On Sat, July 29, 2006 8:28 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone on the list made their own boot CD? >
Yes, I have, twice at least. > 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, > The mepis thing that Robert mentioned sounds good. However a very good tool is gentoo's build tool catalyst. Quite time consuming though. You could do something with geexbox too quite easily. > Andrew >
