On 05/25/16 20:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Tim Tassonis wrote:
Hi Bruce
On 04/18/16 22:24, Bruce Dubbs 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.
If you are interested, I can send you my scripts to do all this, but
maybe
you already have a better solution for all the booting/root disk stuff in
place.
I've dropped the ball on this and am working on other things right now.
One issue I came across in my earlier review was the problem of writable
partitions from a CD/DVD. It just seems like a kludge. The old iso is
not capable of being loaded on a thumb drive without some modifications
and I haven't figured that out yet.
I then thought how the CD/DVD paradigm is so last decade. I think it
would be much easier to produce an iso that targets a thumb drive only.
Users could then add packages as they see fit.
Comments?
A thumb drive solution of of course would be much easier, as you could
get rid of all the initrd/squashfs stuff. You'd only need two partitions
on the thumb drive, an iso boot partition which then would mount a
regular ext4 partition on the same drive by partionid directly, without
any need of indirection.
I could provide this alternative in the hint too, it's really the
easiest case, requiring no initrd/squashfs/overlayfs magic.
Kind regards
Tim
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