I haven't been looking to this mailing list for a while now... Well, maybe I missed something, but, is anybody working on a bootable/usable-from-cd complete debian linux system?
Guess so. Well, let's start from the beginning, then. I've recently installed a couple firewalls in different places. Well, I needed a kernel 2.4 and a lot of tools every time I needed to install/upgrade from remote. And after all, I had to clean up the system, erasing all source files, debian packages, header files and stuff like gcc, make ... After the last installation, I got tired of all of this and realized a boot cd with a complete (for my purposes) debian installation on it, that used the cdrom as root file system without need of any installation process. I then announced it on the iptables mailing list, since I thought it was going to be of interest to anybody who used to install and configure firewalls. I haven't posted it on any internet site yet because I have a slow internet connection and I'm working to correct some stuff I don't like about it. I was hoping to put it on sourceforge or something like that in about a week. Since it was for my own use, it's a sort of home made, anyway I think it works pretty well right now. X loads on every frame-buffer compatible system. The boot cd does not recognize the cdrom drive by itself but I'm working on that right now and I think it'll work in a few days (it used to take a parameter on syslinux boot-prompt). Mozilla and gimp work (I had some space left on device) and I made two scripts, one to make /etc rw, the other one to make only network related configuration files rw. It doesn't have any startup/setup script since it was meant for my own use, so I just hardcoded on the cd an Italian keyboard and a ps2 mouse. Since I used a 2.4 kernel, I used the testing debian distribution. The only thing I haven't upgraded is X, since I have a slow internet connection, I didn't need it for my purposes (it was just cool to see) and I din't want to wait forever to get everything running. I'd like to take part to the project, maybe I can help you out some way. Sorry about being this late, I probably should have posted something like this earlyer... Bye, Carlo!
