On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:59:02AM -0700, new_guy wrote: > I'm interested in building a live, bootable OpenBSD CD for forensics, cloning > and data recovery. Basically, boot and try to automatically bring up any > existing network interface. I'm not interesated in a GUI or play things... > only good, old-fashioned Unix tools like dd, netcat, md5, etc. > > I've googled and found some older info about building live CDs from OpenBSD, > but I wanted to ask misc to see what folks think... good idea or bad? If it > seems a reasonable task and I am able to do it, I'd like to do it so that it > is easy to follow -current. So when -current get's new hardware support, I > can redo my live CD to take advantage of that. > > I think OpenBSD is a good choice for something like this as it is very > simple and straight-forward, but again, I wanted to ask here for other's > opinions before doing much.
You can certainly build your own. AFAIK, there are three OpenBSD LiveCD or LiveDVD systems that are both kept up-to-date and available publicly. 1: A turn key application for library archives: LOCKSS. See http://locks.org for information. 2. Stephan Rickauer's http://bsdanywhere.org, a general purpose workstation built on the E17 window manager. Nice website, too. 3. Mine. I have six different ISO configuration available for i386 and amd64: basic, firefox, fluxbox, xfce, kde, and gnome. I update it in-sync with OpenBSD releases; 4.5-release versions have been in beta test for about a month. You may e-mail me if interested in getting access before May 1. 4.4-releases are available at www.jggimi.homeip.net.
