[olug] Creating a customized LIve DVD or CD

[T. J. Brumfield]

I'm not sure what distro/OS you're currently using but I believe
openSUSE, Fedora and Ubuntu all support persistent live images on USB
if that helps.

Then again, I recommend openSUSE for most anything.

-- T. J.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks.  In the current OS system flash drives aren't allowed...they're locked out...they have to be copied to DVD or CD for use.
>
> Joe
>
> --- On Thu, 3/19/09, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [olug] Creating a customized LIve DVD or CD
>> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
>> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:08 AM
>> 1 - If you don't want the end user to
>> mount drives, then don't
>> automount them, and don't give the user root access.
>>
>> 2 - Access to only a few websites is harder.  There
>> was an earlier
>> thread recently on safe surfing with Linux.  You can
>> attempt to block
>> most sites, but good luck with that.
>>
>> 3 - USB drives normally automount.  You can also make
>> a persistent
>> live image that runs off a USB, that will allow you to save
>> changes
>> right back to the same USB media.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > When creating a Live CD/DVD is there a way to do the
>> following things:
>> >
>> > 1)  Have it run in RAM and NOT be able to access
>> anything on any system hard drives or any data on the host
>> machine and just use the hosts peripherals (KVM...network
>> connectivity).
>> >
>> > 2)  Allow access to only a few websites with
>> multimedia material and download content to the Live Desktop
>> from only those websites.
>> > A bapplications to display material would have to be
>> on the live DVD/CD.
>> >
>> > 3)  Have it allow use of USB ports so a Flash Drive
>> can be inserted after bootup to Live mode so the downloded
>> material from above can be saved to a flash drive, printed
>> or burned to a DVD/CD.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Joe
>> >
>> >
>> >
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