Hi Ben,Yes, initially I built an image using squeeze. However I found that I had to make a lot of configurations as regards for example the X server. The resolution of the image by default was 800x600 so I thought I would add an xorg.conf (if I am right) to override the default settings. Also there were some icons in xfce which were not visible and some other little things which needed some tweaking.
>> I thought we discussed the possibility of using squeeze, and you were going to try that out ...Thanks for this. Right now I am building a lenny image with nosudo switch just to try it now. Will let you know the outcome. I will consider this workaround definitely if anything else fails.
>> As a workaround, you could just go to http://packages.debian.org/live-boot and http://packages.debian.org/live-config to get the latest squeeze versions of these packages and drop them in your config/chroot_local-packages/ directory.My only concern would be the lejos deb package. I wrote to the person in charge but got no reply. Right now in this image I managed to configure everything manually but it would great to have such a ready made deb package.
>> Or if you would just build squeeze images instead, it would solve a number of issues for you (the things we discussed earlier this week) as well as this one, without any workaround needed. live-initramfs in squeeze is now just a transitional metapackage that installs live-build and live-config, and 'noroot' is supported with these newer packages.
Will let you know and thanks again for your interest and help.
Regards
RobertOn 28 August 2010 19:15, Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
On 08/28/2010 01:50 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:I don't have the old live-initramfs man page handy, but I don't know if that helps. It may still be possible for people to gain root with the old package. I simply can't remember.is it maybe nosudo? found it from the manual page of live-initramfs
can you please confirm? thanks
live-build and live-config are current in squeeze/sid and that's what we recommend people use (even for building lenny images). Did you say you're still building lenny images? I thought we discussed the possibility of using squeeze, and you were going to try that out ...
If you really do need to stay with lenny, you should at least use the latest stable live-build and live-config versions in squeeze (the 2.x series). A couple of weeks ago I would have suggested you use the live snapshots repo -r live.debian.net to accomplish this, but as that has now moved forward to the unstable 3.0 branch which is only suitable for those tracking development, we'll have to do something else.
As a workaround, you could just go to http://packages.debian.org/live-boot and http://packages.debian.org/live-config to get the latest squeeze versions of these packages and drop them in your config/chroot_local-packages/ directory.
Or if you would just build squeeze images instead, it would solve a number of issues for you (the things we discussed earlier this week) as well as this one, without any workaround needed. live-initramfs in squeeze is now just a transitional metapackage that installs live-build and live-config, and 'noroot' is supported with these newer packages.
Regards,
Ben