[ale] debirf [was: Re: Custom bootable CD or DVD]

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Wed Aug 27 01:41:05 EDT 2008


Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> It's not clear to me whether your requirements include that the CD
> must remain in the drive after boot or not.

Typically yes. We'll make a CD for each appliance, stick the
CD in the drive, and superglue it shut so the lusers can't
fsck things up.

> If that's not a requirement, debirf (disclaimer: i'm half of upstream
> on debirf) is good for making stock debian images that run entirely
> From RAM (and can be loaded from a CD):
> 
>  http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/debirf


This looks interesting.


Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

-- JK


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I do not particularly want to go where the money is -
  it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov


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