On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Douglas R. Reno wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> > 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 >> > > Seems reasonable. > > [snip] > > 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. >> > > I don't want to add jhalfs. The intent is not to over-automate. If > someone really want to, they could just copy the files to a fresh partition > and set things up fairly quickly. > > OK, that makes sense. I can agree with that. > 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. >> > > IIRC that was a security issue with openssl that has now been fixed. > > Will the LiveCD need an initramfs to boot? >> > > No, but the kernel will be fairly large. It is not intended to support > everything though. Just a typical x86_64 based system starting to a > virtual screen. > > OK, that makes sense. If you decide to script the build, can you send me a copy of the files? I would like to make a systemd adaptation just to prove that it can be done (that would include the systemd book and sources, as well as the kernel options necessary for it and systemd itself... could be used for reading the journal of a failed system and recovering it).
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