Debian Live Net

[Jason D. Clinton]

So, since it's been a week since anyone has posted and I have nothing
better to talk about, I thought I would promote some work I just
commited to the Debian Live project.

Currently on a Debian system, one can install the live-package package
and run "make-live iso" to generate a Knoppix-like Live CD with your own
custom software selection.

I added support for booting the live environment from a Samba share. One
runs "make-live net" and a chroot environment is configured. After
configuring a dhcp3 server, tftp server and Samba, one can boot any
computer with 128 MB of RAM directly in to the live environment -- it
all runs off the server in read-only mode. Changes are lost just like
when running a Live CD.

See here if you want to know more:

http://lists.debian-unofficial.org/pipermail/live/2006-May/000192.html

I will be posting links to that mailing list of direct downloads of the
experimental Debian packages shortly. My earlier attachments didn't show
up in the archives.

The company that I work for will be subsequently distributing "finished"
configurations: tarballs of the chroot environment. One will be an "open
source edition" with no installer or management tools and the other will
be an "enterprise edition" with the afore-mentioned tools and also the
ability to run Windows 98, 2000 or XP inside of a virtualizer on the
thin clients. The installer and management tools are written in C# and
run on the Mono runtime environment. The virtualizer can be QEMU 0.8.1
or VMware Player 1.0. They can be configured to run full-screen so that
end users have no idea that they are running Windows on Linux on a thin
client.


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