deepOfix Live CD
The deepOfix Mail Server Live CD is supposed to be the next step in the evolution of the deepOfix Installer. It combines deepOfix with all the advantages of a Live CD:
- Optimized full featured mail server solution
- Up and running by just booting from a cd
- Simple installation by just (intelligently) copying the data
Try it
There is a Live CD available for download. Don't expect too much of it as it is still work in progress, but of course you are welcome to try it if you like. If you are interested in how it is built, have look at the source code.
Use it
At the current stage of development it is already a full featured Live CD that allows you to run a working deepOfix Mail Server from cd. Anyhow there are still lots and lots of things pending.
Develop it
This is what is most important and biggest part at the moment. There are already several ideas of what the Live CD and the installer should be able to do and what it should look like:
After booting up Live CD starts an installer that allows to...
- set your network configuration. This part shall be done by simply running a dpkg-reconfigure on several packages. Therefor we are thinking about writing a frontend for debconf. This has several advantages:
- No need for a big and buggy installer, we are just reusing already existing code in the packages
- The same look and feel not only while installing but also while updating. Whenever you reconfigure a package you will see the same frontend as while installing
- lets you decide if you want to use it as a live system right now and starts the needed services
- partition your hard disk and copy all needed files onto your system
These are all very basic things that need to be provided in order to replace the old installer.
Now it's your turn
Which features do you think the live cd should provide?
- Installing via network / USB drive / ...?
- Preconfigure network and harddisk settings? How?
- Store data from the Live CD on your harddisk / USB drive / network / ...?
- Provide a way to load a EasyPush backup into the Live CD?
- Some games that can be played while installing? :)
- ...
