Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 01/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the R61 I could not get my wifi working. The Fn-F8 key also did > > not work. I did not test it fully. Here is an some of the > > output of dmesg: > > in order to use wifi, you need the necessary firmware (firmware-iwlwifi > i

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) Intel > Mac computer: > some informations can be grabbed on refit site. > A simple workaround would be to continue after a small lapse of time. > > Jerome Yes

Re: unexpected changes - live-bottom/13swap running by default

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 31/08/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Lamb wrote: > > The "we do not touch filesystems by default" invariant is really important. > > > > As long as one can pass "swap" at boot time to revert the behaviour, I > would > > be in favour of the above change. > > > after

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Live Lenny Beta1]

2008-09-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 02/09/2008, Martin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > On 02/09/2008, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > note that the keyboard issue is a generic issue for (only first ?) &g

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > version has been uploaded to sid already. > > however, syslinux 3.71 does still have some regressions, therefore i've > uploaded to small (50mb) test images

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > version has been uploaded to sid already. > Hello, The syslinux currently in Lenny does not work for me ( after displaying "or press Enter to" the screen sho

Bug#442333: initramfs ignores ide lernel cmd line parameters

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > maximilian attems wrote: > > > > > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.7 > > > reassign 442333 live-initramfs > > > > Hm, really? According to my tests, th

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Michal Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > upstream has fixed the qemu bug in syslinux (yay!), updated syslinux > > version has been uploaded to sid al

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > However, the syslinux on the broken CD is also version 3.71. I wonder > > what's going on here. > > > You will have to be more precise; there are both broken and fixed.ver

Re: Support for splashy?

2008-09-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11/09/2008, Ronny Standtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > According to http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2008/08/msg00213.html > splashy should now show a "remove CD" prompt when shutting down. > > I just build a Debian-Live image but whenever I shut down the system, > the prompt

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Michal Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/09/2008, Chris Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > > > > However, the syslinux on the broken CD is also version 3.71. I wonder > > > what's goin

Re: Help testing syslinux

2008-09-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 09/09/2008, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > however, as someone reported, syslinux still doesn't support some kind > of intel based apple imacs at all, which is a bummer. > It's not about syslinux not supporting these. The bios emulation in macs is seriously broken, and almost no

Re: license packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/1/14 Daniel Baumann : > schoappied wrote: >> One note.. the tools use apt-get by default... I use aptitude, > > because apt-get is saner than aptitude and has less bugs. > >> I think I should change those to aptitude right? > > probably, i don't know if apt-get and aptitude use the same data

Re: license packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/1/15 Daniel Baumann : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> AFAIK apt does not track manually installed packages at all, it makes >> all packages it installs seem manually installed as it does not record >> which were added automatically. > > apt does track manually installe

Re: license packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/1/15 Daniel Baumann : > schoappied wrote: >> Now I'm in doubt whether aptitude or apt-get is preferable for a mixed >> testing/unstable system.. > > i *personally* use apt-get only, i don't like aptitude. > > apart from that i've the impression that aptitude being slower, it has a > very stran

Re: virtualization vesa bug

2009-01-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
Generally it's a bug in VirtualBox for not providing some sane graphics interface. You can get a sane resolution by decreasing the amount of video memory for the virtual machine. You can also use the vesa framebuffer, set the resolution with video= kernel option, and use the fbdev X driver. The

Bug#515121: live-initramfs: panics when no ethernet is found

2009-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.156.1-1 Severity: normal Hello doing http netboot with an ethernet card that the kernel does not recognize results in kernel panic (not syncing): attempted to kill init Previously I have seen some nice explanation with AA debian logo but no more. Thanks Mi

Bug#515121: live-initramfs: panics when no ethernet is found

2009-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/2/13 Richard Nelson : > Greetings, > > Could you paste a sample of your boot line? > > Also did you try with an ip address instead of a url name? I always use server IP. LABEL http MENU LABEL Start Debian Live kernel vmlinuz1 append initrd=initrd1.img boot=live xdebco

