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[ILUG] make your own BBC

[ILUG] make your own BBC

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Sat Jan 26 10:26:27 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:42:57PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> This I guess is mostly aimed at Niall.  How much is involved in creating
> the bootable business card?  I'd like to create a CD based distro of some
> sort for a bunch of PCs we have transient access too.  They're public
> access but would allow us when the place is closed to use them for our own
> evil needs without installing linux onto the hard disk.
> 

All depends on what you want to do. If all you want is the equivalent of the
current ILUG BBC but with changes to 

> If we could create a similar equivalent which would on boot load the right
> network drivers and pop up n the network it'd quite cool.

then that's relatively simple. Network setup is done by a script which asks
questions but could easily be modified to do what you want automatically.
Download the ISO and read the makeBBC documentation and have fun :-)

It must be easy - I did it !




Niall




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