Richard A Downing wrote:
IIRC, way back in the mists of time (Ok, a couple of years ago), there was a page in BLFS that said something like 'we plan to have instructions here on building your own Rescue/Boot CD'. It may have said floppy) I guess someone put this in instead.
Interesting. I don't recall ever seeing that. I did a quick look through the BLFS museum and I didn't see any reference to it, but I didn't look very thouroughly. No matter. (I believe you, I was just wanted to see what it said.)
Now, looking about on the website I discovered that you guys in the LiveCD project have a method: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/documentation.html however, this isn't a proper description of an infalible method, it's more a set of hints (lower case) that might lead a well informed hacker to create a method. I think this topic deserves a proper 'LiveCD Project' approved Hint.
Yeah it's a pretty poor excuse for anything, really. :( Plus it only applies to the first CD I did on my own, the 6.0 CDs. Once Alexander started contributing regularly some of the core systems of the CD changed and the notes there don't fit anymore. I have a half-edited "new" version of that file in my home dir. I keep starting and stopping on it.
Justin rightly points out that there are a couple of old hints that are relevant, but (having slept on it) I think we could do better - and to do this in a way fully aligned with the offical LiveCD and the Stable Books would be beneficial.
Yes, perhaps this would be beneficial. I suppose we could write a new chaper/mini-book on how to build a simple and straight-forward rescue CD based on the technology behind the official one... Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
Diplodocus.
Ahhh. So not as scary and carnivorous as I first imagined. :) -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