Bug#515974: live-helper: Use "Squeeze" can't lh_build

2009-02-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/2/18 張效維 : > Package: live-helper > Version: 1.0.4-1 > > Hello, developer: > > I use live-helper to build my unofficial live cd. > In Lenny (-d lenny), it's success build live cd every time. > But now, I use Squeeze (-d squeeze), it always stop. > > The information like this (I remember it ina

Re: Live Media

2009-02-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/2/19 Sebastian Hilbert : > On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Chris Lamb wrote: >> Sebastian Hilbert wrote: >> > I have a dedicated server that could server for development purposes. >> >> That's very kind of you, however the machine would be for significantly >> more than mere "development"; it would

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread michal . suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Severity: normal The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is bad and returns I/O errors with delay. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT pol

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/24/2009 10:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: [Cc-ing 520...@bugs.debian.org] * Michal Suchanek [20090324 18:53]: On 03/23/2009 11:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: An approach could be to use bootfrom=.../live-media=... in such a situation. Michal, does this help? Would be great if you could

Re: [Fwd: Upcoming Lenny Point Release]

2009-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/6/5 Luk Claes : > Hi > > Forwarding this announcement as it might directly affect your team. > Don't hesitate to forward it further if you think that can be useful. > > Cheers > > Luk > Is it feasible to get httpfs into Debian still? I intended to look at it some time in the near future. AF

Re: Video Drivers & Screen Resolution

2009-07-29 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/7/29 Steve Allen : > I am looking to replace my knoppix build with debian-live. > It is mostly going Ok but one small problem I have been unable to overcome > (google) is screen resolution. > > Take for example a Proliant DL380, the KDE Info Center reports an ATI Rage > XL. > Running Knoppix &

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-08-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, Sorry about the late reply. 2009/7/17 Pravin : > Hi, > I am working on booting Debian over http, and I faced few problems and > I attempted to solve them. > Following is the approach I took and the the questions I have. > I hope that you will find this work useful. > > I have been trying t

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello Thanks for the patch. It is quite large, probably because it contains scripts shipped in one of the iscsi client packages. It also hardcodes a nameserver. Is there no parameter for nameserver yet? Can't it be obtained from dhcp? The iscsi names are also hardcoded. Shouldn't these be speci

Bug#545046: live-helper: filesystem.squashfs is mode 600 (inaccessible)

2009-09-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0.3-2 Severity: normal Filesystem.squashfs is mode 600 and owned by root which makes it very hard to use for netbooting. Most server software cannot access the file due to permissions. This can be either fixed by patching mksquashfs (or whatever it is called) or b

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2009/9/2 Daniel Baumann : > [ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on > list only though. ] > > Pravin wrote: >> I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. >> I had to add open-iscsi tools into initramfs for enabling iscsi booting, >> but booting over iscsi is 3 ti

Bug#545403: live-helper: packageslists directory created in config but unused

2009-09-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 1.0.5-1 Severity: normal The chroot_local-packageslists directory is created in the configuration but not used. This is confusing for the users because at least some other directories created in cthe configuration work automagically. There are two ways how this can

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/4 Michal Suchanek : > Hello > > 2009/9/2 Daniel Baumann : >> [ CC'ed to ensure you're not missing the answer ;), will follow up on >> list only though. ] >> >> Pravin wrote: >>> I also managed to boot debian over iscsi. >>> I

Bug#545842: reinstalling live-initramfs regenerates initramfs twice

2009-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.156.1+1.157.2-1 Severity: normal Generating initramfs takes quite a bit of time and it is pointless to generate it twice during upgradei/reinstall. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable

Bug#534887: live-initramfs: Loop mounting .iso for booting from multi-purpose USB stick?

