On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:10:38PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On 06/21/2010 02:57 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
>[Sorry to reply to GP - I'm not on spins@]
>
>>On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 14:06:18 -0400,
>> Daniel J Walsh<dwalsh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>One think I would like to talk about with livecd-creator would be a way
>>>to setup the livecd to have uninterrupted boot.
>>>
>>>The question is, am I the only one who thinks this is interesting?
>
>IIUC, "uninterrupted" boot is quite useful for Sugar on a Stick[1], at
>least on some architectures (XO-1, XO-1.5). If it wasn't present,
>we'd have to hack it in[2]
>
>Martin
>
>1.
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
>2.
http://cgit.sugarlabs.org/soas/mainline/tree/soas-liveuserscripts-elimina...
My idea is for apps like cash registers/kiosk/demo booths. If I
imbed a bootable OS and do not allow external USB/CD. Theoretically
people who can touch the box, can not boot their own OS or break
into the OS to turn off security features like SELinux/iptables etc.
That sounds like "uninterruptable" boot to me, to be pedantic. Seems
like plenty of overlap between what I was understanding as
"uninterrupted" -- no user input / confusing configuration required --
and what I imagine cash registers/kiosk/demo booths would require to
be "uniterruptable".
On that basis I'd say:
>>>The question is, am I the only one who thinks this is
>>>interesting?
No, it's plenty interesting. If it was unintentional that
livecd-tools provided something close to this, please don't take it
away. Further enhancing livecd-tools in such a way is very useful.
Thanks,
Martin