Tim Churches wrote: > Sebastian Hilbert wrote: >> On Sunday 01 April 2007 16:00, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:48:06AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote: >>>> Just found that >>>> >>>> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/postgresql-livecd-14866 >>>> It's based on xubuntu I read. >>>> >>>> Does someone feel like adding gnumed-client to it and bootstrapping a >>>> database ? >>> It does have Python but does it have psycopg2 ? One would >>> need to find out. I suppose one could get the author of >>> pg_live to include it if not. >> Guess so. Even if it is missing it shouldn't be too hard to get GNUmed >> running. I am just thinking of using it as a base for customization. > > There is a shell script in the latest tarball release for NetEpi > Collection (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/netepi ) which takes the > Ubuntu LiveCD distribution and strips out unecessay stuff, installs > PostgreSQL and NetEpi and various screencast demo movies and the manuals > etc, and then creates an ISO for burning. The resulting ISO is about > 350MB, wwhich is just half of the original Ubuntu ISO size. However, it > still needs 512MB of RAM to boot properly. > > I mention this because you might what to use that script as a starting > point. At some stage we want to try it with Xubuntu as well, which > should result in a considerably smaller ISO and lower booting memory > requirements. And of course update it for the latest release of Ubuntu, > which is in late beta release now. Happy to collaborate with GNUmed to > create a Ubuntu/Xubuntu config script that can be shared and customised > from NetEpi or GNUmed use.
I should add that we have tested the persistence option with PostgreSQL with the above liveCD and it works nicely: a) boot the liveCD b) plug in any USB memory key (or any other USB storage device, like an external hard drive - I've been using the tiny Seagate 2.5GB drives and they work really well)c) copy a single file to the root directory of the USB device - no need to reformat it or create a partition on it d) reboot the liveCD and choose persistence mode -> PostgreSQL is now mounted from the USB drive, and all data is staved there. It seems fairly robust, even when you pull the USB drive out without shutting down. I wouldn't recommend it for routine production use but it is great as a demo or for a trial system. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
