On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:28:22 +0100 Clement Lefebvre <debian@linuxmint.com> wrote: > I'll let Ikey go through the details. Hi Clem, I posted on the debian-live mailing list, you might be interested in looking at it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2010/09/msg00193.html > Run time: As far as I know the live-config packages didn't work well for > us with Debian Testing, so we're using the older version of > live-initramfs. It's a simple matter of giving it some config data > (username, hostname..etc). We're also using LZMA for initrd, as opposed > to Gzip... and Ikey could confirm, but I think Debian's live-initramfs > fails to create the live user at run-time, so we're basically creating > it ourselves, and the installer takes care of its deletion post-install. That was actually one of the biggest issues, live-* would not create the live user whatever we did. I even recall that when we experimented with the newer packages we ran into even more issues. The process that we cultivated did the job well though. Kind Regards, Ikey Doherty <ikey@linuxmint.com>
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