On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > I am playing around with dfsbuild; specifically, I am trying to create > an image that will fit on a mini CD and that will be useful for > day-to-day sysadmin tasks like backing up/repairing file systems and > debugging networking issues. > > I do have a configuration (included at the end of this post) that yields > a usable system. Yet, I would like to solicit input, mainly on my choice > of packages: Did I leave anything really important out? Is there > anything that seems utterly superfluous? > > I would love sharing the ISO file, too, but with my DSL connection it > would take hours to download it.
I have a bored server on which I could host a bit-torrent for you, so long as the demand is not too high. How big is the ISO? If anyone else wants free hosting (preferably for a good cause) I may be able to help. No guarantees though! I would like to make a crypto-enabled live-CD, preferably credit-card sized, which is recorded multi-session on a CD-R. The idea is, the first time you boot it on a machine with a CD-burner, and it generates or imports cryptographic keys for you, and burns them on the second session of the CD-R. Obviously windoze is not a suitable system for running crypto on. This live-CD would allow people to use any PC for internet applications that require crypto (if they can boot it off a CD) without risking their keys and passphrases to insecure software. You'd still have to watch out for key-loggers though :) Some people use a usb-key for this kind of thing, I think that's overkill, when the only data I can't keep on the network is my private keys. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
