[OGDev] Guide in a Box

IvorW ivorw-openguides at xemaps.com
Tue May 8 18:34:12 BST 2007


David Cantrell wrote:
> I was muttering at Kake in the pub a few days ago about making a "Guide
> in a Box" available.  By which I mean an image of a bootable
> disk/filesystem, with OS, web server, database and OpenGuides all
> pre-installed and configured.  On first boot, it would ask for minimal
> configuration information - IP address, guide name, passwords.  I can
> see this being useful for people who want to run a guide but are less
> technically minded - they'd be able to just use the filesystem in
> VMware/Parallels/Xen/whatever without having to know about what's going
> on underneath.  It might also be useful for developers who could use it
> as the basis for installing a guide hacking environment on their
> machines without it interfering with anything else that they do.
>
> Thoughts?
>   
Knoppix kiosk distro?

There's hack #24 for this in Knoppix Hacks, which doesn't look too
difficult.



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