Fedora Live CD?

[magnet]

There is a recent trend lately to make live cd's. Is there any plan to make a fedora one?

I see that Mandrake has the "makelivecd" tool and they put out "mandrake move" http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove now.

Debian has their "bootcd" utility http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/bootcd

There is an unnofficial slackware version http://slax.linux-live.org/

And the official version you get when you buy the cd set http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store/slack9.1?id=ZLqpZWAX&mv_pc=13

There are many ways to make a bootable Live CD by hand.. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7233

I am just trying to figure out if anyone has done it with fedora? or if anyone plans on making a "how-to" or a script or tool to make it easy.

I use mandrake move in my lab with a USB stick and its really nice.. but i cant customize it the way i want.

It would be great to make a customized fedora live cd... even greater if it had a warm and fuzzy GUI :-)

Maybe i will play around in the next month or so and try it out...

Magnet

[mhelios]

You'll be pleased to know that this has already been planned, as announced on the fedora mailing list:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-December/msg00002.html

Try this:
http://ftp.ylc.edu.tw/test/Fedora-LiveCD-C1218/

[Qchem]

The redhat archives currently seem to be down (or at least searching them is broken for me) but I remember from the discussion of the LiveCD mentioned above, that an official LiveCD probably would not happen. BUT, they did discuss that it was a possiblity of having a tool to help generate live CD's. When the search is working again check fedora-devel for live cd's

[magnet]

Great!

Thanks

I will email Dirk :-) and i will download that .iso!

[Ug]

Live CDs are quite hard to pull off commercially, which is probably why there is no official one.

[hidari]

You can even find an FC2T LiveCD:

ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/Fedora/live-cd/

Just wondering who those guys are. They clearly need more publicity.

[genci]

Originally posted by hidari
You can even find an FC2T LiveCD:

ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/Fedora/live-cd/

Just wondering who those guys are. They clearly need more publicity.
Well I downloaded that ISO and gave it a whirl, however my Chinese (Taiwan) language abilities are a tad lacking ... and that seems to be the only language available on that live-CD :rolleyes:

No boot options for lang=us.

[genci]

Originally posted by genci
... and that seems to be the only language available on that live-CD :rolleyes:
No boot options for lang=us. Back again! :D

Been playing with the Fedora2TLive-D0217 disk some more, and even though I couldn't find a boot option list during bootup, and system-config-language only lists Chinese (Taiwan), I now have Australian English loaded on the desktop (Gnome). You just had to log out to the login GUI and select Language settings.

Gnome is now in a semi-recognisable language (Australian :p ), but Mozilla is still displaying in Taiwanese.