[ug-bosug] Custom Live CD - proof-of-concept

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Venky wrote:
>> Hey Eric,
>>
>> This is real cool!!  Maybe you could host it alongside BeleniX on
>> sarovar.org.
>>
>> Moinak, you think it would be possible to host it there and link to
>> it from the BeleniX site?  Would be nice to have a section for
>> custom BeleniX ISOs on the site.
>>
>
>   It should not be too difficult to get this on Genunix.ORG and have
> links from
>   BeleniX Site.

Sounds good.

Ben, are you the person I contact about uploading an ISO
(~215 MB) to Genunix?

Eric

>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>> Cheers,
>> Venky.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:35:53AM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>
>>> Just reporting a minor milestone: As a POC (proof-of-concept) and
>>> learning/testing exercise, I created a custom "Build-system Live CD" using
>>> the BeleniX remastering toolkit.  It's based on the BeleniX core and it's
>>> about 215 MB in size. (It's 100% open-source, but it's not downloadable
>>> from anywhere right now. If anyone wants to play with it let me know,
>>> I'm sure there's somewhere I can put it.)
>>>
>>> The main difference between this ISO and the regular BeleniX Live CD is it
>>> excludes xorg/gtk/xfce/kde/etc., and includes a build environment system.
>>> The build system is the pkgbuild[1]-based, JDS/CBE[2] in gcc mode.
>>>
>>> This remastering kit is very cool. As with regular BeleniX, "my LiveCD
>>> distro" :) boots fast (esp. since it's a small, command-line only ISO),
>>> transparently gets an IP from DHCP, and transparently mounts HD partitions
>>> in /mnt (which, e.g., I could put copies of spec files on, from which I
>>> could quickly/easily generate Solaris packages, because by booting my
>>> live CD, my box temporarily turns into a dedicated JDS/CBE build system.)
>>>
>>> Now, how about a 100% open-source, ZFS-based, home NAS box LiveCD w/ HD
>>> installer... I have a feeling _that_ would be pretty hot...
>>>
>>> --Eric
>>>
>>> P.S. This was mainly a proof-of-concept exercise -- other build systems
>>> such as Companion[3], Blastwave/GARNOME[4], pmpkg[5], etc. could have been
>>> used instead.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1: http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/
>>> 2:
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/jds/building/#jds-cbe
>>> 3: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/companion/contributors/buildccd/
>>> 4: http://svn.blastwave.org/wiki/GettingStarted
>>> 5: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmpkg/?branch_id=60504
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