2009-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2009/7/8 pub : > Philip Hands a écrit : >> >> Package: live-initramfs >> Severity: wishlist >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been trying to build a versatile USB stick, with the imntent that >> it be able to choose between various images at a grub prompt. > > I also have a versatile USB stick with 10

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/9 Pravin : > Hi, > > 2009/9/7 Michal Suchanek : >> >> All moinpoints have to be moved under /root for run-init to work so I >> added one more move since unpacking an iso requires an additional >> mountpoint. >> > > I tested your patch. > It

Re: lenny and 2.6.29

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/10 Daniel Baumann : > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> The following instructions are a little outdated. Can I start a wiki >> page somewhere? > > the wiki should not be used for such things anymore, but go directly > into the manual, see > http://live.debian.net/manual/html/meta.html#contribu

Patch for loading iso images from the web

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello Currently it is necessary to store separate images for netbooting and iso images for burning CDs on the web server. This patch allows booting from an iso image instead of squashfs image using any of the httpfs/ftpfs/wget method. I did not try to make smbfs nor nfs work with this image type

iSCSI boot patch

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
fuser) unstable; urgency=low + + * add default user entry in case getpwuid fails + + -- Michal Suchanek Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:26 +0200 + open-iscsi (2.0.870~rc3-0.4) unstable; urgency=medium * Clean up diff.gz, it downgraded the package to 2.0.869.2. diff -ur open-iscsi-2.0.870~rc3/usr/mgmt_ipc.c

Re: iSCSI boot patch

2009-09-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
:14.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +open-iscsi (2.0.870~rc3-0.4.defuser) unstable; urgency=low + + * add default user entry in case getpwuid fails + + -- Michal Suchanek Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:42:26 +0200 + open-iscsi (2.0.870~rc3-0.4) unstable; urgency=medium * Clean up diff.gz, it downgraded

Re: generating netboot images

2009-09-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/11 Ruben Vos : > Fellow debian-live users, > > For the past few months I have only been able to generate working > netboot images using an old live-helper version. Whenever I try to use > the newer git-versions, all generated netboot images result in a > white/gray “circle” on the machines t

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-26 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/26 Pravin : > Hi Michal, > I got few quick questions about how networking. > > What I want to do is to check if dhcp networking is present or not. > In case, dhcp fails, I would fallback to "${STATICIP}" which comes > from "ip=" boot parameter. > > but I am having some problems in reliably c

Re: Booting Debian-live-501 over HTTP

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/26 Pravin : > Hi, > > 2009/9/26 Michal Suchanek : >> >> >> What libraries did you copy? >> > Here are the libraries copied. > http://boot.kernel.org/bko/live/debian/initmod/libs/ > > There might be few more libraries copied than needed. I gues

Re: testing a new PC

2009-10-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/9 Tzafrir Cohen : > Hi > > I'll be getting a NEW PC next week. I'd like to test the hardware. A > live CD/USB is naturally a simple way to do that. However: is there any > existing package with a set of tests to save me time when doing so? > > If there both a command-line interface and a us

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-28 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello I'm not sure it is urgent but I sent patches for iscsi boot and iso image over http boot earlier. At least booting iso images over http works around the annoying bug in mksquashfs that causes the resulting squashfs to be inacessible to the web server. The isos are created with permissions s

Re: (last) call for patches to live-helper 1.x

2009-10-29 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/28 mictlan tecutli : > hi, > > one thing that has been mentioned on this list, but for which there > doesn't yet seem to be a good fix for is separating out the console and > x keyboard options. as previously mentioned by another poster if my > keyboard is latin american have the choice of

Network broken by dhclient on network boot

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello This may sound odd but it's an issue I am facing most of the time since I started with netboot images. The boot process is as follows:  - the PXE bios gets an IP address and downloads pxelinux from the server  - pxelinux downloads the kernel and initrd from the server  - pxelinux throws aw

