Hi Mika and thank you very much for your response.
The remount method looks like a nice and simple solution :)
Regarding the persistence solution, I think I would rather like to have a solution where the installed packages are not forced to be loaded into main memory - as I understand that the live-snapshot would do, or ...? Do grml have some toolchain that will allow me to either add stuff to an existing squashfs or have the system "union mount" additional squashfs files?
While I am asking, here is another question: I would like to add a few lines to the file /etc/security/limits.conf in a way that these lines are part of the file at the point in time when the file is first accessed during boot. Shall I produce a config (config.tbz) that contains my version of the file or should I add a script that gets executed during boogt and that will add the lines to the file? Any details on how to do this in the preferred way are most welcome :)
Kind regards
/Lars
2009/3/8 Michael Prokop mika@grml.org:
- Lars-Erik Helander lehswe@gmail.com [20090308 12:40]:
Problem 1: Adding another package to the "debs" directory Since the /live/image tree is mounted read-only I cannot add/remove any .deb files in the "debs" directory.
[...]
Is there a method that would allow me to do that.
mount -o remount,rw /live/image
:)
Problem 2: Avoid installation at boot The above method (putting .deb files in the "debs" directory) is very useful for finding out the packages you need to have. Once you know what packages you would need than you would be better off with a method that would not require you to install the packages on each boot, but that these packages came pre-installed. A natural way would be to either add these packages to the live system package set somehow. As I can see the live system consist of a squashfs file and a file that points out the name of this file. Is there a way to either extend the existing squashfs file or to add some additional squashfs (or other fs-type) file that will be mounted along the original squashfs file?
Persistent-root is a feature on our current roadmap. You can play with it already using live-snapshot (which is part of the 2008.11 release): http://live.debian.net/manual/html/persistence.html
regards,
-mika-
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