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

2011-05-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/5/31 Jordi Pujol : > Hello, > > A Dimarts, 31 de maig de 2011 09:44:41, Michal Suchanek va escriure: >> Since you are building kernel images you can also include overlayfs > > Overlayfs is easy, very fast, and reliable, (today is solved his last known > bug), > &

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

2011-06-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/6/1 Jordi Pujol : > A Dimarts, 31 de maig de 2011 23:09:20, Michal Suchanek va escriure: >> Or you can mount one on top of the others. > How to do this? > I suppose mounting one overlayfs on top of another overlayfs that uses the > same root directory, I can't imagi

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

2011-06-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/6/2 Jordi Pujol : > A Dimecres, 1 de juny de 2011 21:34:16, vàreu escriure: >> I guess the order will be a bit backwards for overlayfs. aufs allows >> to take N ro filesystems and merge them and put a readwrite filesystem >> on top (eg. tmpfs/A/B/C). You should be able to do tmpfs/A and >> (tm

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello On 19 July 2011 09:59, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/16/2011 10:39 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: >> The packages needed for improved font rendering are only >> libcairo2 and libxft2. > > what changes did you apply to the two packages exactely? do you know why > the changes are not included in t

Re: Can't create an i386 ISO, but amd64 works fine

2011-07-19 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 14 July 2011 20:14, Daniel Ellison wrote: > On 11-07-14 01:06 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: >>> >>> Does that sound like the behaviour expected from archive issues? >> >> More like a completely broken archive mirror (or broken apt caching >> proxy). > > I was using: > >    --mirror-bootstrap http://

Bug#636208: live-build: lb config fails without any diagnostic

2011-08-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a25-1 Severity: important P: Automatically populating config tree. P: Executing auto/config script. P: Considering defaults defined in /etc/live/build.conf E: internal error /usr/share/live/build/scripts/build/lb_config The same config works with a21: P: Automat

Bug#636208: lb config fails without any diagnostic

2011-08-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Severity: normal reproducible with # lb config -r live.debian.net -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Archi

Bug#636217: initrd/vmlinuz filenames and syslinux menu entries do not match, can't boot the live image

2011-08-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a21-1 Severity: normal You might want a script like this in the binary_local-hooks. #!/bin/bash cd binary/live || exit 1 vmlinuz=$(ls vmlinuz* | tail -n1) ln $vmlinuz vmlinuz || true initrd=$(ls initrd.img* | tail -n1) ln $initrd initrd.img || true -- To UN

Re: Grml.org patch bomb

2011-08-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 4 August 2011 22:59, Ulrich Dangel wrote: > * Daniel Baumann wrote [04.08.11 22:14]: >> On 08/04/2011 09:54 PM, Ulrich Dangel wrote: >>> Hm? There is no NODHCPHOSTNAME in >>> http://git.grml.org/?p=live-boot-grml.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/16_nodhcp.patch >> >> indeed, my fault.. i accidentall

Re: Grml.org patch bomb

2011-08-04 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello On 4 August 2011 21:17, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 07/26/2011 11:32 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: > >> 30_support_multiarch_dns.patch > > i'll wait for that on comments from Michal. > I propose to add this code to to initramfs-hooks to handle nss modules and similar ( http://paste.debian.net/

Bug#636705: interrupting live-build may leave chroot/dev/pts mounted

2011-08-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a26-1 Severity: minor Interrupting the build with ^C may leave chroot/dev/pts mounted. The only problem that results is inability to run lb clean without manually unmounting. The odd thing is that chroot/dev is *not* mounted. -- Package-specific info: -- Sys

Bug#636705: interrupting live-build may leave chroot/dev/pts mounted

2011-08-06 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 6 August 2011 01:02, Daniel Baumann wrote: > tag 636705 moreinfo > thanks > > On 08/05/2011 04:16 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Interrupting the build with ^C may leave chroot/dev/pts mounted. > > hmm? Exit() in exit.sh does unmount it. please elaborate why you think

Re: Vanillux live iso

2011-08-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16 August 2011 00:27, Fabrice Quenneville wrote: > Hi again, > > Here is what i mean by someone like me could see live-build broken by > design: > Left make these assumptions: > > User wants a custom live cd's and has packages on his own repo (lets assume > in this case its a debian + model, al