Re: Network broken by dhclient on network boot

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
And a patch that resolves the issue. Applies on top of the iso/iscsi patches. --- usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live.orig 2009-11-04 16:31:29.0 +0100 +++ usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live 2009-11-04 16:51:55.0 +0100 @@ -699,8 +699,6 @@ do_netsetup () { - rc=1 - modpr

live-initramfs messages no longer shown on-screen

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello The live-initramfs messages that are saved in live.log no longer appear on-screen. There is a tail command that redirects the messages but something in other parts of live-initramfs has changed and it no longer works. It would be nice if somebody could restore the messages. Thanks Michal

old links in manual

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, there are obsolete git links links on http://live.debian.net/manual/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Network broken by dhclient on network boot

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/4 Michal Suchanek : > And a patch that resolves the issue. > > Applies on top of the iso/iscsi patches. > This one applies over iso boot patch only. Thanks Michal diff --git a/scripts/live b/scripts/live index fb714f6..03fec96 100755 --- a/scripts/live +++ b/scripts/liv

Re: Network broken by dhclient on network boot

2009-11-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/5 Michal Suchanek : > 2009/11/4 Michal Suchanek : >> And a patch that resolves the issue. >> >> Applies on top of the iso/iscsi patches. >> > > This one applies over iso boot patch only. > And rebased patch for booting iso over http. diff --git a/scrip

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/9 Daniel Baumann : > Rob Owens wrote: >> I get a menu of sorts, but it doesn't contain any kernel choices  I see the >> F1-F10 >> menus for help, special boot parameters, etc.  I do not see the labels >> mentioned in /live/image/syslinux/menu.cfg (such as "live-686" -- how can I >> correc

Re: syslinux vs grub

2009-11-10 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'

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 does

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 i

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

Bug#555897: no documentation at all

2009-11-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/12 Holger Levsen : > package: live-magic > version: 1.7 > > Hi, > > after installing live-magic there is no useful documentation on the system, > nor a pointer to some online documentation, should that exist. > > man live-magic says: > > SYNOPSIS >       live-magic > > but there is no clue

Re: live-helper 1.0.6 breaks handling of categories

2009-11-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/11/19 Daniel Baumann : > Ronny Standtke wrote: >> >> Can you please fix this in live-helper 1.x? > > too late. > Hmm, 1.0.6 is going to be useless then. Not very nice but good to know. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/1/19 Daniel Baumann : > Hi, > > over the time, the current live-initramfs has shown that new features > cannot be added without ugly hacks and that it needs to be rewritten in > a more modern, modular way. > > As a first step, I'd like to gather a list of features (not their > implementation!,

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/1/20 Daniel Baumann : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Hi, > > Hi, > > as implied in the mail, some things are more important than others. this > was a list without priorities, so e.g. while booting over iscsi is > certainly nice to have, it will not happen that f

Bug#566250: live-helper: should display progress

2010-01-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a4-1 Severity: normal When building an image based on the eeepc-live config I get messages like: Unpacking squashfs-tools (from .../squashfs-tools_1%3a4.0-6_i386.deb) Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up squashfs-tools (1:4.0-6) ... Parallel mksqua

Bug#566838: live-helper: clears apt cache before running chroot hooks

2010-01-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a5-1 Severity: normal The apt cache is cleared before running local chroot hooks. Some packages are broken to the point that they require manual intervention to install so I do that in a chroot hook which results in always downloading the package. I could resol

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/1/29 Philippe Lelédy : > Daniel Baumann wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>  I'd like to gather a list of features (not their >> implementation!, that's a step later) that you need/want/like/use/miss >> from live-initramfs. > > Usage Clarification:  because there may be contradictory wishes for > different

Bug#573173: live-helper: cannot build live image with three kernels

2010-03-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a8-1 Severity: normal P: Begin installing syslinux... basename: extra operand `chroot/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-2-686' Try `basename --help' for more information. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT poli

Bug#573180: live-helper: create syslinux entries for all installed kernels (even for multiple kernels of the same flavour)

