[GLLUG] CD-burning box: suggestions needed!

[Junus, Ranti]

I'll provide the Knoppix and Knoppix CeBIT.

ranti.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Matt Graham
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:18 PM
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] CD-burning box: suggestions needed!
> 
> 
> OK, lots of suggestions received about the CDs we should have 
> available to burn.  The list now looks like this:
> 
> Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD [*]
> Fedora Core (all 4 CDs)
> SuSE (all 4 or 5 CDs)
> Debian install CD
> The Open CD (open-source software for Windows) [*]
> Ubuntu
> Knoppix
> Knoppix CeBIT
> FreeBSD
> OpenBSD network installation CD
> The Ultimate Boot CD [*]
> IPCop
> m0n0wall
> LAS Linux
> P.H.L.A.K  (Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit)
> 
> ...that's 22 ISO images by my count.  I have copies of the 
> ones with [*] 
> marked by them on my laptop's hard disk right now, so nobody needs to 
> bring those.  The others... well, hope somebody has them or can 
> download them!  We can of course start with a few images and add more 
> later; it's trivial to put an "every 10 minutes, check to see 
> if mtime 
> on config file is newer than it was at script startup; if so, reload 
> config file" into the script.  
> 
> I sort of had to make the bottom window a Gtk2::SimpleList 
> instead of a 
> VButtonBox, so we could scroll it with the arrow keys without going 
> through frickin' contortions.  This changes the look of the thing a 
> bit, but it's still really really obvious which image is currently 
> selected (big blue text) and which images aren't currently selected 
> (smaller gray text).
> 
> Chick Tower wrote:
> > Why bother converting it to C if it works now, Matt?
> 
> I had originally wanted to remove the Perl and Gtk2::Perl 
> dependencies.  
> Unnecessary dependencies are bad! :-).  And I wanted to see how 
> difficult it would be.  But yes, if it ain't broke, fix it until it 
> *is* broke.  I'll leave it as Perl for now.
> 
> The "dpkg -l | grep -i gtk2" thing Jeff ran showed that it should be 
> pretty easy to "apt-get install perl libgtk2-perl cdrecord" and have 
> everything work.  The thing is that if the current Debian kernel is 
> 2.6.[89], cd-burning may not work properly, and if it's 2.4.N, 
> cd-burning will require tweaking the config file and booting with 
> "hdX=ide-scsi".  Oh well, we can burn those bridges after 
> we've jumped 
> across them.
> 
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