Tibor Pittich said: > On 14. Jun 2003 at 10:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I think a lot of the tools from Knoppix could be used for this, and it >> should not be too difficult. > > no one tool is needed from knoppix. there is only needed isolinux (which > is in mdk) to allow booting from cd, and optionally cloop for compressed > root file system.
I assume cloop needs to be in-kernel (or as a module in the initrd?). Plus IIRC there is a user-space tool? > for hardware autodetection we have harddrake, and it > works similar like knoppix hw detection and works fine Is it good enough to run the harddrake service to configure all hardware out-the-box? > for my > pre-release project to bootable live cd based on cooker for slovak/czech > users :) I was also meaning things like: 1)splash screen for isolinux 2)pre-prepared home directory (/home/knoppix on Knoppix) 3)Support for floppyconfig (like Knoppix) 4)Support in drakxtools to configure devices (ie network cards) without having to write a config file to a non-writeable FS (or is /etc writable in Knoppix?) 5)Support for some of the features only available in some versions of Knoppix (encrypted home directory on USB storage, encrypted swap with one-time key) 6)A script to pull it all together which generates an ISO. 7)Configs for said script which generates a bootable CD of different configurations. All the real competition (Debian, SuSE, Gentoo) already have something like this, it would be cool to have an easy-to-use script for Mandrake so we can blow them all out of the water (allowing users to make bootable Games CDs, bootable firewalls, bootable forensics, bootable cluster, bootable drakTermServ, compile cluster (distcc?) etc. If we could get configs contributed for this kind of thing in the package, it could be very cool ... Regards, Buchan
