On Thu, 01 Dec 2011, Holger Beetz wrote:

> > AFAIK it is recognized by the partition label "live-rw"

> I am not shure about this ! I have seen different labels for this on
> various page. But sometimes they did not always relate to Debian.

yes, it is configurable. However we are branching live-debian (and
merging updates upon review) so we have control on this. The name of
the label is a simple configuration directive in the live script:
see http://ur1.ca/69qia


> > with some time, this could be automated in d:b, with a minimalist
> > interface made with glade or so, a'la nesting in d:b.
> Would Zenity also be acceptable ?

I find glade more comfortable, but in the past also gtk-dialog worked
well for simplier tasks, still that lacks value scrollers (for size)
and such advanced widgets.
I'm not sure about zenity, I've never used it.

ciao

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