[OpenSource live USB OS] BitSafe, a safety deposit box for your bitcoins.

[rb1205]

Version 0.4 released. It's just to update bitcoin client to version 0.5

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[Red Emerald]

Did you build the UPNP support?  I'm adding namecoin to my fork and want to keep it consistent.

How do I build an ISO instead of an IMG? I thought "lb config -b iso" would do it, but that doesn't seem to work.

[rb1205]

Did you build the UPNP support?

You mean bitcoin or the OS? The bitcoin I use is the binary release from the homepage and no, i did not incude any library or binary for upnp in the image. Please note that I set up iptables to drop all incoming traffic, so you may want to soften it a bit.

How do I build an ISO instead of an IMG? I thought "lb config -b iso" would do it, but that doesn't seem to work.

That's because of the auto/config script: every time you use lb config you launch the standard configuration (note the " Executing auto/config script." debug output).
To avoid this, either use the noauto mode ("lb config noauto -b iso", or iso-hybrid) after a normal "lb config" or edit the auto/config script setting --binary-images to iso.

[Red Emerald]

I'm building an IMG now.  Wish me luck.

I noticed that tor was installing from the debian repos.  The Tor Project recommends that you use their repos to be sure you get updates ASAP.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian

I changed my build system's sources.list, but I've never worked with live-build before, so I'm not quite sure if I need to make a sources.list for live-build.

[Red Emerald]

I ended up using the IMG instead of an ISO.

It took me a few steps to get it working on Mac with VirtualBox like I want it to.  (I don't have a machine that I want to boot from USB)

1. Convert the IMG to a VDI: VBoxManage convertfromraw -format VDI binary.img binary.vdi
2. Go into VirtualBox and create a VM with a harddrive w/e size you want (I chose 20GB, although it doesn't seem to be using all of it)
3. Clone the data on your new hd using:
VBoxManage clonehd –existing binary.vdi newhd.vdi
4. Launch VirtualBox and boot into the VM
5. sudo apt-get install gparted (not sure if this part matters)
6. make an EXT2 partition with label "live-rw" that fills the rest of the HD (not sure if this part matters)
7. Run the "Format Storage" tool.  This overrote my large image with a 1.86GB crypt-luks.

Is there anyway to make this encrypted storage larger? I am running both bitcoin and namecoin and need the storage to be larger.

How did you get bitcoin to use /storage/bitcoin instead of $HOME/.bitcoin?  I can't seem to find anything that sets that path, but I want to do the same for my namecoind. EDIT: aha! I found the wrapper scripts in src/chroot_local-includes/usr/bin/storage_wrappers/

I'll have some more pull requests up soon (mostly just fixing typos in docs and comments). I really like the notification scripts when anything happens.  Great work so far!

[simonk83]

I'll be installing this tonight, good work   I agree though that I'd much prefer the current blockchain (or most of it, obviously) to be included by default.    It's such a painful task downloading that thing, I hate doing it

On that note, I'd love to see Electrum included with this in the future.  Would make a good match I think.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50936.0

[simonk83]

Is there any chance you can include Truecrypt as part of the default install?    That'd be awesome

[Red Emerald]

Is there any chance you can include Truecrypt as part of the default install?    That'd be awesome

The persistent storage is already encrypted. How many times do you want to encrypt your wallet?

[simonk83]

Is there any chance you can include Truecrypt as part of the default install?    That'd be awesome

The persistent storage is already encrypted. How many times do you want to encrypt your wallet?

Fair enough   To be fair, when I wrote that, I'd just installed BitSafe and needed a way to decrypt my already encrypted wallet.  Didn't really cross my mind that the storage partition would end up encrypted anyway, but now that I've managed to install Truecrypt once and decrypt my wallet, I won't need to worry about it again.

[rb1205]

Is there anyway to make this encrypted storage larger? I am running both bitcoin and namecoin and need the storage to be larger.

Sure, just edit the BITSAFE_MIN_FREE variable in the bitsafe.live.conf. Now that I look at it, it's really a bad name.... I'll change it to something more intuitive.

I'll have some more pull requests up soon (mostly just fixing typos in docs and comments). I really like the notification scripts when anything happens.  Great work so far!

Nice 

I'll be installing this tonight, good work Smiley   I agree though that I'd much prefer the current blockchain (or most of it, obviously) to be included by default.    It's such a painful task downloading that thing, I hate doing it Sad

On that note, I'd love to see Electrum included with this in the future.  Would make a good match I think.

I'm working on a script that downloads, checks and installs a copy of the chain from a trusted source.
Regarding alternative/thin client, for now i'll stick with the official client only.

Is there any chance you can include Truecrypt as part of the default install?    That'd be awesome

Well, Truecrypt could be useful for managing backups. For now, I added it on a side branch.

[Red Emerald]

Have you seen rsnapshot?  It is a super simple way to do backups.  The only problem is that it doesn't have any sort of encryption.  maybe if you connected it with truecrypt, that could work.

In my searches, I also came across http://duplicity.nongnu.org/. I haven't used it yet, but it sounds like it would be easy to do encrypted and compressed backups.


EDIT: You really do have strict firewall rules!  I added some code to "tor-route-disable" to get bitcoind and namecoind to accept rpc commands.

Code:

#Allow loopback connections to bitcoind and namecoind
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p tcp --dport 8332 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p tcp --dport 9332 -j ACCEPT

[btc_artist]

Interesting project.

[fivemileshigh]

Download the Binary Image file and flash it on your drive.

On Linux: sudo dd if=/path/to/binary.img of=/dev/sdX (where sdX is the name of your device)
On Windows: I recommend Image Writer. You'll need to launch it as administrator. Go pick the downloaded binary.img file, choose the letter of the drive you wish to install bitsafe on and press "Write".

What would you suggest to use on a Mac? I tried Disk Utility and I got: "Restore Failure - Could not validate source - Invalid argument"

Thanks!

[Red Emerald]

Download the Binary Image file and flash it on your drive.

On Linux: sudo dd if=/path/to/binary.img of=/dev/sdX (where sdX is the name of your device)
On Windows: I recommend Image Writer. You'll need to launch it as administrator. Go pick the downloaded binary.img file, choose the letter of the drive you wish to install bitsafe on and press "Write".

What would you suggest to use on a Mac? I tried Disk Utility and I got: "Restore Failure - Could not validate source - Invalid argument"

Thanks!

Use dd.  Mac's have it and it should work exactly the same as on linux.

[rb1205]

What would you suggest to use on a Mac? I tried Disk Utility and I got: "Restore Failure - Could not validate source - Invalid argument"

I found this miniguide, as said you should be able to use dd as on Linux, but you have to unmount the device first.

[Red Emerald]

What would you suggest to use on a Mac? I tried Disk Utility and I got: "Restore Failure - Could not validate source - Invalid argument"

I found this miniguide, as said you should be able to use dd as on Linux, but you have to unmount the device first.

Oh yeah. I forgot about that step.  Un-mounting the flash drive should let dd work.  Don't eject it though.

[simonk83]

Stupid question alert!

I'm not good with Linux.  At all.   How do I go about updating bitcoin to 0.5.1 in this installation?

Thanks

[Red Emerald]

Stupid question alert!

I'm not good with Linux.  At all.   How do I go about updating bitcoin to 0.5.1 in this installation?

Thanks

If you aren't good with linux.  Wait until rb1205 comes out with a new IMG for you to use. That, or start learning

[simonk83]

I'll wait, just wasn't sure if development had stopped...

[rb1205]

Hi! No, development hasn't stopped. To upgrade the bitcoin client to 5.1 you have to rebuild the image, it's an easy task but you need a functional debian system to do that, which doesn't seem to be your case. Just wait my next release