check-missing-firmware?

2010-03-05 Thread mictlan tecutli
Hi, Is it possible to use check-missing-firmware.sh, from hw-detect, from an appropriate place in live-initramfs? what would the appropriate place be? i would like for the user o be propted for firmware, in the same way as occures in d-i. and, just as in d-i i would like to be able to preseed chec

[PATCH] change-apt-get-upgrace-to-apt-get-upgrade

2010-02-17 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, please accept patch which fixes typo in live-initscripts manpage. thanks, kev>From 4c32959d1ae7c90af5bc669bf375b042f395206d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kb Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:38:06 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] change "apt-get upgrace" to "apt-get upgrade" --- manpages/live-initscripts.

Re: login to live debian

2010-01-24 Thread mictlan tecutli
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:06:37 +0100 Daniel Baumann wrote: > xdm is currently not supported for autologin by live-initramfs, i'm not > even sure it's possible to do an autologin. yes i´m pretty sure xdm does not support autologin. but it would be nice to get a light weight display manager to do

Re: custom fstab for live-cd (also after installation)

2010-01-24 Thread mictlan tecutli
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:31:57 +0100 rosea grammostola wrote: > Mount a tmpfs on /tmp. You should have a lot of swap space available > in case some programs try to write very large files there. > In your /etc/fstab add a line: my knowledge is shaky on all of this stuff, but as i understand it the

custom debian instaler

2009-12-04 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, i have a question regarding the placement of custom debian installer for use with live-helper. i'm hacking debian instaler in order to include our custom packages, especially our custom 2.6.31 kernel. i have build the *.udeb's for the kernel, and am attempting to build the installer. is

Re: caching of .deb files?

2009-11-13 Thread mictlan tecutli
you can use apt-cache, approx or any other proxy that caches the debs. you can copy the debs that you already have to the cache. and the you tell live helper to use the url of the cache to download packages, instead of the default, ala: lh_config -m http://localhost:/debian --mirror-ch

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-10 Thread mictlan tecutli
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:57:44 +0100 Michal Suchanek wrote: > It's probably the same issue I am experiencing. When I build the image > I get an iso that boots to syslinux, and when I press enter or wait > through the timeout it says it cannot find kernel live. yes ive run into this problem a few t

Re: lzma with debian-live was: (Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma)

2009-11-03 Thread mictlan tecutli
> > should i change line 61 of /usr/bin/lh_source_debian from > > "squashfs-lzma-tools" "squashfs-tools"? or is there a less hacky > > way of doing it. to be complete, in reality i needed to hack /usr/bin/lh_binary_rootfs changing the "mksquashfs" commands to "mksquashfs-lzma". this seems to wo

lzma with debian-live was: (Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma)

2009-11-03 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, i hope its okay if i follow up on the thread started with that bug report with a question: what would be the recomended way to use lzma compression with debian-live? so i'm looking here: http://grml.org/grml-live/#current_state so i should be able to add grml sources to config/chroot_sour

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, one thing that has been mentioned on this list, but for which there doesn't yet seem to be a good fix for is separating out the console and x keyboard options. as previously mentioned by another poster if my keyboard is latin american have the choice of setting LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="keyb=latam"

Re: How do I fix this error

2009-10-10 Thread mictlan tecutli
hi, maybe you can try running: lh_clean; lh_build or lh_clean --binary; lh_binary does that make sense? i think the problem is that running "lh_clean --binary" cleans up the stuff used to create the binary image. but then running "lh_build" w/out options wants to begin to build the live scrip