Re: Fwd: Package Selection for Debian Live

2006-08-08 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 19:33, martedì 8 agosto 2006, Robert Pickel ha scritto: When you boot from usb, why not use another partition in place of the ramdisk? I am not 100% sure if the current casper could handle this... but perhaps a small/simple patch would make it possible. Casper already supports this,

Re: unable to download from ftp://live.debian.net

2006-08-10 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 20:15, mercoledì 9 agosto 2006, Steve Witt ha scritto: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Andrew Donnellan wrote: All the packages are now in Sid, you don't need the live.debian.net source any more. Hope this isn't too stupid a question, but does this mean you have to run Sid to build debian-live?

Netboot

2006-08-14 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi Alex, first of all, thanks for your contribute to debian-live, second I saw you asked about your patches in new casper in IRC. Since I was able to build a qemu-grub-floppy-netboot (provided on d.l svn repo) I could test netboot by myself. I cannot use your patches because I rewrote netboot

Re: Initrd crashes with some storage disks - Solution

2006-11-03 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 14:11, giovedì 2 novembre 2006, Thadeu de Paula ha scritto: So, I put at end of *(initrd.gz)/scripts/init-premount/udev* the command This is out of casper and in initramfs-tools area. *sleep 5* This ocurred because the UDEV wasn't started correctly when the mounting starts. After this

Re: [PATCH] fix xserver keyboard layout

2006-11-05 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 13:38, sabato 4 novembre 2006, ascii ha scritto: I removed xserver-xorg/autodetect_keyboard because this can works only when d-i is installed. Good point. I changed LANG=$(grep ^${locale} /root/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep UTF-8 | sed -e 's, .*,,' -e q) because with a generated

Re: debian-live enlightenment dr17

2006-11-07 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 04:40, martedì 7 novembre 2006, Glenn Greenfield ha scritto: Seems that /usr/bin/enlightenment_start expects to find /filesystem.squashfs/usr/bin/enlightenment when of course the correct path is /live_media/casper/filesystem.squashfs Of course is not! /live_media is the path for the

Re: Debian Live for PS3

2007-01-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 05:12, martedì 9 gennaio 2007, YAEGASHI Takeshi ha scritto: Just FYI, I've released Debian Live CD for PLAYSTATION 3, which also integrates Debian-Installer in the single ISO image. Great news! http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Live I thank you for developing such a nice

Re: netboot tests

2007-02-21 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 15:44, mercoledì 21 febbraio 2007, Frédéric BOITEUX ha scritto: For these 2 small problems, I submit a patch, feel free to use it or modify if you think it's valuable. Thanks for the code, I think Daniel will find a place for it! 2/ use of net Live system : I already use grub to do

Re: [PATCH] Run debian live from initrd via PXE boot without NFS

2007-02-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 14:39, giovedì 22 febbraio 2007, mariodebian ha scritto: My project is called TCOS and I want a sponsor for my packages in Debian or put my code into casper or another project: Feel free to provide a patch for casper, or to branch the brz repository and send the url back to this ml, I'll

Re: Saving GUI settings inside the ISO

2007-03-12 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 21:19, lunedì 12 marzo 2007, Gracie ha scritto: Hello, What is the best way to save parameters from a GUI to the final ISO file? For example, firefox defaults to saving downloads to the desktop. I'd like to change it to Ask where to save files and have that setting saved in the final

Re: live-package is dead, long lives live-helper

2007-03-14 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 15:46, mercoledì 14 marzo 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: live-package did have some problems: it wasn't really extensible, unflexible, and a mess wrt/ to code organization and duplication. I said, do it as Makefile! :-) Congrats Panthera! -- ESC:wq pgpkSa3kqluSV.pgp Description:

Re: Saving GUI settings inside the ISO

2007-03-14 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 14:44, martedì 13 marzo 2007, Marco Ghirlanda ha scritto: Marco, launching your cd, customize it, then use the snapshot feature to build a squashfs out of /cow, then remaster oputting this squash on /casper dir on the iso. Seems very nice, is it documented somewhere? Can you give us

Re: patch to allow persistence on NFS mounts...

