Re: Debian live
Thanks! I'll take a look. I'm an experienced sysadmin, but I'm not a developer; so I might need some help figuring this out. Can I email you (Elimar) for occasional hints? Rick On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Rick Thomas [2020-07-11 16:23 -0700]: > > > The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. > > Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while > > at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted > > which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- > > leaving the disk drive(s) of the system untouched and available > > for whatever work you want to do with them (e.g. backup and > > recovery.) The "grml" live boot for i386/amd64 is a great example > > of what I'd like. > > There is 'apt-cache show grml-live' available for Architecture: all. > If you want to contribute you can adapt ppc arch to the respective > FAI configuration and build your own grml-ppc-live system. > > https://grml.org/grml-live/ > > Just a thought > Elimar > -- > On the keyboard of life you have always > to keep a finger at the escape key;-) > >
Re: Debian live
Elimar, On the keyboard of life, I wondering when I’m gonna get a break key! :) Stuart Sent from my iPhone 6 128GB Envoyé de mon iPhone 6 128GB נשלח מהאייפון שלי > On Jul 12, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Rick Thomas [2020-07-11 16:23 -0700]: > >> The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. >> Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while >> at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted >> which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- >> leaving the disk drive(s) of the system untouched and available >> for whatever work you want to do with them (e.g. backup and >> recovery.) The "grml" live boot for i386/amd64 is a great example >> of what I'd like. > > There is 'apt-cache show grml-live' available for Architecture: all. > If you want to contribute you can adapt ppc arch to the respective > FAI configuration and build your own grml-ppc-live system. > > https://grml.org/grml-live/ > > Just a thought > Elimar > -- > On the keyboard of life you have always > to keep a finger at the escape key;-) >
Re: Debian live
* Rick Thomas [2020-07-11 16:23 -0700]: > The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. > Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while > at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted > which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- > leaving the disk drive(s) of the system untouched and available > for whatever work you want to do with them (e.g. backup and > recovery.) The "grml" live boot for i386/amd64 is a great example > of what I'd like. There is 'apt-cache show grml-live' available for Architecture: all. If you want to contribute you can adapt ppc arch to the respective FAI configuration and build your own grml-ppc-live system. https://grml.org/grml-live/ Just a thought Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-)
Re: Debian live
Rick, et alia: If indeed there is an effort afoot to create a bootable USB stick that functions absent a bootable disk, I would recommend using Kali Linux. This is both a Debian distribution and as well provisions a great many utilities that might be useful in such a scenario as where there are disks, they are unbootable but someone wishes to perform a forensic inspection upon them in precedence to simply installing over them. I have many times received more aged hardware and first looked to see what "goodies" were left behind (even if someone thought they deleted everything and did not zero out the disks). Stuart Quoting: Rick Thomas The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- leaving the disk drive(s) of the system untouched and available for whatever work you want to do with them (e.g. backup and recovery.) The "grml" live boot for i386/amd64 is a great example of what I'd like. Rick On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, at 3:39 AM, Steffen Möller wrote: That - and for ARM as well. Would be a good chance to attract more users, indeed. On 07.07.20 12:38, Jeroen Diederen wrote: Hi! Do you guys know if it is possible to create live installer images from a working Debian PowerpPC system? I know debian-live is only for i386 and amd64. Maybe there are other unofficial ways to achieve this? Documentation somewhere? What I want to achieve is create a live iso from a customised Debian system which is able to install that customised system from USB. On the desktop in that system I want to have a launcher that installs this system in a desired place. Regards, Jeroen Very Respectfully, Stuart B. Tener Computer Scientist / FCC Licensed Radio Operator -- IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR, N3GWG (Extra), MROP Las Vegas, NV / Philadelphia, PA / Beverly Hills, CA (310) 358-0202 Mobile Phone (215) 338-6005 Google Voice
Re: Debian live
