On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > What about a "metadistro" with a cdrom (in the future a dvdrom) runing > Mandrake from the cd-driver? similar to Knoppix but with all the Mandrake > goodies.
# urpmi mklivecd # mklivecd livecd.iso # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 livecd.iso (of course, there is still some work to do, and you might want to change some defaults). I have a 195MB ISO with minimal KDE and grass + sample data that works quite well, just using this method. Hardawre detection is done by the hwdetect perl script (uses Mandrake hardware detection libraries - and needs some testing). > > Lot of people has started to use linux after a successfull Knoppix/Gnome-live > cd experience. I agree, and I would like to see: - a semi-official live CD ISO (or CD placed in ProSuite boxes) - configurations ditributed for/with mklivecd that mimic some of the popular KNOPPIX-based distros. I have some work to do before I have an ISO that is better (easier to use, more GIS apps, much smaller ISO) than GIS-Knoppix. It would be nice to see someone contribute a GNOPPIX one, I will try and do a KNOPPIX-like one also, and some others are working on some other ones (surpise!). For more info, see http://minicd.berlios.de and http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/minicd-scripts BTW, some constraints of a bootable distro will hopefully make for some improvements in Mandrake, as you are happy to change a setting once for an installation, but not every time you boot a live cd (in my case I want my display card to default to 16bit like it does on Knoppix instead of 24bit as on Mandrake which gives screen artefacts). Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
