Re: jessie live images
Hi,
I think that at least a Jessie live roaming WS would be nice to test
hardware and client-server relationship.
Regards
Giorgio
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 03:38:31PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started on working on creating Debian Edu Jessie based live images, using
> live-build from jessie. This has been a rather pleasant process, and I
> successfull made some .isos.
>
> Currently I'm wondering what kind of image to create and if we want several.
> For squeeze, we only had a standalone image using the default KDE desktop.
>
> Now, we have several desktops, and for testing I created
>
> - xfce standalone (2.7gb, worked nicely)
> - gnome standalone (3.3gb, xorg didnt start)
> - mate (2.7gb, xorg started but not desktop environment)
>
> https://jenkins.debian.net/view/lvc/job/lvc_debian-live_debian-
> edu_jessie_standalone_apt/10/ shows mate, /9 is gnoem and /8 is xfce...
>
> the relevant code to build the image is:
>
> lb config --distribution jessie --bootappend-live "boot=live config
> hostname=debian-edu username=debian-edu"
> echo education-standalone >> config/package-lists/live.list.chroot
> echo education-desktop-(xfce|gnome|mate) >> config/package-
> lists/live.list.chroot
> echo education-laptop >> config/package-lists/live.list.chroot
> sudo lb build
>
> using education-desktop-other also resulted in failure similar to education-
> desktop-gnome, I havend tried lxde & sugar.
>
> Right now I'm tempted to just start with one image: xfce-standalone.
>
>
> And then I wonder, what "Features: The KDE desktop profile for
> students/pupils. " on
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/AppendixB means
> exactly?!
>
>
> More feedback, comments, questions & suggestions welcome...
> cheers,
> Holger
>
> P.S.: currently these are test images for doing QA only. But it's rather
> trivial to build them elsewhere and release them for real usage! :-)
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