On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:44:33 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
layout looks fine for me. And it is quite time consuming to test it within grml-small and installing mksquashfs and mkisofs after every reboot.
I'll check out whether we can provide mksquashfs, mkisofs and everything else what's needed for remastering in grml-medium (grml ships it of course, but grml-small should stay at a minimum).
How about we use grml-medium as the base system for remastering?
I.e., grml-medium will be a live system that includes as many HW driver/support tools as possible. So if I am at a new box and want to know whether Linux supports *all* of its HW or not, grml-medium is the only disk that I need. That'll be a must-have disk for sys-admins because making sure all HW works is the first step for sys-admins.
How about the rest of sys-admin tools? One apt-get can install them all. The real question is how to save users from doing that installation again and again. My envision is that, in the future, grml provides a way to build a squashfs system out of the newly *installed/updated* files (from the writable portion of aufs), and a way to use the built squashfs module as an add-on to grml live system when booted.