Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD

This sounds like a bit of work but can be done. It may be worthy of
note that Gnome and KDE are technically desktops and there are many
popular minimalist window managers for X.

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:46, Jeff Lee wrote:
> The machines running this would all have the same hardware (or pretty close
> to it.) Knoppix has support for hundreds of printers. I know that the
> browser would need to run in X but I would only need that. I dont want
> something like kde or gnome that has extra BS. I just want only the browser
> to run so that no one can hack these systems. I would want to beable to have
> more than one browser window open at once but a taskbar would not be needed.
> And that is pretty much it. If the flash plugin was installed and the
> printing worked this would be exactly what I would need.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jame Scott" <jhs_technical@cox.net>
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD
>
>
> > Ray's method is correct and essentially answers Mr. Busbee's question.
> > Jeff's query is different. Being the new guy I'll take a stab at that.
> >
> > In principle all you do is decide what parts you want and assemble it.
> > Ray's example is a quick and easy way.
> > If you were interested in perfect you would have to go a little further
> > setup a partition, compile custom kernel and setup the whole thing
> > exactly the way you want it then burn it.
> > This is essentially the way all Linux used to be prior to "distros".
> > There used to be a how to called something like "setting Linux up from
> > scratch" that would cover all but burning the image.
> > There are some hints in your request that may make this harder.
> > For instance even though there are browsers for the Internet that don't
> > work with X, I am fair certain that Flash will not be supported by
> > them. They are text based and are very fast because they ignore all but
> > text and links.
> > Second the desire to print.
> > If you are moving from machine to machine with this it may be rough to
> > predict what printers you will run into.
> > I have not looked at knoppix or any other of the "tiny" distros to see
> > how or if they addressed this issue.
> > I am certain some amount or type of printers could be supported but the
> > variety could not be limitless.
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:22, Jeff Lee wrote:
> > > Could you be more detailed on how to do this with knoppix? The howto is
> a
> > > lot more involved than this... is it this easy? I would like to make a
> copy
> > > that will just run enough software to use a browser to run a flash
> program
> > > with printing abilities.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "-ray" <ray@ops.selu.edu>
> > > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:46 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > the easiest thing to do is modify a copy of an existing iso. Put a
> copy
> > > > of your favorite CD distrib iso on your hard drive, be it knoppix or
> > > > whatever. Mount the iso like this:
> > > >
> > > > mount -o loop Knoppix.iso /mnt
> > > >
> > > > cd to /mnt and change what you want. remove commands that start X,
> create
> > > > your user in passwd and shadow, make his home dir and startup scripts,
> etc
> > > > etc. Then umount the iso and burn it. and you're done.
> > > >
> > > > ray
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org
> > > > Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University
> > > > IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
> > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, J. Kent Busbee, Jr. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Anyone here have a clue how to make a bootable CD? I'm looking for
> > > > > something like Knoppix, but customized. I don't even want
> X-windows.
> > > > >
> > > > > Specifically, I need a bootable CD of FreeBSD or Linux that comes to
> a
> > > > > login. Then, after login to a specific user, it runs a script which
> > > > > does a SSH. So I need:
> > > > >
> > > > > Linux or FreeBSD op system (No x-windows ness)
> > > > > SSH
> > > > > Specific users in passwd
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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