Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-27 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On 26/06/2017, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Note the cross-posting... ] > > Hey folks, > > Background: we released live images for Stretch using new tooling, > namely live-wrapper. It is better than what we had before (live-build) > in a number of ways, particularly in terms of build re

Re: GParted doesn't see Debian Live partition?

2017-06-27 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Hello, debian live images have to solve two problems: 1. a single image that must work both when written to DVD and when written to USB drive 2. a single image that must boot both EFI and BIOS machines The combination of this results in 4 different ways of booting which need to be combined in

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-27 Thread Charles Chambers
And I'll add my 2¢ as an end user. The live images exist IMHO to test compatibility before committing to installation, and to install what was just tested and demonstrated, regardless of environment. It's a nice feature (arguably an essential feature) that the actual install mirror *exactly* the

Processed: Re: Bug#865065: cups: Print Service Not Available -- debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome

2017-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 865065 - moreinfo Bug #865065 [cups] cups: Print Service Not Available -- debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gnome Removed tag(s) moreinfo. > reassign 865065 live-build Bug #865065 [cups] cups: Print Service Not Available -- debian-live-9.0.0-amd64-gn

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-27 Thread Michael .
Charles, let me clear up a couple of misconceptions for you. Debian Live (made with Live Wrapper) is an official Debian project. Live Build (the old Debian Live) apparently wasn't official but was recognised by Debian for its official images. Live Build is now officially part of Debian and Rafael H

Bug#865586: live-build: binary_hdd failed with mkfs.vfat error

2017-06-27 Thread pfoo
Seems like I'm hitting the same issue with hdd image. iso-hybrid is working fine. config (not hook or any other modification after this) : lb config --distribution stretch --binary-images hdd --architectures amd64 --linux-flavours amd64 \ --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" --apt-indices fal

Debian package live-wrapper

2017-06-27 Thread Charles Chambers
To my understanding the Live ISO performs two functions: 1) Live operation from [USB] media without installation onto a hard drive. 2) Installation of Debian onto a hard drive entirely from that media if all looks fine in a Live session. Is my understanding correct? Is the installation consid

Bug#866183: debian-live: loopback.cfg is not working

2017-06-27 Thread JimmyZ
Package: debian-live Version: 9.0.1 Severity: normal It's really glad to see debian-live supports loopback.cfg now, however, two minor issues prevented it from working: # /boot/grub/loopback.cfg: source /grub/grub.cfg # should be /boot/grub/grub.cfg # boot/grub/grub.cfg, line 22~24: if [ ${iso_p

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-06-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14714 March 1977, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > A month or so from 9.0 bring us to about 15th July. How would any of these > suit? Is 8.9 at the same time feasible? > 8/9 July (probably a bit soon) > 15/16 July Both of them don't work for me. > 22/23 July That I could do. -- bye, Joerg