Re: Persistence not working debian live

2016-09-24 Thread Grégory DAVID
I've made a USB stick for the classrooms I run as a CS teacher : http://framagit.org/groolot/liveusb and you can see that https://framagit.org/groolot/liveUSB/blob/master/auto/config configures the persistence and my students uses USB keys without any kind of problem. Note that my persistence par

Re: Persistence not working debian live

2016-09-22 Thread Narcis Garcia
I'm interested in this matter too. Let me know if you find an usable solution please. __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at lists.debian.org archives. El 23/09/16 a les 07:30, Jimmy Johnson ha escrit: > On 09/22/2016 03:14 PM, Aidan Sci

Re: Persistence not working debian live

2016-09-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/22/2016 03:14 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote: I've rolled up some custom debian ISOs using live-build to use on a live USB drive to develop on for a software class at school. I made sure to set the --bootappend-live "boot=live persistence" option, and I've made a partition called persistence and

Re: Persistence with apt-get

2015-10-04 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, EenyMeenyMinyMoa < eenymeenyminy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > I use debian live 8.2. > I want to retain after reboot the effect of commands: > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get install > > Because I guess it's safer in terms of security than the debian tha

Re: persistence

2015-08-28 Thread chals
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > I created successfuly a customized live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso but there > is one thing that I can't solve: > in the file auto/config I set --bootappend-live to persistent and when > live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso was created I put it o

Re: persistence failing all the time

2015-08-16 Thread Robert Spiteri
Robert Spiteri gmail.com> writes: > thanks for your reply > > the persistence.conf file is a text file containing the character '/' > because I want all the system changes to be persistent. > > I followed the stable manual... > > Kindly advise. > > Problem solved... forgot to add the " unio

Re: persistence failing all the time

2015-08-16 Thread Robert Spiteri
Daniel Baumann progress-technologies.net> writes: > > On 08/15/2015 02:30 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > > 7. create the persistence.conf file > > what's the content of the file? > > > 8. populated it with / > > what do you mean with 'populated with /' exactly? > thanks for your reply the pe

Re: persistence failing all the time

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 08/15/2015 02:30 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > 7. create the persistence.conf file what's the content of the file? > 8. populated it with / what do you mean with 'populated with /' exactly? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progre

Re: SOLVED: Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-16 Thread chals
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Jan Kowalsky wrote: > > So I try to include an > usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/forcecryptsetup with > > export CRYPTSETUP=y > > in the includes.chroot and build the image again and it works. > > The live-initramfs packages should maybe export this variable

SOLVED: Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-16 Thread Jan Kowalsky
Am 12.06.2015 um 23:27 schrieb Jan Kowalsky: > Am 11.06.2015 um 16:12 schrieb chals: >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jan Kowalsky >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I try to build a live system with luks encrypted persistence. It fails, >>> because inside the initramfs the cryptsetup binaries don'

Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-15 Thread AreYouLoco?
Hello! I have the same goal so I will monitor that conversation. Fully encrypted live system! YES! So: Yes. It is possible. But it's advanced level of linuxing. That I have not reached...so far. 1. It's possible if you make fist an image that have everything you want working except cryptsetup in

Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-12 Thread Jan Kowalsky
Am 11.06.2015 um 16:12 schrieb chals: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jan Kowalsky > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I try to build a live system with luks encrypted persistence. It fails, >> because inside the initramfs the cryptsetup binaries don't exist. In the >> past - from wheezy I was able to

Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-11 Thread chals
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Jan Kowalsky wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to build a live system with luks encrypted persistence. It fails, > because inside the initramfs the cryptsetup binaries don't exist. In the > past - from wheezy I was able to build an encrypted system as long as I > took th

Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-11 Thread Jan Kowalsky
i should have mentioned: debian jessie live-boot-initramfs-tools 4.0.2-1 live-build 4.0.3-1 Am 11.06.2015 um 11:58 schrieb Jan Kowalsky: > Hi all, > > I try to build a live system with luks encrypted persistence. It fails, > because inside the initramfs the cryptsetup bi

