How to set up a persistence partition with an arbitrary label?

2024-06-14 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
As it is currently structured, the persistence partition must be labeled "persistence" (in Ubuntu, it must be labeled "casper-rw"). Is there any way to use a different label other than "persistence"?

Bug#1066646: live-boot: fails to mount persistence *files* from beside the live medium

2024-03-13 Thread Elena Grandi
Package: live-boot Version: 1:20230131 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, since the fix_ for #934701_, live boot is no longer considering the partition mounted e.g. on /run/live/medium even when looking for persistence partition image files (as opposed to persistence on regular partitions). It

Bug#1051527: live-config: Disable unattended-upgrades when running without persistence

2023-09-09 Thread Roland Clobus
Package: live-config Version: 11.0.4 Severity: wishlist Note to self: When running an older live image without persistence (e.g. sid), the unattended upgrades package will: 1) consume network bandwidth by downloading updated packages 2) consume memory due to the overlay filesystem 3) disrupt

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#1002798: live-tools: live-persistence needs live-boot and cryptsetup-bin

2021-12-28 Thread Daniel Lewart
Package: live-tools Version: 1:20190831 Severity: normal Tags: patch Debian Live Team, # apt install live-tools # live-persistence E: live-boot not installed # apt install live-boot # live-persistence activate VOLUME /usr/bin/live-persistence: 240: /sbin/cryptsetup: not found ... # apt install

persistence

2019-11-21 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello, my pendrive live (jessie) created under wheezy works fine with persistence (/etc/network too with ip=frommedia) Now under bullseye I created the file live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso successfully but persistence and ip=frommedia don't work. cat ~/auto/config #!/bin/sh set -e lb c

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

Re: cryptsetup erroring with "Nothing to read on input" with persistence-encryption=luks

2019-06-25 Thread Seth Grover
I tried removing the part of my hook to set CRYPTSETUP=y in /etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook (see https://github.com/mmguero/deblive/blob/master/buster/config/hooks/normal/0991-security-performance.hook.chroot#L92 and https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/8yxiud/livebuild_issue_getting_pers

cryptsetup erroring with "Nothing to read on input" with persistence-encryption=luks

2019-06-25 Thread Seth Grover
would boot fine with encrypted persistence (with the "persistence persistence-encryption=none,luks" arguments added via "bootappend-live"). However, sometime recently something changed where when I boot the image on my laptop I get a continually-scrolling "Nothing to rea

Re: No persistence in Debian live 9.4.0 xfce ?

2018-07-10 Thread Narcis Garcia
l 10/07/18 a les 23:38, Miguel Martins ha escrit: > Hi team, > > I am unable to setup persistence with Debian live 9.4.0 xfce > > I am using > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-xfce.iso > > So far, I have been

No persistence in Debian live 9.4.0 xfce ?

2018-07-10 Thread Miguel Martins
Hi team, I am unable to setup persistence with Debian live 9.4.0 xfce I am using https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-xfce.iso So far, I have been able to boot this image from a USB stick. The idea is to setup a partition on the same USB

Re: Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

2017-10-05 Thread Ronny Standtke
>> Any chances that you are willing to add this feature for overlayfs too? > Don't count on Tails people to do this, sorry. I just submitted a patch, see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=86 Cheers Ronny

Bug#877762: persistence-label should support multiple values

2017-10-05 Thread Marc Haber
Package: live-boot Version: 1:20170623 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if one could give multiple possible labels for persistence devices in the persistence-label option, causing live-boot to probe all matching devices for persistence.conf files. The code is fine with handling multiple

Re: Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

2017-08-26 Thread intrigeri
Ronny Standtke: > Any chances that you are willing to add this feature for overlayfs too? Don't count on Tails people to do this, sorry.

Re: Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

2017-08-25 Thread Ronny Standtke
> giova.esp...@libero.it: >> Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1 > I suspect (without having tried myself) that it still works when using > aufs, and nobody added support for this feature for overlayfs. > > Now, FWIW we (Tails)

Re: Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

2017-07-26 Thread intrigeri
giova.esp...@libero.it: > Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1 I suspect (without having tried myself) that it still works when using aufs, and nobody added support for this feature for overlayfs. Now, FWIW we (Tails) have added this feature

Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

2017-07-26 Thread giova.esp...@libero.it
Boot option "persistence-read-only" doesn't work on debian live 9.0.1

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 persis

Re: Persistence not working debian live

2016-09-22 Thread Narcis Garcia
16 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 &

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 partitio

Persistence not working debian live

2016-09-22 Thread Aidan Sciortino
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 populated it with a p

Bug#817831: marked as done ([live-config] configuration file placed in /live/config.conf is not read while in persistence mode)

2016-06-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:44:38 + with message-id and subject line Bug#817831: fixed in live-config 5.20160607 has caused the Debian Bug report #817831, regarding [live-config] configuration file placed in /live/config.conf is not read while in persistence mode to be marked as

Bug#715186: support loop-mounted iso on same partition as persistence

2016-05-13 Thread David Hare
I have been doing this since Debian Squeeze with a patched 9990-misc-helpers in my live initrd. I can use (optionally) a single-partition live usb with RW access and a persistence file. It is activated only if "mountmode=rw,noatime" is on cmdline. I never had any problem with this (alt

Bug#817831: [live-config] configuration file placed in /live/config.conf is not read while in persistence mode

2016-03-10 Thread Grégory DAVID
Package: live-config Version: 5.20151121 Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- If booting with persistence mode, then the /live/config.conf file is no longer accessible and used by the live-config frontend. Instead, if we boot in persistence with configuration file

Re: Persistence with apt-get

2015-10-04 Thread Richard Nelson
erms of security than the debian that I > everyday use for Web-browsing. > Is this guess right? > I made a persistence partition by the following script. > > mkdir /media/usb0 > mkfs.ext4 -L persistence /dev/sdb1 > mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 > echo "/home"

Persistence with apt-get

2015-09-29 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
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 that I everyday use for Web-browsing. Is this guess right? I made a persistence partition by the following s

Re: persistence

2015-08-28 Thread chals
was created I put it on a pendrive and I created > a second partition with label persistence and I edit the file persistence.conf > with /home, /etc/network, and /union in it, but persistence doesn't work. > Sorry for the late reply. I have read your mail at least once a week since y

Re: Support for persistence fsck

2015-08-21 Thread Chas Williams III
On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 11:31 +, Chas Williams III wrote: > At one point live boot had support for fsck'ing persistent media before > mounting read/write. This appeared to have been removed due to lack > of usage/interest. Here is a better attempt -- now fsck runs before the filesystem is moun

Support for persistence fsck

2015-08-21 Thread Chas Williams III
; + else + force="" + fi + + if [ "$FSCKFIX" = yes ] + then + fix="-y" + else + fix="-a" + fi + + fsc

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

persistence failing all the time

2015-08-15 Thread Robert Spiteri
Hi, 1. I downloaded debian live cinnamon iso. using virtualbox... 2. create a virtual hard disk of 2GB 3. booted debian live 4. formatted harddisk as ext4 5. create persistence image as per stable manual instructions 6. mounted the image 7. create the persistence.conf file 8. populated it with

persistence

2015-08-14 Thread Gerard ROBIN
label persistence and I edit the file persistence.conf with /home, /etc/network, and /union in it, but persistence doesn't work. I probably missed something. Thank you in advance for helping me to solve this problem.

Re: custom persistence for live-config components

2015-06-25 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
udenz Gaudenz Steinlin writes: > Hi > > Attached is a prototype patch to implement custom persistence for > live-config components. Only one component is converted to this to show > how it's intended to work. The patch is not yet tested. I'd like to have > some feeba

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, >>> b

Re: persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-15 Thread AreYouLoco?
ut yeah lets have (full) --encryption support. W dniu 12.06.2015 o 23:27, Jan Kowalsky pisze: > > 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

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 t

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

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 th

persistence encryption: initramfs is missing cryptsetup

2015-06-11 Thread Jan Kowalsky
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 the live-boot-initramfs-tools from jessie. Is it possib

Re: can't get persistence to work

2015-05-30 Thread chals
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Nick Taylor wrote: > > The contents of persistence.conf are: > /home > /usr > /etc > / union > Hi, It *might* be a problem of nested mounts? See the persistence.conf manpage --> http://live-systems.org/manpages/current/en/html/persistence.conf.5.html hth --

can't get persistence to work

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Taylor
Howdy: I successfully created a live dvd of Debian jessie kde. I created an ext4 partition named "persistence" on /dev/sdc2 I created a file named "persistence.conf" in the persistence partition. The contents of persistence.conf are: /home /usr /etc / union I boot t

Bug#785112: wrong mountpoint for live medium after boot if used with persistence

2015-05-12 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Source: live-boot Version: 5.0~a3-1 Severity: normal When booting with persistence the live medium ends up being mounted on /lib/live/mount/persistence/*devname* after boot. It should instead be mounted on /lib/live/medium. This happens because while probing for persistence already mounted

Bug#700984: image hangs when using luks persistence and debug enabled

2015-04-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
close 700984 4.0.2-1 thanks Hi, i can't reproduce this with jessie anymore. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ --

Processed: Re: image hangs when using luks persistence and debug enabled

2015-04-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > close 700984 4.0.2-1 Bug #700984 [live-boot] image hangs when using luks persistence and debug enabled Marked as fixed in versions live-boot/4.0.2-1. Bug #700984 [live-boot] image hangs when using luks persistence and debug enabled Marked

custom persistence for live-config components

2015-03-28 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Attached is a prototype patch to implement custom persistence for live-config components. Only one component is converted to this to show how it's intended to work. The patch is not yet tested. I'd like to have some feeback before going on and converting all the components a

Re: ro partition & automate persistence

2014-12-09 Thread Stefan Baur
Am 09.12.2014 um 13:15 schrieb antonio maddalosso: > why, if I copy the live dir in a ntfs partition and start the image from > this partition the partition is mounted ro? > cat /etc/mtab > ... > /dev/sda1 /lib/live/mount/medium ntfs > ro,noatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mtf_

Re: ro partition & automate persistence

2014-12-09 Thread AreYouLoco?
Debian Live Manual: Chapter about persistence: http://live.debian.net/manual/current/html/live-manual.en.html#557 Enjoy! On 09.12.2014 13:15, antonio maddalosso wrote: > why, if I copy the live dir in a ntfs partition and start the image > from this partition the partition is mounted ro?

ro partition & automate persistence

2014-12-09 Thread antonio maddalosso
automate the persistence in debianlive?

Processed: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-11-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 767195 cryptsetup needs to be enabled for initramfs inclusion Bug #767195 [live-build] live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time Changed Bug title to 'cryptsetup needs to be enabled for initramfs inclusion'

Bug#767195: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-11-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
retitle 767195 cryptsetup needs to be enabled for initramfs inclusion tag 767195 pending thanks fixed in git, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net

Bug#767195: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-10-31 Thread chals
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/29/2014 08:20 AM, Rajko Albrecht wrote: >> >> it ask for password and setup the encryption, thats ok. But boot time >> persistence works only for unencrypted storage. > > You will need to do

Bug#767195: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-10-30 Thread Rajko Albrecht
Ok, I tried a lot, but with current live-build without patching live-update-initramfs it is not possible getting a live system which supports encrypted partitions at boot time for persistence. So it must get fixed in live build tools, eg in live-update-initramfs. Or cryptsetup changes the

Bug#767195: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-10-30 Thread Rajko Albrecht
Ok, Yes, then this is a bug in live-build not boot. I tried a lot since yesterday getting this parameter into initram build but no chance until now. No ideas anymore meanwhile (without patching the live builds itself) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Bug#767195: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-10-29 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi, On 10/29/2014 08:20 AM, Rajko Albrecht wrote: > I tried a while getting a live system working with encrypted persistence on > boot time. When doing > > live-persistence activate /dev/sdx2 > > it ask for password and setup the encryption, thats ok. But boot time > persi

Bug#767195: live-boot: Encrypted persistence not possible at boot time

2014-10-29 Thread Rajko Albrecht
Package: live-boot Version: 4.0.1-1 Severity: important Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, I tried a while getting a live system working with encrypted persistence on boot time. When doing live-persistence activate /dev/sdx2 it ask for password and setup the encryption, thats ok. But boot time

problem with persistence file

2014-08-10 Thread carolus
I can't get persistence to work using a 1G ext4 file "persistence" (containing persistence.conf) in the root directory of a FAT USB flash drive. I'm booting from the flash drive using syslinux, as described by Ben Armstrong (http://syn.theti.ca/2013/06/22/tutorial-wheezy-

Re: LVM2 persistence

2014-07-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 07/15/2014 02:26 PM, Ed Dixon wrote: > I am sure this has come up but I have not found anything in the mailing > list regarding how to create a persistent store on a logical volume. Is > it possible? haven't tried myself, and am not aware that anyone worked on it (patches though would be very w

LVM2 persistence

2014-07-15 Thread Ed Dixon
Hi, I am sure this has come up but I have not found anything in the mailing list regarding how to create a persistent store on a logical volume. Is it possible? Efforts here have failed. Thanks,

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/07/2014 05:24 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > So they are not likely to > have that feature in the future. for now they will not as said before, but during the jessie release cicle, i'll be redoing the syslinux foo, and that means we could have one more additional entry with '

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 2 April 2014 15:17, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:56 +0200, chals wrote: > >> That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might >> take longer or rather involve more manual work than building an image >> from scratch. The requirements for creating a build syst

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-05 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:44 +0200, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > > > presuming your boot medium is an USB stick, instead of dd'ing the > > hybrid-iso to it you could partition/format it/make it bootable with > > syslinux manually and copy

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:44 +0200, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > presuming your boot medium is an USB stick, instead of dd'ing the > hybrid-iso to it you could partition/format it/make it bootable with > syslinux manually and copy the /isolinux from the image and the iso > itself to the stick's root an

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-05 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Kamil Czekirda wrote: > I suggest use debian live installer (live-medium-install): > > http://install.live-systems.org/scripts.php > > and my mod (ask for persistence): > > http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/live-medium-insta

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
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Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-02 Thread Daniel Reichelt
Hi, > I think there is a terminology mismatch here. I wanted to avoid building > or rebuilding ISO images entirely, I wanted to use the existing images. presuming your boot medium is an USB stick, instead of dd'ing the hybrid-iso to it you could partition/format it/make it bootable with syslinux

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-02 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Richard Nelson wrote: > Greetings, > > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:56 +0200, chals wrote: >> >> > That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might >> > take longer or rather in

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-02 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:56 +0200, chals wrote: > > > That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might > > take longer or rather involve more manual work than building an image > > from scratch. The requirements

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:56 +0200, chals wrote: > That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might > take longer or rather involve more manual work than building an image > from scratch. The requirements for creating a build system are > relatively low. See, I think there is

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-02 Thread chals
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > I could have just rebuilt the ISO but wanted to avoid that so hdd images > aren't useful because I would have to build them myself. > That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might take longer or rather involve more manu

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/02/2014 05:32 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Is there any way to enable persistence without entering it on every > boot? yes, if you build the image yourself you can either add the parameter to the default parameters, or you can specify it in the live-boot configfile within the image itsel

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
oint of view, I see the > persistence boot parameter as an option. There are certain cases in > which you want persistence enabled, then you add the parameter at boot > time. In other cases you will not want persistence enabled, so it > shouldn't be automatically added. Perhaps you

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-01 Thread chals
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to enable persistence without having to remember to enter it > every time I boot. I couldn't find a way to do that so I hexedited the > ISO image, found where the isolinux/live.cfg content was located, add

nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I wanted to enable persistence without having to remember to enter it every time I boot. I couldn't find a way to do that so I hexedited the ISO image, found where the isolinux/live.cfg content was located, added the persistence parameter and overwrote the now broken failsafe menu

Re: Persistence and USB stick

2014-02-10 Thread Marcos Núñez
00:00 Franck TALBART : > Dear Live Debian users, > > I am trying to install my own home server using live debian Wheezy on a > USB key. For the moment, I have enabled the persistence mode which works > great. To do so, I have created a partition on the space left of the USB >

Re: debian-live persistence problem with /etc/network/interfaces

2014-01-24 Thread PAM
@mifamofi.net>> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a live usb key, but I'm stuck to a problem I can't solve. I'm using boot=live persistence toram option as kernel options On a second partition of the live usb I put an ext3 partition with a label

Re: debian-live persistence problem with /etc/network/interfaces

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:13 AM, PAM wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a live usb key, but I'm stuck to a problem I can't > solve. > > I'm using boot=live persistence toram option as kernel options > > On a second partition of the l

debian-live persistence problem with /etc/network/interfaces

2014-01-24 Thread PAM
Hi, I'm trying to create a live usb key, but I'm stuck to a problem I can't solve. I'm using boot=live persistence toram option as kernel options On a second partition of the live usb I put an ext3 partition with a label persistence whatever the options I put in p

Persistence and USB stick

2014-01-15 Thread Franck TALBART
Dear Live Debian users, I am trying to install my own home server using live debian Wheezy on a USB key. For the moment, I have enabled the persistence mode which works great. To do so, I have created a partition on the space left of the USB stick. Finally, I have created a persistence.conf file

Fsck on live-rw persistence partition.

