-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 October 2002 09:26 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Ryan Castellucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm looking to build a bootable CD to give to a friend along with a > > computer that when booted will offer to overwrite the hard drive from a > > compressed disk image. I looked on freshmeat, but didn't see anything > > well suited to this. The box in question will have windows on it (They > > want windows, I don't feel like arguing). Anyone know of a project that > > can do this? > > i'm not sure i understand. are you giving your friend a "nag-ware" > computer that nags him to install linux? :)
Well, the windows installation (98se) crashes unusualy often (I got about 3 error messages about invalid page faults the first time it booted. It's rather old (K6-2 300), and I was going to put linux on it, but she wanted windows. This is a female friend who currently has a pre 486 pc and can't really afford a new one. I do not think she should have any problems with a minimal linux install aside from figuring out what does what. AFAIK she wants mainly Yahoo messenger, a web browser and an office suite, It's kind of a problem, give her a pirated copy of windows, which is what she wants, or a Linux install that will probably meet her needs fine. Debian with gnome would probably be fine > > What about linux boot CDs that can easily be customized to run a shell > > script at boot time? > > not sure i understand this either. the whole runlevel initialization > mechanism is a method of executing shell scripts at boot. boot CD's > should have this too. > > when you say "easy", do you mean not having to conform to the standard > initialization script format? you can use rc.boot for that. That will do, problem is finding a bootable CD to start with. I was going to use LNX-BBC, but they don't appear to have sorce snapshots of the 1.x available. From the FAQ "All of the 1.x versions of the BBC and LNX-BBC were built by taking binaries from a variety of sources (hand-compiled, out of Debian packages, etc) and just throwing them together. As of September 2002, there has not yet been a release of the LNX-BBC that uses the GAR tree." What i mean by easy, is somthing that will be easy to make changes to and rebuild. tomsrtbt would be good, but I'm not sure how to modify it to work with a CD. The ElTorito boot image seems to be broken. > if you want to make an OEM style recovery disk, i imagine you can > install linux and then dd/bzip2 up the entire hard drive. i'm guessing > that even if windows gets installed on top of linux, dd will restore > partition info. the backup image shouldn't be too big for a fresh > install. but your friend would lose all his data. I know, but it _will_ fix nearly anything broken. yes, dd will restore partition info, I've tried it. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9vjGPEd9E83IXe8cRAqoFAJ0TcvXFz1T0wSjIiyCuDK0pU6lyqgCgll1P kZFBXlJE95eB4k+CTpdx2gg= =O1Zf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
