig +trace live.debian.net: > live.debian.net.3600INCNAMEwww.live-systems.org. > and for www.live-systems.org i get no IP. DNS Error ? Apparently, there is some DNS i

Debian Wheezy live images?

2012-08-15 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Aren't there pre-built “live” images for Debian Wheezy (snapshots)? I've checked [1, 2], but found none. TIA. [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ [2] http://live.debian.net/ -- FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-l

Bug#568502: LVM support should be added

2010-02-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.157.4-2 Severity: wishlist Please add LVM support in live-initramfs, so that it will become possible to host Live filesystem images on LVM logical volumes. To do that, two changes are to be made: * the local-top/lvm2 script (of i

Debian Live netboot installations

2009-11-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov writes: [...] > The situation is, roughly, that an organization ``donates'' some of > its computers (say, ``diskless stations'') for a certain time (the > forecoming new year's holidays) and for a certain project. The

Re: securing netboot

2009-11-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tzafrir Cohen writes: >> Do I understand correctly that the netbooting Debian Live is >> currently inherently insecure against both eavesdroppers and >> intruders? > PXE is indeed inherently insecure. Well, it's not that bad when gPXE is considered: >> I see that even if the

Re: securing netboot

2009-11-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Richard Nelson writes: >> Do I understand correctly that the netbooting Debian Live is >> currently inherently insecure against both eavesdroppers and >> intruders? [...] > Well you could use mac addresses and dhcp for some layer of security Unfortunately, the MAC addresses a

securing netboot

2009-11-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Do I understand correctly that the netbooting Debian Live is currently inherently insecure against both eavesdroppers and intruders? I see that even if the gPXE option to securily check the kernel and initramfs images after downloading is used, NFS has still

Re: caching of .deb files?

2009-11-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> mictlan tecutli writes: >> k is that the lh_config creates the config/ directory, but when I >> run lh_build it creates a new chroot/ directory and caches the >> packages there. So do I need to point to the existing cache before >> running the lh_build command? Any suggestions gratefull

[PATCH] handle root= even if not booting from network or using plainroot

2009-02-12 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Please consider the following patch. This one makes the `live' script handle the root= kernel parameter in cases other than using `plainroot' or network boot. In particular, it allows one to override the results of autodetection (in case one gets several dev

Re: General question - objectives of debian live.

2008-12-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> carsten writes: >> I would just like a confirmation that I can use debian live to >> create a portable clone of a subset of my regular debian environment >> that I can carry around on a CD/DVD and a USB flash drive. >> After reading the fine manual a couple of times, I'm pretty sure

Re: lh_config --binary-images multiple targets?

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Now, of course, I am wondering whether I actually need multiple > targets. > At the moment, I create one ISO file and one tar file. The tar file > is just there to update one thumb drive; I just mount it and untar > the tar file onto

Re: a few minor bugs in the D-L Manual

2008-11-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Rather, it should look like: >> $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1G seek=1 # for a 1G image file >> $ ls -gGl live-rw >> -rw-r--r-- 1 1073741824 ... live-rw > This is bogus too as it creates a file big as all free space in the > target devi

a few minor bugs in the D-L Manual

2008-11-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Wiki reads: > general note: the wiki is pretty much outdated in *many* cases and > the primary location for any information is the manual (linked on > debian-live.alioth.debian.org). ACK, thanks. What about the following?

DebianLive/Download

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Wiki reads: --cut: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Download-- To get DebianLive/live-helper on your machine, use aptitude or Synaptic for sid. Otherwise have a look at one of these options: * DebianLive/Backports (for Etch) * git clone git://git.debian.org/users/d

Re: Debian Live on an LVM-enabled media

2008-11-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > However, having Debian Live installed on an Ext3 filesystem on top of > an LVM volume seems to have at least the following benefits: > * the filesystem could be expanded or reduced dynamically (with

Debian Live on an LVM-enabled media

2008-11-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
What's the way to install Debian Live on an LVM logical volume? I know that neither kernel nor initramfs image can reside on an LVM volume since the bootloaders don't support these, thus a separate partition would be necessary for them (not to mention the bo