On 07/28/2011 12:07 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > (No idea if the code > actually supports it or not.)
it does. > Having to hunt for this information is annoying (but seems > typical for live-build documentation) lacking manpower.. you know.. so we try to focus making the most used features be properly documented first, anything else later. >, so I'll just ask: is > virtual-hdd a RAW disk image, with partitions and boot loaders > and the root filesystem, and can I dd it to a hard disk or > USB drive and boot a real computer off of it? yes. > If so, then live-build (now?) does about what vmdebootstrap > does, except more, and in a more complicated fashion. exactly. i told you this when you asked about it when you were looking into it, and also after you've come up with vmdebootstrap. > However, I wish the complexity > wouldn't extend to finding out anything about live-build, including > how to use it. we're working on that, the current git version does a lot of simplifications all over the place. once the documentation has been synchronised, uploads to unstable will follow.. (sometime soon after having returned proberly from debconf that is). -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e3139ce.6020...@progress-technologies.net
