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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: evraire AT tuwg.com
  • Cc: Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISOs, cloop and hardware detection
  • Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:09:41 -0600

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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