Re: GSoC: LiveCD

2008-05-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthew Dillon wrote: :The GSoC is now upon us and so it is time to hear what you guys would :like to see on the new and improved: :DragonFly The X Edition Live-CD Is it going to be a CD or a DVD ? That's an important distinction. Personally I think a special-edition Live-CD is

Re: GSoC: LiveCD

2008-05-19 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Oliver Fromme wrote: On the other hand, there are still some machines that only have CD-ROM drives (not DVD). Maybe those could be supported with a stripped-down version of the DVD, e.g. by omitting some cool-but-not-important stuff (some script could generate this automatically). In the

Re: GSoC: LiveCD

2008-05-19 Thread Louisa Luciani
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: On the other hand, there are still some machines that only have CD-ROM drives (not DVD). Maybe those could be supported with a stripped-down version of the DVD, e.g. by omitting some cool-but-not-important stuff (some script could

Re: GSoC: LiveCD

2008-05-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Perhaps we could have the liveDVD as the default platform then and : use techniques (compression/omission) to make liveCDs compatible? : :Yes, that's exactly what I meant to say. : :Best regards : Oliver : :-- :Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M.

Re: Problem Booting new System 1.12 live cd

2008-05-19 Thread Joe Talbott
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 05:21:10PM -0700, Dylan Reinhold wrote: I have not used DragonFly in a long time (I think the last ver was 1.0). I just got a new system, so I wanted to see how DragonFly would play, but the live CD 1.12 (from Simon's site) wont boot with or without ACPI. It

/dev f*ckup

2008-05-19 Thread wazigster
I screwed up the owner/group settings of the /dev/* files, while as root in the /dev folder doing: #chown -R john:users * *I was kinda sleep deprived, so I only noticed it after pressing the enter key, that I was in the wrong directory as a fix I did: #chown -R root:wheel * so now my whole