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From: Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen on 7 Mar 2010 07:31
Hello,

Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen wrote:

JDHB I'm just wondering if there exists a live DVD/CD for SlackWare
JDHB somewhere.

Thanks to the people who responded. I've got the live CD os Slax at the
moment, it looks quite useful.

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Regards,

Hans.
From: Douglas Mayne on 7 Mar 2010 09:01
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:49:45 +0000, Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen wrote:

> I'm just wondering if there exists a live DVD/CD for SlackWare
> somewhere.
> Thank.
>
I have been working on updating my "dm-live" project to use packages from
Slackware 13.0 (more info below). My project uses a more complete initial
ramdisk which includes the Linux kernel's device mapper facility. Device
mapper allows the kernel to do a variety of things:

* setup for encrypted root file systems
* setup for live cds/dvds
* run as a general purpose kernel by including all kernels as modules
** root filesystem on unknown disk controller (usb, lsi, etc)
** network filesystems (root filesystem on samba, iSCSI, etc)
* run as a rescue environment to fix a broken system

Unfortunately, live cds/dvds are the area where the end user expects the
most "polish." My project remains more in the "do it for yourself", DIY,
school, and may require a bit of "hacking" to get exactly what you want.
The main problem with using device mapper is that it introduces so much
flexibility into the startup problem that its hard to account for all
possible combinations/solutions and prompt the user appropriately. In the
end, the user may need to be able to tweak some things at startup, which
most users are not prepared to do.

I mostly use my "startup environment" for encrypted root filesystem
startup and as a general purpose kernel. It works very well for that.

To do anything useful, I am guessing a live cd requires a system with at
least 512M RAM (at least with my approach, as above). The startup
environment itself requires 128M RAM. At the present, the "high" memory
requirement is now less of a barrier to entry than before- thanks to
Moore's Law.

More info...
I have also been working to update my project to include a script which
pulls the necessary Slackware packages directly from the internet and
builds itself from scratch. I started thinking about this approach after
I wrote this:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.slackware/msg/c3e74a71d04cda6d

I made some progress on this in the last week, and hope to have more
later this month.

--
Douglas Mayne
From: Lew Pitcher on 21 Mar 2010 03:29
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From: Lew Pitcher on 21 Mar 2010 03:30
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From: Adam on 9 Apr 2010 19:15
On Mar 6, 12:06 pm, notbob <not...(a)nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2010-03-06, Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen <jbeek...(a)duinheks.nl> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the last time I played with it, it needed too many pkgs
> that were not included in the base CD.

That's what live archives are for. You get them on the Slax site, and
then just remake the ISO filesystem when you have all your packages.
Did it once with GoblinX, and it was extremely easy.

As far as LiveCDs go, I have some favorites:

-Slax
-NimbleX
-GoblinX

As others have said, Wikipedia has a list, but use VMWare or something
similar to test them before wasting CDs on a broken ISO.
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