Re: Live CD target - comments and personal todo

hi daniel,

> first I'd like to say, I like the target. It is booting fast, and shadowfs
> is
> really neat. It is great work.
thanks!

> [...]

> - Ejecting the CD when shutting down
> this should be just one line in the system skript.
it's not *that* easy. unlike the bootdisk, the livecd doesn't pivot_root
into a ramdisk, because a file on the cd - the squashfs image - will
always be opened, anyways. the solution to this would be a hackish
unmount-all-and-pivot_root at the end of the system init script. i
understand this is important, the need to reboot annoyed me a lot already,
too.

> - Better handling of devices (e.g. detecting and mounting sticks and
> cameras
> automatically)
> KDE supports such mechanism, haven't looked into that though.
> We perhaps should consider to drop devfs for this target because this is
> confusing most users and most documentation available on the net regarding
> non devfs systems.
ugh, that's not the job of kde, but hotplug. you can enable kde to show
device entries specified in the fstab, which then can be mounted by
right-clicking - but the fstab is created boot time, and including bogus,
possibly nonexistant devices is a no-no.

> - Creating icons of non KDE applications in startmenu
> This is done by a cron job which runs after a stone install, i guess just
> running that before 2nd stage image is compressed will be sufficient.
i, too, think that kde uses .desktop files? at least i had them... the
icons are still missing, though ;-)

> [...]
> So please flame, suggest and comment on this
> (and don't forget to bother me after february is done ;-)

all in all, these are great features and ideas, and i sure will keep
bugging you for the ones i didn't comment on - adding functionality and
userfriendlyness is absolutely fine with me, as long as it's clean and
solved 'the rock way'.

unfortunately i don't have the time right now to help you out in getting
it done before clt. sorry...

greetz,

fake