Bug#1081041: live-build: GRUB should reliable detect Live media in case multiple Live medias is present (UEFI, secure boot)

2024-09-11 Thread adrian15sgd
Can you please join the liveid conversation where I'm proposing a change to live-build that would probably fix your issue? There's the long live-boot Merge Request discussion at: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-boot/-/merge_requests/52 . Then there's the sister Merge Request on live-bui

Bug#1081041: live-build: GRUB should reliable detect Live media in case multiple Live medias is present (UEFI, secure boot)

2024-09-07 Thread Askar Safin
Package: live-build Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: safinas...@gmail.com Current Live image ( https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-testing-amd64-kde.iso ) contains file /EFI/boot/grubx64.efi , which is binary identical to the file /usr/lib/grub/x86_6

Bug#934701: marked as done (live-boot: fixed handling of live media device in case of persistence)

2022-05-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 05 May 2022 10:34:23 + with message-id and subject line Bug#934701: fixed in live-boot 1:20220505 has caused the Debian Bug report #934701, regarding live-boot: fixed handling of live media device in case of persistence to be marked as done. This means that you claim

Bug#934701: live-boot: fixed handling of live media device in case of persistence

2019-08-13 Thread Ronny Standtke
Package: live-boot Version: 1:20190614 Severity: normal When using persistence, the live media mount point is moved from /run/live/medium to /run/live/persistence/$something. This is probably unintended and makes it much harder for third-party tools to find the original live medium. The attached

live-media-encyption

2018-11-26 Thread paul
Hello, I have a question about live media encryption. live-boot has a parameter of : {live-media-encryption|encryption}=TYPE live-boot will mount the encrypted rootfs TYPE, asking the passphrase, useful to build paranoid live systems :-). TYPE supported so far is "aes" fo

Bug#897585: marked as done (debian-live: Please add keyutils to live media package pool)

2018-05-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 3 May 2018 19:41:37 +0200 with message-id <40358303-db7c-d932-d2e6-5527c5a1c...@debian.org> and subject line Done has caused the Debian Bug report #897585, regarding debian-live: Please add keyutils to live media package pool to be marked as done. This means that you

Bug#897585: debian-live: Please add keyutils to live media package pool

2018-05-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Package: debian-live Severity: normal Please add keyutils to the live media package pool. This is required for users who set up encrypted volumes and use luks keys to either encrypt further volumes, or when using GRUB to unlock luks from an encrypted GRUB. Alternatively it could also be

Bug#844217: live-boot: immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2017-01-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, Ronny Standtke wrote: > Package: live-boot > Version: 1:20160511 > Severity: normal > > If a preferred medium (device or medium type) is given with the > live-media parameter then waiting for the timeout to expire before > scanning for these dev

Bug#844217: live-boot: immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2016-11-13 Thread Ronny Standtke
Package: live-boot Version: 1:20160511 Severity: normal If a preferred medium (device or medium type) is given with the live-media parameter then waiting for the timeout to expire before scanning for these devices is not necessary. Just pick the device as soon as it appears. If a criterion would

Bug#598935: support using package pool of live-media

2015-05-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
close 598935 3.0~a5-1 thanks --binary-pool was removed in above version, closing. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Processed: Re: support using package pool of live-media

2015-05-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > close 598935 3.0~a5-1 Bug #598935 [live-build] support using package pool of live-media Marked as fixed in versions live-build/3.0~a5-1. Bug #598935 [live-build] support using package pool of live-media Marked Bug as done > thanks St

Bug#700920: marked as done (improving live-media= to immediately detect medium)

2013-05-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 28 May 2013 06:42:53 +0200 with message-id <51a435cd.6040...@progress-technologies.net> and subject line Re: improving live-media= to immediately detect medium has caused the Debian Bug report #700920, regarding improving live-media= to immediately detect medium

Bug#700920: improving live-media= to immediately detect medium

2013-05-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
can you provide an updated patch for this? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.d

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote (19 Feb 2013 13:21:29 GMT) : > On 02/19/2013 01:28 PM, Ronny Standtke wrote: >> How about a priority list, e.g. >> "live-media=removable-usb,removable,any" > sounds good. Looks good to me too :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-req

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ do not drop the bts from CC. ] On 02/19/2013 01:28 PM, Ronny Standtke wrote: How about a priority list, e.g. "live-media=removable-usb,removable,any" sounds good. , where "any" is a wildcard keyword that allows booting from whatever medium is found. This way Tails d

