[olug] Creating a customized LIve DVD or CD

Joe Gulizia jrguliz at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 19 16:49:45 UTC 2009


Thanks.  In the current OS system flash drives aren't allowed...they're locked out...they have to be copied to DVD or CD for use.

Joe

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Creating a customized LIve DVD or CD
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:08 AM
> 1 - If you don't want the end user to
> mount drives, then don't
> automount them, and don't give the user root access.
> 
> 2 - Access to only a few websites is harder.  There
> was an earlier
> thread recently on safe surfing with Linux.  You can
> attempt to block
> most sites, but good luck with that.
> 
> 3 - USB drives normally automount.  You can also make
> a persistent
> live image that runs off a USB, that will allow you to save
> changes
> right back to the same USB media.
> 
> -- T. J.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > When creating a Live CD/DVD is there a way to do the
> following things:
> >
> > 1)  Have it run in RAM and NOT be able to access
> anything on any system hard drives or any data on the host
> machine and just use the hosts peripherals (KVM...network
> connectivity).
> >
> > 2)  Allow access to only a few websites with
> multimedia material and download content to the Live Desktop
> from only those websites.
> > A bapplications to display material would have to be
> on the live DVD/CD.
> >
> > 3)  Have it allow use of USB ports so a Flash Drive
> can be inserted after bootup to Live mode so the downloded
> material from above can be saved to a flash drive, printed
> or burned to a DVD/CD.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
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