Re: optiplex999 - no display

2011-08-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 30 August 2011 12:47, nick belshaw wrote: > > Daniel Baumann progress-technologies.net> writes: > >> >> On 08/27/2011 02:28 PM, nick wrote: >> > I am trying to get a current Debian install onto an Optiplex999 >> > without much success. Basic netinstall installs but no Display. >> >> did you tr

Re: optiplex999 - no display

2011-08-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 30 August 2011 15:36, nick wrote: > Hi > how do I not use X or disable vesa using the live-cd? > > sorry for stupidity - but I don't do this that often. > > I have Debian squeeze installed - which failed - which is why I tried > Debian-live. (GParted-live works btw.) > > For the installed Squee

Bug#639884: live-boot-initramfs-tools : live-boot-initramfs-tools fails to upgrade in debian sid

2011-08-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
2011/8/31 shirish शिरीष : > at bottom :- > > 2011/8/31 Daniel Baumann : > >> On 08/31/2011 12:03 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: >>> >>> Calling hook live >>> live-boot: coreE: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return >>> 1. >>> Removing /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-amd64.dpkg-bak >>> update-i

Re: Grml.org patch bomb

2011-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 8 September 2011 16:05, intrigeri wrote: > Hi Michal and everyone involved, > > Michal Suchanek wrote (04 Aug 2011 22:48:27 GMT) : >> I propose to add this code to to initramfs-hooks to handle nss modules >> and similar ( http://paste.debian.net/plain/125089 ): > [.

Re: Grml.org patch bomb

2011-09-09 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 9 September 2011 11:21, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Michal Suchanek wrote (09 Sep 2011 07:20:43 GMT) : >> On 8 September 2011 16:05, intrigeri wrote: >>> For the record, I'm awaiting your confirmation before I dig into your >>> lib_module() and Grml'

Bug#646137: live-boot-initramfs-tools: dhcp lease is not renewed when using netboot with nfsroot

2011-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 October 2011 19:21, Robert Euhus wrote: > Package: live-boot-initramfs-tools > Version: 2.0.15-1 > Severity: normal > > I am using a debian live system which is started via netboot. > The root file system lives in a squashfs-file on a NFS share (as usual) > and the network adress is acquired

Bug#646137: live-boot-initramfs-tools: dhcp lease is not renewed when using netboot with nfsroot

2011-10-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 22 October 2011 07:45, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/22/2011 01:16 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> In the light of the dhclient script being likely 'sample' 'requiring >> site customization' this would have to be fixed by Debian but the >> Debian

Bug#646137: live-boot-initramfs-tools: dhcp lease is not renewed when using netboot with nfsroot

2011-12-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 December 2011 12:31, Robert Euhus wrote: > The old 3-something version of dhcpcd which is included in squeeze did > not work. > > Maybe others could test this in their setups and if it works > debian-live might consider switching to dhcpcd5 as DHCP client. Yes, in testing the dhclient scri

Re: Decision 4 - Name of /lib/live/mount/rofs

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 3 October 2012 11:25, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/03/2012 11:18 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> therefore, i suggest we rename that to filesystems. in line with >> decision 3, this would look like that: >> >> /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystems/base.squashfs >> /lib/live/mount/rootfs/

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 3 October 2012 11:10, Daniel Baumann wrote: > and my personal opinion is: > > * use use multiple squashfs images by default Note that 1) number of layers in an overlay is limited. That's an arbitrary limit that cnaby changed usually but something to keep in mind. How many layers wo

Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 October 2012 13:44, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> How many layers would a live system with multitude of >> squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have? > > in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3 > (bas

Re: Decision 4 - Name of /lib/live/mount/rofs

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 October 2012 12:57, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 10/03/2012 07:39 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> How does this fit together with overlay(s)? >> >> Will the overlays be at lib/live/mount/filesystems/overlay or >> lib/live/mount/filesystems/home.overlay >> lib/l

Re: Decision 4 - Name of /lib/live/mount/rofs

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 October 2012 15:14, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/03/2012 12:39 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> How does this fit together with overlay(s)? > > /lib/live/mount/rootfs (or /lib/live/mount/filesystems as suggested) are > read-only mounts of the live filesystem images. > >

Re: Decision 4 - Name of /lib/live/mount/rofs

2012-10-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 October 2012 16:39, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/03/2012 04:28 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> i pretty sure (but i don't actually know, will have to test at a later >>> point), that when using multiple squashfs images, you don't get multiple >>>

Re: Almost working...custom kernel with local apt repository as recommended in manual