The more general-purpose the "live" system can be the better. Ideally, it should be possible to boot from the live CD/DVD, while at the same time having a specially formatted USB stick inserted which would provide "persistent" storage for the booted system -- leaving the disk drive(s) of the system untouched and available for whatever work you want to do with them (e.g. backup and recovery.) The "grml" live boot for i386/amd64 is a great example of what I'd like. Rick On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, at 3:39 AM, Steffen Möller wrote: > That - and for ARM as well. Would be a good chance to attract more > users, indeed. > > On 07.07.20 12:38, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Do you guys know if it is possible to create live installer images > > from a working Debian PowerpPC system? I know debian-live is only for > > i386 and amd64. Maybe there are other unofficial ways to achieve this? > > Documentation somewhere? > > > > What I want to achieve is create a live iso from a customised Debian > > system which is able to install that customised system from USB. On > > the desktop in that system I want to have a launcher that installs > > this system in a desired place. > > > > Regards, > > Jeroen > > > >
Re: Debian live
That - and for ARM as well. Would be a good chance to attract more users, indeed. On 07.07.20 12:38, Jeroen Diederen wrote: Hi! Do you guys know if it is possible to create live installer images from a working Debian PowerpPC system? I know debian-live is only for i386 and amd64. Maybe there are other unofficial ways to achieve this? Documentation somewhere? What I want to achieve is create a live iso from a customised Debian system which is able to install that customised system from USB. On the desktop in that system I want to have a launcher that installs this system in a desired place. Regards, Jeroen
Debian live
Hi! Do you guys know if it is possible to create live installer images from a working Debian PowerpPC system? I know debian-live is only for i386 and amd64. Maybe there are other unofficial ways to achieve this? Documentation somewhere? What I want to achieve is create a live iso from a customised Debian system which is able to install that customised system from USB. On the desktop in that system I want to have a launcher that installs this system in a desired place. Regards, Jeroen
Not able to install yaboot into debian live image
Hi,
I'm having some troubles to get a live cd image to boot into qemu
ppc64 emulator with IBM OpenFirmware. I will also need to use this
image on a IBM pServer.
I used the Debian live build tool to create the .iso image.
The options that Debian build system uses to generate the .iso are:
yaboot)
GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS=${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS} -r --iso-level 2
--netatalk -hfs -probe -map
GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS=${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS}
binary/yaboot/hfs.map
--chrp-boot -part -no-desktop
GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS=${GENISOIMAGE_OPTIONS} -hfs-bless
binary/yaboot
-hfs-volid Debian/Live_powerpc
GENISOIMAGE_EXCLUDE=yaboot/hfs.map
;;
According to the source here:
http://live.debian.net/gitweb/?p=live-build.git;a=blob_plain;f=helpers/lh_binary_iso;hb=428f4d972f38a4774107d5ea934774fca591f77b
This is was CD structure:
root at debianppc:/build/binary# ls -R
.:
live md5sum.txt yaboot
./live:
filesystem.packages initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc
vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc64
filesystem.packages-remove initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc64
filesystem.squashfs vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc
./yaboot:
boot.msg hfs.map ofboot.b pegasos yaboot yaboot.conf
I couldn't make SLOF load any file.
I was able to create another iso file using this command:
genisoimage -joliet-long -jigdo-template-compress bzip2 -r -V 'Debian
6.0.6 ppc 1' -o build.iso --iso-level 4 --netatalk -hfs -probe -map
binary/yaboot/hfs.map -hfs-parms MAX_XTCSIZE=2656248 --chrp-boot -part
-no-desktop --hfs-bless binary/yaboot -hfs-volid debian binary/
I also created /etc/yaboot.conf
I was able to start yaboot but I need to execute boot
cdrom:/yaboot/yaboot in order to load it. How can I make this start
automatically?
qemu-system-ppc64 -m 1024 -M pseries -cdrom build.iso -boot d -nographic
Warning: Disabling some instructions which are not emulated by TCG (0x0, 0x6)
SLOF **
QEMU Starting
Build Date = Oct 16 2012 12:55:48
FW Version = mockbuild@(private build)
Press s to enter Open Firmware.
Populating /vdevice methods
Populating /vdevice/vty at 1000
Populating /vdevice/l-lan at 1001
Populating /vdevice/v-scsi at 1002
VSCSI: Initializing
VSCSI: Looking for devices
8200 CD-ROM : QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 1.2.
Populating /pci at 8002001
Adapters on 08002001
None
No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
Using default console: /vdevice/vty at 1000
Welcome to Open Firmware
Copyright (c) 2004, 2011 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
This program and the accompanying materials are made available
under the terms of the BSD License available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
Trying to load: from: cdrom ...
E3404: Not a bootable device!
E3407: Load failed
..`. .. ... .. .. ...
..`...`''.`'. .''``..''. .`''```''`. `''``
.`` .:' ': `''. .''. ''` .''..''...
