Hi, Has anyone on the list made their own boot CD?
I want to do the following on a laptop with no hard drive: 1) Boot from CD 2) Load X 3) Mount an NFS share 4) Start a slideshow of image files found on the share That's it. I just spent some time replacing the CCFL in a laptop display, and that, plus the guts of the laptop, will be installed within a picture frame to make a 'walltop' or live photo frame. Yes, all the cool kids were doing that last year... I decided I don't need a hard drive, but I can't do a remote boot from a PCMCIA card, and I certainly don't want to bother with a floppy. I suppose I could try and boot from a USB stick, but I don't think the old laptop BIOS supports it. The whole thing should be silent- once the CD spins down there will only be the occasional whine of the CPU fan. Also, no need for an orderly shutdown- just pull the plug. Turning it on again might be tricky though, I don't think the BIOS has 'boot after power failure'. Anyone tried it? Knoppix used to be the best base for this sort of roll-your-own project. Is there anything easier/better now? Thanks in advance, Andrew
