Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
Hello Ben
Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:04:59 -0400
schrieb Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>:
> On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Package: debian-live
> > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD.
> >
> > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge
> > root file systems etc. In such cases the graphical approach of gparted
> > which automatically resizes the filesystem with the partition is much
> > more error safe than the CLI alternatives fdisk or parted. That's
> > especially the case for GPT and LVM which are still quite new to some
> > people.
> >
> > The installed size of gparted and its dependency libparted-fs-resize0
> > would just be 7 MB.
> >
>
> Our desktop live images only contain the desktop, as it would be
> installed by the Debian Installer. While arguably, many different tools
> would be useful on a live utility disk, those are not things that
> normally come with a Debian desktop, so are not included.
>
> The 'rescue' flavour used to exist and contained a number of tools
> designed for rescuing systems. However, that did not contain any
> desktop. Many excellent rescue images do exist that are produced by
> third parties and which would contain both a desktop and gparted. For
> Debian to have its own 'official' rescue image would require someone to
> do the work of looking after compiling a list of 'essential (possibly
> with GUI) rescue tools' to go on the image. So far, despite my repeated
> calls for help with this, nobody has stepped forward to do the work.
An official "Debian Rescue CD" would seem an unnecessary waste of storage
and buildd resources if it were 99% identical with the "Live CD". If it
contained the Live CD and additional tools, on the other hand, who would
still be downloading the inferior Live CD any longer :-)
Would it really be so difficult to pass a list of package names to the
installer or at least add the .deb to the CD and leave it to the user to
actally install them with apt-get? Would it help if we had a "task-rescue"
meta package?
The problem with all the other rescue cd projects is that some of them become
abandoned or get only updated every year and do not feature kernels that are
recent enough to boot on modern servers. E.g. I couldn't get a Dell server to
boot with Grml or Gparted-Live despite playing around with "noacpi" or similar
kernel options. Debian's Live-CD is based on all the work that has gone into
the regular Debian distro to get it booted anywhere.
Best regards,
-christian-
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