On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:55PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Sven Hoexter [Thu, Jan 23 2003, 09:31:13PM]:
Hi, > > Ahh and where do you want to store the iso? AFAIK on the fly creation of > > a bootable cd is something quite complex ... ah and don't try to think of > > a 650MB ramdisk ;) (Ok I have 1GB RAM in this box here but that is not > > average I think) > > Why? For the compression utility? In the last version (in Sid), there is > a more efficient tool that does not need to keep the whole image in the > memory while compressing it. I thought that you have to write the whole iso somewhere bevor you can burn it but Grisu said something about doing this with pipes. I will look into this topic when I did my first steps with the debian-cd stuff - in one or two weeks I think ;) > > > ok, vielleicht sind meine Erfahrungen wirklich was einseitig, wenn ich > > > hier so gro�en Wiederspruch bekomme. > > or you just lost the view of the averrage user ;) I think I've lost it too > > but my (girl)friend brings me back to the roots sometimes. > > Ack. An average user wants hardware detection, a simple short selection > of idiot-proof packages with idiot-proof defaults. Something Knoppix and > Mandrake can provide, but Debian cannot. Well using pgi might be an option but that is something I ignore for the moment. If you have more experience and would like to do it feel free :) I will play with it anyway for my own pleasure when I know the basics. Sven -- One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. Have you mooed today? http://www.hoaxter.de/cows.txt Apt-rpm packages for RedHat: http://www.hoaxter.de/aptrpm/index.html
