Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30 November 2014 at 02:30, Richard Owlett wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. It's h

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 29 nov 14, 16:46:01, Richard Owlett wrote: Application 2: Extremely secure browsing and email for me on my personal machine. https://tails.boum.org/ I wasn't thinking in terms of personal privacy, but what I think of as "system security". My *personal idiosy

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 nov 14, 16:46:01, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Application 2: > Extremely secure browsing and email for me on my personal machine. https://tails.boum.org/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://list

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30 November 2014 at 02:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >> >>> >>> >>> I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2014-11-29, Richard Owlett wrote: The script would be of the form: run_foo eject /dev/cdrom shutdown -hP now I thought of the "kiosk" live cds when you asked your peculiar question. ME? Would *I* ask peculiar questions ;/ 2 of my 4 primary projects might have features i

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-29 Thread Curt
On 2014-11-29, Richard Owlett wrote: > > The script would be of the form: > > run_foo > eject /dev/cdrom > shutdown -hP now > >> I thought of the "kiosk" live cds when you asked your peculiar question. Instead of starting a browser, it would run "run_foo." It might be pertinent to know what run_

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-29 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. It's hard to describe a custom live CD in a single, small post. Not really. I did it in

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29 November 2014 at 08:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> > > I've just proved ( again ;/ ) that my writing lacks clarity. It's hard to describe a custom live CD in a single, small post. > The eject command indeed works as expec

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or "strange/unusual". I'm using it in *both* senses. I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that initia

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Ron
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:07:50 -0500 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > CD burners (creators), don't > they eject upon job completion? Only if you ask them to (Preferences...) Cheers, Ron. -- We'll cross that bridge when we come back to it later.

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or > "strange/unusual". > I'm using it in *both* senses. > > I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or > multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that > initially appeared t

Re: Creating a peculiar Live-CD

2014-11-28 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/28/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > In common conversation, "peculiar" can mean either "unique" or > "strange/unusual". > I'm using it in *both* senses. > > I'm working on understanding how to use debootstrap and/or > multistrap. In another forum I was asked a question that > initially appeared t