``.':.';. ``''`.''. .''. ''``''`'`
``.':':` .`''.`'`.. `'`.`''.`'`
.`.`'`` .'`'`. ``'' ``''`'''`. `'`
Type 'boot' and press return to continue booting the system.
Type 'reset-all' and press return to reboot the system.
Ready!
0 boot cdrom:\yaboot\yaboot
Trying to load: from:
/vdevice/v-scsi at 1002/cdrom at 8200:\yaboot\yaboot ...
Successfully loaded
Config file read, 608 bytes
Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux!
This is a Debian Live CDROM,
built on 20130221.
The default option is 'live'.
If the system fails to boot at all (the typical
symptom is a white screen which doesn't go away),
append 'video=ofonly' or use 'live-failsafe'.
The plain options are for the powerpc family of
processors (from 601 to G4). The *64 options are for
64bit powerpc processors, which include the IBM
Power3, Power4, Power5, ... boxes, as well as the
Apple G5 boxes. Press the tab key for a list of
options, or type 'help' for help.
If in doubt, just press enter, and if that
doesn't work, try 'live video=ofonly'.
Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
Enter help to get some basic usage information
boot:
Regards
Matias
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debian live installer
Hi all, For some time now I am looking at the debian-live mailing list and I can see that there is very little support for us PPC users left. Also for some time no iso images are produced for this arch anymore. I don't really care about the latter as we can make our own live images with live-buld or customise the ones which are still available in the debian live archive (http://live.debian.net/archive/images/6.0_alpha2/powerpc/iso/) Now comes my problem. Debian live installer does not work on PPC for a long time. I have asked a few times in the debian-live mailing list if someone (Daniel Baumann ?) could do something about it. Well, basically I was told that PPC is a dying architecture and that there was no time to work on this port. If I knew what to do I would start working on it myself, but I lack the technical knowledge for this. I know that there are still people working for this arch, so therefore I ask you guys here if there are volunteers to look at the Debian live installer within Debian live. It would be great to have such a feature for customised Debian installations. For people who do not know what I mean. In a liveCD of Ubuntu for PPC there is the possibility to install the environment what you see (usually with a clickable link on the desktop). This can also be included for x86 Debian live iso's. Unfortunately this is not working for PPC. Hoping to hear from you guys soon... Regards, Jeroen Diederen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtpekzte.1310642122.5104630.jjhdiede...@pop3.versatel.nl
Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Debian Live for PS3 project dead
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, sean finney wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:00:11PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bob McGwier If you want to program the cell spe's you need libspe from the Cell SDK from IBM or Barcelona. or apt-get install libspe2-dev :) and spufs, cfr. your blog: http://www.seanius.net/blog/2008/10/spu-support-on-the-ps3-in-debian/ BTW, I think the recommended Debian way to mount spufs is to handle this in /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh from the initscripts package. Is that correct? With kind regards, Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone:+32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Debian Live for PS3 project dead
hiya, On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:52:41AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: and spufs, cfr. your blog: http://www.seanius.net/blog/2008/10/spu-support-on-the-ps3-in-debian/ BTW, I think the recommended Debian way to mount spufs is to handle this in /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh from the initscripts package. Is that correct? i'm going back and forth on this. i brought it up on debian-devel but nobody seemed interested enough to throw in their opinion. it could be that everyone is too caught up in the lenny release and the surrounding flamewars to take the time :/ i think the biggest drawback to the mountkernfs approach is it would make it hard to customize stuff like umask/uid/gid... at least without an /etc/default/spufs. putting fs mount options in /etc/default seems a little non-unixy too, but maybe that's okay. however, putting it in fstab would mean that it would be done by the installer and not a package, which means for users who have already installed the system it wouldn't magically start working. i think i'm siding towards the former currently (mountkernfs), but i haven't brought the issue up with the maintainers of the respective package. they might say this is too special case for us to support it, in which case i'll need to decide if having a seperate package to do this is overkill, or whether i should just make it part of the installer. sean signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Running Debian-Live on G5 machines.
Le Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:41:48PM +0930, Mike Hore a écrit : I am using Ubuntu 6.10 live for PPC. Unfortunately, the Debian-live Etch CD does not work (maybe because I have a G5) I was able to install Etch using a daily build netinstall a few months ago -- everything ran beautifully. So I doubt the problem is because you have a G5. Hi Mike, Maybe we do not talk about the same CD : did you try `Debian-Live' ? http://live.debian.net/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
