On 6 October 2001, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now this idea has some merit! How would one make such a CD? For me, I would > wish such a CD to have both a patched version of the Kernel as well as being > inclusive of loop-aes code. Any ideas what the design specifications for > such a disc would be? > > I have never made even an unencrypted bootable CD for Linux, but would love > to know how to do so, for purposes of protecting my files and forcing an > encrypted boot environment. There is a package in the Debian distribution called "bootcd" which does this. It is basically a collection of 3 shell scripts that assist you in creating a Linux bootable CD. I'm using this for my rescue CD. Unlike other rescue packages this one has the advantage to mount the whole CD filesystem which gives you unlimited space for your tools. I have a fully configured Linux with all development packages on a single CD and still have some 200M of free space. # bootcd - run your system from cd without need for disks. # # Copy your running Debian System on CD with the command bootcdwrite. If your # system has no CD-Writer you can build a bootcd via NFS on a remote System with # CD-Writer. When you run your system from CD you do not need any disks. All # changes will be done in ram. To reuse this changes at next boottime you can # save them on FLOPPY with the command bootcdflopcp. If booting from your # CD-drive is not supported, booting from FLOPPY is possible. It is possible to # install a new system from the running CD with the command bootcd2disk. # Bootcd2disk can also find a target disk, format it and make it bootable # automatically. -- Regards, Emil -- What's the point having bad manners if you don't use them?!? Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
