On Friday 04 August 2006 10:19, Nick Rout wrote:
> I want to boot a keyboardless computer from a cd that will enable me to
> log in remotely over ssh and then install some software like dvbtools
> and some other stuff to play around with my dvb-s card, and without any
> user intervention on the box itself (apart from putting the cd in and
> flicking a switch of course). Of course this would be a rather insecure
> default setup given that it would leave the box open to be logged into -
> I imagine people wouldn't normally ship a cd that did that.
>
> ubuntu 5.10 booted fine, but doesn't have sshd and would require a
> keyboard to install sshd.
>
> small and light would be good, I want X but am not really fussed about
> having gnome or kde or any other memory hogs.
>
> Do I have to make something myself?

The SLAX live CD "Server Edition" may do what you want, I've always found it 
(SLAX) a great little live CD.

http://www.slax.org/

hads

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