Hi Iain, I recently downloaded dynebolic, and I found it pretty cool. The kernel seems fairly well tuned, and though I haven't given it extensive testing, it was able to do jack at 5ms latency with the onboard soundcard, so that's a good sign (I didn't try it for a long time but it did something like 5 minutes or so without xruns, which is a good sign) It has the option to 'nest' either on a hard drive or a usb flash drive, so even though csound5 doesn't come with it, you might manage to run it from there. I haven't tried the nesting, though.... Dynebolic is not that big, so maybe if you mount the iso image, then add a directory, and then burn that... Does anyone know if that is possible, or does that mess up the live cd? Andr?s On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 00:26, Iain Duncan wrote: > I'd like to be able to make an iso of a complete install including my > own software and data for csound, with the aim being a back up for gigs > should something go wrong. So ideally this would: > > - detect any likely sound card properly > - ditto for midi > - have a low latency kernel > - have jack & some other misc alsa stuff > - create a reasonably sized ram disk in case I need to make some last > minute adjustments at the show. > > I'd like to have the ability to quickly make a new version before each > show, so I want to be able to easily drop in some of my custom gig > software, along with csound5 plus my data and samples, and burn the cd. > Csound should be able to either use data files burnt on the cd, or > stored on the ramdisk in case adjustments were needed. > > There seem to be plethora of live cd options. Can anyone suggest the > best course for the above? I normally use gentoo, but for the gig cd I > don't really care what it is as long as it's fast and clean and easy to > make. ( Ie a quick task that is done in a half hour before a show as a > back up. ) I don't even need xwindows really, just booting into runlevel > 3 is fine, so if the live cd or utility allows that customization that > would be cool too. Being able to run a small LAN or vncserver would be > slick as well so that multiple machines can share the same monitor. > > Thanks > Iain > >
