Hi, thank you for testing! See replies bellow.
anonym wrote (06 Mar 2012 11:15:06 GMT) : > 02/29/2012 07:15 PM, intrigeri: >> >> The general testing process would be: >> >> 1. use the USB installer to install Tails on a USB stick >> 2. boot the newly installed Tails >> 3. use tails-persistence-setup to bootstrap a persistence container > This step failed once for me with an udisks error stating something > like "daemon is inhibited". The exact error message would be useful. > I'm pretty sure it was because I had set a sudo password in > tails-greeter, Can you please try to confirm this with reproducible experiments? Else, I've my doubts wrt. this correlation. "daemon is inhibited" looks like a DBus / UDisks error, while anything related with sudo would be a PolicyKit error. My first guess would be that you catched a bug, unrelated to PolicyKit and sudo, and I want to hunt it. > and if so all we need is an appropriate sudoers.d > file for tails-persistence-setup. What additional credential would you like to give to whom? >> 4. "configure which bits are persistent" is not implemented yet, >> so create a live.persist file in the TailsData filesystem: >> https://tails.boum.org/todo/persistence/#index7h3 >> 5. reboot >> 6. enable persistence in tails-greeter >> 7. enjoy > Other than that it seems to work just fine. Oh, I enjoyed it! :) Great! :) > I have a few comments: > * We're currently quite wasteful when allocating space to the Tails > partition. On a 1.88 GiB USB stick a whooping 1.46 GiB was allocated > for Tails, leaving only 424 MiB for TailsData. The Tails installation > I used was just 767 MiB, leaving 732 MiB unused. That seems a bit > excessive or do we anticipate wheezy to be that much of a monster? We decided to give the system partition 1.5GiB like this: Tails ISO = 1GB + 3 * incremental upgrades (60MB) = 180MB => let's say 1.5GB As soon as we want to install multiple kernels, and support *many* languages more actively, e.g. by stopping running localepurge at build time, installing all iceweasel l10n packages, and perhaps installing some more fonts, we'll probably reach 1GB. I anticipate Wheezy to add something in the 100-200MB range to the ISO size. The size of incremental updates will probably grow accordingly. So frankly, as of today, I would probably propose to give 2 GB to the system partition, instead of 1.5 GB. So I don't think it is reasonable to expect a 2 GB USB stick to support Tails + persistence. > I'm not sure what the right approach would be here. It would be > sweet to have a slider which goes from $TAILS_ISO_SIZE to > min($SIZE_OF_USB_DRIVE, > $LARGEST_TAILS_ISO_SIZE_WE_WANT_TO_SUPPORT) which determines the > size of the Tails partition. Depending on where the slider is some > label would show warnings like: > - "This is likely too little space for being able to upgrade Tails in > the future" and > - "This will just leave only $LOW_NUMBER MB of space for persistence" > when appropriate. I disagree it would be sweet. I think it would be a mess UI-wise: I think this would clutter the GUI and add more complexity to the UI by asking users questions they will have a hard time answering, add more complexity to our documentation because a more complex UI needs much more complex documentation. Given these disadvantages, and the limited benefit (better supporting 2 GB media), I'm not in favour of adding such widgets at all. And anyway, I don't think anyone wants to add any additional feature to our liveusb-creator codebase; remember we want to rebase our work on top of another codebase at some point. > * I think we should activate the --log-file option for both the list > and activate calls of live-persist. This will make it a lot easier to > debug certain errors when we're testing this, and if support to > include them is added to whisperback, also good when it's released > into the wild. Great idea! Added to my local copy of todo/persistence. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | We're dreaming of something else. | Something more clandestine, something happier. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
