* Thomas Templin <lists at gnuwhv.de> [2005-04-30 23:21:13 +0200]: > On Saturday 30 April 2005 18:53, Paul wrote: > > Hi, > > > > But I would suggest a knoppix based live cd. > > - You will find much more people who are familiar in building > Knoppix based live cds than others like RH FC4 Live. > > - Knoppix >= Version 3.8 comes along with unionfs which allows to > add applications during a live session. > > Bye, > Thomas
I started work on a Knoppix 3.7-based live DTP CD a few weeks ago with a goal of having a small live CD that I could quickly update the scribus 1.2.x and 1.3cvs packages as I make the Debian packages anyways. I did a CD-like HD install inside a qemu image, removed a lot of non-DTP stuff and added some, but not all software that mrdocs suggested to me. Unfortunately I couldn't build a remastered image despite numerous attempts - the mkisofs would always crash inside qemu. I thought it was a qemu-related problem, but wasn't able to troubleshoot it. Then I've downloaded a Knoppix 3.8 image and made appropriate partitions on another computer that recently became available to me. I made a 2 week break due to workload, but I still intend to go through the process I went with 3.7 with this version. For the reference, I was using a how-to located at http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo. However, this time I am thinking of following the classic remastering guide located at http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto. My goals: - Knoppix-based live CD with the smallest subset of packages from the full CD that are needed for its function. - Up-to-date Scribus, gimp, inkscape, batik, and other DTP-related packages. - Regular "releases" - both timed and on-demand if someone needs such a live CD for a presentation or whatever. Achieving the above goals is really not hard thanks to the debian package management tools. The only problem so far has been to get the remaster to build. I added a Live DTP CD page to the wiki.scribus.net. Please provide your input. http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Live_DTP_CD If someone really wants to do it I would have not problem with it. I could provide up-to-date Debian scribus packages to this person on-demand and let them update other packages and generate/test ISOs. Regards, Alex.