2010-03-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a8-1 Severity: wishlist Hello I was building an image with three kernels and the build fails. The quickfix is to pick a single kernel for the menu (the second one in my case which I am going to hardcode in binary_syslinux helper) but a more general solution wou

Bug#573173: live-helper: cannot build live image with three kernels

2010-03-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 03/12/2010 07:51 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: retitle 573173 ignores images when including more than two kernels thanks it doesn't fail for me when including e.g. 486, 686, and 686-bigmem, but it always only includes the last two kernels in the bootloader configs. For me it fails when i

Re: Live softphone USB key.: Progress report

2010-03-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 17 March 2010 00:41, wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:14:17 +0100 > Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> On 03/16/2010 07:44 PM, pal...@inwind.it wrote: >> > Is there a way to have this task executed by a script? >> >> rc.local? >> > Should I insert the script into chroot/etc/rc.local? > Should I run lh

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 22 March 2010 14:25, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > Hi list members, > > I am new here. I have been working with Linux and PPC for some time now > and I think I have the ability to go a bit deeper now. I would like to > start a Debian liveCD for PPC Apple computers. I don't know if someone > else h

Re: live.debian.netcdimage, Builds - Frequency

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 March 2010 07:49, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/20/2010 11:55 PM, Brendan Sleight wrote: >> >>   2010-03-17: Debian Live Squeeze alpha1 >>   The first alpha images for the upcoming Debian Squeeze 6.0 release >> have been uploaded. >> >> Which sounds very exciting. > > i'm not finished writin

Re: PPC port

2010-03-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 22 March 2010 22:10, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > >>On 03/22/2010 08:56 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >>> powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: >>> http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction >> >>i couldn't find any information about if powerpcs can boot from fat, nor >>tha

Bug#576294: live-helper: prints E: Can't process file /sbin/fdisk

2010-04-02 Thread michal . suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a9-1 Severity: minor During build live-helper keeps printing E: Can't process file /sbin/fdisk I don't have a fdisk and should not need it for building an iso. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT

Re: can't build squeeze: E: Couldn't find package aufs-modules-2.6-486

2010-05-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 6 May 2010 20:49, matthew venn wrote: > Hello list, > I got some help about my problem with booting Lenny on the aspire 5542. > (see http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-live@lists.debian.org/msg03974.html) > > Daniel suggested I try sid or squeeze. So I've wiped out my config and > started again

Re: GRUB2 vs gfxboot

2010-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 17 May 2010 23:16, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, Hello > > Ubuntu is willing to switch to GRUB2 as the boot loader for their CDs [1]. > > Quoting the blueprint [2] on Launchpad: > >    GRUB should now support booting from CDs reliably, and its new >    graphical menu system was designed partly with th

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-24 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 24 May 2010 15:44, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Given that it should include roughtly 5 times the size the the binary > image (or even more), 16MB surely isn't enough. I can't think of a way > to get a reasonable estimate of it in advance. Note, however, that you > can specify say, 'size=20%', whi

Bug#584277: live-helper: building net fails for non-nfs root

2010-06-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a14-1 Severity: normal Hello The live-initramfs should support these net filesystems (or "filesystems") to boot from: nfs, cifs, httpfs and wget. The live-helper (according to man page) supports these net filesystems: nfs, cfs (yes, without an i) When buildi

Bug#584277: live-helper: building net fails for non-nfs root

2010-06-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 June 2010 07:21, Daniel Baumann wrote: > retitle 584277 please add httpfs/wget to --net-root-filesystem > severity 584277 wishlist > thanks > > On 06/02/2010 10:50 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> live-helper should be able to generate a netboot tarball with >> co

Booting fro an iso image over the net and http boot fix

2010-06-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello These patches still apply to the live script (with some fuzz) in spite of it being reworked. The first one adds .iso as a valid filesystem image extension and looks inside for a filesystem.squashfs, the second one adds iscsi support (which does not work due to a stupid assumption in iscsid

