Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 29/04/12 07:37 AM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: It is in the live-manual: http://live.debian.net/manual/html/customizing-run-time-behaviours.en.html#523 (watchout there is a manual page for live-build 2.x and another for live-build 3.x, but this is common to both versions, I think). Pleas

Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-29 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Miguel Villanueva Lobato wrote: > I mean a file with an ext2 file system I have created with: > $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1GB seek=1 # for a 100MB sized image file > $/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F live-rw > > Because I was trying it with files instead of partitions. I

Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-28 Thread Miguel Villanueva Lobato
And sorry, I'm using live-build version 2.0.12-2 in Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) On 29/04/2012, Miguel Villanueva Lobato wrote: > I mean a file with an ext2 file system I have created with: > $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1GB seek=1 # for a 100MB sized image file > $/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F live-

Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-28 Thread Miguel Villanueva Lobato
I mean a file with an ext2 file system I have created with: $ dd if=/dev/null of=live-rw bs=1GB seek=1 # for a 100MB sized image file $/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F live-rw Because I was trying it with files instead of partitions. Anyway, If I tried doing it in your way: I boot the VM with the live cd in th

Re: Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-28 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Miguel Villanueva Lobato wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried this creating an ISO image of a directory containing the live > debian system image and other image labeled live-rw (with an ext2 fs), and > then, using  this ISO for the CD/DVD device in VirtualBox, but it does

Testing an ISO with persistence in VirtualBox OSE

2012-04-28 Thread Miguel Villanueva Lobato
Hi, I've tried this creating an ISO image of a directory containing the live debian system image and other image labeled live-rw (with an ext2 fs), and then, using this ISO for the CD/DVD device in VirtualBox, but it doesn't work: Vbox cannot find the boot medium. I've also tried using two CD/DV