On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:10:38PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On 06/21/2010 02:57 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
[Sorry to reply to GP - I'm not on spins@]
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 14:06:18 -0400, Daniel J Walshdwalsh@redhat.com wrote:
One think I would like to talk about with livecd-creator would be a way to setup the livecd to have uninterrupted boot.
The question is, am I the only one who thinks this is interesting?
IIUC, "uninterrupted" boot is quite useful for Sugar on a Stick[1], at least on some architectures (XO-1, XO-1.5). If it wasn't present, we'd have to hack it in[2]
Martin
My idea is for apps like cash registers/kiosk/demo booths. If I imbed a bootable OS and do not allow external USB/CD. Theoretically people who can touch the box, can not boot their own OS or break into the OS to turn off security features like SELinux/iptables etc.
That sounds like "uninterruptable" boot to me, to be pedantic. Seems like plenty of overlap between what I was understanding as "uninterrupted" -- no user input / confusing configuration required -- and what I imagine cash registers/kiosk/demo booths would require to be "uniterruptable".
On that basis I'd say:
The question is, am I the only one who thinks this is interesting?
No, it's plenty interesting. If it was unintentional that livecd-tools provided something close to this, please don't take it away. Further enhancing livecd-tools in such a way is very useful.
Thanks, Martin