On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:52:47AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote: > Knoppix includes a lot of applications, which is great for general > purpose use but not so good for the purposes of demonstrating a single > application like GNUmed. Very true. See, the work to setup a live-CD has been done (and paid for) for us by a kind 3rd party person so *that's* what we can't do much about. We can certainly build on your work to get a leaner ISO. Thanks for the hint.
> We've been working on a demo liveCD for NetEpi, > based on Ubuntu 6.10. By carefully stripping out things that aren't > necessary, the resulting liveCD ISO, with PostgreSQL and Python and > Firefox and other NetEpi dependencies installed, but still with the the > full Gnome desktop, is down to about 320MB, Much better. > again. All this customisation and rebuilding of the liveCD ISO image is > done via a single shell script (which has lots of build environment > dependencies, but that is mostly a matter of apt-getting the > requirements on a Debian system to create the chrooted build environment > first). We'll be including this demo disc build script in the next > NetEpi release (Mozilla Public License) in the next few weeks, so there > is no reason why it couldn't be modified and used to create a slimmer, > Ubuntu-based GNUmed demo liveCD. Sounds good ! Please do let me know when you release it so we can benefit from your work. > The modified script would need to > retain its Mozilla license if you distributed it, No problem. > but there is no > compatibilty problem there with GNUmed's GPL licensing, since it is just > a build script, not something that communicates with or links to GNUmed > ar runtime (not that that is a problem anyway if you read the GPL > carefully). I agree. > Oh, we also have persistence working too (actually this is built-in tot > he Ubuntu liveCD, but a bit of extra fiddling was needed to get it > right). If the user unzip a file called casper-rw, which contains a > loopback ext3 filesystem, in the root directory of a USB memory stick, > and boots the demo liveCD and choses persistence mode, then all chnaged > data is stored on the USB stick - and this includes the PostgreSQL > database. Seems to work rather well. I wouldn't trust it for production > use, but great for demo purposes - you can enter data, close down, and > the reboot the demo liveCD with your USB stick inserted and bingo, all > your demo data is still there. Very nice ! Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