2012-10-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 20 October 2012 17:04, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/19/2012 09:23 PM, Amit wrote: >> Any ideas on why the order is not as it should be? > > how did you build your kernel images, as a proper kernel tree from the > debian src package? Did I miss a previous email or is there no information about

Re: I tried to boot you Live Wheezy ISO and IMG

2012-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 21 October 2012 14:49, Deidre Elizabeth wrote: > All I get for my trouble is a screen full of pixilated colors. And when I > run it it a virtual box, there's no way to install it! I tried the > debian-wheezy-live-a2-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso and img > > I tried to boot from usb and dvd,

Re: Almost working...custom kernel with local apt repository as recommended in manual

2012-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 19 October 2012 21:23, Amit wrote: > Hello, > > I have built custom kernel, pushed it to the local apt repository and > the kernel installs successfully. However, in the binary linux image > state, I get an error regarding missing initrd-*. > > After digging deeper, the initrd is only generated

Re: I tried to boot you Live Wheezy ISO and IMG

2012-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 October 2012 16:51, Deidre Elizabeth wrote: > "This might be a problem with the kernel or the X server. You did not > provide much information about the kernel and xserver-xorg-* packages > used nor any errors that might appear in kernel and X server logs. > Your problem is likely specific t

Re: Almost working...custom kernel with local apt repository as recommended in manual

2012-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 October 2012 17:37, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 10/21/2012 05:06 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> It seems neither kernel-package >> nor initramfs-tools maintainers are really willing to work on fixing >> initramfs bugs related to kernel-package built kernels and will just

Bug#693242: live-build: apt-get autoclean doesn't remove old versions

2012-11-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 November 2012 13:32, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 11/14/2012 04:51 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> tag 693242 - patch >> thanks >> >> On 11/14/2012 05:02 PM, Thanatermesis wrote: >>> The apt-get autoclean command removes extra packages in the chroot >>> but the cache has an incremental and growing

Bug#693242: live-build: apt-get autoclean doesn't remove old versions

2012-11-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16 November 2012 00:33, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 15/11/12 06:38 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> You can typically upgrade the bootstrap. There is an upgrade step >> anyway in case the bootstrap is stale due to updates to the current >> distribution. And it can be cleared

Re: last call: remaining items for wheezy

2012-12-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, I have still two patches for live-boot which rebase on top of debian-next cleanly The following changes since commit f10b53cafb90cd4eeb2c66d10b9dd44ce52f96af: Including util-linux mount in initramfs. (2012-12-11 11:34:28 +0100) are available in the git repository at: git://repo.or.c

Re: last call: remaining items for wheezy

2012-12-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11 December 2012 13:35, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/11/2012 11:47 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> I have still two patches for live-boot which rebase on top of >> debian-next cleanly > > > will merge them later today, thanks. > > >> The patch

Re: last call: remaining items for wheezy

2012-12-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11 December 2012 20:49, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/11/2012 03:00 PM, chals wrote: >> >> Francis Ndangi, who offered to help on the mailing list >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2012/11/msg00018.html has already >> revised the French translation. > > > great. > > >> - One of the mailin

Re: last call: remaining items for wheezy

2012-12-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11 December 2012 20:51, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/11/2012 09:10 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> >> ...now that should be really all, from my point of view. > > > almost.. > > * include nvidia and fglrx in the non-free images. > This does not sound like a great idea. The 'free' drivers requ

support for multiple kernel versions of the same flavour in live-bnuild generated syslinux menu

2012-12-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, this patch - automatically inserts any extra kernels you install in the syslinux menu - automatically inserts any kernels built with kernel-packages from git (flavour has extra + at the end) - adds an option to specify different flavours for syslinux. This both controls how the kernel appe

Re: support for multiple kernel versions of the same flavour in live-bnuild generated syslinux menu

2012-12-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
fetch changes up to e872caaeba9587b8b694ec1ce303b68d92d87654: Detecting broken flavours that match no kernel up-front. (2012-12-13 11:13:26 +0100) Michal Suchanek (4): Supporting multiple kernel versions in syslinux menu

Re: support for multiple kernel versions of the same flavour in live-bnuild generated syslinux menu

2012-12-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 13 December 2012 21:16, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/13/2012 12:57 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> This appears to work reasonably well to go in the alpha version. > > > this is kind of a 'big' change, and i'd like to keep 3.x and 4.x reasonab

