I've been playing with bootable business cards, and there is a script that allows you to create a bootable cd from _any_ linux distro it's called Bernhard's Bootable Linux CD and it's available from http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/
I haven't played with it yet, mostly because I don't have ready access to a burner, but it sounds sort of like what you are looking for. Myself I'm interested in having a CD that's got My workspace and toolset on it to the point where I can walk up to any recent model workstation, drop a CD in, run a few scripts to get on the network, and go to work. I have been running a live filesystem on fairly fast machine at efn, (fast enough that Mozilla is not too painful) and have been learning a fair bit about the in's and out's of running a fast but diskless workstation, next step is gonna be some form of networked file system. And a decent emacs on the CD ;-) http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bob Crandell wrote: > After watching this thread for awhile, it finally occured to me that I'm trying to > do this same thing with Gnome. Make an install disk using source code all tarred > up and scripted. Has anyone else been there, done that? > > Justin Bengtson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:18 AM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: [EUG-LUG:508] Re: naive distro questions > > > ><snippety> > > > >> one can always add cruft later ;) Or, one could just tar up > >> a whole customized system, with whatever additions and deletions > >> suit one's fancy and call it site30.tgz (assuming kernel version 3.0) > >> and the install script on the OpenBSD install disk will install > >> (simply untar) that instead. You can also add an executable called > >> "install.site" in / of the site30 tarball which will be run after > >> the standard install script - system clonig the easy way. > > > >is there a way to do this with linux? i was thinking that once i get LFS up > >and running, i can just tar the whole damn thing up and send it to a cd. > >then i just need a boot disk able to run tar. when and if my system gets > >too loaded with crap, i can just wipe and un-tar the site file. this may > >get more complicated than i thought, but it sounds really nice. maybe > >program a small perl installer for it... > > > >is there anything else involved besides the tarball, tar, tools to create > >partitions and file systems and a boot disk? > > > > > > >
