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Tool to backup and clone Ubuntu or Debian distros
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ISO booting problems. #21

Closed Zekodon closed 8 years ago

Zekodon commented 8 years ago

The iso and md5 files appear in the filesystem where they are (all very well and good) but when I try to boot the iso into a VM it just doesn't boot. Why is this, and is there anything I'm doing wrong?

ch1x0r commented 8 years ago

I believe one of our team statee he had the same issue in a vm with Ubuntu. Have you tried using the live outside a vm... Ubuntu Guys? What was the vm issue...wait. Is it because mkisofs? Is this version current?

repsol commented 8 years ago

There could be several factors but the number one is the the ISO can't be more than 4G. We will need more info to help. The issue that I had was not being able to log into live in Virtualbox, but it worked in KVM. There is some bug with the live and virtualbox but the backup worked fine.

What OS and window manager are you using?

Also is this the Debian Version or the Ubuntu version?

Cheers, Adrenaline

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:22 AM, ch1x0r notifications@github.com wrote:

I believe one of our team statee he had the same issue in a vm with Ubuntu. Have you tried using the live outside a vm... Ubuntu Guys? What was the vm issue...wait. Is it because mkisofs? Is this version current?

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Zekodon commented 8 years ago

EDIT: Also, the iso file was no larger than 2GB, so I think that's out of the question.

I'm using Linux mint 17.3, and because Linux Mint is based off of ubuntu I downloaded the 'ubuntu' version of respin. The VM I tested this on was a Virtualbox VM on a windows 8.1 PC.

When I made the iso file, I used the 'dis' button with fiddling with any of the other settings on that page. Was this info helpful? I'd be great if this helps solve the issue! :-)

repsol commented 8 years ago

Hi Zekodon,

It is helpful,

Even though Mint is based on Ubuntu, it uses it's own proprietary display manager, where as Ubuntu uses lightdm.

What happens is it breaks the log-in on the "dist" install. If you do a backup, it grabs the login from your host machine, but in the dist mode it breaks.

I hope that makes sense, we have not found a work around for dist Mint yet, but run it again, but this time do a "backup" and I think it will work for you.

Let us know if you run into any more issues,

Cheers, Adrenaline

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Zekodon notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm using Linux mint 17.3, and because Linux Mint is based off of ubuntu I downloaded the 'ubuntu' version of respin. The VM I tested this on was a Virtualbox VM on a windows 8.1 PC.

When I made the iso file, I used the 'dis' button with fiddling with any of the other settings on that page. Was this info helpful? I'd be great if this helps solve the issue! :-)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/chamuco/respin/issues/21#issuecomment-171791226.

Zekodon commented 8 years ago

Alright! I got it to boot into the installer! I used the "backup" button and it made the iso bootable. The Problem now it that when the dialogue appears and I boot directly into the installer, it works fine. However, when I boot into the live session, the live session user can't sign in. Is it because I made a blank dummy account and told respin to use the blank account as the template account?Should I have left it blank?

repsol commented 8 years ago

Nope that is the bug. It is because Mint doesn't use Lightdm. Mint uses MDM, and we have not found a workaround yet. We have some people working on it, but no dice yet. I have tried to add a shadow file which did indeed work, but when the isofs was made it over wrote the file. I know we are close, but not quite there yet.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Zekodon notifications@github.com wrote:

Alright! I got it to boot into the installer! I used the "backup" button and it made the iso bootable. The Problem now it that when the dialogue appears and I boot directly into the installer, it works fine. However, when I boot into the live session, the live session user can't sign in. Is it because I made a blank dummy account and told respin to use the blank account as the template account?Should I have left it blank?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/chamuco/respin/issues/21#issuecomment-172570593.

Zekodon commented 8 years ago

Can you let me know when you find that workaround?

ch1x0r commented 8 years ago

I have totally got this to work with mint. https://github.com/ch1x0r/MintyFresh2016/tree/master/respinminty_1.0.0-1_all

ch1x0r commented 8 years ago

Ok...it says deb...but it really is mint....

https://github.com/ch1x0r/MintyFresh2016?files=1

Zekodon commented 8 years ago

I'll try that out when I get the chance, thank you.