AMD64 LiveCD-green (reiser4,wlan,a.o.)

[amne]

Not sure who moved the thread and when it was done, but the move was legit. The US forum is for software provided by members of the community that has no official status, but can be installed on a Gentoo system. Threads about other distributions such as Debian, Redhat or Vidalinux go to OTW. As far this thread is concerned, it is about a live CD, which is usally regarded as a distribution.
We are currently just updating the moderators guide about this topic, please look at these two posts for more some more explanations in the meanwhile.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-1562692.html#1562692 and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1561287#1561287
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Dinosaur week! (Ok, this thread is so last week)

[psutokth]

[ahorn]

thanks

i really try to get free time for a new livecd-version.
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[hnaparst]

I had a problem when downloading the stage from the mirror.
The download repeatedly failed after downloading 10 megabytes.
This only happened when using reiser4.
When I try any other fs, the problem goes away.
This is an AMD64 x2 on an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium.
Yes, it passed memtest.

I'm defaulting to reiserfs 3.6. Hope that is fast, too.
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[Adwin]

Man, you really need to update your links / mirrors.
As I wrote some time back, I can host your livecd.

If you want to continue the reiser4 series, you GOT to update your kernel patch, as a lot has been fixed since.
I already wrote to you about it, so I won't post that again here.

Now the praise:
You have built a nice, lightweight amd64 livecd I'm sure a lot of people appreciate.
;]

[happydude]

Awesome CD, thanks for putting in the effort! Downloaded from the n-ix mirror with 200+kBps. CD worked fine on an Asus A8N-E mobo with Gigabyte 6200 TC128 graphics card.

For the next release perhaps you could include a PDF reader? No need to include a KDE desktop as fluxbox does everything thats needed.

Thanks again!

[Adwin]

That's the way it should be. I don't see the need for some eyecandy.
FLuxbox is my standard window manager.
Ahorn is a LiveCD I often used till I made my own.
There are a few Live64 cd's out there, but most of them include KDE and / or other heavy wm's.
What's the point in that?

On the general, I only need it for presentations, a quick rescue system or in order to do a chroot install.
If I need to do something in X and at the same time compile, I would need every ounce of power I have, even though I have a dual opteron system.

Just a few suggestions:

vim is a far better editor than nano, you could include it at nearly no space-cost.
A few kernel modules like shfs would be nice, if people ten to have all they need on *nix machines.
Try not using morph-sources. In one word, they "su*k"

Other than that, keep up the good work.

[ahorn]

thanks all for your help. finally i found some time and motivation to do an update.
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[Adwin]

I've DL'ed your gnuplanet64.
Nicely done. Nice trimming.

I would still have some suggestions:

1: Firefox is a nice browser, and you can't do all you need in links, although I use that a lot. It would be a good idea to include that back. Just the binary release from mozilla should suffice.
2: vim is still a necessity (who cares about nano ?! )
3: You should think integrating a jabber client instead of limiting people to centericq. With let's say GAIM or PSI (Better GAIM, you won't have to increase the size of your livecd by compiling additional qt libraries), people can connect to virtually any messenger, provided that their jabber server provides the gateway.
4: mplayer should stay the ONLY video player. It's a VERY good video player for linux, if not the best.
5: Have you thought about using rxvt-unicode instead of xterm, aterm and all the *terms ?? It's one of the rare terms providing unicode support.
6: I was thinking about SLAX, and including a CVS version of cedega or wine 0.9.4 could also be worth it, just in case, but that would mean installing all those stupid emul-xxx-xxx libs, which we don't want, since we would like to preserve a small ISO size.

Hope you will take the criticism positively.
I am suggesting an objective approachm to what most users would need, not just based on my personal preferences, as you might have noticed.

Keep up the good work. You livecd is one of the nicest: Damn Small for such potential. Fast. Quite compatible.

Merry Christmas.

[ahorn]

Thank you for your tipps. i'll try to implement the most in the next.
the bad for firefox is the gtk depency, but i see, i could compile it with only gtk1.
i'm thinking about qt-embedded, too. but i guess, it's even to much qt-stuff.
about wine: it's possible to do it without the emul-stuff. but why is there a need for wine on a livecd?
if there's a real reason, you should tell me why using it.

thanks for your support and i wish a nice christmas and a happy new year, too.

-ahorn
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[happydude]

Tried the new version - very nice!

Only thing is it didn't configure xorg for my video card (nVidia 6200 TurboCache) but the old one did. Works fine once I ammend xorg.conf with the nv driver.

Thanks again for a great live cd!

[nske]

Ahorn, are you using bsd tar instead of gnu tar?

There is a strange issue that apparently affects only reiser4 and seems to be related to the tar utility included in your cd: