On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 16:19, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Kelsay 
> > 
> > So you could have your server pull from the major Debian 
> > round-robin mirror list.  Unless this is not kosher.  You 
> Do you mean for jigdo, or when a user is building an iso?
> I'm not totally sure jigdo does this, but it looks like it could.
> If not, I'm sure it could be modified to do this.
> 
> > ...
> > In your second paragraph, did you mean that the tiny bootable 
> > ISO that is created, 
> > will have a firsttime script that grabs the user selected 
> > packages from the net and not from "the user's machine"?
> Right, the tiny bootable installer would have the list of applications 
> for the installer script. When that iso is booted, it will pull down
> the software from Debian mirrors. Another nice thing about this is,
> we could run a netselect first off in the install and build a list of 
> fastest mirrors for that location.
> 
> > 
> > How about if the web interface you build, grabs the files 
> > from the mirrors and builds on the user's machine?  You would 
> > have to have mkisofs in Java or other format to be able to 
> > run that on their machine if they don't have it.  Unless 
> > Jigdo will do it.
> This is what jigdo does, it makes the iso on the user's machine. 
> It even does it in windows.
> 
> > I'm just throwing out ideas.  I kind of like the alternative 
> > idea of the web app building a small ISO that has a package 
> > list/install script built by the web app,  that when the ISO 
> > is ran on the target PC will grab the files from the net.  It 
> > would then give you your auto install on multiple machines.  
> > Building the ISO would not take long and would allow the user 
> > time to think about the questions that the standard Debian 
> > installer gives you.  It would be more flexible, allowing you 
> Right, this approach is great for building an iso to do a network
> install from. We could even give the users the option of using
> their own "mirror" to fetch from. The only thing I don't like about
> this approach is we couldn't build a live-cd this way. I'd like to
> give the users a chance to build a live cd. So maybe a combined
> approach would be best. We give them two choices: build a 
> jigdo CD/DVD, or build a download install CD. I really like the 
> idea of having a download install cd, because it would actually build
> a minimal Debian system. Just a core system, not very useful but
> fully functional. It would be a simple matter of using one of the 
> current distros for this as a base, like one of the firewall distros. 
> Like Bering.
> 
> Brian Densmore

So is this going to be a project for the kclug? It would be really cool.
So let me get this straight, where are going to create a knoppix like
project that download to home pc or use a web app, that they choose what
progs they want, then creates a iso that is bootable into an os gui or
not.

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