Maybe the way the LiveCD was produced was too complicated. It was seen as a separate project which had its own approaches.
There is another way which I use with Secure-SLinux: I have a script which automatically creates a bootable cd image from any linux distribution current installed. Basically you can compile LFS/BLFS with jalfs (installing selected packages), run the script and you are done. No need to modify the script for a LFS/BLFS version update! The script works as follows: - creates a copy of the current linux installation in a separate directory - modifies a few startscripts - compresses that directory - creates an initrd the initrd will detect the cd, create a ram-disk which will become the new root-partition and another ram-disk which contains a compressed filesystem which contains the most important commands. Because of this 2nd compressed ramdisk, the livecd is nearly as fast as a distro on a harddrive and you can eject the cd while being able to continue to work with the live-distro! This is convenient when you need to insert another cd to copy data (eg. source files). During the boot process it will ask you which keyboard to use. It boots with framebuffer support - you can choose the resolution in the boot menu of the cd. So there is no need to configure XOrg in any way at all (mouse is autodetected by the kernel). I would recommend to put the following packages on the livecd: - all of LFS BLFS: - startup scripts, filesystems, dhcp, etc. - Xorg, XFCE, firefox, terminal, editor, etc. The script has worked nicely for the last few years. What do you think? After all - we do not want another project which installs the packages on the cd different from the way it is done in the book - or do we? The livecd should demonstrate that the book works as it is. Sebastian Faulborn IT - Consultant, M.Sc. Cambridge UK Homepage: http://www.secure-slinux.org <http://www.secure-slinux.org> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
