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-.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 27.05.2010 2.0~a2 "Debian Live Projekt"
+.TH LIVE\-BOOT 7 07.06.2010 2.0~a5 "Debian Live Projekt"
.SH NAME
\fBlive\-boot\fP \- System Boot Skripte
"console=ttyS0,115200"
.IP \fBdebug\fP 4
Makes initramfs boot process more verbose.
+.br
+Use: debug=1
+.br
+Without setting debug to a value the messages may not be shown.
.IP \fBfetch\fP=\fIURL\fP 4
-Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url,
-copying to ram and booting it. Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget
-and DNS resolution, an URL can not contain a hostname but an IP only.
+.IP \fBhttpfs\fP=\fIURL\fP 4
+Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url.
+The fetch method copies the image to ram and the httpfs method uses fuse and
+httpfs2 to mount the image in place. Copying to ram requires more memory and
+might take a long time for large images. However, it is more likely to work
+correctly because it does not require networking afterwards and the system
+operates faster once booted because it does not require to contact the
+server anymore.
+.br
+Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget and DNS resolution, an URL can
+not contain a hostname but an IP only.
.br
Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs
.br
Also note that therefore it's currently not possible to fetch an image from
a namebased virtualhost of an httpd if it is sharing the ip with the main
httpd instance.
-.IP "\fBhostname\fP=\fIHOSTNAME\fP, \fBusername\fP=\fIUSER\fP, \fBuserfullname\fP=\fIUSERFULLNAME\fP" 4
-Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
+.br
+You may also use the live iso image in place of the squashfs image.
.IP \fBignore_uuid\fP 4
Do not check that any UUID embedded in the initramfs matches the discovered
medium. live\-boot may be told to generate a UUID by setting
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.
-.IP "{\fBkeyb\fP|\fBkbd\-chooser/method\fP}=\fIKEYBOARD\fP, {\fBklayout\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/layoutcode\fP}=\fILAYOUT\fP, {\fBkvariant\fP|\fBconsole\-setup/variantcode\fP}=\fIVARIANT\fP, {\fBkmodel\fP\fI|\fP\fBconsole\-setup/modelcode\fP}=\fICODE\fP, \fBkoptions\fP=\fIOPTIONS\fP" 4
-Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses live\-boot
-behaves as if "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale="
-if locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also
-specify console layout, variant, code, and options (no defaults).
-.IP \fBlive\-getty\fP 4
-This changes the auto\-login on virtual terminals to use the (experimental)
-live\-getty code. With this option set the standard kernel argument
-"console=" is parsed and if a serial console is specified then live\-getty is
-used to autologin on the serial console.
.IP {\fBlive\-media\fP|\fBbootfrom\fP}=\fIDEVICE\fP 4
If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, live\-boot will first try to
find this device for the "/live" directory where the read\-only root
.IP \fBlive\-media\-timeout\fP=\fISECONDS\fP 4
Set the timeout in seconds for the device specified by "live\-media=" to
become ready before giving up.
-.IP {\fBlocale\fP|\fBdebian\-installer/locale\fP}=\fILOCALE\fP 4
-Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live\-media
-rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses live\-boot
-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
-en:EN.UTF\-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those
-2 lowercase letters (keyb=us). Beside that facility, only UTF8 locales are
-supported by live\-boot.
.IP \fBmodule\fP=\fINAME\fP 4
Instead of using the default optional file "filesystem.module" (see below)
another file could be specified without the extension ".module"; it should
filesystem. With no args, will try cifs first, and if it fails nfs.
.IP \fBnfsopts\fP= 4
This lets you specify custom nfs options.
-.IP \fBnoautologin\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic terminal login only, not touching
-gdk/kdm.
-.IP \fBnoxautologin\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic login of gdm/kdm only, not touching
-terminals.
.IP \fBnofastboot\fP 4
This parameter disables the default disabling of filesystem checks in
/etc/fstab. If you have static filesystems on your harddisk and you want
has been installed with persistent enabled.
.IP \fBnoprompt\fP 4
Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot.
-.IP \fBnosudo\fP 4
-This parameter disables the automatic configuration of sudo.
.IP \fBswapon\fP 4
This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions.
-.IP \fBnouser\fP 4
-This parameter disables the creation of the default user completely.
.IP \fBnoxautoconfig\fP 4
This parameter disables Xorg auto\-reconfiguration at boot time. This is
valuable if you either do the detection on your own, or, if you want to ship
of its own. When adding silent, it hides all.
.IP \fBtextonly\fP 4
Start up to text\-mode shell prompts, disabling the graphical user interface.
-.IP \fBtimezone\fP=\fITIMEZONE\fP 4
-By default, timezone is set to UTC. Using the timezone parameter, you can
-set it to your local zone, e.g. Europe/Zurich.
.IP \fBtodisk\fP=\fIDEVICE\fP 4
Adding this parameter, live\-boot will try to copy the entire read\-only media
to the specified device before mounting the root filesystem. It probably
.IP \fBunion\fP=aufs|unionfs 4
By default, live\-boot uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to
unionfs.
-.IP \fButc\fP=yes|no 4
-By default, Debian systems do assume that the hardware clock is set to
-UTC. You can change or explicitly set it with this parameter.
.IP \fBxdebconf\fP 4
Uses xdebconfigurator, if present on the rootfs, to configure X instead of
the standard procedure (experimental).