On 4/12/05, Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > It might be interesting if the people who have done live cds could list > what changes they have done to make them work. Then we can take these > changes and try to get them all into the distro. > > What other changes do we need in order to make a script that can > generate a live-cd from a random rawhide snapshot? One essential component for a live CD is automatic hardware configuration. Has anyone developed a comprehensive package to handle this? For EpikBuilder, I adapted Klaus Knopper's scripts, ddcxinfo and hwsetup utilities. I also used his version of kudzu hwdata because Knoppix supported both the XFree 3.3.6 and 4.x drivers at that time. This provided compatibility with older graphics cards that were dropped in RH9. The whole thing worked well but was difficult to maintain since any updates Klaus made to the Debian scripts had to be manually reviewed and applied to my RH version. Of possible interest is a project that René Rhéaume started in July of 2003 to maintain the Knoppix auto-detection system for Red Hat and Mandrake: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knx-autoconfig-ports/ His last update for RH was a year ago... but it might be worth looking at if nobody else has a packaged solution.