live-initscripts CJK locale and wlan helpers

2009-04-21 Thread Kai Hendry
Hmm, I'm afraid Gmail might reformat it, so it's attached too. >From 7d2b4d3a401d952164776bb94954bb0801b240fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kai Hendry Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:20:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wlan and lang helpers cleanup of wlan --- debian/changelog |7 ++ debian/control

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vito Tafuni wrote: > i'm working on a live distro based on debian that is capable to boot > either from cd (burning the iso) and from the iso itself (I used aufs > and some bash scripting!) so you don't need to burn a cd for every live... > > it is also able to simulate a writing system even if i

Re: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Laurin d'Volts wrote: > It wasn't unclean, aborted, or interrupted. well, you're not giving enough information (that you are building minimal) so the only reason based on the information you gave where unclean/aported/interrupted build. > Here's what I did. > > $ lh_config > >> enter as root >

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
i've found debian-live today so i'm taking a deeper look at the project... i never tought there was a live debian! but i think your distro is not capable to boot from an iso file on a usb disk... isn't it? further more I don't use chroot... but i'm interesting to read more from the web site! it's a

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Yohann Lepage
2009/4/21 Vito Tafuni : > i've found debian-live today so i'm taking a deeper look at the project... i > never tought there was a live debian! > but i think your distro is not capable to boot from an iso file on a usb > disk... isn't it? DebianLive can boot from iso, usb-hdd, netboot : http://live.

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Yohann Lepage
2009/4/21 Vito Tafuni : > ok but you have a specific image for the cd (iso) and for usb-hdd (img) > my distro is only a iso! usb-hdd image allow to create partitions in binary.img for example. > if you burn the iso on a cd the distro starts from a cd Like Debian Live. > if you put the iso on a us

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
ok but you have a specific image for the cd (iso) and for usb-hdd (img) my distro is only a iso! if you burn the iso on a cd the distro starts from a cd if you put the iso on a usb-hdd (and install grub on the device) the distro starts from the usb-hdd without the need to "dd if=binary.img of=${U

new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
i'm working on a live distro based on debian that is capable to boot either from cd (burning the iso) and from the iso itself (I used aufs and some bash scripting!) so you don't need to burn a cd for every live... it is also able to simulate a writing system even if it's on a cd so you can instal

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
> > > > if you put the iso on a usb-hdd (and install grub on the device) the > distro > > starts from the usb-hdd without the need to "dd if=binary.img > > of=${USBSTICK}" > Like Debian Live : > mount binary.iso, copy on usb-hdd, install grub and it's works. > you have to copy the content of the i

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vito Tafuni wrote: > if you put the iso on a usb-hdd (and install grub on the device) the > distro starts from the usb-hdd without the need to "dd if=binary.img > of=${USBSTICK}" as far as i know, debian-live iso images should be bootable this way as well. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burg

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
may be i misunderstood 1. you download a debian-live iso (wget debian-live.iso) 2. put the iso on a usb pen (cp /home/user/debian-live.iso /mnt/usbdisk ) 3. plug the usb pen in a pc an boot from the iso on the usb disk ??? if you can do that then my distro is just a game if you can't... my dist

live-bottom script is not executed at startup & something strange with language.

2009-04-21 Thread Adrien Malgoyre
Hi all. I'm working on debian-live since few days, it's very powerfull! Thanks to the community. First: my script problem: I have realize a first simple script (attached at the end), maybe it's not the best but i have never write scripts and i'm new unix user :) I write it, I put it here (

Re: live-bottom script is not executed at startup & something strange with language.

2009-04-21 Thread Adrien Malgoyre
Adrien Malgoyre a écrit : Hi all. I'm working on debian-live since few days, it's very powerfull! Thanks to the community. First: my script problem: I have realize a first simple script (attached at the end), maybe it's not the best but i have never write scripts and i'm new unix user :)

[PATCH] Change format of packages.txt/binary.packages to be machine readable

2009-04-21 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, For most binary image types, live helper produces a packages.txt (in the image) and binary.packages (outside of the image) that is just the output of "dpkg -l" ran within the target. Unfortunately, the output from "dpkg -l" isn't the easiest to machine parse which is why I've created a pat

Re: [PATCH] Change format of packages.txt/binary.packages to be machine readable

2009-04-21 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville < cody.somervi...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello, > > For most binary image types, live helper produces a packages.txt (in the > image) and binary.packages (outside of the image) that is just the output of > "dpkg -l" ran within the tar

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Vito Tafuni wrote: > 3. plug the usb pen in a pc an boot from the iso on the usb disk > ??? assumed that you have the correct grub config, then yes. as far as i know this works with debian-live images as well (as with any other bootable iso image). > if you can do that then my distro is just a ga

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Vito Tafuni
sorry if you're wasting your time i don't know if live-helper can do that... but I've talked with Marco Amadori and he will tell you for the *concrete* things i'll put online all the file asap so it'll be more "tangible" (gpll is still a work in progress) -Vito- 2009/4/21 Daniel Baumann > Vito

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Laurin d'Volts
While we're at it, is it possible to boot it off of a SD or Compact Flash card? And what about CF-to-IDE adapters? I would love a tutorial on such topics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Laurin d'Volts wrote: > While we're at it, is it possible to boot it off of a SD or Compact > Flash card? And what about CF-to-IDE adapters? > This was discussed on irc channel the other day and it should work with usb-hdd images. > I would love a tut

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Richard Nelson wrote: > This was discussed on irc channel the other day and it should work > with usb-hdd images. jup; usb sticks, cf cards, harddisks.. there's no difference at all (except for those old 'early-usb booting' machines that only understand usb-zip), all use the same (harddisk) geomet

USB / CF tests

2009-04-21 Thread David Cottrill
Hi, for testing with assorted machines I build a Debian-live USB image and copy it to CF or usb stick with no modifications. In my tests it is been used in motherboard CF adapters, IDE to CF adapters, plain usb sockets and usb CF adapters. It makes no difference. I have used it as a rescue disk mo

Re: new live concept

2009-04-21 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, 19:32:53, Vito Tafuni wrote: > i don't know if live-helper can do that... > but I've talked with Marco Amadori and he will tell you I didn't have any insight from him about those issues, and please do not cite me instead of giving informations to those who gently ask yo