2009/4/23 Andreas Bihlmaier <andreas.bihlma...@gmx.de> > 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. >
Would it be hard to create a LiveCD which helps us boot a LiveUSBstick on systems which do not support boot from USB ? Or perhaps its usefull to boot the same stick on systems with differnt device names ? This way only people who can't boot from USBstick by default need a LiveCD. Just a thought!