Re: Note: xorriso will not produce ISO/HFS hybrids for powerpc

2012-12-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 17 December 2012 22:17, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 12/17/2012 10:03 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> If sincere interest arises in HFS (without "+") and Debian arch "powerpc", >> then one >> could at least begin to make a plan there. > > personally, i couldn't care less about powerpc, to me it's a

Re: Completely overriding the stock isolinux configuration

2013-07-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, this is not quite what the scripts are designed to do. There are multiple cfg snippets and they are supposed to be fit together so that live and installer are configured independently. If you just wanted to wipe out the whole thing and write your you could do that in binary hooks but in t

Re: Rationale for using non-free video drivers in live images

2014-01-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 31 January 2014 06:44, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 01/31/2014 12:54 AM, Corey Velan wrote: >> Is the rationale for using non-free video drivers to get better >> performance (resolutions, etc)? Or are there some graphics cards where >> the open source drivers simply won't work? > > both. > >> Whe

Re: trying to make a wifi-capable live-cd

2014-02-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18 February 2014 16:36, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, ni...@cock.li wrote: >> Question: how can I reconcile the above datum with, "because there's >> currently no debian-installer in jessie"? > Finally, on the matter of finding snapshots of old installer images that > might wo

Re: nicer option for enabling persistence than hexediting isolinux/live.cfg?

2014-04-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 2 April 2014 15:17, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 13:56 +0200, chals wrote: > >> That is fair enough but my guess is that rebuilding an iso image might >> take longer or rather involve more manual work than building an image >> from scratch. The requirements for creating a build syst

Re: Dropping rescue as an official flavour

2014-08-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 30 August 2014 02:42, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/30/2014 12:01 AM, Jeff Crissman wrote: >> The "rescue" type disc is not usually installed, but rather used live to >> repair an installed OS. >> As such it fits the Debian Live project better than the conventional >> install type approach of t

Re: debian-live cdimages too large for CD-ROM?

2014-09-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 September 2014 15:10, wrote: > Hello, > > I may have missed a notice somewhere, but the current cdimages at > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/7.6.0-live/i386/iso-hybrid/ > seem to be too large and do not fit on a regular CD-ROM (700MB). > Is there a trick or workaround to burn the

Re: Debian Live web-booting

2014-10-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 October 2014 13:57, Hervé Werner wrote: > Hello > > By leveraging iPXE capabilities I'm currently aiming to build a PXE setup > that directly boots off officials repositories. In you never saw what you may > do with iPXE, please have a look at http://boot.salstar.sk. That's really > great

Re: custom kernel not triggering update-initramfs

2014-11-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 7 November 2014 06:05, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 11/06/2014 11:53 PM, Aaron McSorley wrote: >> I cannot get my custom kernel to trigger an update-initramfs > > you probably didn't build it right, how did you do it? did you use make > deb or kernel-package or something, rather than properly reb

Re: Replacing aufs with overlayfs

2014-12-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11 December 2014 at 14:13, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings wrote (09 Dec 2014 19:55:10 GMT) : >> Please try the Linux 3.18 packages from experimental (they're not there >> yet, but should be soon) and check that overlayfs does what you need. > > Thanks. I'll test it for Tails' usecases

Bug#757697: RFE: Autodetection of architecture at boot time to load appropiate kernel

2014-12-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 10 August 2014 at 18:31, Adrian Gibanel Lopez wrote: > Source: live-config > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > If one has configured its Debian Live to have more than one architecture > kernel this is what I am expecting would be the default behaviour is: > > * Add an auto e

Bug#773868: live-boot: Does not include overlayfs support in initramfs, due to wrong kernel module naming

2014-12-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 24 December 2014 at 13:41, wrote: > Package: live-boot > Version: 4.0.2-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > backend/initramfs-tools/live.hook tries to include the "overlayfs" > kernel module in the initramfs. However, that module is called > "overlay", so it's never included, and th

Bug#773868: live-boot: Does not include overlayfs support in initramfs, due to wrong kernel module naming

2015-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Source: live-boot Version: 4.0.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #773868 Hello, is there any plan to fix this in jessie? Thanks Michal -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (910, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (410, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: a

Bug#704571: support for multiple kernel versions in binary

2015-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 4.0.5-1 Followup-For: Bug #704571 Control: retitle -1 build with multiple kernels of the same flavour may fail Hello, the build still fails when multiple kernel flavours are installed and multiple kernels of the same flavour are installed. Live-build contains this cod

