Re: Debian-live USB problem (bugs #498143 + #510280)

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

David Watson wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi,

> First up - great work on Debian-live! ;-)

thanks :)

> I'm more than happy to test this patch (or alternative methods) on a
> variety of platforms, but I can't quite seem to come up with a working
> solution from the various pre-lenny emails about this issue on the
> mailist, so any advice on the best approach to a workaround for these
> bugs on Lenny is would be much appreciated. Basically I'm looking for a
> solution to installing to HD from USB media.

well, it's straight forward - you rebuild the udeb from source with the
patch from the applied to the source-tree, make sure your version number
is higher than the one that is present in lenny.

however, it's stupid to do that all the time (the udeb rebuild),
therefore i've uploaded a fixed package here:

http://live.debian.net/other/cdrom-detect-bugfix/

fetch the udeb, put it into config/binary_local-udebs and eventually
rebuild the live image.

testing images with the bugfix are *extremely* welcome in order to show
that it works and persuade d-i team to apply the patch. therefore,
please do report suggess or failures to #498143.

Regards,
Daniel

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