Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> I am playing around with dfsbuild; specifically, I am trying to create
> an image that will fit on a mini CD and that will be useful for
> day-to-day sysadmin tasks like backing up/repairing file systems and
> debugging networking issues.
>
> I do have a configuration (included at the end of this post) that yields
> a usable system. Yet, I would like to solicit input, mainly on my choice
> of packages: Did I leave anything really important out? Is there
> anything that seems utterly superfluous?
>
> I would love sharing the ISO file, too, but with my DSL connection it
> would take hours to download it.
I have a bored server on which I could host a bit-torrent for you, so long as
the demand is not too high. How big is the ISO?
If anyone else wants free hosting (preferably for a good cause)
I may be able to help. No guarantees though!
I would like to make a crypto-enabled live-CD, preferably credit-card sized,
which is recorded multi-session on a CD-R. The idea is, the first time you
boot it on a machine with a CD-burner, and it generates or imports
cryptographic keys for you, and burns them on the second session of the CD-R.
Obviously windoze is not a suitable system for running crypto on. This live-CD
would allow people to use any PC for internet applications that require crypto
(if they can boot it off a CD) without risking their keys and passphrases to
insecure software. You'd still have to watch out for key-loggers though :)
Some people use a usb-key for this kind of thing, I think that's overkill,
when the only data I can't keep on the network is my private keys.
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