Bug#778317: live-build: bootstrap cache should be per-architecture

2015-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 4.0.5-1mk1 Severity: normal Hello, When you change the live architecture and don't delete the cache directory bootstrap of the old architecture is restored from cache and image of the old architecture is built. This is trivially solved by including the architecture n

Bug#778327: live-build: build fails in empty directory

2015-02-13 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-build Version: 4.0.5-1mk1 Severity: normal Hello, I tried this: mkdir dl-test cd dl-test lb build No image was produced. Man page says: lb_build(1) alias for all stages lb build says: [2015-02-13 15:12:21] lb build W: No config/ directory; using defaul

Re: Booting Live-ISO over PXE+HTTP using Grub loopback

2015-02-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 February 2015 at 19:56, Beeblebrox wrote: > Hi. > I'm trying to boot several Debian based live ISO's (including Jessie) using > my PXE-boot server and Grub loopback method. ISO's are fetched by Grub from > an HTTP server on the same host. > * Using Grub's loopback, I can boot the kernels o

Re: Booting Live-ISO over PXE+HTTP using Grub loopback

2015-02-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16 February 2015 at 08:51, Beeblebrox wrote: > Hi and thanks for the input. > Indeed I have made some progress. > >> if your images contain the httpfs package you can boot iso by ... >> pointing the live initramfs to the iso location on your web server. > > This is the best solution, so let's t

Re: Booting Live-ISO over PXE+HTTP using Grub loopback

2015-02-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16 February 2015 at 11:44, Beeblebrox wrote: >> So this is casper and not debian-live. While some people here might be >> familiar with casper it is probably better to ask some Ubuntu folks. > > I was trying to get a way to test a live-cd boot. No worries, I'll try with > Gparted which display

Re: Booting Live-ISO over PXE+HTTP using Grub loopback

2015-02-16 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 16 February 2015 at 13:49, Beeblebrox wrote: > >> a Debian 7.8 LXDE live iso does not contain httpfs so will not run >> directly from web server but might run from memory using wget. > > This comment made me reconsider. Since I am more interested in the "broadest > possible solution", this sug

Bug#704571: support for multiple kernel versions in binary

2015-02-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Excerpts from jnqnfe's message of Fri Feb 13 20:31:13 +0100 2015: > > On 13/02/2015 14:08, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > the build still fails when multiple kernel flavours are installed and > > multiple kernels of the same flavour are installed. Live-build contains >

Bug#778612: live-boot: please remove obsolete unionmount support

2015-02-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Source: live-boot Severity: minor Hello, unionmount is obsolete and requires specially patched kernel and mount binary. It is superseded by overlayfs which is in turn superseded by overlay. I think there is no point keeping support for this union type and traces of it in the live scripts can onl

Bug#778627: live-build: syslinux mbr.bin file not found (again)

2015-02-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
packages live-build recommends: ii cpio2.11+dfsg-4 ii live-boot-doc 4.0.1-1 ii live-config-doc 4.0.2-1 pn live-manual-html | live-manual live-build suggests no packages. -- no debconf information commit 5720a9d88db781251145c41ce3ce39b8b6763ee7 Author: Mich

Bug#778627: live-build: syslinux mbr.bin file not found (again)

2015-02-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 February 2015 at 19:29, jnqnfe wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:30 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> it seems mbr.bin has moved to a subdirectory which causes hdd build >> failure in Jessie. >> >> Attaching a patch. > > Sorry, where has this change occur

Re: Bug#773881: Bug#773868: Patch to support overlay

2015-03-05 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 5 March 2015 at 10:51, Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi Intrigeri, > > On 2/27/2015 AM 07:18, intrigeri wrote: >> >> Hi Steven, >> >> intrigeri wrote (15 Feb 2015 19:17:23 GMT) : >>> >>> I've imported your patch into Git, on top of debian-next + the other >>> fix I've attached to #773881 a few

Bug#780212: live-boot: cannot boot on system with wifi

2015-03-10 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: live-boot Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: important Hello, I generated a new Jessie live image which worked well on some machines but failed miserably on this dated notebook. The symptom is that there is job 'bringing network interfaces up' with no limit which takes forever (literally). I

