Re: lenny and 2.6.29

2009-09-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, The following instructions are a little outdated. Can I start a wiki page somewhere? On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:57, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared backports of 2.6.29 and corresponding aufs and > squashfs-tools. For those who want to build lenny live images with > 2.6.29 kernel,

Re: lenny and 2.6.29

2009-09-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:43, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > The following instructions are a little outdated. Can I start a wiki > page somewhere? It appears I hadn't searched hard enough: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#Q.3AHowdoIuseanewerkernelwithlenny.3F Sorry for the noise.

Re: lenny and 2.6.29

2009-09-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > The following instructions are a little outdated. Can I start a wiki > page somewhere? the wiki should not be used for such things anymore, but go directly into the manual, see http://live.debian.net/manual/html/meta.html#contributing on how to contribute to the manua

Re: lenny and 2.6.29

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/10 Daniel Baumann : > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> The following instructions are a little outdated. Can I start a wiki >> page somewhere? > > the wiki should not be used for such things anymore, but go directly > into the manual, see > http://live.debian.net/manual/html/meta.html#contribu

Patch for loading iso images from the web

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello Currently it is necessary to store separate images for netbooting and iso images for burning CDs on the web server. This patch allows booting from an iso image instead of squashfs image using any of the httpfs/ftpfs/wget method. I did not try to make smbfs nor nfs work with this image type

iSCSI boot patch

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello this is a patch somewhat based on the Pravin's post on Etherboot wiki. There is a long standing issue (since 2006 by some email post) with open-iscsi that prevents it from starting in live-initramfs. Attached patch should resolve the issue and allow running iscsid. The remaining issue is

Re: iSCSI boot patch

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
Fixed open-iscsi patch. Thanks Michal diff -ur open-iscsi-2.0.870~rc3/debian/changelog open-iscsi-2.0.870~rc3.default_user/debian/changelog --- open-iscsi-2.0.870~rc3/debian/changelog 2009-09-09 15:39:57.0 +0200 +++ open-iscsi-2.0.870~rc3.default_user/debian/changelog 2009-09-09 15:44:14.

Error in sudo

2009-09-10 Thread surreal
I am using a debian live gnome OS installed on my hdd. I am not able to use any programs that require superuser rights. Eg - When I click on Synaptic, it asks me the root password and on giving the password, it shows me an error "Failed to run disk-manager as user root. The underlying authoriza

How to enable sudo for all users by default

2009-09-10 Thread surreal
Is there any way of enabling sudo to all users without having to know their names? -- Harshad Joshi

Re: How to enable sudo for all users by default

2009-09-10 Thread Ravishankar Haranath
You may need to change/customize 2 things.. set 'sudo' in the list of default groups to which a newly created user belong - /etc/default/adduser file. set %sudo ALL=(ALL): ALL in /etc/sudoers Rgds, Ravi On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, surreal wrote: > Is there any way of enabling sudo to all

Re: Error in sudo

2009-09-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
surreal wrote: > I am using a debian live gnome OS installed on my hdd. how did you install it? which distribution? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~dani

Re: Error in sudo

2009-09-10 Thread surreal
When I try performing admin task using a new user having no entry in /etc/sudoers, I get an error message Failed to run .usr/sbin/synaptic as user root The underlying authorization mechanism(sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator. Harshad Joshi