[Live-CD discussions] Hi,
to add another note to the current live-cd discussions: I've just yesterday made a "knoppix"-kind live-CD from scratch, which is plain debian sarge (debootstrap) + some knoppix packages, but no hacks. The only "changed" file is: "/etc/inittab" and I cannot assure that /etc/network/interfaces is still the same. (Klaus knoppix-creation script did overwrite it.) It has no X, no other installed packages and uses debian kernel 2.4.26 (that also is new). The creation of the miniroot was a bit tricky, but as I don't think other debian kernels will change much, the nextz update should be straightforward. I wanted to wait for release, but as you want to start hacking I thought it would be an good idea to give you access to my work. (I'm starting to upload an iso in some minutes ...) Btw. for quick testing qemu is a great ressource, especially if you are working in boot sequences. The debian installer team should take a look (if they haven't yet) to test their iso images ... Its mostly: qemu -cdrom file.iso -hd hd.img or so ... The package with the neccessary dependencies and recommends can be found on http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/debian/knoppix-autoconfig/. And no it is not lintian clean ;-). I think you could use that as start for your live-cd, because imho you won't find a cleaner base to start with, with the additional possibility to change the standard runlevels as easy as possible. (I mean you can experiment with it, and imho a lviecd will always have different runlevels then hd ... (you won't start ssh by default even if its installed ...) ) Btw. if one wants to use debians "mkinitrd" I would love to have some improvements for it ;-). cu Fabian PS: That is the work that has come from many good ideas on debian-custom. Just to give some credits.