Re: Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Ronny Standtke
use case.. therefore.. if such fail-to-boot is > desired, the parameter should be something like > live-media=strict-removable or something like that. > How about a priority list, e.g. "live-media=removable-usb,removable,any", where "any" is a wildcard keyword that allows

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/19/2013 12:07 PM, intrigeri wrote: In Tails [1], we rely on live-media=removable to avoid trusting the content of internal drives. So it's critical for us to have live-boot *always* obey live-media=removable. as usual, we should allow both use cases to co-exist. imho the de

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
p 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gaudenz Steinlin Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:45:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter If a preferred medium (device or medium type) is given with the live-media parameter then waiting for the timeout to expire before scaning for th

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote (19 Feb 2013 10:19:30 GMT) : > If no removable or removable-usb device is found after the timeout > expires, just boot any live medium available instead of panicing. In Tails [1], we rely on live-media=removable to avoid trusting the content of internal drives. S

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 02/19/2013 11:19 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: The attached patch implements a solution to both of these issues. can you split it in two patches please? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: h

Bug#700920: Immediately detect medium from live-media parameter

2013-02-19 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Package: live-boot Severity: wishlist Tags: patch If a preferred medium (device or medium type) is given with the live-media parameter then waiting for the timeout to expire before scaning for these devices is not necessary. Just pick the device as soon as it appears. If a criterium would match

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-09 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote (03 Oct 2012 08:48:32 GMT) : > * read-write live media be 'upgradeable' easily: a user with a big > enough live medium can, rather than re-download and re-write an > entirely new image, just download the partial squashfs and put > it o

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 October 2012 13:44, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> How many layers would a live system with multitude of >> squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have? > > in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3 > (base+standard+gnome-desktop), plus

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Schneider
Am 03.10.2012 13:44, schrieb Daniel Baumann: On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: How many layers would a live system with multitude of squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have? in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3 (base+standard+gnome-desktop), plus one for pers

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > How many layers would a live system with multitude of > squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have? in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3 (base+standard+gnome-desktop), plus one for persistence (when using full or only one-directo

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 3 October 2012 11:10, Daniel Baumann wrote: > and my personal opinion is: > > * use use multiple squashfs images by default Note that 1) number of layers in an overlay is limited. That's an arbitrary limit that cnaby changed usually but something to keep in mind. How many layers wo

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/03/2012 06:10 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > and my personal opinion is: > > * use use multiple squashfs images by default > > * name them 'base.squashfs' plus anything on top of that based on the > package list name > > * use '/live/filesystems.list' as the list of filesystems to b

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
and my personal opinion is: * use use multiple squashfs images by default * name them 'base.squashfs' plus anything on top of that based on the package list name * use '/live/filesystems.list' as the list of filesystems to be loaded by live-boot. -- Address:Daniel Baumann

Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
mages, we could do: /live/standard.squashfs /live/rescue.squashfs /live/gnome-desktop.squashfs /live/kde-desktop.squashfs /live/lxde-desktop.squashfs /live/xfce-desktop.squashfs advantages: * read-write live media be 'upgradeable' easily: a user with a big enough live

Re: Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do you specify for the live-media boot parameter?

2012-09-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/20/2012 05:24 PM, Steve R wrote: > I would love to be able to contribute back to the project! But like many > other users, I suspect my > programming skills are hardly up to the task. That said, I am more than > willing to put in the > effort. Can someone guide me on where to start looking

RE: Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do you specify for the live-media boot parameter?

2012-09-20 Thread Steve R
ebian.org > Subject: Re: Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do > you specify for the live-media boot parameter? > > On 09/16/2012 05:39 AM, Steve R wrote: > > Is there some way I can indicate to live-boot that the live-media is on > > a LUKS

Re: Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do you specify for the live-media boot parameter?

2012-09-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/16/2012 05:39 AM, Steve R wrote: Is there some way I can indicate to live-boot that the live-media is on a LUKS encrypted device and needs to be decrypted first? currently not, no. we do support booting live images stored on an unencrypted filesystem as well as booting live systems

Debian-live systems with encrypted live-media device - what do you specify for the live-media boot parameter?

