unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Joseph Rawson
For the last 2-3 weeks, I've been working on a step-by-step document to get paella up and running for people. I have decided to use live-helper to make the nfsroot installer, since my self-made live nfs installer was really hacky, and there was not any decent alternative. The document I'm work

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, Joseph Rawson wrote: > The document I'm working on > is located here. http://paella.berlios.de/quickstart-vbox.html This > document might make a good example of how to test the "net" images with > virtualization, and may be hacked to fit on the > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Virtual

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Ronny Standtke
> Since having different settings for the desktop flavours and the rescue > flavours sucks too, let's do a poll: > > [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) > [ ] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours > [x] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop f

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ronny Standtke wrote: >> [x] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, >> use noswap for rescue flavour. ...which would be the worst decision from a debian point of view. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Swap poll

2008-08-31 Thread Marco Amadori
Il domenica 31 agosto 2008 12:56:57 Daniel Baumann ha scritto: > Since having different settings for the desktop flavours and the rescue > flavours sucks too, let's do a poll: > > [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) > [ ] Don't use swap partitions automatically in a

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Marco Amadori
Il domenica 31 agosto 2008 14:24:20 Daniel Baumann ha scritto: > Ronny Standtke wrote: > >> [x] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, > >> use noswap for rescue flavour. > > ...which would be the worst decision from a debian point of view. How? Could you elaborate? -- ESC:wq

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Marco Amadori wrote: > How? Could you elaborate? "Since having different settings for the desktop flavours and the rescue flavours sucks too [...]" ...different official images should only differ in package selection, not in their behaviour. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, B

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:56:57PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: [...] > flavours sucks too, let's do a poll: > > [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) > [X] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours > [ ]

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) > [X] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours > [ ] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, > use noswap for rescue flavour. The "we do not touch filesystems by default"

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: > The "we do not touch filesystems by default" invariant is really important. > > As long as one can pass "swap" at boot time to revert the behaviour, I would > be in favour of the above change. after thinking this afternoon about it, i agree. will adjust live-initramfs then, t

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > will adjust live-initramfs then, the default behaviour should not > require parameters, so.. instead of noswap you'll have to set autoswap > or something simillar in order to make use of the automatic swap usage > feature. For completeness, this was committed as 'swapon'.

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Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Harold
> Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) >> [X] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours >> [ ] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, >> use noswap for rescue flavour. > > The "we do not touch filesystems by

Re: mirror available ?

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann wrote: > > is there any mirror available to download the files ? > > not yet; but the networking situation will soon improove. I'm temporarily mirroring them here: http://ftp.warwickcompsoc.co.uk/debian-live/lenny_live_beta1/ Regards, -- Chris Lamb, UK

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Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 31 August 2008 05:56:57 Daniel Baumann wrote: > Hi, > Hi. :) > Thank you, any help with improving the documentation is very welcome. > np I still would like to finish the wiki page that I started long ago. The one that makes a short description of what each lh_(something) script does

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live-magic_1.1_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2008-08-31 Thread Debian Installer
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[Fwd: Re: Test of Debian Live Lenny Beta1 on an Acer One]

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
--- Begin Message --- > Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > It shouldn't be too hard to add the ucvcvideo driver should it? I > > will look into how that works with debian-live. > > it's an oot module (linux-uvc) and in debian already, so that should be > fairly easy to add it for custom builds. I wi

[Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
--- Begin Message --- Hello List, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Daniel Baumann wrote: >> Nevertheless, we do need your help to find more bugs and improve the >> live systems, so please try them out. > > particulary interesting would be to get reports from people with > Intel-based Apple hardware (both

Re: [Fwd: Re: Test of Debian Live Lenny Beta1 on an Acer One]

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
>> Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: >>> It shouldn't be too hard to add the ucvcvideo driver should it? I >>> will look into how that works with debian-live. >> it's an oot module (linux-uvc) and in debian already, so that should be >> fairly easy to add it for custom builds. > > I will then try to buil