Re: Persistence and USB stick

2014-02-10 Thread Marcos Núñez
Please, I belive this questions to be very important, I've been also working with a debian live USB stick, not knowing if the advantages of a live build vs a normal build are really there. I also fail to see any ramdisk loaded while using the system... Thanks a lot! 2014-01-15 21:56 GMT+00:00 Fr

Re: Persistence not working on image files

2013-12-10 Thread chals
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Vladimir Smelhaus wrote: > I tried it. I would swear that didn't work in stable. But now it's ok. Works > as described in the manual. But this time I tried with wheezy mixed with > latest live-* packages. > I'm glad that it works for you now. The contents of live-

Re: Persistence not working on image files

2013-12-10 Thread Vladimir Smelhaus
I tried it. I would swear that didn't work in stable. But now it's ok. Works as described in the manual. But this time I tried with wheezy mixed with latest live-* packages. Thanks. I don't know why I gave an image file the extension. Dne 10.12.2013 14:20, chals napsal(a): On Tue, Dec 10, 201

Re: Persistence not working on image files

2013-12-10 Thread chals
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Vladimir Smelhaus wrote: > Hi, > > persistence is not working when persistent storage is image file. When it is > a disk partition, it's ok. > > I am trying to make live system with persistence file. > > # dd if=/dev/null of=rw.ext4 bs=1 count=0 seek=20M > Have yo

Re: persistence image file on root partition

2013-06-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/25/2013 07:08 AM, Axel wrote: > Is it possible to use a persistence image file in the same partition > than the live system , alongside /live, /syslinux directories or another > partition is required ? I used tarball persistence with previous version > of live-build and this behaviour allowed

Re: Persistence

2013-04-05 Thread chals
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > Am 2013-04-05 07:04, schrieb chals: > > In order to this 2 topics, i configurated my isolinux. But i have the > problem, that it doesn't work. The problem is, that my inserted file > "persistence.cfg.in" gets renamed to "persistence.in" and is

Re: Persistence

2013-04-04 Thread Jakob Schürz
Am 2013-04-05 07:04, schrieb chals: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Jakob Schürz > wrote: >> Am 2013-04-04 21:29, schrieb chals: >> >>> --bootappend-live options to see if you used the right persistence >>> parametre. >> >> this is my auto/config: >> > > Even though you can activate persisten

Re: Persistence

2013-04-04 Thread chals
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > Am 2013-04-04 21:29, schrieb chals: > >> --bootappend-live options to see if you used the right persistence >> parametre. > > this is my auto/config: > Even though you can activate persistence at boot time adding the parametre to the boot com

Re: Persistence

2013-04-04 Thread Jakob Schürz
Am 2013-04-04 21:29, schrieb chals: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jakob Schürz > wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Now i got my first image created! YEAH!!! >> > > Hi, > > Congratulations! There is a big world of possibilities in front of > you. It is very exciting, isn't it? > YES it is. :-) >> But h

Re: Persistence

2013-04-04 Thread chals
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:29 PM, chals wrote: > > Your live-build version is crucial in respect to persistence since it > is radically different from version 2.x to version 3.x > I do not think this needs any further explanations but just in case... The real "crucial" live package in respect to p

Re: Persistence

2013-04-04 Thread chals
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jakob Schürz wrote: > Hi! > > Now i got my first image created! YEAH!!! > Hi, Congratulations! There is a big world of possibilities in front of you. It is very exciting, isn't it? > But how can i configure the isolinux, that i have 2 different > boot-options? O

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2013-03-04 Thread Ed Dixon
Because this thread mentions performance of persistence, I just tried full persistence last night with " / union" in the persistence conf file and I am definitely surprised to see how much slower (est. 5 to 10 times slower) it is on my 2.0 USB thumbdrive than previous versions like squeeze. Is thi

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2013-03-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/04/2013 11:45 AM, David Hare wrote: > Attached is an updated patch to enable custom mount options for > 4.0~a7-1. this is horrible to read, please avoid cluttering patches with useless '# PATCH' lines. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2013-03-04 Thread David Hare
On 26/11/12 20:42, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/26/2012 09:25 PM, David Hare wrote: This subject has been raised before but didn't get much interest. because it's a rather low priority thing, however, if you send patches.. i'll look at them. I know, it's still low priority but remains on the