2012-09-15 Thread Steve R
(With Grub requesting a password for the encrypted file system and parsing grub.cfg, displaying the menu, etc.. The problem arises with the linux command to load the kernel. Loading the Debian-live based OS requires passing a reference to the file system hosting the file system, via the live-

RE: [PATCH] Allow live media volume to host persistence

2012-04-30 Thread Ian Geiser
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Baumann [mailto:daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net] > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:14 PM > To: debian-live@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow live media volume to host persistence > > On 04/30/2012 10:59 AM, Ia

Re: [PATCH] Allow live media volume to host persistence

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/30/2012 10:59 AM, Ian Geiser wrote: I always had my live-rw file at the root of the usb key. [...] Now I am not sure if there is a design consideration to forbid using the live media as a persistence backing, but here is the patch anyway to kickstart that discussion. While it&#

[PATCH] Allow live media volume to host persistence

2012-04-30 Thread Ian Geiser
sure if there is a design consideration to forbid using the live media as a persistence backing, but here is the patch anyway to kickstart that discussion. So far I have only tested this with custom-ov and live-sn.cpio.g and they both work just fine. Thanks! 0001-Added-the-ability-to-use

Bug#598536: marked as done (live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media)

2010-10-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#598536: marked as done (live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media)

2010-10-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: Re: Bug#598536: live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media

2010-09-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 598536 pending Bug #598536 [live-config] live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 598536: http://bugs.debian.o

Bug#598536: live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
tag 598536 pending thanks On 09/29/2010 10:09 PM, Scott Barker wrote: > There is a typo in /lib/live/config.sh > The attached patch should fix the problem. aplied in git, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-syst

Bug#598536: live-config: config.d/ config files not parsed on live media

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Barker
Package: live-config Version: 3.0~a8-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch There is a typo in /lib/live/config.sh The attached patch should fix the problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64

Re: [PATCH] allow ordered list for live-media option, added "usb" value

2010-04-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/14/2010 03:44 PM, Ronny Standtke wrote: I patched live-initramfs so that the value for the live-media option can now be an ordered comma separated list and also added support for the value "usb" which accepts all usb devices. nice. I also fixed some smaller things like correc

[PATCH] allow ordered list for live-media option, added "usb" value

2010-04-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
dy switched to 4k or will switch in near future... The only way to use these newer hard drives for Debian Live is to put the livefs and persistency on the drive, boot from a Debian Live DVD and let live-initramfs pick up the partitions on the hard drive. Unfortunately, the live-initramfs option "

Bug#568750: marked as done (live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised)

2010-03-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:04:29 +0100 with message-id <4b9dcded.3060...@debian.org> and subject line Re: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised,version graph has caused the Debian Bug report #568750, regarding live-initramfs: live-media=removable do

What about a boot parameter like live-media=only=udev=

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Lelédy
Hi, I RFC for a boot parameter that I am about implementing: live-media=only=udev= where is the part of an udev/rule that do selection of a /sys/ device. It gives the user full control of which usb partition should hold live/ ; more or less fine grained criteria can be used. Threafter

Re: Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Lelédy
intrigeri wrote: Hi, Philippe Lelédy wrote (08 Feb 2010 08:51:57 GMT) : This solve the general issue that any live-media= cheatcode is ineffective for USB because find_livefs() starts before USB is ready ( BTW, I happily use usb-storage.delay_use=1 kernel parameter which gains 4s over the

Re: Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Philippe Lelédy wrote (08 Feb 2010 08:51:57 GMT) : > I am interested in this issue, although it was not for the same > reason, but for speeding up boot-time. I discovered this issue while trying to speed boot time up as well: I removed the live-media-timeout=15 I was using previousl

Re: Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Lelédy
uot;AA04012700341377", NAME="-USB/$attr{manufacturer}-$attr{product}-%n" and have a very very simple and fast find_livefs() starting with mkdir -p /dev/-USB && notifywait /dev/-USB && mount with would fail should the right USB key not be found. This solve t

Processed: Re: Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 568750 - security Bug #568750 [live-initramfs] live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised Removed tag(s) security. > tag 568750 pending Bug #568750 [live-initramfs] live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not wo

Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
tag 568750 - security tag 568750 pending thanks intrig...@boum.org wrote: > The *only* part of the specification is pretty important when some > high degree of trust has to be put into a Live system: ack. > This is why I set the security tag to this bug, which might be disputable. imho, the tag

