Tails

#9 Updated by Anonymous 2015-05-08 14:26:03

sidenote: I’ve built a test package and tested it on a Debian Jessie. When I click “install” though, the updating process seems to be called and I can’t install from ISO.

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2015-05-08 15:54:16

> sidenote: I’ve built a test package and tested it on a Debian Jessie.

Woohoo, here we go!

> When I click “install” though, the updating process seems to be called and I can’t install from ISO.

I would suggest to tackle this part of this ticket first, then:

> * add support for “install from ISO”

I would start with running liveusb-creator by hand. I would start from the command-line the launcher uses for “Upgrade from ISO”, and add to it whatever option “Clone and Install” uses in order to enable partitioning of the target device. It might be that it’s enough to get “Install from ISO” working, but most likely some code changes will be needed.

By the way, now that you’re on it, please file sub-tickets for each deliverable that’s listed in the ticket’s description.

#11 Updated by Anonymous 2015-05-12 15:07:37

Notes:

Design documentation: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/installation/

using liveusb-creator -n -x -v we miss the path to syslinux from the ISO:

/tmp/tmpDcHx2_/syslinux  -d syslinux /dev/sdb1
/bin/sh: 1: /tmp/tmpDcHx2_/syslinux: not found

we need to make sure the syslinux installed on the MBR matches exactly the syslinux modules extracted from the ISO.
you might be hit by the lack of a 64-bit syslinux binary in the ISO, though.

#13 Updated by Anonymous 2015-06-10 20:01:05

> we need to make sure the syslinux installed on the MBR matches exactly the syslinux modules extracted from the ISO.
> you might be hit by the lack of a 64-bit syslinux binary in the ISO, though.

That actually concerns only the 64bit version for now, which is handled by Feature #9381

#18 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-26 04:09:57

I see that the launcher has a link to “documentation”, that’s broken outside of Tails. It would be good to grep for other similar issues.

#19 Updated by Anonymous 2015-09-22 15:02:23

intrigeri wrote:
> I see that the launcher has a link to “documentation”, that’s broken outside of Tails. It would be good to grep for other similar issues.

nice find.
i corrected this in [feature/jessie 930168e].

#20 Updated by Anonymous 2015-09-22 15:10:31

did not find similar issues, but po files need to be uodated with the new strings.

#22 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-02 15:06:27

I remember we had that encoding bug, that occured only when run in some non-English locales, when some external process failed and output non-ascii chars in its error message. Is that bug tracked somewhere? It’s probably a blocker for uploading to sid, but maybe not for uploading to experimental first.

Anything else remaining to do here, that would be a blocker for the initial upload to sid?

#23 Updated by Anonymous 2015-10-02 15:10:15

intrigeri wrote:
> I remember we had that encoding bug, that occured only when run in some non-English locales, when some external process failed and output non-ascii chars in its error message. Is that bug tracked somewhere? It’s probably a blocker for uploading to sid, but maybe not for uploading to experimental first.

opened a new ticket here: Bug #10327

> Anything else remaining to do here, that would be a blocker for the initial upload to sid?

i think everything else has been resolved. yay!