2006-11-25

live-cd-on-removable-disk

Posted in Computers, PlanetDebian at 02:06 UTC (+0000) by sven

Enrico said in live-cd-on-removable-disk:

Mostly it boils down to running the xorg-creation script at every boot time.

There are various tools to do that. Some are here, but there is surely more. (Enrico’s note: do we have anything in Debian that we can install and just does that?)

Well, Enrico, a tool I really grew fond of, which auto-configures X on Debian systems is xdebconfigurator, it lacks being auto-run on each system start, which I consider a feature on normal systems, but for your proposed usage (i.e. a portable USB-storage based Debian system), it would certainly be the right thing.

Essentially, it never failed on me. Except for VMware virtual machines, where all it did wrong was that it proposed too high resolutions which resulted from my dual-screen Windows setup I ran VMware on. You might want to give it a try.

1 Comment

  1. Marco Amadori said,

    November 26, 2006 at 13:35 UTC (+0000)

    Or you could you debian-live (live-package) to build this image, or use just casper to build the initramfs….

    Casper already supports xdebconfigurator, just boot with “xdebconf” as kernel param.

    We already have the tools needed in debian unstable, no need to look outside for this.