Re: Debian Live: Aufs mounting options

2015-04-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 20 April 2015 at 09:34, Evgeniy Shumilov wrote: > Hello, anyone! > > I'm trying to make list of squashfs files with different software > (for example: libreoffice, gimp, wireshark, etc), that I can easily plug > on and off, when I'll need it. And I want to mount it as a aufs layer > lik

Re: Re: Debian Live: Aufs mounting options

2015-04-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 20 April 2015 at 13:30, Евгений Шумилов wrote: > I'm talking not about plugins or architecture, but about ability of > remount current aufs branch with appending another one layer. Why it > should not be possible? > > I can refresh menu indexies by myself after mounting. The point here is tha

Bug#780212: live-boot: cannot boot on system with wifi

2015-04-28 Thread Michal Suchanek
> > Hi, > > where does it hang, in initramfs? later during the system start? if so, It hangs in systemd. It waits for network coming up and never continues with boot. > do you use network-manager or ifupdown? I have no idea. Whatever gets installed. Also it works on 90% systems so the noteboo

Re: I find the "live" password in Debian 8 useless & annoying

2015-05-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 25 May 2015 at 18:13, Massimo Cregut wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded Debian 8 live to test for implementation on production systems. > > I find your decision to use a lock password for a live distro usless and > annoying. > > Useless since being a well known password does not add any secu

Re: overlay not available

2015-06-29 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, what exact versions of live-* are you using? Do you have a log of the build? Do you have a log of the console with debugging enabled? When running in kvm you can easily capture serial console. Also actually having the kvm command sounds like you are running on something ancient. I have

Re: EFI support in Live-Build 4.x?

2015-06-29 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 18 June 2015 at 22:31, Ozi Traveller wrote: > Hi > > Could some please tell me whether EFI is supported in Live-Build 4.x? If > not, is it likely to be added to 4.x? > > I would like to add EFI support to my distro. > live-build is generally quite modular and supports multiple bootloaders alre

Re: Minimal debian with full sound support

2015-08-03 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 August 2015 at 09:32, Robert Spiteri wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > What I mean is a distribution that supports most modern sound hardware. Is > Alsa enough please? Alsa should be enough on most hardware, especially add-on cards. Onboard cards are a different matter. They have often wr

Bug#731709: Status of 731709

2015-09-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 22 September 2015 at 18:47, Has wrote: > What's the status of this bug? > >>Attached is an updated patch that works on top of 4.0.4 > > jessie live-build is at version 4.0.3, stretch is at 5.0. Does this patch > work in stretch? I'm hoping I can patch 5.0 and backport it to jessie as >

Re: 32-bit efi

2015-11-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 25 November 2015 at 19:10, ... wrote: > Hi, I saw that jnqnfe was making progress on efi at > https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/02/msg00038.html > > I'm trying to boot a live usb on a tablet currently. The multi-arch install > iso does boot on tablets with 32bit efi: > http://

Re: Demand for Debian Live with newer kernel

2016-01-01 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 31 December 2015 at 15:40, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:20:44AM +1100, Michael . wrote: >>Iain, many people want a stable release on newer hardware so they do >>need a newer kernel to support the hardware. Your testing release does >>not fit

Re: live-build to specific revision of wheezy

2016-04-20 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 20 April 2016 at 18:10, Melanie wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been testing builds for days now and I cannot figure out the > parameter or option to specify a specific revision of Debian to use as the > base build. > > I need to build from Debian Wheezy Update 6 (7.6) - Is there a way to do > this?

Re: Cannot boot without display

2016-05-17 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello On 16 May 2016 at 23:19, Dimas Abreu Dutra wrote: > Hello, > > I am developing a live system for an old i386 AMD Geode PC and cannot boot > without a display attached. I tried using the failsafe parameters with no > success. Whenever the monitor is plugged in the boot process resumes. Any >

Re: after Debian Live went into sleep mode, periheral USB mouse and keyboard don't work...

2016-07-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 25 July 2016 at 13:51, Albretch Mueller wrote: > on Toshiba Satellite L755 > > $ sudo lsusb > sudo: lsusb: command not found > > $ hwinfo > bash: hwinfo: command not found This is Debian. You can install these. The fact that devices disconnect on sleep and never reconnect points to a

httpfs upload sponsor?

2016-07-28 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, anyone would sponsor uploading new release of httpfs https://sourceforge.net/p/httpfs/code/ci/default/tree/ It's filesystem used by netbooted debian-live. There are alternatives which are not so nice for live systems (iscsi, nfs) - typically require setting up more services and give better

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