Re: Suspicious Debian 10.0.0 download behaviour.

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/09/2019 02:46 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Rick wrote: when I tried to download Debian 10.0.0 via Distrowatch I was surprised to be asked for my admin password at the end of the download plus there was another window requesting something else. [...] The original download link from

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/22/2018 09:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I ran the installer [w/o internet connection]. The install matched the screen shots. I particularly liked the GUI for disk partitioning. Enough that I would suggest to Debian use that portion in d-i. I had some problems running the existing

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/22/2018 12:34 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote: On 21/05/2018 22:25, Richard Owlett wrote: https://desktop.aims.ac.za/getting-started/ I browsed the site. It did not attempt to answer the type of calamares questions I might have. But the description of aims was intriguing. I'll experiment

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2018 12:23 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: Hi Richard On 21/05/2018 17:50, Richard Owlett wrote: As to Calamares, what might it look like to the end-user? [https://calamares.io/] gives no hint. Ah yes, so, here's the installation instructions for AIMS Desktop, a derivative I work

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2018 07:06 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote: Dear live team During this release cycle, I have worked on packaging calamares[0], an independent system installer framework that can be used from live media. The intention was to package this for derivatives, and to maintain it collectively

Re: Bug#876458: LibreOffice Writer does not launch

2017-09-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/22/2017 08:38 AM, Narcis Garcia wrote: Package: live-build Version: 1:20170829 Severity: grave Tested with Debian 10 (Buster) Live Alpha 1 in a Qemu virtual machine: debian-live-buster-DI-a1-i386-gnome.iso Unlike all other LibreOffice programs (lobase, localc, lodraw, loffice,

Re: accessibility like speech and braille in the debian live console and desktop images

2017-05-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/01/2017 10:08 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Nick Gawronski, on lun. 01 mai 2017 09:20:34 -0500, wrote: Hi, What about s for the installation with speech and l for the live disc with speech? But then what about console live disk versus graphical live disk? We can't just throw partial

Re: Add a package to a liveCD?

2015-08-12 Thread Richard Owlett
MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, Is it possible, in a stable ;iveCD, adding a missing package from the stable release? e.g. could you add brltty to the liveCD, for a11y purpose? If you need a bugreport, I can do one. What package should I mention? Thanks for feedback. Regards, I your

Re: GDM3 doesn't starts - Jessie / systemd

2014-10-03 Thread Richard Owlett
Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: Mmmm... Got it! I'll try to use lightdm instead... BTW, I'm the author of Xen LiveCD v2.0, I'm building a new one... ^_^ OK We have answer to Author? Author? How about answer Of what? Of what? ;/ Did cursory web search for Xen LiveCD {wo quotes}. looked at three

Re: debian-installer-launcher

2014-08-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Zed wrote: I believe I have figured this out... *fingers crossed* Cheers! Z Please post the results. It may be helpful to a wider audience than you might expect. I've found much useful information when reading about solutions to problems which do not have obvious connection to what ever

Re: create custom distribution

2014-03-23 Thread Richard Owlett
chals wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Sergio Eduardo Torres torresergio...@gmail.com wrote: good my question is this if you have any tutorial to create my own distribution, in some forum, I await your response thank you very much Hi, If with create my own distribution you mean

Re: create custom distribution

2014-03-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Sergio Eduardo Torres wrote: good my question is this if you have any tutorial to create my own distribution, in some forum, I await your response thank you very much The answer depends on your personal definition of my own distribution. Browse these (and referenced links):

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

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

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 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: Add HTML tar.gz download to Debian Live Manual site.

2012-11-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/08/2012 08:32 PM, João Ricardo Sares Teles de Matos wrote: I think it would be a good addition to provide the multi-page HTML documentation in a tarball, for offline browsing. downloading live-manual is supposed to be done through apt in the form of a debian

Re: [OT?] Question raised by thread Re: Mirroring Debian Archive

2012-11-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Diederik de Haas wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2012 19:37:30 Richard Owlett wrote: Debian 6.0.5 will be fine for my purposes. I suspect that by the time updating will be relevant for me, enough updates will have be done that purchasing another set of DVDs would be worthwhile. When I say I DO

[OT?] Question raised by thread Re: Mirroring Debian Archive

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/07/2012 01:26 PM, Jeronimo wrote: I am trying to mirror using ftpsync, but I don't wanna to mirror another releases (woody, slink...) for partition distribution mirrors, use debmirror. I've just read read the messages (6 so far) in this thread and the manpage

Re: [OT?] Question raised by thread Re: Mirroring Debian Archive

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Fernando Toledo wrote: El 07/11/12 12:45, Richard Owlett escribió: Daniel Baumann wrote: On 11/07/2012 01:26 PM, Jeronimo wrote: I am trying to mirror using ftpsync, but I don't wanna to mirror another releases (woody, slink...) for partition distribution mirrors, use debmirror. I've

Re: [OT?] Question raised by thread Re: Mirroring Debian Archive

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Diederik de Haas wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2012 16:45:17 Richard Owlett wrote: I DO NOT have good internet connectivity. I DO have the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5. I want all of the deb files from the set on a 64GB flash drive in a format/structure acceptable to apt-get or synaptic. I'm

Link clarification needed - was [Re: Live-build question]

2012-03-16 Thread Richard Owlett
Paul van der Vlis wrote: [snip] Ah, sorry, I am unclear. I mean the web-fronted on: http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build I went to link, but found no explanation of entries with multiple options : That site seems to offer a semi-custom Linux install aimed at some sets of