Bug#584425: live-helper: no option for setting LH_SYSLINUX_MENU_LIVE_ENTRY

2010-06-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a14-1 Severity: normal The LH_SYSLINUX_MENU_LIVE_ENTRY sets the title for the kernel entries in syslinux menu generated by live-helper. I could not find any command line option for setting htis variable. Also this should be part of the template so that the menu

Bug#584884: live-helper: running lh build runs build steps twice

2010-06-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a14-1 Severity: normal After unpacking the attached config into an empty directory running lh build twice results in live-helper performing all the build steps three times. When the directory contains nothing but the auto/ directory the build runs only once but

Bug#586927: live-helper: bootstrap updates not cached

2010-06-23 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a14-1 Severity: normal When the cached bootstrap is out of date the updates for it are downloaded on every boot, never cached. P: Executing auto/build script. P: Executing auto/clean script. P: Cleaning chroot rmdir: failed to remove `auto': Not a directory P: E

Bug#586929: live-helper: packages not cached on failed build

2010-06-23 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a14-1 Severity: normal When build fails the chroot is left as is but the downloaded packages are not added to the chroot package cache. The same probably applies to bootstrap, etc. Obviously, some of the packages so cached might be useless when the build fails.

Bug#589659: live-boot: support dns names in netboot

2010-07-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot Version: 2.0~a12+20100707.181407 Severity: normal Currently live-boot can netbbot only form servers specified by IP address, not by DNS name. For filesystems mountd by binaries linked with glinc including the NSS modules and a resolv.conf should suffice to make this work. For

Bug#589659: live-boot: support dns names in netboot

2010-07-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 19 July 2010 19:46, Daniel Baumann wrote: > found 589659 2.0~a15-1 > notfound 589659 2.0~a12+20100707.181407 > severity 589659 wishlist > retitle 589659 support dns names in netboot > thanks > > On 07/19/2010 07:27 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Attaching an ini

Bug#589728: live-helper: Prints "Begin caching bootstrap stage ..." twice

2010-07-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a19-1 Severity: minor This output of lh build is kind of stupid: P: Setting up cleanup function P: Begin caching bootstrap stage... P: Begin bootstrapping system... W: skipping bootstrap P: Begin caching bootstrap stage... -- Package-specific info:

Bug#589728: live-helper: Prints "Begin caching bootstrap stage ..." twice

2010-07-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/7/21 Jiří Paleček : > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:39:42 +0200, Michal Suchanek > wrote: > >> Package: live-helper >> Version: 2.0~a19-1 >> Severity: minor >> >> >> This output of lh build is kind of stupid: >> >> >> P: Setting

Bug#584884: live-helper: running lh build runs build steps twice

2010-08-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 7 June 2010 13:14, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Package: live-helper > Version: 2.0~a14-1 > Severity: normal > > > After unpacking the attached config into an empty directory running lh > build twice results in live-helper performing all the build steps three > times

Bug#593360: live-helper: cannot build with kernel package which ends with a +

2010-08-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-helper Version: 2.0~a23-1 Severity: normal When setting LH_LINUX_PACKAGES=linux-image-2.6.35-um and LH_LINUX_FLAVOURS=amd64+ the kernel live-helper attempts to install is linux-image-2.6.35-um-amd64 This makes building with git kernel impossible. Workaround is to pass --apt apt

Re: BOSS Live-installer - A GUI Live Installer for Debian and it's derivatives based on remastersys scripts

2010-10-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 4 October 2010 12:46, Vitaly wrote: > >> no constructive. i conclude that debian prebuilt images are not to your >> likeing, and that you're not into building your own, EOD. >> >> -- > > Alas, this sad reality. > I'm using Debian since 2003. > Personally, I'm not afraid of it all. > But install

Re: omg : man lb_config :)

2010-10-12 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 12 October 2010 11:20, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 12/10/10 06:09 AM, Vitaly wrote: >> Okay, I admit bad joke with a man lh config. >> However, this does not eliminate the illogical and not intuitive man >> lh_config and man lb_config >> And so carefully did not want to see here. >> As an example

