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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Other than using it to modify the SystemRescueCD
http://www.systemrescuecd.org/ for specific purposes no. But a
SourceMage LiveCD would be great, and would help any way I can.

I know the SystemRescueCD is base on a Gentoo system using the livecd-ng
script.  

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 19:31, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> 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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