Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Based Rescue CD

[François Dupoux]

Hi,

I am very interested by your message. IMHO, The official gentoo livecd is 
already one of the most interesting rescue cd. We have parted, partimage...
But vim is missing.

One very important point: QtParted is a Qt graphical user interface for GNU 
Parted. It uses parted, and other tools, such as mkfs.jfs, ...
It aims to replace Partition Magic.

There is no ebuild for the moment, but a bug is open:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18714

I am porting QtParted to autoconf/automake, in order to make it easy to use in 
gentoo, qnd it needs a better quality build system. The current unstable 
version works well with automake/autoconf, and the next stable release will 
use it. I will now contribute to the source of QtParted.

QtParted don't use KDE. Then we can compile QtParted for Qt-embedded 
(./configure --enable-embedded). This would allow to use QtParted without 
XFree86, in the console with the FrameBuffer. Then, we would have a free 
PartitionMagic clone on the gentoo bootable CD... IMHO, having an EASY 
partition tool under Linux, with a easy to use Bootable CD (no need to 
configure mouse and keyboard by hand) is very important. 

I did not tested it, because QtParted needs Qt-3.1, and the latest version of 
QtEmbedded in gentoo is Qt-3.0.5. We need to update the ebuild of Qt. But I 
made another Qt project (PartGui), which worked with QtEmbedded. Then I know 
it is possible.

If other people are interested in this project, you can join. We will progress 
faster together. What we can need:
- write ebuild for qtparted, and Qt-embedded-3.1
- join to the QtParted project (if you know C++ and CVS)
- ...

regards

On Monday 09 June 2003 22:19, Sean P. Kane wrote:
> Has anyone made or considered making a bootable Gentoo Based Rescue CD
> (based on the LiveCD and Install CD work)? I think this could be a great
> idea and would actually like to give it a try, but I don't want to
> duplicate work and would love the input of others if they are
> interested.
>
> I haven't thought through this all the way yet, but some of the things
> that I think would make this truly powerful would include:
>
> a kernel compiled with emergency situations in mind (i.e. write support
> for NTFS, even if it isn't super stable) (maybe even a few compiled
> kernels selectable at boot, if need be.
>
> With portage you should be able to setup a nice sized ramdisk that would
> allow people to even emerge tools they might need that aren't on the
> disk for their rescue operation.
>
> Gentoo offers a very modern (cutting-edge) dist which means that it has
> the most useful tools for most situations.
>
> Etc......
>
> Any input regarding other attempts or general input would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean


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