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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2007-09-23 14:46:28 +0200
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2007-09-23 14:46:28 +0200
commitf454e1250e7deec95166035de0d1b303b99b3a0f (patch)
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parent8421bbd25885a670de6b616da12711b5dcf68e1b (diff)
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Adding casper 1.77+debian-6.
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog9
-rw-r--r--debian/manpage/casper.79
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4b85a68..83768c2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
+ * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
+ feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
+ * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
+
+ -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
+
casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
diff --git a/debian/manpage/casper.7 b/debian/manpage/casper.7
index aac3eca..c195d9f 100644
--- a/debian/manpage/casper.7
+++ b/debian/manpage/casper.7
@@ -30,12 +30,15 @@ Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be c
.BR ip[= frommedia ]
If this variable is set, dhcp and static configuration are just skipped and the system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces instead.
.TP
-.BI "locale=" LOCALE " | debian-installer/locale=" LOCALE
-Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like it:IT.UTF-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters (keyb=it).
-.TP
.BI "{live-media|bootfrom}=" DEVICE
If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, casper will first try to find this device for the "/casper" directory where the read-only root filesystem should reside. If it did not find something usable, the normal scan for block devices is performed.
.TP
+.BI "live-media-offset=" BYTES
+This way you could tell casper that your image starts at offset BYTES in the above specified or autodiscovered device, this could be useful to hide the debian-live iso or image inside another iso or image, to create "clean" images.
+.TP
+.BI "locale=" LOCALE " | debian-installer/locale=" LOCALE
+Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like it:IT.UTF-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters (keyb=it).
+.TP
.BR "netboot[=" nfs "|" cifs ]
This tells casper to perform a network mount. The parameter "nfsroot=" (with optional "nfsopts="), should specify where is the location of the root filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs.
.TP