Greetings,
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:14 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > I have been using Debian Live to use Debian at work (to avoid Win), and so > far I have to say it's been painless and loving it. > > Now, on to my purpose here. I build hdd images, using syslinux as the > bootloader. Recently my squashfs file has grown over 4 GB. lb switched to > NTFS which brings my system to its knees and I have to hard reboot (it > seems this is common). A build using NTFS would always require me to a hard > shut down. > > This led me to investigate using ext4 as my binary filesystem. > Unfortunately it seems it is not supported for hdd images. I formatted my > USB stick with ext4, copied the files, and installed extlinux. Worked > perfectly. > > This led me to modify binary_hdd and copy/modify binary_syslinux for use > with extlinux. So far, so good. I have only tested a small number of cases, > but I have been successful in creating bootable images, and upon writing to > a USB stick, it boots fine on several PCs as well. > > Is there any interest in the script? I think the group is always open to ideas. > If so, is it preferred as a diff as several files are involved? As for me git is what I prefer. I did a quick search of the mailing-list archive and found these examples for you: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2014/03/msg00020.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2013/01/msg00105.html > And what are the preffered parameters to use for diff for inclusion of a > patch? > > See above. > On a side note, after upgrading recently to 4.0~alpha33-1 on jessie, I get > the following error when running 'lb build --debug': > > usage: lb bootstrap-includes [arguments] > lb bootstrap-includes: error: unrecognized arguments: --debug > > imo: Best to put this on a new thread since not related to subject line. Thanks. Thank you for your great work, > Anthony > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140413131426.Horde.h- > [email protected] > >
