I am trying to boot Debian Live, using Grub, from a folder on my hard drive which is basically the contents of the iso. Here is my menu.lst:

title Debian
root (hd0,4)
kernel /Debian/live/vmlinuz1 boot=live union=aufs
initrd /Debian/live/initrd1.img

However, on boot, after a while, it says boot failed. The error message it gives is: "Unable to find device with live filesystem" or something similar. How would I fix this, if it's possible to do?

Your putting it too deep
in debian live's init or initrd is a command to look for debian under /live

you have it under /Debian
so, either extract and modify init/initrd or
get rid of the Debian folder and move everything up

also, you may have to add boot parameters to that kernel line

look in "live" folder for a file named parameters.txt or similar also

Thank you! It worked. Never would have thought of that.
Writing from Debian Live.

NO doubt

you running persistent?

http://live.debian.net/manual/html/persistence.html

I'm trying to remaster grml-medium at the moment and PMagic
http://multidistro.com/fluxboxp/fluxboxp.html

note that both grml and debian run persistent on a partition labeled live-rw
so, don't run both

which debian live you got?
I got the lxde one

I did not know one could boot / install "debian live". Did I miss something?

What do you mean?

you mean like you did?

yeah, some won't play persistent though

fed11 is good too
if you got a Big usb, like 8-16gb
you start up fed11 livecd, and download "liveusb-creator"
and then you put fed11 on usb and make a BIG persistent overlay
as big as usb will hold
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/wiki/FAQ

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

and then when it's done
you move everything from usb to hd
and edit menu.lst

then you got fed11 persistent and you don't even need to make a /boot partition or ext4 partiton

NOTE: debian live, running persistent, will not boot on a hd with a ext4 partition
thats why I found the fed11 workaround

so what did you mean

linus72,

Earlier today, in a separate thread, I stated I downloaded both "debian" and "debian live". The difference from what I could gather:

a) "debian" was an install cd (version 5.02) and came with gnome
b) "debian live" was a live cd (version 5.01) and could come with either gnome or kde, but it did not have an "install" option. At least I could not find an install option. Does it have such an option that I missed?

I think you can get the installer while running debian live

do apt-cache search installer or something

I do know that GRML can install debian from it's livecd

Do you know if I could find the installer via synaptic? Do you think getting the installer and using it would be difficult? I'm not too good at this stuff, so I try to be careful.

Thank you.

You could combine both the livecd and the install cd maybe

check out this stuff too
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-cddvd-590822/

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-to-hd-647203/

http://tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/87/sunil.html

apt-get install live-magic

Will that install a debian live cd? I've never heard of it.

Thanks.

live-magic is a graphical front-end for live-helper.
live-helper lets you create debian-live cd`s and customize them (nearly infinite).
with live-helper you might add a debian-installer to the live cd. i dont know if live-magic does that too, as i dont use it.

you may also put the live.iso manually on hardisk or usb. In other words: you may install it manually. In aint that difficult if you got a how-to.

a "usual" installation is the best way to go, if you want nothing but an installed debian system as a result. if you wanna play and learn a bit, check for live-helper; live-magic (?) or putting the iso manually on hard-disk.

to make it short: yes, one is able to install a debian-live.
greetings

ps: with remastersys it would work too...i think...