On 2009-12-30 Daniel Baumann wrote: > Diederik de Haas wrote: > > I looked in /etc/wicd of the squashfs file but saw it was empty! > > since it's a rather common use case, live-initramfs should at some point > have some magic to set this file up. patches welcome.
Time to start reading/experimenting with customizing live-initramfs and hooks then. I've found some info on hooks in man:/initramfs-tools but the manual is rather empty on that part. Do you have some pointer/examples for me? > note that the kde4 livecd was not produced by us, so i can't speak for > the team that build it and decided to to not including b43-cutter. It's my own created KDE4 livecd and I forgot to include that package. The trigger for me to learn about creating a livecd did come from that official livecd though (and especially that it's dated). > however, since b43-fwcutter is in contrib, it will never be included on > any official default debian-live image (if ressources allow it, which i > doubt atm, it could make sense to offer a contrib/non-free partial > squashfs for download, or even create a set of contrib/non-free images > too). If with resources you mean hosting space or sth like that, I can probably offer some. > > Is there a way to patch the iso file so it includes that package (and > > therefor doesn't have to download a complete image again (and again...))? > > you can create a partial squashfs filesystem, which would only contain > the files that are missing, plus the files that are changed in compared > to the original filesystem.squashfs from the image. > > once you have that, you can put it into the live directory, create a > module file (see man live-initramfs for details) and rebuild the iso, or > usb-hdd image. Time for some more reading/experimenting ;-) > Regards, > Daniel > Thanks, Diederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
