PelicanHPC: help wanted

2012-11-12 Thread Michael Creel
unning and reasonably well-known special use Linux distro, help would be very welcome. For more information on PHPC, see pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC. If you're interested in this, please email me directly. Thanks! Michael Creel Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Re: keyb= cheatcode?

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Creel
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Michael Creel wrote: > Hi all, > For a squeeze-based image made with live-build 2.0.11, the cheatcode > keyb=es does not work. Is there a known solution. > Thanks, > Michael > Thanks for the pointers. For reference, the boot time cheatcode is &q

keyb= cheatcode?

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Creel
Hi all, For a squeeze-based image made with live-build 2.0.11, the cheatcode keyb=es does not work. Is there a known solution. Thanks, Michael

Re: how to make iso-hybrid?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Creel
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Frank Zambrini wrote: > On 09/08/2010 08:17 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> >> you need syslinux 4 for that. since lenny doesn't have one, you'll need >> a backport. >> >> > > I used syslinux from squeeze for my lenny build. I downloaded the packages > syslinux and sys

how to make iso-hybrid?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael Creel
I'm trying to make an iso-hybrid image, and everything goes fine up to it stopping with the message binary.sh: 5: isohybrid: not found This occurs using live-build a25 from sid. I'm building on a Lenny system. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: building a squeeze image

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Creel
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 06/29/2010 06:58 PM, Michael Creel wrote: >> lh config -r live.debian.net >> lh config -d "squeeze" > > lh defaults to lenny. so volatile gets enabled. later you change to > squeeze, then you need to

building a squeeze image

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Creel
Hello all, For a number of days now, if I do lh config -r live.debian.net lh config -d "squeeze" lh build in an empty directory, I end up with the error message Get:9 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages [51.9kB] Err http://volatile.debian.org squeeze/volatile/main Packages

more on aufs and NFS export

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Creel
Hi again, Regarding my message of a moment ago, here's a link to relevant info http://aufs.sourceforge.net/aufs.html#Exporting%20Aufs%20via%20NFS Michael

nfs export from a running live system

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Creel
Hello all, I can do an NFS export of /home from a running live Lenny-based system, but not from a Squeeze-based system. On Squeeze, I get a message like "filesystem not supported for export" or similar when starting up the NFS service. I'm wondering if the aufs module in squeeze was compiled withou

Re: Debian Live netboot installations

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Creel
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> >> BTW, I wonder, what are the largest Debian Live >> ``installations'' booted over the network?  It seems that I'll >> be able to have at least 30 hosts or so boot Debian Live and be >> running at the same time here,

Re: generating netboot images

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Creel
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ruben Vos wrote: > Fellow debian-live users, > > For the past few months I have only been able to generate working > netboot images using an old live-helper version. Whenever I try to use > the newer git-versions, all generated netboot images result in a > white/gr

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Creel
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Christophe Pierret wrote: >> Are you aware of any work to adapt Debian live scripts to build AMI >> images for Amazon EC2 ? > > no, but patches welcome (if nobody steps up, i'll get around to it > myself at some point, but likely not in the n

Re: How to resize ramdisk?

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Creel
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:41 PM, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to ask if there is a way to resize the ramdisk on a Debian live cd, > either at boot time, or while running. > > My problem is that I have a not very current machine with only 256 MB of > memory (that seemed to be plenty w

Re: Lenny Release

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Creel
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Daniel Baumann writes: > >> Aloha, >> >> we did it! lenny is the first debian release that has live images >> alongside the regular installer media. thanks to all those numerous >> people who made it possible. > > Congrats! :-) > I couldn

Re: How to report boot problems, and how to solve them?

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Creel
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Creel wrote: > > Thanks for your comments about those cases. They're just examples of the type of situations that could generate useful information if a reasonably convenient means of reporting could be put in place.

How to report boot problems, and how to solve them?

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Creel
PelicanHPC (http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/) users occasionally report boot failures (for example: http://www.nabble.com/bug-in-version-1.6%2C-1.7%2C-1.72-to21264104.html and http://www.nabble.com/Node-boot-problem-to21355444.html). PelicanHPC releases are just ordinary Lenny images with a

Re: NFS export

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Creel
> > /var/chroot/ *(ro,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,nfsid=0) Try changing nfsid to fsid. The make_pelican script at http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/download/ has an example of a working NFS export of an aufs filesystem. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Patch] Assign password (encrypted) from boot parameters

2008-10-03 Thread Michael Creel
I don't know enough about security to comment on the implementation, but I would really like to see this functionality become a feature. Cheers, Michael On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Steven Shiau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob, > Definitely. > However, this is just an option. Especially when y