Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2004 18:19 schrieb Alex de Landgraaf: > Quoting Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I didn't understand whether you are going to work with debix or what.. > > > > I didn't have time to try debix, but it looks very promising to me > > comparing with Knoppix and Morphix, especially because it seems to be > > fully Debian compliant. > > I too haven't tried debix myself, but a (soon-to-be?) DD did check it out a > few days ago and found it rather... broken. Anyway, the use of DV/LVM2 for > overlaying is very cool indeed, and I'd love to see if this could be used > for our modules instead of the existing hacks.
No, it cannot in my humble opinion. There is a design issue, which cannot be overcome too easily and you loose the possibility to speed-optimize (you have to use ext3 to allow overlay to work :-/). Also as far as I can see there can just be a writable snapshot so much less, then what you do with morphix right now. Problem for example are: - Kernel crashes, when space exceeds snapshot ... - df is not updated (not even possible, as block-layer does know nothing about filesystem layer) > Still prefer my modular way > of making livecds, but I'm open to cooperation. Please don't forget to include me in your plans / projects - if I can help I'll glady will ;-). > > And about being Debian compliant... policies exist to be broken ;) Disagree. I have uploaded some packages and mail which also create a live-cd, which is fully debian policy compliant. (I don't think a live-cd has to boot like from HD?) In short: You can change inittab (conffile :-) ) and point to rc-livecd / rcS-livecd, which then use /etc/livecd/rc*.d/ ... (I did use knoppix as name instead livecd though - shame on me ;-) ) (See here for more information and also a testcd-link: http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2004/05/msg00077.html - seems that everyone has overseen that mail ;-) ) Btw. has anyone of the CDD-makers thought about needing / using an own rc*.d-structure? While it is nice to have sshd on CD, it is not neccessary / wanted that that should be automatically started and so there can be other "profiles" for starting for example from a Live-DVD. cu Fabian > Btw: yesterday I've given a talk at debconf on CDL (Custom Debian Live > CDs), you can find the slides on http://am.xs4all.nl/docs/debconf/img0.html Thanks, I'll have a look :-).
