On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > Hi, > > I just started to learn live-helper and I love it ! ;) Me too! [...] > Ultimately, I would like to have an installer (sic) that would detect the > size of the USB and partition it accordingly. > > Has this already been tried/succeeded ? I think this is pretty straightforward (but I haven't tested it yet). The thing is that when you dd the binary.img to the usb-disk, e.g. dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb you will get a /dev/sdb1 with the exact size of the binary.img Then you just need to create a new partition (/dev/sdb2) that uses up the rest of the usb-stick, and name that partition "live-rw". That should be possible with a sfdisk one-liner. > Any hints to reach the multiple > goals ? Would this be of any other interest than mine ? > > I think that such a USB key could be sort of an ultimate tool to demonstrate > the fantastic capabilities of Debian (as an OS and as a project). Maybe > s/KDE4/<insert your favorite desktop>/g ;) It sounds cool. Since the prices of usb-sticks are very low (even 8GB), one can also try out debian from a persistent live usb-stick for quite some time until one is really sure that the bad other os is not useful anymore. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net>
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