Re: A reasonable use of a "live image"?

2013-02-26 Thread joseph gunn
Answers both. Maybe we should help you understand how. On Feb 26, 2013 7:56 PM, "Richard Owlett" wrote: > Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> use virtualbox (or any other 'desktop virtualization' of >> your trust) on windows and be done with it. >> >> > Answers neither of my questions. > Violates explicit

Re: Source style regarding here-documents

2012-12-26 Thread Joseph Gunn
On 12/26/2012 12:14 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 12/26/2012 05:04 PM, Daniel Reichelt wrote: still don't see the advantage ;-) ...guess we just won't convince each other. well, you haven't showed any reason where/why we should use 'here- documents' at all, you only made an argument for why you

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:42:37 +0100 Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: > > This menu is called tails-greeter and is not ready to be released yet. > > We'll use it for much more than persistence. > > > > Details: > > > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/ > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/TailsGre

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-04 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:25:11 -0700 Kash wrote: > Ok, I figured out why that code wasn't running. It skips the code that > iterates over all the interface because I have netboot=nfs in my > pxelinux stanza. But it's looking for all these to be null for that > code to run > > if [ -z "${NETBOOT}"

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-04 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 14:00:28 -0700 Kash wrote: > For whatever reason the conditions were not met for it to run that > particular code where it would iterate through all the available interfaces. > It kept trying to run ipconfig on the first interface with the link and get > stuck there. > > Now,

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-04 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 12:00:17 -0700 Kash wrote: > Actually I removed it because it was not needed for our environment and if > you read the previous discussion I mentioned that this is a working code for > bootif only. Regardless, I'll send in another patch, adding in the code that > I removed, and

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-04 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 20:33:49 -0700 Kash wrote: > The autodiscovery seems to be flawed, in that if it finds a link on > the wrong NIC, it tries to get a DHCP lease and gets stuck. We can > always keep auto discovery in addition to this patch. For example, if > there is a BOOTIF parameter, use this

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-03 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:56:56 -0700 Kash wrote: > Here are the changes I made to scripts/live file to support BOOTIF. It > doesn't have code to fall back to something else if "IPAPPEND 2" is > missing. > Seems that this patch disables autodiscovery of an interface in favor of a machine specific b

Re: issue with detecting the right interface

2011-09-01 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:22:14 -0700 Kash wrote: > Hello, > I am not sure if there is a bug here. Here is the issue: > > I have machines with multiple NICs and only one of the NICs is > connected to a network which has a DHCP server. The rest are connected > to other networks, and neither of those

Help with 2.0-3.0 build migration

2011-06-10 Thread Joseph Gunn
Hello all! I am stuck, and getting frustrated with my attempts to migrate a working a20 to a30 live build configuration. The intent is to have, after a build, a hybrid iso image. By following the steps below i am able to produce an image, but isolinux can not seem to find the kernel, or initrd

Bug#611700: live-helper: Package xresprobe is not available, but is referred to by another package.

2011-02-01 Thread joseph gunn
xresprobe is no longer required. remove it from your configuration. It should build fine after that. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Piotr wrote: > Package: live-helper > Version: 2.0.11-1 > Severity: normal > > > Using a custom config from live-helper: > > # lb config --bootappend-live "loc

Re: configuring proprietary drivers at boot time

2011-01-10 Thread joseph gunn
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 01/11/2011 01:48 AM, Nicola Busanello wrote: > >> Hi all, >> > > Hi, > > the right way is to first fix the driver packages so that they use > update-alternative and can be installed all at the same time. > second, once that has happene

Re: Live softphone USB key.: Progress report

2010-03-18 Thread joseph gunn
agreed. It has helped me out of a situation, or two. the sooner one is away from the bios the sooner one is freed of its limits. just one of the many options. may help, may be noise. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/17/2010 07:49 PM, joseph gunn wrote: > &

Re: Live softphone USB key.: Progress report

2010-03-17 Thread joseph gunn
That is the purpose of chain loading. The boot manager on the boot device is not a kernel/initrd combo. its a boot loader. it just has enough smarts to boot the device. it bridges the gap in bios between bios support and bios boot support. the first load of a kernel is the kernel on the USB stick