On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:37 -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
On 4/12/05, Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It might be interesting if the people who have done live cds could list
> what changes they have done to make them work. Then we can take these
> changes and try to get them all into the distro.
>
> What other changes do we need in order to make a script that can
> generate a live-cd from a random rawhide snapshot?
One essential component for a live CD is automatic hardware
configuration. Has anyone developed a comprehensive package to handle
this?
For EpikBuilder, I adapted Klaus Knopper's scripts, ddcxinfo and
hwsetup utilities. I also used his version of kudzu hwdata because
Knoppix supported both the XFree 3.3.6 and 4.x drivers at that time.
This provided compatibility with older graphics cards that were
dropped in RH9. The whole thing worked well but was difficult to
maintain since any updates Klaus made to the Debian scripts had to be
manually reviewed and applied to my RH version.
Of possible interest is a project that René Rhéaume started in July of
2003 to maintain the Knoppix auto-detection system for Red Hat and
Mandrake:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/knx-autoconfig-ports/
His last update for RH was a year ago... but it might be worth looking
at if nobody else has a packaged solution.
For the stateless linux livecd i just used kudzu (kudzu -q I think). I
see no reason why the live-cd hardware detection should be any different
from the automatic detection of another (non-cd) fedora core
installation.
Having a special hardware detection system for the live-cd just means
double the maintenance burden, because the non-live-cd fedora core
should also automatically detect as much hardware as possible.
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