Live Open Source DVD Project

From BLUG

The Live Open Source DVD Project was started to make a free bootable DVD that has many different live CDs, utilities and fun applications all on one DVD that we will give out at LinuxFest 2006 on April 14th. The idea came about after seeing an article on linux.com about creating a LiveDVD. We're actually going to work with the IUCC on this and give them out together.

1 Job responsibilities
2 Open Questions
3 Software to include
4 Boot splash images
5 Links

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Job responsibilities

~~Create a Wiki page for this project and one for information about the disc.~~
~~Download the nautopia.net script and test it with a few Live CDs.~~ ASSIGNED: Mark Krenz
~~Find good LiveCDs and utilities to put on the disc.~~
~~Come up with a final list of things to put on the DVD.~~
~~Make a LiveDVD with all of the above LiveCDs and utilities on it and make sure it all works. Make sure the 4GB iso limit of mount does no break anything.~~ (Works fine except for Gentoo and Xen)
~~Create a custom Grub boot background advertising BLUG and IUCC.~~ ASSIGNED: Ana Reference: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/
~~Find or create ~300MB of royalty free videos, music and images to put in media directory on disc.~~ ASSIGNED: Chris Colvard
~~Collect money and buy 100 DVDs and sleeves.~~ (IUCC Donated 100 DVDs, labels. We'll buy the sleeves
Write each DVD. ASSIGNED: Simon Ruiz, Ronald Odle, Mark Krenz
Spot test some DVDs by just making sure it loads grub.
Label all DVDs with label design that Ana made.
Put all the DVDs in pouches. ASSIGNED: Jeff Welty
Hand them out at LinuxFest 2006.

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Open Questions

What live CDs should be included?
What other useful programs can we include?
What format and size does the grub boot image need to be?
Is there any problem related to the 4.0GB limit of mounting iso images under Linux?

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Software to include

We have about 4.5GB to fill on one DVD, thats room for 5 CDs with some room to spare. probably we'll put 3 or 4 major Live CDs (650MB or so in size) and then several minor Live CDs (100-200MB) and then some small utilies and programs. We can also put something on there for if the user puts it in on Windows.

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Live CDs

Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 Flight 6 (Beta, customized to have more programs) http://www.ubuntu.com/
PCLinuxOS - http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Linux Live Game Project (695MB) - http://tuxgamers.altervista.org/Llgp/
Backtrack Slackware based security distro
Dyne:Bolic multimedia live CD

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Smaller Live CDs

SystemRescueCD (122MB)- http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Damn Small Linux (49MB) - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
Everything Leaves Encrypted 0.0.1
Ultimate Boot CD (186MB)- http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

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Floppies

Tom's Root Boot
Trinix
FreeDOS

There are probably some interesting things available out there that just run as assembler code and do visual effects and also single application OSes or whatever.

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Boot splash images

Ana is working on some bootsplash images to use for the DVD's grub boot screen, here they are. Please post your comments on the mailing list or on the discussion page for this article: