From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07862BC6B for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:01:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFpzg0eGnQCBnmdsb2JhbACQGwEBAQEHBAYpmQY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,259,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="21032610" Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr ([134.157.0.129]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 08 Jan 2008 22:01:36 +0100 Received: from hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m08L1ZFW026053 ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:01:35 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 165 Received: from localhost (dogguy@potassium.pps.jussieu.fr [134.157.168.19]) by hydrogene.pps.jussieu.fr (8.13.4/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m08L1YCq020162 ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:01:34 +0100 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:01:34 +0100 From: Mehdi Dogguy To: Adrien Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: Re : [Caml-list] An ocaml livecd Message-ID: <20080108210134.GB25697@pps.jussieu.fr> References: <666572260801080658o226cba0bs8696e3bf01e61e61@mail.gmail.com> <200801081517.34568.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4d1b2df20801080829j8c2fecg5b2b06be665805c1@mail.gmail.com> <4d1b2df20801080830o592d9344t91f830ac2af71a97@mail.gmail.com> <666572260801081235s7129e1dao7702a723b4c8f709@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <666572260801081235s7129e1dao7702a723b4c8f709@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dogguy/dogguy.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.165]); Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:01:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/5443/Tue Jan 8 18:35:47 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4783E4AF.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 read-only:01 pps:01 pps:01 caml-list:01 boot:01 boot:01 jussieu:01 jussieu:01 bat:02 module:03 debian:04 debian:04 usb:94 usb:94 Do you use SquashFS on your LiveCD ? It's usually the case on LiveCDs ... but squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem and I think we don't want to have such a fs on our usb key. > > 2008/1/8, Mehdi Dogguy : > > You can try to make it work using an usb key. And could possibly then > > add/remove any package. If you are a Debian lover, you can test it with : > > http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/4.0_r0-rc1/i386/usb-hdd/ > > or even > > http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/4.0_r0-rc1/i386/iso-cd/ by editing ISOs > > You can make more than trying : you can make it. ;) > I know many people who are using usb keys instead of CD/DVDs : they > have a better throughput, are tinier and survive longer. > Usb keys are nice when it comes to saving work you've done but, at > least in its current implementation, this can also lead to problems > when you try to have your changes automatically recorded (this is not > available in this livecd atm). Hopefully this only happens after > several times and hand-copying a package/module or saving a file won't > do any damage. > > As for this cd, this is an excerpt of the build script: > > echo "* run $CDDATA/$LIVECDNAME/make_iso.bat to create ISO image" > > echo "* or copy content of $CDDATA to your USB device" > > echo "and run ./boot/bootinst.sh (from the device!) to setup boot sector" > If you try, please, don't forget the "from the device!" part. ;) > -- Mehdi Dogguy http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~dogguy/