syslinux "Install" menu item does not work in Sugar Live Build 20191002

[deejoe]

As reported initially http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-October/057225.html

and with more detail http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-October/057226.html

[quozl]

It isn't clear what @chimosky wanted the install step to do. Ibiam, please advise?

I note #10 thanks. On buster, "man lb_config" explains;

--debian-installer true|cdrom|netinst|netboot|businesscard|live|false

      defines  which  type, if any, of the debian-installer should be in-
      cluded in the resulting binary image. By default, no  installer  is
      included. All available flavours except live are the identical con-
      figurations used on the installer media  produced  by  regular  de-
      bian-cd.  When  live is chosen, the live-installer udeb is included
      so that debian-installer will behave different than usual - instead
      of  installing  the  debian system from packages from the medium or
      the network, it installs the live system to the disk.

The live installer seems useful.

I don't recall what the previous release in 2017 was able to do. My notes are not detailed. But I have a vague memory of installing it. The 2017 release was based on Debian Stretch, where "man lb_config" also says that is defaults to not including an installer. The Debian Sugar Blend project uses live, and it is very likely that I used that as a basis. But the lb config step wasn't included in git. It is now.

I propose to use live installer.

[deejoe]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 04:03:48PM -0700, James Cameron wrote: I propose to use live installer.

Trying that now. (I spoke too soon about running chroot on a disk that had enough room to run parallel build directories--I had room for exactly one before filling it. After fussing with mount options [the larger drive was mounted nodev,noexec and so needed remounted], I'm now running the image builds in a larger drive.)

[quozl]

Thanks!