2007-03-14 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 16:55, mercoledì 14 marzo 2007, Frédéric BOITEUX ha scritto: I've fixed some bugs and updated the patches... Thanks, I will look at them ASAP. as a side note, I think quite difficult and obscure to debug casper work, as all output is redirected in a file... This scheme hides all the

Re: Changing the default shell in casper

2007-03-29 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 06:15, giovedì 29 marzo 2007, Juergen Fiedler ha scritto: I tried adding a custom /etc/default/useradd to the chroot; it is on the live system, but casper doesn't seem to be using useradd. Casper installs and uses //usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser The casper

Re: Fw: [Bug 31830] Re: Incorrect screen resolution in Dapper LiveCD

2007-03-31 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 10:45, sabato 31 marzo 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Green wrote: Reportedly, incorrect screen resolution has been fix, so that this may also affect Debian Live, confirmed ill resolution here in current weekly builds. For the weekly builds, this will be not fixed. weekly builds

Re: [patch] allow custom keymap for use with encryption

2007-04-10 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 22:29, martedì 10 aprile 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Marco Amadori wrote: Slowly... I'm really busy as you know. I hope to have some spare time soon. since the patch looks good to me, should i upload -4 with that one applied? Do it without any problem, just send to me your diff

Re: problem booting option and network

2007-04-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 15:16, mercoledì 11 aprile 2007, Philippe MONROUX ha scritto: boot: live ip=3D10.0.0.2,,255.255.255.0,10.0.0.138 locale=3Dfr_FR.UTF-8 work but my keyboard is always qwerty. And my network don't work. Try with locale=fr and with ip=eth0,10.0.0.2,255.255.255.0,10.0.0.138 -- ESC:wq

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-12 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 08:12, giovedì 12 aprile 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Hadar wrote: Another approach is to manage only one changes module. On boot this module is extracted to /cow (RAM), so following writes are made to /cow. On shutdown, this /cow is compressed again and saved on casper directory.

Re: testing live-helper_1.0~a9-1

2007-05-10 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle giovedì 10 maggio 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: - For casper, the option 'quickreboot' has no effect. After a 'sudo reboot', the system always prompts the user to remove a CD-ROM or USB drive and then hit enter. I've not tried it with casper, but with live-initramfs it just works.

Re: testing live-helper_1.0~a9-1

2007-05-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle venerdì 11 maggio 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: You should copy it to the / (root) of a partition that resides on a block device, and casper (and hence live-initramfs) should take care of resync on reboot or when you call casper-snapshot with the resync string that will be added

Re: Changing Language layout on demand

2007-05-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 12 maggio 2007, Goran ha scritto: Is there a way to change the keyboard and/or language layout by kernel options? man casper (or man live-initramfs) should help I want to distribute one variant of the debian-liveCD in several countries. So it would be the best the user could

Re: /live_media not mounted after 2nd reboot with 'persistent'

2007-05-12 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 12 maggio 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I have created another a Debian live system on a USB stick with the help of the make-live from live-helper_1.0~a9-1 and I tested it again. It seems that after a 2nd reboot from the USB stick with the 'persistent' option /live_media

Re: CD Launcher (for windows users)

2007-06-23 Thread Marco Amadori
Il Friday 22 June 2007 17:41:01 Franklin PIAT ha scritto: As describe on the project page : http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/projects/autorun4linuxCD/ it has two purpose : - provide a splash screen + menu - provide a qemu lanucher Gorgeous, now we will see in the next weeks how to integrate it

Re: dhcp on ethN instead of eth0

2007-06-27 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle martedì 26 giugno 2007, Frédéric BOITEUX ha scritto: While I was at the debconf my modem died, so this late reply. I would like to thank Andreas Schuldei for the bug report and Mathieu for the patch. I revied the patch and it seems nice, so I think we will integrate it in live-initramfs

Re: persistent option

2007-06-28 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle giovedì 28 giugno 2007, Enrico Tassi ha scritto: I tried the live CD with qemu, and I used -hda hand_made_vfat_image and it worked placin into it the cpio file created by casper-snapshot or live-snapshot. It worked perfectly. This should be working because it is one of the two snapshots