Bug#610019: live-build: --syslinux-timeout config option no longer recognized

2011-01-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a11-1 Severity: normal The --syslinux-timeout option was recognized in the past and is still documented in the man page but it causes an error. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable

Re: Debian Live website usability

2011-01-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/1/31 Jonathan Nieder : > Hi, > > Today I decided I wanted to try out Debian Live (to see how well > Debian works on a certain new laptop).  Great --- so I visited > live.debian.net. > > I came in wanting to know: >  - where to find a cdimage In the downloads section, obviously. >  - whether

Re: Debian Live website usability

2011-01-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 31 January 2011 22:01, Daniel Baumann wrote: > in addition to what others said in this thread, i re-repeat what i've > said in earlier occasions on the mailinglist: we'll update the website > in one step when squeeze is released and debian.org has changed to the > 'new' design. > I would think

Bug#612913: live-boot: unionfs-fuse root does not work

2011-02-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot Version: 3.0~a14-1+git Severity: normal I was testing my changes to l-b and found that unionfs-fuse is broken to start with. The live script tries to raise the number of available file descriptors for unionfs-fuse which is a bashism as reported by the package build scripts and

Bug#612913: unionfs-fuse root does not work

2011-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot Severity: normal I tried a few more things with unionfs-fuse. First I tried break=init or init=bin/sh. At both points the system still appears functional but initscripts fail after that. I also found that if I type touch test exec /sbin/init at the prompt of the "init" shel

Bug#627073: live-build: print where debootstrap is going to download packages from

2011-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a16-1 Severity: wishlist The bootstrap mirror settings should be printed by live-build. Unlike apt debootstrap does not print mirror it is downloading from. P: Setting up cleanup function P: Begin caching bootstrap stage... P: Begin bootstrapping system... P: If

Bug#627150: live-build: syslinux support broken

2011-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18 May 2011 09:00, Grzegorz Bizon wrote: > Package: live-build > Version: 3.0~a16-1 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > It appears that something is wrong with live-build and syslinux. > > I'm trying to build wheezy live on wheezy, and if I try building with > syslinux as bootloader I get foll

Bug#622838: Bug#627150: live-build: syslinux support broken

2011-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18 May 2011 12:30, Grzegorz Bizon wrote: > Probably because I'm building livecd on wheezy - package > syslinux-themes-debian-squeeze version is 8-1 and > directory /usr/share/syslinux/themes/debian-squeeze/syslinux-live is > present. > > So it appears that #622838 is fixed in wheezy (CCing > 6

Bug#627178: live-boot-initramfs-tools: resolv.conf not present on netbooted systems

2011-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot-initramfs-tools Severity: normal On netbooted system ipconfig is used to obtain an IP address. Since dhclient is broken and running it on netbooted box kills the box it is not started. This means there is no resolv.conf created on the live system. For resolver to work resolv

Bug#627187: live-boot-initramfs-tools: No support for IPv6 in debian-live network boot

2011-05-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot-initramfs-tools Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 live-boot uses ipconfig from klibc-utils to configure the network for network boot which does not support IPv6 - bug 627164 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (510, 'unst

Bug#627187: live-boot-initramfs-tools: No support for IPv6 in debian-live network boot

2011-05-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from Daniel Baumann's message of Wed May 18 18:17:28 +0200 2011: > On 05/18/2011 05:05 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > However, this still has to be addressed in live-boot once an alternative > > tool is available or ipconfig supports IPv6. > > right, but there&

2.6.39 kernel images [was: The Status page of Debian-Live is cryptic]

2011-05-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2011/5/30 Ben Armstrong : >> Lastly, the workaround given as the link >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/05/msg00144.html should >> either have preceeded or have instructions before, during or after >> downloading the live-build how to add that repo. because without a >> functionin

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