New to List!

2009-11-12 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi everyone, I have just joined the list as I am interested in trying out the Live Helper suite of packages to build Vinux a Linux distro for the visually impaired that has been going for about a year now. I have been using remastersys to build it up to now, but we are investigating other optio

Live Helper documentation.

2009-11-12 Thread Anthony Sales
There is a manual, faq and wiki here: http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/ The actual application is lh_config so type: lh_config --help for a list of options, then run lh_config to create the build directory, then lh_buil

RE: New to List!

2009-11-13 Thread Anthony Sales
: Re: New to List! Anthony Sales wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi, > I would just like to know how active this project is and whether there are > plans to maintain it into Squeeze etc. of course it would always be better to have more people working on live stuff, however, we're mainting this

caching of .deb files?

2009-11-13 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi here is my first question concerning Debian Live. I obviously want to reuse any .deb files I download so i don't have to keep downloading them as i am on a very slow internet connection. I think that after I have run lh_config and lh_build the first time I can keep using the cached packages,

Installing the system from a running live CD?

2009-11-14 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi, having read the documentation I can see that the live-helper only provides the standard Debian installer, or a Live CD version which both have to be chosen as boot options. In the documentation it mentions that there isn't yet a way to install the live CD from the running LIve system. Just t

RE: Installing the system from a running live CD?

2009-11-14 Thread Anthony Sales
etc. Thanks again. drbongo From: Daniel Baumann [dan...@debian.org] Sent: 14 November 2009 15:17 To: Debian Live Subject: Re: Installing the system from a running live CD? Anthony Sales wrote: > In the documentation it mentions that there isn't yet

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2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi everyone, I am now able to ceate an iso and include user settings by running the iso, making the required changes and then copying the contents of the user directory by placing it the /etc/skel directory via the approriate folder in config/ - there is now just one piece of the jigsaw missing

mesahes and modules!

2009-11-16 Thread Anthony Sales
ise really sucks and makes both reading and answering your mails uselessly hard. Anthony Sales wrote: > apt-get install git-core libespeak-dev speakup-source > git clone git://hubbs.homedns.org/speakup.git > cd speakup > cd contrib > bunzip2 espeakup, tab > tar -xvf espeakup, tab &g

RE: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi I have just tried running lh_build and the process keeps stoppiing and giving this error message: I have tried both apt and aptitude and tried changing the repository URL's from uk to us with the same result. I don't know if this is caused by live-helper or the Debian repositories, but not su

RE: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
I did at 20:13 as soon as I realised - but I changed the subject to 'user error'! drbongo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Top posting and 72 characters per line?

2009-11-17 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi Daniel. Just some questions/points about email posting etiquette: I have read the article you pointed me to and I would just like to explain why I top post and why sometimes my lines sometimes go over 72 characters. Firstly I work in a college for the blind, I make a distro for the blind and mo

Adding repositories to the sources.list on live cd and installed system?

2009-11-18 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi I am trying to add a modified sources.list to the live CD and the installed system using the 'live' debian installer. I have tried adding the modified list into the chroot_local-includes folder as etc/apt/sources.list and this is accepted but then the next part of the process fails as it cannot

RE: debootstrap doesn't use configured categories/components

2009-11-18 Thread Anthony Sales
Hi Daniel, you are correct, I just checked my inbox, and I did receive the message 'user error' so I assumed it came through the list, but on closer inspection it seems I managed to send it to myself! Don't under estimate just how dumb I am, sorry for any misunderstanding. drbongo -- To UNSUBSC

RE: Adding repositories to the sources.list on live cd and installed system?

2009-11-18 Thread Anthony Sales
Daniel Baumann wrote: > you have three alternative possibilities: > * don't change config tree, but additionally preseed d-i with your third party repositories. Don't know how to do this! > * configure your third party repositories manually through inclusion of /etc/apt/sources.list.