Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Kirill Spitsin
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20:38PM -0300, Victor Rosales wrote: > Hi, is there a way to dd a live image into a thumb drive > and create a second partition in the same device? http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/the-basics.html#202 -- Kirill Spitsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-re

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/01/2011 12:01 AM, Charles Russell wrote: > I tried creating a second FAT partition with gparted. Although I could > access the second partition with Linux , I could not access it with > Windows XP or Windows 7. Windows does not appear capable of recognizing > more than one partition on a f

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Russell
Ben Armstrong wrote: you might just want to leave any existing partition on your stick intact, copy the necessary files over to it from the live image, and then syslinux the stick to make it bootable. Saves you the hassle with gparted. __ I don't know how to get the files out of

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/01/2011 09:57 AM, Charles Russell wrote: > Ben Armstrong wrote: > > you might just want to leave any existing partition on your stick intact, > copy the necessary files over to it from the live image, and then > syslinux the stick to make it bootable. Saves you the hassle with gparted. > >

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Russell
Charles Russell wrote: I couldn't get a loopback mount to work since the .img file was not recognized as a valid filesystem. _ Yet the checksum was OK, and the binary.img worked fine after dd to a flash drive (which yielded a FAT filesystem). The loopback mount did not work w

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Charles Russell
Ben Armstrong wrote: Mounting the .img loopback is easy. _ Yes, thanks for the detailed instructions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Victor Rosales
I tried gparted as the FAQ says, but I get: $ gksu gparted /dev/sdb ... Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb. Any ideas? is this a bug? Regards, Victor. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Charles Russell wrote: > Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Mounting the .img loopback is easy.

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Victor Rosales
I should clarify, this issue appears if iso-hybrid is used, the usb-hdd works perfectly with a second partition. Victor. On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Victor Rosales wrote: > I tried gparted as the FAQ says, but I get: > > $ gksu gparted /dev/sdb > ... > Invalid partition table - recursive par

loop-aes in Debian Live

2011-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
I seem to recall that Debian Live used to support using loop-aes for persistent storage, and that this is not possible (or difficult) in squeeze because of the removal of prebuilt loop-aes modules generated by linux-modules-extra. Is that correct? Max Vozeler worked on a replacement for loop-aes

Re: loop-aes in Debian Live

2011-03-01 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/02/2011 06:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I seem to recall that Debian Live used to support using loop-aes for > persistent storage, and that this is not possible (or difficult) in > squeeze because of the removal of prebuilt loop-aes modules generated by > linux-modules-extra. Is that correc

Re: dd a live image and create a second partition

2011-03-01 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Kirill Spitsin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20:38PM -0300, Victor Rosales wrote: >> Hi, is there a way to dd a live image into a thumb drive >> and create a second partition in the same device? > > http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/the-basics.html#202 I'