Re: Why are the Squeeze images so much larger?

--- On Tue, 2/8/11, Daniel Baumann wrote: > if you need a cd sized image, you can always build one > yourself, see the > live-manual at http://live.debian.net/manual/ for more > information. Indeed, that is the solution, and it is simpler than I expected. I just built a Squeeze LXDE hybrid ISO,

Why are the Squeeze images so much larger?

I am looking at the Squeeze images located here... http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ ...and I see that, with the sole exception of the rescue image, they are too large to fit on a CD-ROM. I am wondering why they are so much bigger. I am fairly certain that a

Re: Will free kernel mean firmware problems in Live in persistent mode?

Although I may be mistaken, I believe that you may be able to solve this problem by replacing the stock kernel with a custom kernel. If I am right, it should not be very hard to do, especially if you are using a USB flash drive instead of a CD-ROM. --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Shankar Gopalakrishnan w

Cannot include a package with a plus character in its name

Hello, I tried to use the live-build web-frontend at http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build to build a Lenny/KDE image with some additional packages, one of them being dvd+rw-tools. Unfortunately, it did not work because the package name was truncated at the plus character. In other w