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.
what's the point of "live" CD? How about just using a USB flash drive, and boot from that? The primary benefit I see of the CD is that more machines boot from CD than from USB devices, but almost anything "modern" will be able to boot from a USB drive. The USB drive has a few advantages over the CD: it fits in your pocket, it is more rugged, it is writable, probably marginally faster for many things, very easy to create (on ANY machine!), very easy to update, more storage space available, etc. In short, it *is* OpenBSD. No stupid games. (for some uses, being unable to write to the CD may be a benefit, though I suspect most people will find it an annoyance to work around more than a benefit) General outline on creating one is in FAQ 14. Nick.
