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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:31, 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.

I would like to see splinter projects like this properly coordinated, our 
cauldron/ISO team would benefit from any work done here.

>   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?

The Cauldron Team has been working on integrating the knoppix hardware 
detection for 6 months, contact Team Lead for their status.


>   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).

More utilities for installing, rescuing would be nice, but I am not sure we 
need a GUI installer.
Same recommendation here though, contact Cauldron Team. find out if your 
paths 
intersect and if possible use existing tools or extend existing tools. 
Modularity will save us all a lot of grief in the future.
Hamish

>   Anyway, wish me luck! :)
>
>   Jonathan Evraire
>   evraire at tuwg.com
>
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