Re: Thanks for the CD and a question...

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:31:34PM -0700, [email protected] told me:
> 	In the far distant future I hope to develop a handicap kid media player application. Putting it on a bootable CD means I wouldn't be confined to doing the whole thing in Java, for portability reasons.
> 
> 	I am sure there are a lot of people like me, with different projects, that will be searching for a way to do a bootable CD. Lnx and Knoppix seem to require a very high level of technical sophistication that I might not be able to accomplish. So pointers to other examples of bootable CDs might be the best starting point.

I and several other developers are working on a community based Linux distro 
called cAos (http://caosity.org). We have finished prototyping a design for a 
live ISO builder that builds a bootable ISO from a set of RPMS. Our example 
base package set is a RH8 system including Gnome2, Kudzu (for hardware
detection), etc...

I built the prototype, and now it is being maintained by Russ Herold and can
be found at ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC/cAos-iso
(cAos_inst-1.09orc1.tar.gz).

When you build your application, if it is distributed in RPM form it can also
be included on this ISO simply by putting it (and all dependencies) into the 
RPM directory, and running the build script.

Many of the principals used for the cAos ISO builder are taken directly from
the LNX-BBC and Knoppix projects.

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