Bug#204422: ITP: debix -- Live filesystem creation tool
Very interesting (as it looks a lot like what Morphix is about, but it instead
uses a combination of cloop-images and translucency to accomplish the same).
Maybe we could work together on this? I've heard from Fabian that using LVM2
snapshots would be a interesting alternative, so I'll be sure to take a look at
your current work.
Anyway, I see quite a lot of overlap, I'm in the process of becoming a DD, so
when that is over I'll be more than willing to sponsor you...
Cheers,
Alex
> 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
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