Re: [opensuse-medical] Calling for help for medical project. How do I create a live cd as I want it?

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Eric MAEKER

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Dec 15, 2011, 4:04:13 AM12/15/11

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Le 14 déc. 2011 à 22:20, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) a écrit :

> Hello,

Hello,

Like with my precedent mail, I'm ccing to all Medical Linux distro teams because I believe that this discussion can be done in collaboration with all teams (even if the final result will be different for each team). See my precedent mail about a central mailing list.

> Next week I'm planing to have the first medical project meeting. I'll inform you about.
>
> Following what mentioned:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-medical/2011-11/msg00007.html
>
> I was searching a way how to create a live cd fully functional.

I think that you will not be able to create a LiveCD with fully functional MySQL, PostGreSQL servers.
If you succeed with an installation of these server, data will be lost at each restart.

Assuming that your wishes are:
- distributing an easy system for app testing
- install and preconfigure medical&related apps
- make this fully installable (system and config) to any computer

I suggest to dig around LiveUSB with data persistence instead of digging deeper in LiveCD.

(with a simplification) There are two kinds of LiveUSB:
- LiveUSB installator
* same as LiveCD installator
* install a complete system to your computer using an USBKey, no data persistence.
* Usefull in our case but not what you are looking for.
- LiveUSB installation
* same as a computer installation
* Linux is completely installed on an USBKey with all driver needed to process hardware config,
* a specific partition is created for the data persistence.
* This allows you to create a full OpenSuse/Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora

There is a similar project here:

http://www.framakey.org/

I'm not a LiveUSB guru but I succeed on create a live usb drive with a 4Go key and ubuntu. Unfortunately, I didn't succeed to boot it from my MacBook, and I didn't go further (install personnal packages and config). It started on a Dell computer.

What do you think about this orientation ?
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Eric MAEKER

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Dec 15, 2011, 6:13:23 AM12/15/11

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Le 15 déc. 2011 à 11:48, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) a écrit :

> As Andreas mentioned, it's not cross distro issue since all distros have different tools to create live media.

You focus too much on the pure IT aspect of the project. Do not forget the medical side which can be shared between the different teams, while I'm not sure that there are many MD is the lists...