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jerome Benoit wrote: > Hello List, Hi, > I have just tried the Standard one o my (old) Black MacBook: > because of the keyboard freezing issue, I could not start it :-) unfortunately, it turned out that no macbook works with the current syslinux. it's reported upstream to the syslinux maintainer

Re: documentation

2008-08-31 Thread MA & HB
> np I still would like to finish the wiki page that I started long ago. > The > one that makes a short description of what each lh_(something) script does > and the stage files it requires and creates. I've not been in a position > to > be able to do this in a long time, but that seems to be ch

Re: documentation

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, quick note: please don't hijack threads - if you change the subject, please start writing a *new* mail rather than replying to a previous one. by not doing this, your mail gets hidden in the previous thread and we'll not see it as a new mail (and it also makes reading further replies to the or

building root filesystem image killed

2008-08-31 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Dear list! My first try to build a ISO-image failed like this: P: Begin building root filesystem image... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: squashfs-source The following NEW packages will be installed: squashfs-tools 0

Re: documentation

2008-08-31 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 31 August 2008 16:04:10 MA & HB wrote: > > np I still would like to finish the wiki page that I started long ago. > > The > > one that makes a short description of what each lh_(something) script > > does and the stage files it requires and creates. I've not been in a > > position to >

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joseph Rawson wrote: > The one that makes a short description of what each lh_(something) script > does > and the stage files it requires and creates. I've not been in a position to > be able to do this in a long time, but that seems to be changing. This is > also something that should proba

Re: Kernel Panic on IBM Thinkpad R50e

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Hi, sorry for the late answer... > The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R50e. beeing a longtime thinkpad user, i'm actually surprised. thinkpads in general work extremly well with debian (or linux), however, i think can test that the cd on a R50 next week. > First of al

Re: building root filesystem image killed

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Dear list! Hi, > Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor > Creating little endian 3.1 filesystem on filesystem.squashfs, block size > 131072. > [=== > ] 6183/72751 8%/usr/share/live-

Re: Kernel Panic on IBM Thinkpad R50e

2008-08-31 Thread Brendan Sleight
> jdietrch wrote: >> So I thought I'd reboot the Live CD to get a clean start >> for preparing a bugreport. But this time I got a kernel panic >> on trying to mount the root filesystem. And it wasn't just >> a transient error. I've tried probably six or eight more >> times, and it's always the sa

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Harold wrote: > > Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > >> [ ] Use swap partitions automatically in all flavours (leave as is) > >> [X] Don't use swap partitions automatically in all flavours > >> [ ] Use swap partitions for standard and desktop flavours, > >> us

Re: building root filesystem image killed

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Lamb
Hans Ekbrand wrote: > [=== > ] > 6183/72751 8%/usr/share/live-helper/functions/chroot.sh: line 13: 11939 > Killed ${LH_ROOT_COMMAND} chroot chroot /usr/bin/env -i [..] > This box has not m

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-08-31 Thread Marco Amadori
Il domenica 31 agosto 2008 23:53:28 Tzafrir Cohen ha scritto: > > > The "we do not touch filesystems by default" invariant is really > > > important. It is not really a filesystem, but I got it. > > > As long as one can pass "swap" at boot time to revert the behaviour, I > > > would > > > be in

Re: Kernel Panic on IBM Thinkpad R50e

2008-08-31 Thread jdietrch
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:21:19 +0200, "Daniel Baumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, > > sorry for the late answer... No problem; thank you for answering! > > > The laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R50e. > > beeing a longtime thinkpad user, i'm actually surprised

Re: Kernel Panic on IBM Thinkpad R50e

2008-08-31 Thread jdietrch
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:53:00 +0100, "Brendan Sleight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > jdietrch wrote: > > >> So I thought I'd reboot the Live CD to get a clean start > >> for preparing a bugreport. But this time I got a kernel panic > >> on trying to mount the root filesystem. And it wasn't just >