Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Based Rescue CD

[Sean P. Kane]

This sounds like a good idea. I'll be up front in saying that I am not a
very experienced programmer, but I have been using Linux since the
pre-1.0 days as a network administrator and infrastructure person and
can contribute a lot to the design layout and testing of the rescue CD
but would need support in any programming arenas that go beyond either
simply patching or shell scripting. Although I understand programming
theory pretty well, it has been a long time since I have written much
serious code.

If I take on this project, would you be interested in working to get
QtParted integrated into it if possible?

Sean


On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:31, François Dupoux wrote:
> 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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