Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-05 Thread T o n g
Thanks Marco for answering all my other questions. On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:03:05 +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: >> - Slax has a pair of command, active/deactive, to add or remove >> optional >> compressed filesystems into root aufs on the fly. Is there similar >> capability in Debian Live as wel

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-04 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 03 ottobre 2008 19:20:32 T o n g ha scritto: > - if multi compressed filesystem exist in the "/live" directory, which > one is the "exposed" one by aufs by default? How can I specify one? All. As default all filesystems present in the /live subdir will be sorted and then added to t

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-04 Thread Marco Amadori
Il sabato 04 ottobre 2008 00:20:50 Chris Lamb ha scritto: > > - I noticed that both live-helper and live-initramfs have their own > > config. Seems to me both define live users etc. I haven't read into > > details yet, but can any one comment on this? > Hm, live-initramfs doesn't have any con

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
T o n g wrote: > I understand that it would not be supported, but hope, after all, the > last step, which builds an iso out of a chroot system, can be more open > to other well built chroot systems. we don't support anything that is not in debian /in order/ to bootstrap debian, so that's why.

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-03 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:20:50 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: >> - Is it possible to do my own debootstrap, do my own customizations to >> it, then use the live-helper scripts to build an bootable iso out of >> it? > > It is possible, but it is not really recommended or supported. However, > you may wish

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Lamb
T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Is it possible to do my own debootstrap, do my own customizations > to it, then use the live-helper scripts to build an bootable iso out of it? It is possible, but it is not really recommended or supported. However, you may wish to look at (and possibly exte

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-03 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 03 ottobre 2008 19:38:21 T o n g ha scritto: > - persistent home is also supported. How can I do that? simply label a partition or an image file of a partition "home-rw". > - ext2/3 filesystem are also supported. I know the ext2/3 filesystem > found in the "/live" directory will be mo

Re: Building and using Debian Live

2008-10-03 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:20:32 +, T o n g wrote: > again live-initramfs, the manpage says, "at boot time it will look for a > (read-only) media containing a "/live" directory where a root filesystems > (often a compressed filesystem image like squashfs) is stored". UTSL reveals that: - p