Bug#204422: ITP: debix -- Live filesystem creation tool
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-07
Severity: wishlist
Package name : debix
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
License : GPL
Description : Live filesystem creation tool
Sponsor : wanted
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 (+zero reboot installation)
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/
MfG
Goswin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dual 2.4.21-ac4 #1 SMP Sat Jul 5 17:53:13 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
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