Knoppix

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay
> 
> 
> An online LiveCD builder would be sweet.  I think I heard 
> some guys were working on something like this.  I've seen a 
> couple of websites that build a custom firewall floppy.  If 
> you had a full Debian mirror available and have the web app 
> add the selected programs to a group that is in turn fed to 
> cloop to compress and then fed to mkisofs, then have it save 
> to a new directory that has your name from the online form, 
> then email you when it was done with the path to the new iso. 
>  Any of you programmers want to take this on?
> Could Java do this?  I think so.  Or a php or python script.  
> Making the user interface would probably be the hardest part.
I've got a few ideas on this. I was thinking, of building a page where
users select several types of things. Like:
+----- Desktop ---------------------+
| [] I want a lightweight desktop   |
| [] I want a fullblown desktop     |
| [] I want no desktop              |
+-----------------------------------+
 etc. 

Then I could have a couple of premade iso directories and also some 
"package groups" of certain apps. Then when the user has selected
all of the families they want I could add to the basic iso with the custom
apps. I'm not sure you can actually add to an iso or not. But then
you could have a small group of premade iso's and rather quickly build
complete isos. Of course, you would also want to have an "expert let me
pick everything" option. Which of course you'd want to build a drop down
list based on standard categories (net,core,multimedia,X,etc.)

> 
> Brian, which version did you try to install to disk?  I used 
> 3.4 - 5/17/2004 and it worked fine. I have had to tweak the 
> /etc/apt/sources.list to make it point to US mirrors and drop 
> some of the weird apt-pinnings.  It has one of the most 
It was 3.1 or 3.2 I think, but I'm fairly sure I did something wrong.
I currently have Mepis Linux installed on my systems at home. Except for
the firewall, which is a hardened linux. Mepis is like Knoppix-lite.
It installs some some things I don't like though, and have been stripping
them out slowly, but unfortunately it's leaving dangling particles everywhere.
It also highly customized some of the debian packages.

I speak a little German,

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