Re: syslinux 3.71 to 4

2010-10-10 Thread tom . deblauwe
On 11/10/2010 7:09, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Which files, specifically? > Hello, I just make a tarball of the resulting "binary" directory and extract this into the existing partition. Best regards Tom, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

syslinux 3.71 to 4

2010-10-08 Thread tom . deblauwe
Hello, I have an existing build, using debian lenny and live-helper 1 which uses syslinux 3.71 Now for squeeze and live-builder 2, it seems that version 4 of syslinux is used. My problem is that I update my software remotely by just overwriting the existing files in the binary partition wit

USB must be mounted twice?

2010-09-10 Thread tom . deblauwe
Hello, I am using debian lenny with live-helper 1.0.3-2 and live-initramfs 1.157.1-1. I am now testing kernel 2.6.32 from backports.debian.org with this setup. It works ok and boots. Only thing I had to do is install squashfs 4.0 from testing but this was compatible luckily. Also, I am using

Re: How to resize the IMG USB Live-Debian pendrive ?

2010-04-20 Thread Tom Deblauwe
On 19/04/2010 19:37, yellow protoss wrote: Thanks but that was not the question. Is there someone that knows how to make this pendrive to the full pendrive? (not making a new partition please) Just put some empty file inside the binary_local-includes config directory, and that increases the s

Re: undebian

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Deblauwe
On 4/03/2010 7:34, Daniel Baumann wrote: stabile.debian.org:5001 aka snapshot.debian.org is down, so i could not update my git trees. in the meanwhile, backports.org has 2.6.32 builds. you could use them by configuring the repo in chroot_sources and, since they afaik still not have fixed meta pac

Re: undebian

2010-02-24 Thread Tom Deblauwe
On 21/01/2010 10:39, Daniel Baumann wrote: my buildds were busy building openoffice.org et al, the kernels will follow in about a week or two. Hello, I haven't found any 2.6.32 builds for lenny, is there any updated info on this? Thanks Best regards, Tom, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-22 Thread Tom Deblauwe
On 19/01/2010 17:09, Daniel Baumann wrote: As a first step, I'd like to gather a list of features (not their implementation!, that's a step later) that you need/want/like/use/miss from live-initramfs. Here are the things I was thinking about: - You should be able to boot a live system and it s

Re: undebian

2010-01-22 Thread Tom Deblauwe
On 21/01/2010 10:39, Daniel Baumann wrote: my backports are since a while in their definitive and permanent location on backports.debian-maintainers.org (undebian.org is a testbed for different things). my buildds were busy building openoffice.org et al, the kernels will follow in about a week or

undebian

2010-01-21 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, The server at undebian.org is not responding here for me. Is there an alternative? Luckily I had mirrored it locally here... I wanted to check if there are 2.6.32 kernel packages available for debian lenny. Any pointers? Thanks, Best regards, Tom, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: set root password

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What about 'mypasswor'? (That is: is anything after the 8-th character ignored)? hmm ok, my actual password behaviour seems to fit the 8 characters you mentioned. Using the -m option solved it! Thanks. best regards Tom, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...

set root password

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, I was using a script to set the root password, it just contained this code: echo "mypassword_\$123" | chpasswd Now the problem is that now I can login as root with multiple passwords: mypassword_$ works, and mypassword_$123 works, and mypassword_$12345 works. So anything I put afte

Re: How many processors and RAM does debian kernel 2.2.26-686 support?

2009-10-08 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Diederik de Haas wrote: On 2009-10-08 surreal wrote: Whats the maximum RAM supported without bigmem addon? 4G. Auch :), I was thinking about the HIGHMEM thing, which hit me when using debian etch. best regards, Tom, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ

Re: How many processors and RAM does debian kernel 2.2.26-686 support?

2009-10-07 Thread Tom Deblauwe
without bigmem it is 1G I think. This is not really the list to ask such things. Regards Tom, surreal wrote: How many processors does Debian Kernel 2.6.26 (686) support? Whats the maximum RAM supported without bigmem addon? -- Harshad Joshi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: uname

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Daniel Baumann wrote: just for making sure you're not potentially wasting time: that driver is included in linux mainline. if you are building a lenny image and requiring a newer kernel in order to get a newer version of the driver for your hardware, but you're not depending on bleeding edge, you

Re: uname

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Daniel Baumann wrote: fix whatever you are compiling to not rely on uname -r, but use KVERS or similar (which can be set by the user). I would rather not do this if possible. it would be handy to know what you're exactely compiling, that way we could tell you if you're doing it wrong or th

uname

2009-09-02 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, I'm building a few custom kernel drivers in my chroot hooks scripts. I include the source in the chroot_local-includes and compile it in a hook. This works fine, if my host kernel is the same version number as my live system's kernel. But if I want to use another version for my live-sy

fat32 dosfsck

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, I'm using the debian live project and so far it is working great. Thanks! I have a project where I need to save some config data on the boot disk. I use FAT32 for the binary. So I have made a new directory "config" where my program saves the persistent data. Because of that, I want to d

Re: usb sticks

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Deblauwe
l not work ok?    => is the solution to make stick B work: => format stick B manually, install the syslinux bootloader and copy the files to it? Is that a better system? Best regards, Tom, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/6/16 Tom Deblauwe <tom.debla...@telenet.be> Hi, I am u

usb sticks

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hi, I am using fat32 as a resulting binary image filesystem. My question is: If I copy the binary.img image to different types of sticks(512MB, 1GB, 2GB,...) and different brands, using "dd", will there ever be a problem with sector sizes or something like that? Maybe when writing on the disk

Re: Minimum size of fat16 fs in image

2009-04-01 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Tom Deblauwe wrote: Hello, Is it possible to make sure the fat16 filesystem on the resulting binary has a certain size? I have tried and made a binary hook, that adds a file of a certain size to the binary directory, so that my resulting size is e.g. 250MB. But then it fails saying that

Minimum size of fat16 fs in image

2009-04-01 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, Is it possible to make sure the fat16 filesystem on the resulting binary has a certain size? I have tried and made a binary hook, that adds a file of a certain size to the binary directory, so that my resulting size is e.g. 250MB. But then it fails saying that there is not enough space

Re: a few questions

2009-03-26 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hi, Richard Nelson wrote: I could do that in syslinux in each boot menu choice, like in question 1? You can also just edit the entries of: config/binary:LH_SYSLINUX_MENU_LIVE_ENTRY and config/binary:LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE I did this, and it works with "toram". However th

Re: a few questions

2009-03-26 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hi, Richard Nelson wrote: I could do that in syslinux in each boot menu choice, like in question 1? You can also just edit the entries of: config/binary:LH_SYSLINUX_MENU_LIVE_ENTRY and config/binary:LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE I did this, and it works with "toram". However th

a few questions

2009-03-25 Thread Tom Deblauwe
Hello, First: thanks for this project, it's really cool. I have a few questions: 1) Is there an example of what should be put in the "binary_syslinux" directory? I couldn't find examples or docs how to use this. I want to modify the choices I would get in the boot menu. 2) Our program would ru