Bug#568750: live-initramfs: live-media=removable does not work as advertised

2010-02-07 Thread intrigeri
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.173.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: security, patch Hi, The manpage section about the live-media= boot parameter states that the keyword 'removable' can be used to limit the search of acceptable live media to removable type only. The *only* p

Bug#534878: marked as done (live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together)

2009-10-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:17:54 + with message-id and subject line Bug#534878: fixed in live-initramfs 1.157.4-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #534878, regarding live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together to be marked as done. This means that you

Bug#534878: live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together

2009-10-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
tag 534878 pending thanks Applied in git, sorry for the delay, and thank you for bringing it up and fixing it. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-ba

Processed: Re: live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together

2009-10-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tag 534878 pending Bug #534878 [live-initramfs] live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together Added tag(s) pending. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug trac

Appending live-media=removable-usb does not seem to work

2009-09-02 Thread Fredrik Israelsson
Hi again! I am trying to boot a live usb memory stick on a system that has a live image installed on its solid state drive. In order to prevent live-initramfs to use the image on the SSD, I have used LH_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE="live-media=removable-usb nopersistent" when I built the OS on

Bug#534878: live-initramfs: live-media-path and toram don't play well together

2009-06-27 Thread Holger Brunn
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.157.2-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch The function copy_live_to in scripts/live doesn't take the boot parameter live-media-path into account, resulting in trying to copy the whole hard disk to ram in my case. Attached a patch which should fix the pr

Re: Live Media

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/2/19 Sebastian Hilbert : > On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: >> Sebastian Hilbert wrote: >> > I have a dedicated server that could server for development purposes. >> >> That's very kind of you, however the machine would be for significantly >> more than mere "development"; it would

Re: Live Media

2009-02-19 Thread Daniel Baumann
Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > How much traffic is estimated ? A root server for 49 Euro/months in Germany > has 1TB free traffic at 100Mbit and drops to 10MBit for unlimited traffic. we had nearly 2tb/month in the beginning where live-webhelper was available for a while. not much more my ds5000 (whe

Re: Live Media

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > I have a dedicated server that could server for development purposes. > > That's very kind of you, however the machine would be for significantly > more than mere "development"; it would be a public service for building > i

Re: Live Media

2009-02-18 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
On Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: hetzner.de does not itself not in a position to sponsor traffic and bandwidth. -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Live Media

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: > Sure, but uploading images in the size order of ~1GB to anywhere takes > time and bandwidth. In particular, SourceForge is a terrible enterprise > and I would not like to rely on their services nor have a project > affiliated with them. sourceforge may be an option for other pe

Re: Live Media

2009-02-18 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
On Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > I don't fully understand your point yet. Most of the bandwidth will be > > consumed by downloading prepared images. > > Sure, but uploading images in the size order of ~1GB to anywhere takes > time and bandwidth. In parti

Re: Live Media

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > I don't fully understand your point yet. Most of the bandwidth will be > consumed by downloading prepared images. Sure, but uploading images in the size order of ~1GB to anywhere takes time and bandwidth. In particular, SourceForge is a terrible enterprise and I would

Re: Live Media

2009-02-16 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > I have a dedicated server that could server for development purposes. > > That's very kind of you, however the machine would be for significantly > more than mere "development"; it would be a public service for building > i

Re: Live Media

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > when i'll find after the whole lenny upgrade circus, i'll ping nine.ch > again, they would offer to host a machine. if the machine they would be > providing itself is not decent enough, i'd be willing to use my own > hardware for that. You're officially awesome. Okay, I'll

Re: Live Media

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Lamb
Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > I have a dedicated server that could server for development purposes. That's very kind of you, however the machine would be for significantly more than mere "development"; it would be a public service for building images. > > * Large amount of bandwidth for downloads

Re: Live Media

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: > I believe this last requirement would rule out the use of any DSA-maintained > machines. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. when i'll find after the whole lenny upgrade circus, i'll ping nine.ch again, they would offer to host a machine. if the machine they would be p

Re: Live Media

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Sebastian, > Take a look at > http://bornkessel.com/kesselblog/?p=30 > > given that I am constantly trying to keep up with providing recent > versions of GNUmed as live media let me compare the solutions for openSUSE > and Debian I found your comparison intriguing. First,

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > What about dependencies of those packages? Should they be manuall added > to the list of packages to install? if they are either resolvable in debian, or if they are resolvable within the local packages, then no dependencies have to be added to the package list - they will b

