On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been thinking thinking about a new Live CD/Rescue CD based on LFS. It > would be much less ambitious than the old one that included an X > implementation. > > What I had in mind is a base LFS system with the following: > > dhcpcd > wget > ssh/ssl > which > links > screen > mc > gptfdisk > gpm > LFS HTML > LFS sources tarball > > What else? Other possibilities: > unzip > subversion > git > wireless-tools > wpa-supplicant > > -- Bruce > > I have had that idea for a long time actually. I would add stuff like pciutils, usbutils, hdparm, sg3_utils, ntfs-3g, parted, etc. to make it a more complete testing/rescue platform (and the ntfs-3g comes from my personal experience, since I use it regularly because I have a copy of my sources on a USB External Hard Drive that I copy over when needed on a new system). The pciutils and usbutils could be used to aid the user in knowing what to enable in the kernel before building it. I think that unzip, subversion, git, wireless-tools, and wpa-supplicant would be useful, however I would also add a copy of the latest jhalfs snapshot into that as well. It wouldn't be a bad idea to add all of the other filesystem programs that we have into the book into the LiveCD as well, as those could help recover a broken filesystem. If anyone uses MD RAID or LVM, I can see adding those utilities to the LiveCD helping them rescue a system. If a person is trying to determine whether or not their system is running too hot, lm_sensors could help out there. smartmontools would be incredibly useful as well, seeing as it could allow a person to run a test on their hard drive and/or find out whether or not the SMART data is reporting that it is failing. Might want to add Sudo as well, seeing as jhalfs needs it. Another thing... were you going to use OpenSSL or GnuTLS for wget? If I remember correctly, we had some problems with OpenSSL and Wget, and that is why the book recommends GnuTLS. Will the LiveCD need an initramfs to boot? This is a great idea! Douglas R. Reno
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