[Fedora-livecd-list] [Fedora-spins] livecd-tools 032 coming

[Martin Dengler]

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 Walsh<dwalsh at 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
> >
> >1. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
> >2. http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/soas-liveuserscripts-eliminate.ks?h=blueberry
> 
> 
> 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
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