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Is this an official or semi-official location? official for my unofficial repositories :) -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > non-standard repositories > > openSUSE: all packages in openSUSE buildservice can be included > > Debian: a custom sources list for apt needs to be carefully crafted > > as someone else already explained

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:10:46PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Is there an automated way to get the public key for the repository > > from a repository URL? If so, those steps could be automated. > > for 'my' repositories, you actually can. i always put a file > 'ar

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > non-standard repositories > openSUSE: all packages in openSUSE buildservice can be included > Debian: a custom sources list for apt needs to be carefully crafted as someone else already explained, actually creating a repository is very easy. if you don't want to do that,

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Is there an automated way to get the public key for the repository > from a repository URL? If so, those steps could be automated. for 'my' repositories, you actually can. i always put a file 'archive-key.asc' in the root directory of the repository that contains the cur

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:46:12PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > >non-standard repositories > >openSUSE: all packages in openSUSE buildservice can be included > >Debian: a custom sources list for apt needs to be carefully crafted > > ??? > I've thou

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread David Paleino
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:15:19 +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > Hi all, Hello Sebastian, > [..] > > backend > openSUSE : kiwi > Debian: Live-helper > > both are script based available for the command line. live-helper has been a > moving target for me. I have not tried kiwi in a while. This r

Re: Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: backend openSUSE : kiwi Debian: Live-helper both are script based available for the command line. live-helper has been a moving target for me. I have not tried kiwi in a while. This reflects my personal very biased view and I am looking for comments

Live Media

2009-02-13 Thread Sebastian Hilbert
Hi all, Take a look at http://bornkessel.com/kesselblog/?p=30 given that I am constantly trying to keep up with providing recent versions of GNUmed as live media let me compare the solutions for openSUSE and Debian backend openSUSE : kiwi Debian: Live-helper both are script based available

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-09 Thread Marco Amadori
On Sunday 07 December 2008, 05:50:54, T o n g wrote: > What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/ > live" directory? Alphabetic, based on /sys/block/ directory listing. > I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD > would be used instead of

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-08 Thread T o n g
sane > default and offer (almost) any other behaviour as optional boot > parameters. Yes, '{live-media|bootfrom}=DEVICE' to be exactly. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right. The point I was trying to make is that there is no Right Way to > scan the media. There might be a sane default (actually "fastest first" > might be a good sane default), but I see some need for a way to choose > another at (boot|config) time. to avoid any further

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-08 Thread intrigeri
Hi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (08 Dec 2008 04:28:00 GMT) : > Right. The point I was trying to make is that there is no Right Way to > scan the media. There might be a sane default (actually "fastest first" > might be a good sane default), but I see some need for a way to choose > another at (boot|co

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-07 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:28:38PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:57:46 +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote: > > > My use case looks a little different: My users [...] > Yes, that's the scan order that Slax uses too. I like it, 'cause > faster

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-07 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:57:46 +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote: > My use case looks a little different: My users > (http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick) have both a live DVD and a USB flash > drive. Whenever possible (i.e. the BIOS of the machine in front of you > permits) they boot from USB flash drive. Un

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-07 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi, > So what was my lesson from there? I think the sanest scan order would > be to try first the media which we just "booted from", meaning where we > got the initrd (and/or the kernel) from. But I have no clue how to find > out that (the kernel should know though). And still, this won't cover >

Re: live media scan order

2008-12-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:50:54AM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/ > live" directory? > > I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD > would be used i

live media scan order

2008-12-06 Thread T o n g
Hi, What's the default scan order to find the device that contains the "/ live" directory? I hope it always search HD first, so that the copy found on the fast HD would be used instead of slow CD or USB. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/

Re: ejecting live-media after toram

2008-11-24 Thread Marco Amadori
On Sunday 23 November 2008, 22:21:09, Daniel Baumann wrote: > + # Eject live media > + if [ -x /bin/eject ] && [ "${NOEJECT}" != "Yes" ] > + then > + eject ${dev} > + fi > + > or is the live-media used for an

ejecting live-media after toram

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
port NOFASTBOOT @@ -662,6 +667,12 @@ copy_live_to () mount -r -o move ${copyto} ${copyfrom} fi + # Eject live media + if [ -x /bin/eject ] && [ "${NOEJECT}" != "Yes" ] + then + eject ${dev} + fi + rmdi