Re: LiveCD doesn’t find persistent file

2009-07-27 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:09:02 +0200, "os.n...@gmx.de" a écrit : > Can someone help me please and is willing to post a detailed > description (more detailed than the manual and FAQ) how to make a > persistent file and how to use it? Thank you, Oliver Hello, I didn't used persistent part

Re: LiveCD doesn’t find persistent file

2009-07-27 Thread Marco Amadori
On Wednesday 22 July 2009, 20:39:13, os.n...@gmx.de wrote: > I made a persistent file as described in the manual: > [...] For your information, I use Debian Lenny. > Please can you help me? Use the live-initramfs from git, that feature was not working in lenny's live- initramfs. -- ESC:wq --

Re: Bug#522382: live-initramfs: using 'persistent=nofiles' parameter

2009-07-27 Thread Rui Miguel Bernardo
Hello, with persistent=nofiles the devices weren't all scanned, while with just persistent they where. It seemed that the break statement in live-helpers was preventing that from happening. I've removed the break, so every device is scanned and only try to mount partitions if persistent != nofile

cryptsetup and how to create luks partiton?

2009-07-27 Thread Rui Miguel Bernardo
Hi, recently live-helpers was corrected for cryptsetup calls for persistency on luks. http://git.debian.net/?p=debian-live/live-initramfs.git;a=commit;h=d6df808045a033b717c2a9a903ed4f9cbb7c67a4 I was trying to use this feature but I was getting the following error: /lib/cryptsetup/askpass Enter

Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Christophe Pierret
Building an Amazon EC2 custom image on debian or ubuntu is much like building a live system: 1) Build OS on current filesystem (Use debootstrap, etc) 2) Handling /dev etc 3) Install software packages 4) Customize init scripts 5) Package the files More info here: http:

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Christophe Pierret wrote: > Are you aware of any work to adapt Debian live scripts to build AMI > images for Amazon EC2 ? no, but patches welcome (if nobody steps up, i'll get around to it myself at some point, but likely not in the next two months). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunders

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Creel
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Christophe Pierret wrote: >> Are you aware of any work to adapt Debian live scripts to build AMI >> images for Amazon EC2 ? > > no, but patches welcome (if nobody steps up, i'll get around to it > myself at some point, but likely not in the n

Re: Adapting Debian live to support Amazon EC2 custom instance creation

2009-07-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Creel wrote: > I came to realize that using a live CD approach is probably not > the efficient way to go, given that the machines that run EC2 have > given specs. Live CDs are intended to run on heterogeneous hardware. i want live-helper to produce non-live images as well (only a few tweak

Re: Bug#522382: live-initramfs: using 'persistent=nofiles' parameter [PATCH]

2009-07-27 Thread Rui Miguel Bernardo
In my previous message I've made a patch using wrong directories and diff wrong options (I've noticed it while trying to use config/chroot_local-patches). Sorry about that. Here is a correct patch (I hope). ii live-helper 1.0.5+20090630.183258 Debian Live build scripts ii