Hi 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.
The is also (nearly) -current info on this subject: http://www.openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD Will be updated for 4.5 once it is out. > 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. > > Thanks, > -- Regards, ahb
