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[evraire AT tuwg.com]

Hi,
  I'm looking into creating a SourceMage-based LiveCD.  The target for my 
first attempt is to create a CD that boots into xfce4 on my particular 
system, but eventually I would like to be able to build something like 
Knoppix.  I plan to document my trials and, if successful (and people seem 
interested), maybe put up a HOWTO on the wiki.

  To get more stuff on the CD, Knoppix uses cloop, a compressed filesystem.  
They also have a special auto-hardware detection utility.  However, it's 
Debian-based and as such I'm not certain it would work under SourceMage.  I'm 
wondering if any of you have any experience using either cloop or Knoppix' 
auto-configurator (in particular on a boot CD) and would be willing to share 
your experience?

  I think a SourceMage LiveCD could prove useful in allowing users of other 
distributions/operating systems to try out SourceMage without affecting their 
system.  It could also possibly open doors for our installer ISO, such as a 
graphical installation or having more utilities on the CD without increasing 
it's size (via cloop).

  Anyway, wish me luck! :)

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


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