Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Ben Armstrong wrote: On 27/02/13 04:03 AM, Hermann Schwärzler wrote: There actually does exist a dd for windows. You may download this zip-file http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip extract the including dd.exe to any location (preferably somewhere in the

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-27 Thread Hermann Schwärzler
Hello Richard On 02/26/2013 05:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I have two problems to address: I. Creating media in a Windows(tm) *ONLY* environment. [...] Is there a native Windows method to accomplish the same thing as [...] # dd if=debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX [...]

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-27 Thread Ronny Standtke
II. It would be convenient to have a Live Distro reside on a USB stick but have persistence and swap reside on a local harddrive. I would want the USB stick to wander between machines and possibly transport data files. Is this feasible? Sorry I am not able to help you with this. Just

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 27/02/13 04:03 AM, Hermann Schwärzler wrote: There actually does exist a dd for windows. You may download this zip-file http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip extract the including dd.exe to any location (preferably somewhere in the command search-path) and should be able

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Owlett
Ronny Standtke wrote: II. It would be convenient to have a Live Distro reside on a USB stick but have persistence and swap reside on a local harddrive. I would want the USB stick to wander between machines and possibly transport data files. Is this feasible? Sorry I am not able to help you

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/27/2013 09:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Ronny Standtke wrote: Just create a live-rw partition on your hard drive. This will be picked up by live-boot as the persistence layer. I'm missing something there. How? Create a new partition on your hard drive (gparted is good for this; as

A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Owlett
A reply in a recent thread {Re: web front end: requested HDD, got hybrid-iso} got me rethinking some past difficulties with using Live CD's in my environment. Ben Armstrong wrote: On 25/02/13 04:09 PM, Richard Nelson wrote: Not sure. I might mention that the hybrid iso image should be

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
use virtualbox (or any other 'desktop virtualization' of your trust) on windows and be done with it. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet:

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Daniel Baumann wrote: use virtualbox (or any other 'desktop virtualization' of your trust) on windows and be done with it. Answers neither of my questions. Violates explicit restriction given while posing questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: A reasonable use of a live image?

2013-02-26 Thread joseph gunn
Answers both. Maybe we should help you understand how. On Feb 26, 2013 7:56 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: use virtualbox (or any other 'desktop virtualization' of your trust) on windows and be done with it. Answers neither of my questions. Violates