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: fsck should not be run on the live system at all. we'll need to completely disable this in the initscripts, somehow. We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it This because: $

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: We could just have the initramfs touching a /fastboot file and the checkfs init script will remove it to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'll look when you commit, anyway touching a file is

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-06-30 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 30 giugno 2007, Joey Hess ha scritto: Daniel Baumann wrote: to complicated; i just added the removal of /etc/rcS.d/S*checkfs.sh in 12fstab. I'm curious (and probably clueless): How does thia affect systems installed from the live image using live-installer? Will they also lack

Re: Noise from fsck

2007-07-01 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle domenica 1 luglio 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: It will happen only if the user will use stackable fses (snapshots saved back in the r-o media at /live) live-installer does not and will not care about snapshots. this opens a can of worms and is not supportable from the debian point

Re: Catch22

2007-08-29 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle mercoledì 29 agosto 2007, Ben Armstrong ha scritto: Etch uses casper, which does not contain my patches to ensure all su wrappers use sudo instead of su to become superuser. Those patches are present in live-initramfs, which is used in lenny sid. As you might know ( :-) ) I'm a little

Re: [PATCH] move cow mount rather than binding it on /live/cow, this prevents the /cow mount showing up in /proc/mounts

2007-09-28 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle venerdì 28 settembre 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Marco Amadori wrote: Look at changelogs, IIRW it was a move before someone at ubuntu changed to bind for IDRW reasons. there is no such thing in the changelog, and as far as i can see, it hat always bin a bind mount, both in casper

Re: Hero wanted. Apply within. Make persistence work.

2007-10-05 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle venerdì 5 ottobre 2007, Ben Armstrong ha scritto: Here's the state of persistence, to the best of my knowledge: Last time I checked just invoking live-snapshot produce a wotking cpio.gz archive that will be added at boot time if placed in the right place. I know and I always told that

Re: Combining a live-cd with a bootcd for usb

2007-10-15 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle lunedì 15 ottobre 2007, Pascal Parent ha scritto: Hi, Some systems can't boot on usb... so we need a bootcd to start the usb. If possible, how to give the live-cd the ability to boot the usb if inserted? Already supported, at boot prompt from a (minimal) live cd type:

Jffs2 needs erase size

2008-02-21 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi, I want to put just a minor note since jffs2 code is not uploaded yet. Flashes devices often needs a different erase size than default, a config option for that should be added like [ -e,--eraseblock=SIZE ] from mkfs.jffs2, for correct results also endianess should be take care of (e.g.

Re: Jffs2 needs erase size

2008-03-01 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle sabato 1 marzo 2008, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Marco Amadori wrote: Flashes devices often needs a different erase size than default, a config option for that should be added like [ -e,--eraseblock=SIZE ] from mkfs.jffs2, added --jffs2-eraseblock in git, thanks. You are welcome

Re: Jffs2 needs erase size

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle martedì 4 marzo 2008, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Marco Amadori wrote: qemu + binfmt could permit that on a number of architecture. you're running them virtualized/emulated, which changes the endiannes to whatever the target system is. unless you want partially build some things

Re: BusyBox Strikes Again?

2008-04-02 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle mercoledì 2 aprile 2008, Kel Modderman ha scritto: The entirety of live.log is reproduced below: - Begin: Running /scripts/live-premount ... Done.debug: Can not mount backdev /dev/loop0 ( image = /live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs ) on croot/imagename

Re: BusyBox Strikes Again?

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Amadori
On 4/4/08, Kel Modderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may not even be the cause of this _specific_ bug, but I mention it anyway. Thanks for mentioning it, it will be handy in the future. In fact this bug seems related to different way of parsing parameters and to some missing libraries

Re: BusyBox Strikes Again?