2013-12-24 Thread atar
Hi there!! After I finish to work on the live-rw partition (when I've booted debian wheezy with the 'persistence' parameter) I halt the PC using the 'shutdown -hH now' command and then I reboot the PC without the 'persistence' parameter. Then, when I

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
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 you tried w

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

Persistence not working on image files

2013-12-10 Thread Vladimir Smelhaus
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 # mkfs.ext4 -F -L persistence rw.ext4 # mount rw.ext4 /mnt # echo /etc &

Re: Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/24/2013 06:07 AM, Ka-Hei Law wrote: > Or should I try newer versions of live-boot? quoting from http://live.debian.net/project/lifespan/: "NOTE: Always use the newest version of component within its branch. We do not support any previous versions within a branch, regardless if that version

Re: Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread Ka-Hei Law
Problem solved. The latest 3.x version of live-boot work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and both squashfs files are mounted correctly! All I did was to install the 3 deb package in http://live.debian.net/files/3.x/packages/live-boot/3.0.1-1/ :-) On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Ka-Hei Law

Re: Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread Ka-Hei Law
Unfortunately it does not work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (live-boot 3.0~a24) Here is the error message: only one RO file system supported with exposedroot I have not manually enabled "exposedroot". The error message comes from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live: if [ ${rofscount} -ne 1 ]

Re: Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread Ka-Hei Law
So if I create a file "live/filesystem.module" and put my multiple squashfs filenames in it, live-boot will mount and overlay/merge all the contained filesystems? That's pretty nice! On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Baumann < daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > On 10/23/20

Re: Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 10/23/2013 04:17 PM, gm...@netvope.lcm.hk wrote: > Is this feature available in live-boot? not exactely (as in 'not automatically'), but you can use modules to acchieve the exactly same thing, see man live-boot. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email:

Does live-boot supports squashfs persistence image files?

2013-10-23 Thread gmail
erence of using squashfs persistence image files. Is this feature available in live-boot? Thanks, Ka-Hei

Re: Snapshot persistence with live build 3.0

2013-08-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
adjusted it to the label "persistence" and > created a configuration file persistence.conf. This is working fine. > > Additionally I have a read-only partition labeled "live-sn". > How can I realize this with live build 3.0? If I recall correctly, snapshots had issu

Snapshot persistence with live build 3.0

2013-08-26 Thread Santiago
Hello, I actual use a squeeze live image which is build with live build 2.x and I want to migrate it to wheezy with live build 3.0. The home folder should be persistent. Therefore I have a partition labeled "home-rw". I already adjusted it to the label "persistence&

RE: can't find init when using --bootappend-live persistence

2013-08-03 Thread Adriaan de Wit
Hello, I didn't think your email was useless at all. It pointed me to the correct ,,how to act'' way about Debian, in which I'm new. One gets stuck easily in wrong information. Can be such darkness. Oew.. > >Searching for it now yields that everything is well >documented and I would've avoid

Re: can't find init when using --bootappend-live persistence

2013-08-03 Thread chals
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > Hi, It is good to know that you found the right way to do it ) > > Those things made me not search for the --bootappend-live option in the > debian-live manual. Searching for it now yields that everything is well > documented and

Re: can't find init when using --bootappend-live persistence

2013-08-03 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, the problem is solved. It was a feature and not a bug. I guess I got confused by: 1. many sources [1,2,3] claiming that it was enough to run: lb config --bootappend-live "persistence" 2. the fact that the default value for LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE in the live-build-cgi.

can't find init when using --bootappend-live persistence

2013-08-02 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I tested this with live-build versions 3.0.5-1 and 4.0~a20-1 as well as with the http://live-build-cgi.debian.net/ online service to make sure it's not my local configuration. When enabling --bootappend-live persistence I get the following messages after choosing to boot the live syst

persistence bug and tar image in latest version

2013-07-10 Thread Axel
Hello 1. I was using live-build 3.0.5-1 from Debian Wheezy. I try to use link persistence and have a problem at boot. The directory (or symbolic link I assume) /live/persistence is not created so my persistent and linked file targets a missing file). Manually creating /live/persistence according

Bug#715186: live-boot: Fails when looo-mounted ISO on same partition as persistence file

2013-07-06 Thread probono
Package: live-boot Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, persistence apparently failes when the persistence file is located on same ext4 partition as is the live ISO which is booted with GRUB2. Allowing to put both ISO files and persistence files onto the same

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