Re: Help building a live iso on a running live system with 8G RAM and no HD
On 02/12/2013 12:56 PM, b galka wrote:
> I was little sloppy in that last posting which may have lead to
> confusion. I meant to say that when a parameter has a single argument,
> putting quotes around it seemed to cause a problem. In my case I was
> using the parameters --packages-lists "xfce-desktop" and --packages
> "firmware-iwlwifi" which didn't work. I tried on 3 separate occasions
> and all 3 failed, producing a 127 mb image that was apparently a base
> system without the xfce desktop. When I used the parameters
> --packages-lists xfce-desktop and --packages firmware-iwlwifi (without
> quotes) the build worked as expected and built an image >800 mb that
> when booted, had the xfce desktop. From my memory there was no
> difference in my attempt to build the image other than the use of quotes
> with parameters that had a singular argument. Now it is possible that
> something else was going on but I am not aware of what other differences
> there could have been between the attempts to build.
Well, think harder, because I'd wager any money quotes vs. no quotes is
not what made the difference. lb won't even see your quotes because the
shell interprets them when building the argument list to pass to lb. The
end result is two identical argument lists when the arguments did not
contain any blanks.
A typical error that I see repeatedly is that sometimes a continuation
line character "\" might be omitted at the end of one a line. This will
cause all subsequent configuration options in the file to be ignored.
That's an example of one problem that might have *actually* caused the
symptoms you observed.
Ben
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