Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/10 Daniel Baumann : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Now that it is confirmed outside of my configuration I guess it's >> worth debugging. > > as always, you need to send detailed information so that it's > reproducible (see manual), otherwise it doesn't help. I am using live-helper 1

Re: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Dusty Hendrickson wrote: > Patch attached. It takes the LH_CATEGORIES parameter if set and turns > whitespace into commas to match the format of the debootstrap > --components parameter. applied, with the following two changes: * using of $(foo) instead of `foo` * only activate --components

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: > I am using live-helper 1.0.5-2. in general, for such things, it's nicer to run a git snapshot (if possible). anyhow. > Setting menu to false breaks the config for me: that is know bug for so long time, it's even reported in the bts (and partially fixed already)

Re: kernel updates - was: adding a kernel from backports

2009-11-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:33:11AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > What's the proper way to handle this? > > as i already said before: kernel selection/inclusion needs to be done at > build time. > > why? because vmlinuz and initrd that are used to boot are in the binary > ima

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/11 Daniel Baumann : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> I am using  live-helper          1.0.5-2. > > in general, for such things, it's nicer to run a git snapshot (if > possible). anyhow. > >> Setting menu to false breaks the config for me: > > that is know bug for so long time, it's even reported

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Héctor Alonso Lozada Echezuría
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > What are the benefits of using syslinux vs grub on a live system? > > first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot > on a small subset of crappy/old/strange/weird machines where isolinux is > ab

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/11 Héctor Alonso Lozada Echezuría : > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> >> Rob Owens wrote: >> > What are the benefits of using syslinux vs grub on a live system? >> >> first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot >> on a small subset of

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/7 Daniel Baumann : > Rob Owens wrote: >> What are the benefits of using syslinux vs grub on a live system? > > first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot > on a small subset of crappy/old/strange/weird machines where isolinux is > able to boot. this might or migh

Re: [PATCH] Expose build configuration during execution of chroot hooks

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > Please accept this simple patch that exposes build configuration to > > chroot hooks by copying the config directory to chroot/root/config and > > removing it before and after each hook is executed.

[PATCH] Add support for custom debian installer images mirror

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, Please accept this patch which adds a new option called 'LH_MIRROR_DEBIAN_INSTALLER'. If set, it overrides the URL used to fetch the d-i images/files providing support for easier use of custom debian installer images. Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Systems Release Engineer Fou

How to download source only?

2009-11-11 Thread surreal
Is there any way of downloading source files without the binaries ?? I dont want to create a live cd but only get the source files of the packages found in live helper lists. -- Harshad Joshi

[PATCH] Omit numbering for first kernel and initrd installed into binary

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, Please accept this patch to modify lh_binary_syslinux to forgo numbering the kernel image and initrd if its the first kernel/initrd being installed. This results in the names of these files matching to what you'd find on a normal Ubuntu (and I think Debian) cd while maintaining the ability

[PATCH] Fix intermittent truncating of filesystem

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, Please accept the attached patch which increases partition size padding from 2% to 3% for non-ext2/3 filesystems and prevents rounding down that can occur due to expr's lack of support for floating point arithmetic. These changes have fixed issues we were experiencing with the filesystem g

[PATCH] Add support for ubifs chroot filesystem

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, Please find attached a patch which adds support for ubifs choort filesystems. Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Systems Release Engineer Foundations Team Custom Engineering Solutions Group Canonical OEM Services Phone: +1-781-850-2087 Cell: +1-506-471-8402 Email: cody.somervi...@

Re: [PATCH] Add support for custom debian installer images mirror

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Please accept this patch which adds a new option called > 'LH_MIRROR_DEBIAN_INSTALLER'. If set, it overrides the URL used to fetch > the d-i images/files providing support for easier use of custom debian > installer images. nice, thanks. could you please also add --m

Re: kernel updates - was: adding a kernel from backports

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Rob Owens wrote: > Would it suffice to copy vmlinuz and initrd from a newly-built image > into my existing one? (and update the appropriate syslinux files) Or > is there more to it than that? that should do it. but note that the live system does behave different wrt/ kernel updates than regular

Re: How to download source only?

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
surreal wrote: > Is there any way of downloading source files without the binaries ?? not with live-helper, and you'll never will, as it's not possible to do it without first bootstrapping. however, if you insist.. do it by hand. either bootstrap your target system or change your hosts systems /e

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Héctor Alonso Lozada Echezuría wrote: > But, syslinux run xen linux kernel? it can, yes. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUB

live-helper

2009-11-11 Thread Tushar Patel
hello I have been trying to get Debian live going for my network boot environment (followed the manual pages at http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch03s04.html ) and trying to boot guest machine on Virtual Box. Guest machine gives "BOOT FAILED"

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: > I'm not sure building xen live systems is even supported but it should > not be hard to add should somebody feel the urge to build such > systems. not yet (wasn't any demand for that yet :). i'll be adding it once we've cleaned up the syslinux handling (it's really awfull

[PATCH] Correct the LH_BOOTAPPEND_INSTALL default

2009-11-11 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello, Please accept the attached patch which will ensure LH_BOOTAPPEND_INSTALL is always set correctly and thus enable images to successfully boot even if you set LH_BOOTAPPEND_INSTALL yourself. The current behavior is to only modify LH_BOOTAPPEND_INSTALL if LH_BOOTAPPEND_INSTALL is empty. This

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michal Suchanek wrote: >> first, because it has better hardware compatibility, grub doesn't boot >> on a small subset of crappy/old/strange/weird machines where isolinux is >> able to boot. this might or might not be true for your use case. > > If grub does not boot on your machine then you probab

Re: [PATCH] Omit numbering for first kernel and initrd installed into binary

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Please accept this patch to modify lh_binary_syslinux to forgo > numbering the kernel image and initrd if its the first kernel/initrd > being installed. thanks, applied. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.

Re: [PATCH] Fix intermittent truncating of filesystem

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Please accept the attached patch which increases partition size padding > from 2% to 3% for non-ext2/3 filesystems and prevents rounding down that > can occur due to expr's lack of support for floating point arithmetic. applied, thanks. -- Address:Daniel Ba

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ubifs chroot filesystem

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Please find attached a patch which adds support for ubifs choort > filesystems. nice, however, the patch doesn't respect using the cached bootstrap chroot to generate the system. could you update it? Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstras

Re: How to download source only?

2009-11-11 Thread surreal
i cannot imagine why this is usefull. care to give a use case? I had downloaded a GB or more of binaries, and now for some reasons, I want the source code of those binaries. Want to tweak them for max performance on my machine(s) There are 1400 binary deb and if I manually start downloading them,

Re: How to download source only?

2009-11-11 Thread David Cottrill NCH Software
Hi, This sort of thing should work for you. I assume you have several GB of bandwidth. On the live (or standard) system : dpkg -l > packages.txt cat packages.txt> some stream filter eg: sed > packages_clean.txt cat packages_clean.txt > apt-get source David surreal wrote: i cannot imagine w