Re: [Trinux-talk] Any possibility of an updated ISO?

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

> Matthew,
> 
> Although it may not be the best approach for everyone, I would love to
> be able to carry Trinux around on a business card sized CD. Since
> those discs hold between 40 & 60 megs, and since _most_ of the
> machines I boot from are capable of supporting bootable CD's this
> seems like an ideal means of keeping Trinux portable and functional,
> without it depending on Internet access for internal security
> assessments, nor boxes of floppies in my briefcase... what do you
> think?
> 
> Any plans to update the Trinux ISO from the beta page?

I agree, there definitely is a business case (did I really say that?!) for
ISO booting, however I don't want to put 20-30 mb images out on the
mirrors that cannot keep up with package update, and kernel releases and
does not allow the user to store any configuration or customize it with
kernel modules for their hardware because it is RO. Another issue that
makes it a pain from a development standpoint is maintaining yet another
floppy image.

However, here's what we I propose:

I'm currently working on a new script to build ISO images. Basically
the user will enter a boot floppy that has the correct configuration (IP,
kernel modules, pkglist, etc.) and the script will download the packages
and then build the iso image -- 

1) isotrinux prep - enter boot floppy, suck down packages
2) isotrinux build - calls mkisofs and create the iso
3) isotrinux burn - calls cd-record (assuming it is there)

Steps 1-2 (assuming you mount a fixed paritition or have enough RAM can be
accomplished on a trinux install) but #3 will have to be done on a real
Linux box. I don't want to mess with SCSI support and all the kernel
modules.

I will have to double check the linuxrc code to make sure I didn't break
anything, but that shouldn't be too hard.

How does this sound?

-mdf