HI daniel, that was promptly ;-) Thank you.
> Daniel wrote: >> I'm running lh on the current Ubuntu beta. I'm trying to build an USB image. > > don't use live-helper from ubuntu, it's not maintained there and thus > outdated. > > please install the version from sid (it's just shell scripts, no > depends, can be installed without any trouble on ubuntu). > So I will just try that. I hope that this works, otherwise I will send updated information to the list. >> This takes a while installing and downloading and you know what... After >> that I have an image in ./chroot (which is strange because the ISO >> building process puts the image directly into ./ ) >> >> ls -l chroot/binary.img > > that's not strange, that's normal.. the build is chrooted in order to > use the toolchain from the distribution we are building. Well, I wonder why the USB-image builds into ./chroot, while the ISO-Image does not... However, if it only worked. >> However, that image seems to have no content at all: > > your build-process seem to have stopped, you need to give more > information (such as the last messages on the screen before it fails). It wasn't a failure notice, everything seemed ok to me. If I remember right the last message was "deconfiguring <something>". However, I will give the new debian/sid version a try, and see that this works. > >> a specify the grub bootloader the image has content but doesn't boot >> (obviously, because grub cannot boot of an USB stick) > > the automatic creation of usb images with grub is currently not > supported, use syslinux. I know, and wouldn't have no problem with that, of course. > >> As I am currently preparing an article for a german magazine on creating >> USB boot images using live-helper any help would greatly appreciated. > > which one that is? > > have you read this one? > http://www.linuxmagazin.de/online_artikel/workshop_debian_live_system_mit_etch Not yet, thank you to point that to me. Well, the article is due to be published in the next issue of PC-Welt Linux. You might be well aware that PC-Welt Linux' target audience is quite different from linux magazin's, though. Thank you, /eno _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
