On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:11, you wrote: > Andrew, > > > 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. > > If it was me, I'd just write an etherboot CD from > http://rom-o-matic.net and install LTSP on the server. That way you > don't have to stuff around making a custom live CD. > > You can get your kernel and your filesystem via NFS and start X. Get > your display manager to automatically log your terminal in and start > your slideshow.
Yes, I already do that for the lounge MP3 player. Unfortunately, you can't do a network boot rom for a PCMCIA ethernet card, which is what I'll be using since the picture frame PC will be an old laptop. =:^( A
