Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 04/24/2016 09:50 AM, Melanie wrote: David, If I clone the server with dd is there a way to create an installable ISO from the binary image? I typically boot a Debian installation CD or USB flash drive, go into rescue mode, and use command line tools -- lsblk, parted, dd, md5sum, shasum, to

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
Clonezilla can do that very easy and compressed, and create a hybrid iso of the cloned system. Em 24/04/2016 17:50, "Melanie" escreveu: > David, If I clone the server with dd is there a way to create an > installable ISO from the binary image? > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:43 PM, David Chris

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread Melanie
David, If I clone the server with dd is there a way to create an installable ISO from the binary image? On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:43 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 04/24/2016 08:03 AM, Melanie wrote: > >> I really need an exact copy of an existing server using t

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 04/24/2016 08:03 AM, Melanie wrote: I really need an exact copy of an existing server using the bootstrap --copy option Alternatively -- if you want to clone the server, use 'dd' to take a binary image of the system drive (similar to Norton Ghost, etc.). David

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 04/20/2016 09:10 AM, Melanie wrote: I've been testing builds for days now and I cannot figure out the parameter or option to specify a specific revision of Debian to use as the base build. I need to build from Debian Wheezy Update 6 (7.6) - Is there a way to do this? I have also tried doing

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread Melanie
Also - just to update - I tried as root and verified path is set, still getting chroot not found I can compensate for any valuable help provided - thanks root@debtest1:/home/debadmin/testISO# lb build [2016-04-24 11:27:44] lb build [2016-04-24 11:27:44] lb bootstrap P: Setting up cleanup function

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-24 Thread Melanie
Hi All, Anything higher than 7.6 is not an option due to my customer requirements (red tape within banking institution) I really need an exact copy of an existing server using the bootstrap --copy option Each time I try to run it I get the following: debadmin@debtest1:~$ lb config --bootstrap c

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-20 Thread Ozi Traveller
Hi Melanie I agree with Michal Suchanek answer. The repo for old stable (wheezy) will contain all the latest packages, which is 7.10. I have some 7.6 iso's I can upload if that would help. Just curious, why you need to go back so far? Cheers Ozi On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:10 AM, Melanie wrote:

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 20 April 2016 at 18:10, Melanie wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been testing builds for days now and I cannot figure out the > parameter or option to specify a specific revision of Debian to use as the > base build. > > I need to build from Debian Wheezy Update 6 (7.6) - Is there a way to do > this?

live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-20 Thread Melanie
Hi All, I've been testing builds for days now and I cannot figure out the parameter or option to specify a specific revision of Debian to use as the base build. I need to build from Debian Wheezy Update 6 (7.6) - Is there a way to do this? I have also tried doing '--bootstrap copy' but it result