On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Roland Mas wrote: > Niall Young, 2003-11-20 09:50:29 +0100 : > > > It's really got nothing to do with Knoppix at this stage, that's > > just where I'd like to take it - standardise on a toolkit for making > > live CDs. > > You may want to check out (and contribute to :-) Debix, which has a > similar goal. Debix has a project on alioth.debian.org.
Looks good but I'm using mkinitrd-cd to handle booting and the live filesystem (NFSROOT) is created by FAI. The next goal is to get FAI installing into a chroot, which gives you a live filesystem of a defined FAI class. Not hard, I just haven't had time yet. The emphasis here is on using FAI's class mechanism as a complete *description* of any host. I'm more interested in using class definitions to create a host, than in extracting a class or filesystem from an existing host. The goal is not only to automate installation of Debian, but to use the *very same* classes and install mechanism to automate creation of live CDs. Then get all of this into d-i so it's a standard feature of Debian. Then Debian subprojects can concentrate on defining classes, drawing upon Debian to create subset/customised distributions, instead of every subproject maintaining their own installation and build tools, custom package pools etc. Anyone willing to sponsor? :-) -- Niall Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
