Re: Getting marketing-list going again..

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu clai net>]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:11 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:21 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:46 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > >

[..snipped]

> > I was particularly intrigued by
> >
> > "* need live CD for conferences, media, etc.- imagine being able to send
> > CDs of 2.7.9 to eWeek, etc."
> >
> > in the TODO list.
> >
> > I have some experience with building Live CDs - and I was wondering 
> > if we can hook up the GNOME tinderbox
> > (http://gnome-build.ximian.com/tinderbox/LATEST/) with a (semi)automated
> > Live CD build system ??
> >
> > The basic idea is to get the build system do the install in some system
> > wide accessible directory (maybe /opt/gnome<version>??), and if the
> > entire process is successful, copy that entire directory into a live cd
> > file system (shell script), and then build the live cd (scriptifiable). 
> >
> > It's just a crazy idea of mine - comments, flames, brickbats are
> > welcome.
>
> Sounds like a wild, crazy idea I like ;) I hadn't made the connection
> between the tinderbox and the liveCD stuff at all. It would be fairly
> easy to get the tinderbox to build into a prefix in /opt/<foo>/, copy it
> into a livecd tree, create an iso, and deposit it somewhere for
> download, assuming someone could provide a functional base livecd system
> that could take the stuff in /opt/<foo>/. 
>
> Any chance you could find/create such a base system, sayamindu? :)

I would love to do that - but the problem is that I am severely
bandwidth impaired. So anything from my end is going to be really
slooooow, and I don't think I'll be able to upload ISOs from my system.

However, there is a LiveCD (which I created around a year back) - which
can be used (with some minor modifications). Right now it uses a GNOME
installation in /opt/gnome.

It can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
group_id=43331&package_id=96784&release_id=205011
However, it is pretty old (for GNOME 2.4), and the system is based on
Mandrake 9.1. Since the  tinderbox system is running FC2, I think the
best approach would be to have a Fedora based livecd. The basic
bootstrapping can done via a Morphix (morphix.org) base-module, and the
main module can be a minimalistic FC2 based installations (maybe a
"minimum" FC2 install, along with Xorg, libpng, libtiff, pkg-config,
docbook stuff, etc). 

I can make the main module - but as I said, uploading that from my end
would be near to impossible. However, right now, you can try out the ISO
that I mentioned, and if someone takes up the job of creating the Fedora
based "placeholder" mainmodule, I'll be glad to help.

-thanks-
Sayamindu