Re: Help building a live iso on a running live system with 8G RAM and no HD
Hello,
By default it mounts with half of RAM. It should be 4 GB in your case.
If you want to change the size, maybe you can try the following link.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2012/04/msg00251.html
Cheers,
Chien-hsun
On 2/1/13, b galka <ell_bronko@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to create a debian live build iso using the lb config and lb
> build scripts on a running debian squeeze desktop_xfce amd_64 live system.
> When I ran the lb build script, it failed saying something to effect of it
> couldn’t write the squashed file system because the destination was out of
> space. I had invoked the script in the /home directory on the live system
> so I thought I would have enough space on the RAM disk to create the iso.
> After all, the desktop_xfce amd_64 iso is about ~900M in size and I was
> adding only a small config file of a few kilobytes to a vanilla
> “xfce_desktop” config. I assumed most of the 8G of RAM in my laptop would
> be available for the ram disk and thought this would be sufficient. What do
> you think I did wrong? Was /home the wrong location to invoke the lb config
> and lb build scripts? How can I tell how much ram disk space is available
> for a given directory for iso construction? Where does the lb build
> script put all the stuff it downloads and builds by default?
>
> Additional information- The hardware is a HP elitebook 8540w with 8G of
> Ram. The live system, a vanilla debian squeeze xfce desktop amd_64, was
> booted from a DVD. There is no useable hard drive in this system because
> the installed hard drive, other than a very small boot partition, is
> encrypted by my employer and I am not going to mess with it.
>
> Thanks in advance
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