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[wolfgang at rohrmoser-engineering.de]

Hello Niklaus,


On Sunday 16 March 2008 21:55, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to subscribe to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/livebackup-xo-cd
> but got neither an answer, nor could I search the archives.

you are the first who tried to post to the mailing list. I will check
what is going wrong. Hopefully we will have more traffic soon.

>
> Today I successfully started livebackup-xo-cd on my MacMini.
> I am working with olpc-ch and very interested in a LiveCD.
> Even more with a LiveUSB-stick, as it would be faster to boot and
> easier to test some modification.
>

Good to know that it works on a MacMini. Using a USB-Stick works
straight forward and I tested it on different hardware. A How-To 
documentation does not exist yet, but I am working on a LiveBackup script 
which automates the necessary steps. 

> As you see in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland and
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-ch we are working here in
> Switzerland too.
>
> I downloaded the git for livebackup-xo-cd and would like to propose
> some additions for the Swiss variants (see attached patch).

Thank you for your contribution. This week I plan to release a new XO-LiveCD
version and I will integrate your work. 

> Not yet tested, as I do not know how to generate a initrd from your
> sources and was unable to unzip/cpio the initrd.

The initrd is a cramfs image. you could mount it:

  mount -t cramfs -o loop initrd /mnt 

but you should not need to change the initrd for testing 

> If you tell me how, I am glad to update the Documentation/Readme.txt
>
> Best regards

best regards

       Wolfgang