On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:14:34PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > hey -devel, > (...) > be nice too. > > i've done a bit of debian-based searching, and haven't found anything > on knoppix other than an lg-issue87 article. i've also found a package Yes. The software knoppix uses (save for cloop) is not packaged (but its GPLd) IIRC. > does anyone know of other similar efforts in this vein? if this is a > work in progress for anyone i'd be interested in helping out in some > way. Other people have answered on this already. But just my 2c here. Remastering (i.e. taking an already available Knoppix CD and making a new one out of it) is quite easy, as shown in the number of Knoppix-based distributions out there. Several HOWTOs are available [1] However, making one from scratch is slightly different, you need to setup a system (to use as an image system) and all the software (mkinitrd image, knoppix stuff) for it to boot, do hardware autodetection, and slightly modify the system. I haven't been able to start working on it (it's in my TODO) but I would start by taking the software at knoppix and package it: http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/ (if not done already). Notice that some packages will violate Debian's policy [2], however, since they edit other packages (cups, nessus, etc..). It would be great if you started packaging software that knoppix-based distros are going to need. Regards Javi [1] Available at http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/ref.html. You can find more of these at http://www.knoppix.net/ [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
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