Thread: Re: call me when you finally get the CDs

Hello Micheal,

On February 28, 2005 03:39 am, you wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 15:47 schrieben Sie:
> > I'll give you a run down on what's on it and the features you can
> > profile.
>
> The CDs were delivered a few minutes ago.

Let's start with this: http://sraapowergres.com/en/newsletter/issue_02/index.php?article=pg_live.inc.html

Short points you can say about the CD:
- will boot up and be ready to run in less than 30 seconds

- RAM required: 120mb with gui, 90mb console mode (haven't tested below this amount of RAM)

- will take advantage of any existing swap drives it finds on the computer, otherwise everything is in RAM

- has a running 8.0 database engine in RAM

- SLONY has been compiled into the RDBMS

- has half a dozen procedural languages compiled (includes trusted and untrusted): plpgsql, plperl , plpython, pltcl,
plphp

- has a running apache with php environment

- it uses an extremely/light windows manager (fluxbox)

- has a GUI client that you can interface through the webserver, phppgadmin

- full documentation includes: standard postgres references, an open source book, numerous howtos (written by Robert
Bernier)

- will become network aware if connected through a nic (not wireless)

- contains numerous services including SSH, FTP etc...

- has multimedia capabilities i.e will play mp3

- has a complete suite of tools on the CD for administrating a network

- Inserting the CD while you are in windows will activate the PostgreSQL 8.0 installer for the microsoft platform
completewith a GUI client, i.e. pgadmin3 

- there are no competing live CDs of any kind (commercial or opensource) of DBMS currently in existence


The distribution is currently in english however there is an unlinked set of postgres documentation in French (can't
rememberoff hand the url to access it).  

Another thing, the CD is not designed to be copied to the harddrive.

I let the people play with it on a P-II that I had on the table

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:10, Robert Bernier wrote:
> Hello Micheal,
>
> On February 28, 2005 03:39 am, you wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 22. Februar 2005 15:47 schrieben Sie:
> > > I'll give you a run down on what's on it and the features you can
> > > profile.
<snip>
> - will become network aware if connected through a nic (not wireless)
>

Just this weekend I happened to be playing with my copy from last years
OSCon on a machine that only had a wireless nic on it.  The source for
the nic drivers was compiled and kept on a hard drive so when I booted
the cd I could mount the hard drive and then load the nic modules into
the kernel and have network access.  If you really need wifi access,
something similar could probably be done with a usb drive.


Robert Treat
--
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

On February 28, 2005 01:35 pm, you wrote:
> > - will become network aware if connected through a nic (not wireless)
>
> Just this weekend I happened to be playing with my copy from last years
> OSCon on a machine that only had a wireless nic on it.  The source for
> the nic drivers was compiled and kept on a hard drive so when I booted
> the cd I could mount the hard drive and then load the nic modules into
> the kernel and have network access.  If you really need wifi access,
> something similar could probably be done with a usb drive.


Can you provide me with a short blow by blow account of the process you used? Sounds like a good article to write
about.

cheers

Robert