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On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:29, Sami Samhuri wrote: |
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> I'm not familiar with catalyst, but maybe that tool already does part |
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> of your idea. It is what the Gentoo devs use to create LiveCDs. Maybe |
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> it could be extended to have an option that builds a CD from the |
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> current running system. I have no idea if that idea is feasible or |
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> not. |
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With minimal hacking to Catalyst, this could be done. Right now, |
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Catalyst is capable of building a fully bootable LiveCD out of the box. |
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The most difficult part of the process is getting a kernel config that |
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works ;) |
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When 2004.2 rolls around we will have all of the release kernel configs |
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and spec files in Portage (gentoo-release-specs or something like |
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that). Using those, it would be *very* easy to wrap catalyst with a |
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sysrecover script. We would just pass Catalyst the kernel configs from |
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the latest release, and get some user input as to what partitions to |
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back up. Once we have that knowledge, we would just have to tell |
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catalyst to dump those partitions on the CD/ DVD. |
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Its very feasible, I just need the time to implement it ;) |
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Cheers, |
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