I am trying to create a debian live build iso using the lb config and lb build
scripts on a running debian squeeze desktop_xfce amd_64 live system. When I ran
the lb build script, it failed saying something to effect of it couldn’t write
the squashed file system because the destination was out of space. I had
invoked the script in the /home directory on the live system so I thought I
would have enough space on the RAM disk to create the iso. After all, the
desktop_xfce amd_64 iso is about ~900M in size and I was adding only a small
config file of a few kilobytes to a vanilla “xfce_desktop” config. I assumed
most of the 8G of RAM in my laptop would be available for the ram disk and
thought this would be sufficient. What do you think I did wrong? Was /home
the wrong location to invoke the lb config and lb build scripts? How can I
tell how much ram disk space is available for a given directory for iso
construction? Where does the lb build
script put all the stuff it downloads and builds by default?
Additional information- The hardware is a HP elitebook 8540w with 8G of Ram.
The live system, a vanilla debian squeeze xfce desktop amd_64, was booted from
a DVD. There is no useable hard drive in this system because the installed
hard drive, other than a very small boot partition, is encrypted by my employer
and I am not going to mess with it.
Thanks in advance