2008-04-04 Thread Marco Amadori
On 4/4/08, Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My fix is just related to a standard sid build that boots, For those who weren't on #IRC and for urgent needings before something similar will be integrated in live-intramfs official packages, here is the url of the fixes: http://git.debian.org

Re: running livecd from a hd without installing it

2008-05-11 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle Saturday 10 May 2008, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt ha scritto: Hi all, Dyne:bolic has a feature called docking where the user is able to simply copy the system directory from the CD to a partition (what can be done from inside a windows system too) and boot using it instead the cd

Small 'default' patch for lh_config

2008-05-16 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi, I found that patch useful, it provides a system wide location for lh_config values, I use it for 2 or 3 vars. For an easy review: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mammadori-guest/live-helper.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd4a6142f4bb84b57a6cba7ddb9b505e56dbe81a For mergeing: git add remote marco

Re: The Debian Live manual

2008-05-17 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle Monday 12 May 2008, Chris Lamb ha scritto: Chris Lamb wrote: The manual itself is in DocBook format and is stored in Git: Great idea and really a good initial work. Thanks for that Chris. -- ESC:wq signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

New features for live-snapshot

2008-05-31 Thread Marco Amadori
at manpage for more info. # -# Copyright (C) 2006 Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] +# Copyright (C) 2006,2008 Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Copyright (C) 2008 Chris Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -33,52 +33,59 @@ set -eu export

Re: Lenny general freeze ahead

2008-06-03 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 23:01:59 Daniel Baumann wrote: - don't change unrelated things - don't change coding style A part the IRC list were longer and I asked you what you needed and implemented mosts of your taste requirements, I think I actually FIXED[0] coding style: $

Splitted live-snapshot patches

2008-06-06 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi again, I split the 1 missing all-in-one patch to 6 finer grained patches without changing code style. I hope they fits well, otherwise I pray someone helps me (Lamby?), I have just some few more hours before freeze since I must go away from internet until next month soon.

Re: Splitted live-snapshot patches + some comments on snapshot internals

2008-06-08 Thread Marco Amadori
On Sunday 08 June 2008 11:19:42 Jordi Pujol wrote: El Sunday 08 June 2008 01:21:57 Marco Amadori va escriure: Any wishlist or ideas on snapshot/persistent topic here? Hello Marco and list, Hi Jordi, nice to meet you. (btw I like your understanding of live- initramfs). I like another form

Re: Small 'default' patch for lh_config

2008-06-09 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 09 June 2008, 07:08:14, Daniel Baumann wrote: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mammadori-guest/live-helper.git;a=summary can you please write changelog entries that are true? Little aggressive? such as.. Replacing whitespaces with tabs. for 60c755e5089a8ac0c425f1f345ed39984eb4037b

Re: Small 'default' patch for lh_config

2008-06-09 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 09 June 2008, 07:17:07, Daniel Baumann wrote: and for b6928b6d6400f5fd17ec8d300cdbc254ed5b0f8b, i think that those values variables/options are *always* used. even if a --conffile is specified. live-helper shouldn't weight it, it never does it anywhere else. Done. Echo_warning

Re: Small 'default' patch for lh_config

2008-06-09 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 09 June 2008, 09:02:25, Daniel Baumann wrote: Marco Amadori wrote: git pushed. both merged, thanks. Your are welcome. Could you merge also live-snapshot ones? -- ESC:wq -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: lh_config question

2008-06-10 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 19:00:39 Juergen Fiedler wrote: In HEAD, it looks like ${SYSTEM_LH_CONFFILE} and ${LH_CONFFILE} are read after Local_arguments [EMAIL PROTECTED] is called (which happens after the local conf files are sourced). Would that not make the system defaults override the

Re: lh_config question

2008-06-11 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, 22:21:41, Daniel Baumann wrote: Marco Amadori wrote: Yes, I put it there because I think it was wanted, since ${LH_CONFFILE} is sourced just below. the idea is to have the system-wide defaults to be used, but as soon as any custom conffile, any existing config

Re: lh_config question

2008-06-11 Thread Marco Amadori
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, 15:30:41, Daniel Baumann wrote: Marco Amadori wrote: I do not agree for command line parameters, it will really surprise me if I specify both a conffile and a custom parameter via command line option and the latter will be overruled by the config file. so

Re: Persistency

2008-07-25 Thread Marco Amadori
On Thursday 24 July 2008 22:05:40 Alexander Gran wrote: Hi Tommy, live-snapshot from http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Persistence doesn't work for me. The problem is that after invoking live-snapshot you should follow the printed advices: Please move ${DEST} (if is not already in it)

