Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I'd suggest SystemRescueCD. It's upgraded quite often (currently using kernel 2.6.35-x) has a ready to go X11 environment and most useful, it's an up-to-date Gentoo system, so one immediately knows where to look if there are any problems. And it has a well documented (easy) procedure for extending

[gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and then run one console-mode application. Instead of building something from scratch, I was hoping I might be able to modify an existing liveCD. There's no need for

Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module and then run one console-mode application. Instead of building

Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:02:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes ages to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD is intended as something a customer can run to do a quick hardware test, and making them sit there for 5 minutes to see a