debix searches sponsor
Hi,
I'm looking for a sponsor for 2 packages (debix and debix-imager), who
would have guessed. :)
Debix-imager
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Debix-imager is a setuid binary that allows a user to create a
loopback file, format it with the filesystem of his choice and install
the contents of a tar file or a debian system via debootstrap on it.
The intention is to make it flexible enough for boot-floppies,
debian-installer and debix to create their bootfloppies, ramdisks and
live filesystems without needing root themself.
I'm looking for a sponsor that knows a bit about security.
boot-floppies and/or debian-installer experiences would be good too.
At the moment I'm use ocaml but a rewrite in C/C++ would be easy and
maybe cleaner. (Codesize 195 lines atm).
ftp://mrvn.homeip.net/debix-imager/
Debix
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Debix is a collection of scripts to create live filesystems. Several
flavours are planed:
- Make a live filesystem image from any existing linux system
Apart from a special initrd a plain image of the existing system is
made without changes. The image on CD is made semingly writeable via
LVM2 snaphots by the initrd and then the normal init is started.
- Pure live filesystem like knoppix
Difference to Knoppix would be customizable size, being a pure
Debian system and the possibility to migrate the live filesystem to
harddisk on-the-fly to get a running Debian system (with the
drawback that the partitioning scheme is mostly fixed, using online
ext2/3 resize patches could solve that).
- Make a live filesystem with boot-floppies or debian-installer
Console and X subflavours included. The advantage over the normal
CDs would be better autodetection and access to www, irc and local
docs during instalation (one could read the installation docs on
www.debian.org in galeon while running boot-loppies in an xterm).
A mixture of knoppix and installer.
A sponsor should be versed in /bin/sh and intrested in creating live
filesystems. Having a CD-rw or DVD-rw burner would be a big plus but
bochs or vmware will do to test stuff.
Sources aren't debianized yet but I have an example CD image made from
a normal woody system (flavour 1 from above) at
rsync://mrvn.homeip.net/images/
Anyone intrested?
MfG
Goswin
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