NTFS persistence bug still there

2008-08-02 Thread Marco Amadori
Hi all, the irc mentioned bug about persistence and NTFS is still there, could someone remove NTFS from the list of supported fs in persistence? Otherwise the system will be left on a shell. A better thing would be substituting NTFS with XFS, which is supported indeed. Sorry for not providing

Re: Todo for making lenny release and getting official

2008-08-07 Thread Marco Amadori
On Thursday 07 August 2008, 17:24:47, Daniel Baumann wrote: 2. Status messages are printed as Doing foo...\nDone. instead of Doing foo...Done. which does not look very nice. I can't seem to find any commits that introduced this, so it may be an issue elsewhere. agreed - if someone wants

Re: Todo for making lenny release and getting official

2008-08-08 Thread Marco Amadori
On Friday 08 August 2008, 14:42:09, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 07/08/2008, Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2008, 17:24:47, Daniel Baumann wrote: 2. Status messages are printed as Doing foo...\nDone. instead of Doing foo...Done. which does not look very

Re: Luks formatted drives for casper-rw

2008-08-18 Thread Marco Amadori
Il sabato 16 agosto 2008 23:26:53 Daniel Baumann ha scritto: The question is what types of filesystems will live-initramfs accept for a persistence partition. any filesystem present on /proc/partition, or that has an equal-called module and that is supported by klibc fstype. (or if I'm

Re: Luks formatted drives for casper-rw

2008-08-18 Thread Marco Amadori
Il lunedì 18 agosto 2008 17:23:52 hai scritto: Hi. I did not follow the whole thread through, apologies if I misunderstood. I sent out a patch to use LUKS drives as persistent storage and I think it was incorporated http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-changes/2008-February/

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-20 Thread Marco Amadori
Il mercoledì 20 agosto 2008 16:31:54 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: Either I'm doing something wrong or it really doesn't work all that well... The second one I think. The persistence needs some care to be fixed, this part was took from original casper code without much intervention and just a few

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-21 Thread Marco Amadori
Il giovedì 21 agosto 2008 21:12:25 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: It is used in the aufs after all, so it doesn't work. My fix for that one was not triggering the remount ro attempt by commenting the try_snap calls in scripts/live since I do not need snapshot files here. I need to think

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 22 agosto 2008 10:38:30 hai scritto: Il giovedì 21 agosto 2008 21:12:25 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: It is used in the aufs after all, so it doesn't work. My fix for that one was not triggering the remount ro attempt by commenting the try_snap calls in scripts/live since

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 22 agosto 2008 11:00:08 Chris Morley ha scritto: I have problems building a USB-HDD image with debian live (from Etch) on the init live ramfs scripts it complains it cannot mount /live/cow, and on shutdown it throws an error saying /live/cow in use. I did follow the

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 25 August 2008, 13:03:53, Gijs Molenaar wrote: The persistence feature is completely experimental (yes, since more than 1 year) and snapshots are somewhat just working (badly) since few weeks, although I use them in some real controlled production environments but with the file

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Amadori
On Monday 25 August 2008, 15:09:06, Daniel Baumann wrote: [...] assumed that we don't release in september which is very much likely, there will be at least two more uploads of live-initramfs to lenny, and probably three uploads of live-helper before lenny release. [...] Wow! These are

Re: Moving debian-live-devel to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-08-28 Thread Marco Amadori
On Thursday 28 August 2008, 01:03:52, Daniel Baumann wrote: Will all members of the old list become members on the new list? i've no qualified opinion if this should be done or not (last time i saw something like that, some users complained about it). so, should existing subscriptions be

Re: Testing debian live beta, udev issue

2008-08-28 Thread Marco Amadori
Il giovedì 28 agosto 2008 21:10:16 Curt Howland ha scritto: I booted both the xfce and standard non-graphical .iso images using VirtualBox, on an up-to-date Sid system. With both, udev renamed eth0 (the built-in network adapter) as eth1, which then caused the automatic network provisioning