-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Markus Hein wrote:
> > classic Live-CD remastering sounds for me like a time consuming and > unflexible approach, but it could work. > I do not see why inflexible - there are actually automated tools for this today. Boot the image, change what you need and have the scripts build you a new image with your customizations in already. > Today, a lot of improvements exists to build such systems automated in > minutes. The Debian "live-helper" Package contains the tools you will > need to let your machine build a "Application System" for the target > machine , containing the latest Packages, Security Fixes etc. from a > repository. > > A good starting point: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ > > After installing the "live-helper" package you can start to build a > live-image from a config file. Sounds interesting, will have a look. > If you need to boot multiple machines for your "classroom application" : > > Instead of booting machines via CDROM, USB-Stick etc. it is faster to > boot the clients in your classroom via PXE NetBoot from a > terminalserver application on a server machine. The terminalserver is > automatically configuring the clients in the network and feeds them > with the application. Different machines can boot the same ISO with > machine specific boot options so there are a lot of possibillities. > Under my testings, such a system was up and running after 2-3 minutes. > Booting directly into the application can be done, so that osgViewer > worked fullscreen after pressing the power button. > btw. there was 4 different machines in my "classroom", and it also > worked fine even if the clients PC Hardware in use was different Well, the whole idea of a usb stick or Live CD is to be able to use it even when the infrastructure is not in place. If you have a PXE server running and all this, you can as well have the machines pre-installed for what you need ... Typically, I want to give the CD for the students to use at home, in the classroom I rarely need these kludges. > About the Major Distri's: > I have tested a lot of them but I really don't know about existing > Major Linux Distrubution which supports all needed steps for the > creation of such a OSG-Application System out of the box, but the > interested user can find a lot of some really useful implementation in > smaller Linux distris. Mandriva has a good Live distro, even running from a USB stick. Another tiny one I am using from a USB key is RIPLinux. I didn't try to remaster that one, though. Of course, almost nobody ships current OSG, but that you will probably want to compile anyway, together with your app for the target system. > You can just test how such concrete ISO works if you like . It > contains the OS, KDE, OSG, Zero Ballistics Game Beta-Test and working > graphics hardware detection, 3D driver download. It installs the 3D > driver on the fly . > > http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/preview/kanotix-ng-zb.iso > http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/preview/kanotix-ng-zb.iso.md5 Interesting, will have a look. Regards, Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIMdUEn11XseNj94gRAlq2AJ4gYSbUVqXRsXZaDaUpwnQ1aJtUlgCg64km B66NXPyV/HqeIx0N0Fn2qJI= =V7db -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
