Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: > On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 21:29:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: > > > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > > > itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 21:29:22 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: > > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > > itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any > > disk. > > This is not entirely corr

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-16 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hi Michael, On 2013-04-15 15:26, Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> [...] > > Thanks for the hints, it now works! I labeled the partition > `persistence', but to get it work, I also had to put a persistence.conf > file on it. > [...] > > Many thanks, > > Michael. > I´m glad I could help. You were a

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Brian wrote: > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > itself is not installed or reinstalled to, for example, the MBR of any > disk. This is not entirely correct. You need to put all grub* packages on hold to make sure it won't ever update the

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Brian writes: > > When I upgrade the system after some time has passed - it might > > happen that grub is installed to the hdd and the notebook won't > > start anymore. So I'll try to get live work first. > > That cannot happen. Updating the system might alter grub.cfg but GRUB > itself is not

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 15:20:07 +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > > > > > I wanted to use Debian live > > > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-b

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Hi Christer, > First of all, I have another architecture (amd64) and I never got > persistence to work with stable (Squeeze). > But it works really well with testing (Wheezy) using the regular > iso-hybrid .iso image. > > There is a link to a very helpful instruction in my previous mail. > Note t

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Hi Rob, > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > > > I wanted to use Debian live > > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > > installed on a flash drive with full persistenc

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Christer Oldhoff
Hi Michael, On 2013-04-13 20:50, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Hi, > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > I wanted to use Debian live > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > installed on a flash drive with full persistence. > [...] > > Next, I downloade

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-14 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> hope this is the right forum for my question. >> >> I wanted to use Debian live >> (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop >> installed on a

Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence

2013-04-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Hi, > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > I wanted to use Debian live > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > installed on a flash drive with full persistence. > I used to use Debia