<quote who="Tibor Pittich"> > On 14. Jun 2003 at 16:05, Buchan Milne wrote: > >> 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? > > cloop only should be only into initrd. user-space tool - you mean > create_compressed_fs? this is product from cloop compilation. >
But ideally all kernel modules *should* go in the kernel package, so if cloop isn't yet, maybe we should ask the kernel team. >> > 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? > > as i say, it works fine for me. tested at aprox. 10 different machines, > some notebooks. there is some problems with sound, but this is maybe > about cooperation with alsa? > This can only be improved with wider testing ... >> > 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 > > i create my custom ;) but this is documented, how create your own splash > screen. > Not very well of course! I have managed a bootsplash theme, but syslinux and lilo theme scripts didn't like something about the images I tried (IIRC docs don't specify the exact format/options needed) >> 2)pre-prepared home directory (/home/knoppix on Knoppix) > > this one (ok, not only this one;) ) i borrowed from minicd project > (which is unfortunatelly dead?): http://www.linuxminicd.org/ > >> 3)Support for floppyconfig (like Knoppix) > > i don't know what is this. nowhere i use floppy ;) > >> 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?) > > sure, /etc and /home directory is typically mounted into ramdisk > >> 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. > > i have this still only on my disk and it is still too complicated to > reproducing. but if bootable cd idea is good enough for mandrake, i can > create (maybe) it reproductable (you know what i mean?) > I think this would be cool. In the meantime, it might help if you could make what you have available, you may get patches ... >> 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 ... > > as i say, i active work about this. i try make public available version > for creating custom iso's and i try documenting it, but i don't know > when.. IMHO, we should make an entry on the Wiki for this, link it into the feature request page, and people who have time and are interested can document it as and when they have time. Regards, Buchan
