[nycbug-talk] Roll your own live CD

[pete wright]

Dan Langille wrote:

>Since this is now a different subject, I've started a new thread.
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>>On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:41:46 -0500, Brown, James (Jim)
>><jbrown at thrupoint.net> wrote:
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>>The idea would be to create a server CD that would boot and start
>>sshd. Then you could log in and create whatever server you needed
>>using meta-ports: an Apache-PHP webserver, a Postfix-Spamassassin mail
>>gateway, a MySQL cluster node, etc etc.
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yea that would be pretty cool, altho i think it may be more scalable to 
create a PXE boot image for installs, then you do not even need a cd-rom 
drive for your machines, etc.  altho with the cd's we could start 
sending everyone FreeBSD cd's just like AOL does ;)  heh that would be 
funny.

-p