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread David Hare
On 26/11/12 20:42, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/26/2012 09:25 PM, David Hare wrote: This subject has been raised before but didn't get much interest. because it's a rather low priority thing, however, if you send patches.. i'll look at them. I have a patch for current sid but am not sure if I

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/26/2012 09:25 PM, David Hare wrote: This subject has been raised before but didn't get much interest. because it's a rather low priority thing, however, if you send patches.. i'll look at them. I have a patch for current sid but am not sure if I am free to post it here as it is "unoff

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread David Hare
The partition containing the live-media gets mounted read-only. The persistence department needs to be writable! There are probably good reasons for mounting it read-only by default but I don't know why there is no means to override that without manually editing the script 9990-misc-helpers.sh

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio
Il 26/11/2012 17:44, intrigeri ha scritto: > Hi, > > Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio wrote (25 Nov 2012 17:04:57 GMT) : >> By looking at the code I saw this line in the find_persistence_media() >> method in the 9900-misc-helpers.sh script: > >> local black_listed_devices="$(what_is_mounted_on /live

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio
Il 26/11/2012 14:29, chals ha scritto: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio > wrote: >> [Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed.] >> > > Hi, > You are cc'd ;) Thank you :) > >> Hello, >> I'm trying to make the "new" persistence work with a Debian Sid snapshot. >> >> I made

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio wrote (25 Nov 2012 17:04:57 GMT) : > By looking at the code I saw this line in the find_persistence_media() > method in the 9900-misc-helpers.sh script: > local black_listed_devices="$(what_is_mounted_on /live/medium)" > So, this is actually blacklisting the pa

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread chals
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, chals wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio > wrote: > > I do not think I follow here. Correct me if I'm wrong but it is not > possible, under normal circumstances to write on the partition where > the live system is, because it is a r

Re: Persistence file on the same partition of the live filesystem

2012-11-26 Thread chals
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Eugenio 'g7' Paolantonio wrote: > [Please CC me, as I'm not subscribed.] > Hi, You are cc'd ;) > Hello, > I'm trying to make the "new" persistence work with a Debian Sid snapshot. > > I made a "persistence" file in the root of the USB device's partition > which c

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/04/2012 10:57 PM, Jan Pekař wrote: in manual you provide is necessary file named persistence.conf but live-persistent.conf is the right one that worked for me. again, it depends on what version of live-* you're using. the manual is documenting the latest 3.x versions in sid. So live-r

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Jan Pekař
Thank you, you are right. "persistence" is the right one. Some comments - in manual you provide is necessary file named persistence.conf but live-persistent.conf is the right one that worked for me. So live-rw volume label is obsolete now (it is not noticed in your man link)? I noticed it is st

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/04/2012 01:22 PM, Jan Pekař wrote: Still there is minor bug, that in syslinux live.cfg menu is line "menu default" at normal and failsafe section, so failsafe is selected by default. that has been fixed before wheezy alpha2, but live-build.d.n doesn't use that version yet. -- Address:

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
I see from your boot log you are using the old boot parameter "persistent", not the new one "persistence". On 04/11/12 11:16 AM, Jan Pekař wrote: > About documentation - problem is, that functionality is changing and it > is not simple to Google right manual - but as I wrote above - I tried > almo

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Jan Pekař
I tried to change label to persistence - still nothing. I created live-persistence.conf (also live.persist and persistence.conf) and add inside /usr union - still nothing. According to file lib/live/boot.sh in live initrd.img there are variables: old_root_overlay_label="live-rw" old_home_over

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/11/12 08:22 AM, Jan Pekař wrote: > Thank you, I selected hdd instead of iso-hybrid (now I can see, that it > is written in documentation that I need hdd for persistence on same > disk) - but still no luck! > > I have added debug to kernel param and attached boot.log > "live-rw" labeled syste

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-04 Thread Jan Pekař
Thank you, I selected hdd instead of iso-hybrid (now I can see, that it is written in documentation that I need hdd for persistence on same disk) - but still no luck! I have added debug to kernel param and attached boot.log "live-rw" labeled system is at /dev/sda2 I tried to debug it with my k

Re: Persistence not working on live debian

2012-11-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/11/12 09:35 PM, Jan Pekař wrote: > Hi, > > I just created few debian-live hybrid isos from > http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build, and tried to make them > persistent, but no success. > Can somebody help me with that? > I attached build config. > > I just dd the iso to my flash d

Re: persistence wheezy live hdd doesn't work

2012-10-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/23/2012 01:17 AM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: > persistence doesn't work again. "doesn't work" doesn't help. *how* exactely is it not working? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://peo

Re: Re: persistence wheezy live hdd doesn't work

2012-10-08 Thread chals
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:26 PM, chals wrote: > And you say, if I understand correctly, that you upgraded the packages > *in* your wheezy so no wonder it does not work. To correctly follow > Daniel's advice please see live-manual, apt pinning section. > Just to clarify, you would have to install

Re: Re: persistence wheezy live hdd doesn't work

2012-10-08 Thread chals
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:35 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: > > Hi Daniel > > I've done, exact what you suggested, the upgrade of these packages live-boot > und live-config from sid on my wheezy and then I have created a new hdd > image, but the additional persistence partirtion won't be mounted as

Re: persistence wheezy live hdd doesn't work

2012-10-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/08/2012 04:48 AM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: > Howto mount the binary.hybrid.iso with write permission you can't. known issue with syslnux'es iso-hybrid. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet:

Re: persistence wheezy live hdd doesn't work

2012-10-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/04/2012 10:55 PM, upite...@lycos.com wrote: > http://live.debian.net/manual-3.x/html/live-manual.en.html#538 this is true for live-{boot,config} from sid (which will eventually go to wheezy), not wheezy. you'll need to pin the sid packages in when building a wheezy image. -- Address:

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Spiteri
Thanks a lot. That's exactly what I needed On 18 August 2012 12:43, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 12/08/12 01:58 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > > If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify at > > boot? > > > > persistence-label=OR > > persistent-subText= > > > > Becau

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 12/08/12 01:58 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify at > boot? > > persistence-label=OR > persistent-subText= > > Because in the manual it says persistence-label but I found other > documentation online which uses persistent-subT

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Spiteri
Ok thanks. So should I use persistent-subtext= ? And how should the label named? I mean if I have a partition called "work", shall I specify persistent-subtext=work at boot? On 18 August 2012 12:39, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 18/08/12 03:02 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > > I am using the live-bui

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 18/08/12 03:02 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > I am using the live-build version of debian squeeze... What version of > live-boot does it contain? Trivially answerable by looking it up: http://packages.debian.org/live-boot Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-17 Thread Robert Spiteri
I am using the live-build version of debian squeeze... What version of live-boot does it contain? On Aug 18, 2012 4:00 AM, "Richard Nelson" wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Robert Spiteri > wrote: > > If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify

Re: Persistence Question

2012-08-17 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Robert Spiteri wrote: > If I want to use more than one persistent media what should I specify at > boot? > Depends which version of live-boot. > persistence-label=OR > persistent-subText= > the one line above should be persistent-subtext= > Bec

Re: persistence problem with downloaded live-image

2012-07-15 Thread Klaus Becker
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2012 16:58:19, vous avez écrit : > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Klaus Becker wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I created a live-system on flash-disk with > > debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-kde-desktop.img, it works. But I can't create > > persistence. > > > > Version 6.0.4 is squeeze

Re: persistence problem with downloaded live-image

2012-07-15 Thread chals
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Klaus Becker wrote: > Hi, > > I created a live-system on flash-disk with > debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-kde-desktop.img, it works. But I can't create > persistence. > Version 6.0.4 is squeeze > > I followed http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual.en.html and

Re: persistence problem with downloaded live-image

2012-07-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Klaus, On 15/07/12 11:41 AM, Klaus Becker wrote: > I created a live-system on flash-disk with > debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-kde-desktop.img, it works. But I can't create > persistence. > > I followed http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual.en.html and created > live-persistence.conf file by

Re: Persistence on NFS shares

2009-12-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
Timothy Kibugu wrote: Hello, how do I enable persistence in NFS share without substantially changing the configuration, possibly on the same NFS share that hosts the netboot image? I'm using Debian 5.0.1. Thanks. as you can see in the ml archives, this is not supported out of the box yet. --