Debian Live ramdisk location?

2016-12-31 Thread Felleg Tarpa
I have written some scripts for Knoppix to realize a "drive friendly" persistence: saving changes to HDD only at shutdown (or anytime you want). While in the traditional way changes to live system are written immediately to persistence data storage file. Now I want to do this for Debian Live, too.

Using a DHCP-provided host name in debian-live

2016-12-31 Thread Stefan Baur
Hi $LIST, as most of you probably know, it is not only possible to send a host name via DHCP, but also to request one (i.e. instead of the client telling the server "Hi, I'm foobar.", it's possible to send "Hi, what's my name?" and the DHCP server will reply with "Hi, you're barney.") I've been w

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Peter.Stein
Package: live-build Version: 1:20161216 I configure with: lb config --debian-installer live -d stretch --archive-areas main contrib non-free upstream restricted --linux-packages `dpkg-query -f '${binary:Package}\n' -W` This configures the target for the same packages as those installed on t

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ozi Traveller
I didn't find a package named a2ps-amd64, but there is on named a2ps. Also maybe try --debian-installer daily instead of --debian-installer live Just my 2cents Ozi On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Peter.Stein wrote: > Package: live-build > Version: 1:20161216 > > I configure with: > > lb confi

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Peter.Stein
Ok, my bad. But there are plenty of examples on the web of specifying packages via the "lb config" command such as: http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=185 The --packages option shown there and in other examples isn't available in my version of live-build: lb config [--apt

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Amilton Jesus
Em sáb, 31 de dez de 2016 às 20:06, Peter.Stein escreveu: > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, my bad. But there are plenty of > > examples oqn the web of specifying pacmgkages via the "lb config" > > command such as: > > > > > > http://www.debianuserforums.orrg/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=185 >

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On December 31, 2016 6:10:55 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I'm only seeing --linux-packages as a possible option for specifying configuration PACKAGES. Is there another option in this list that's appropriate? No. You use package lists instead. As for what's in that manual - it's nearly incomprehe

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to specify kernel and kernel modules. See live-manual and use package lists instead. Ben On December 31, 2016 4:45:26 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: Package: live-build Version: 1:20161216 I configure with: lb config --debian-installer l

Bug#849827: Fwd: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
User error. This bug should be closed. --- Forwarded message --- From: Ben Armstrong Date: December 31, 2016 5:45:12 PM Subject: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target To: Peter.Stein , sub...@bugs.debian.org You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to specify

Re: Customizing Debian Live ...

2016-12-31 Thread Michael .
Read the live-build documentation about installing packages, specifically look for package lists. 1) For Firefox read this https://mozilla.debian.net/ because you need to add either backports (for a stable version) or a testing/unstable version of Debian to your sources.list and the auto config fi