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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Tony Collen <co...@umn.edu> on 2004/05/04 20:50:03 UTC
[RT] The Bootable Cocoon Demo CD
Has anyone had any luck (or even tried) to create a bootable CD with a
working Cocoon/Jetty installed?
I've played a little with Knoppix [1], and I was impressed with what
they can cram into a single CD. There's even docs about remastering
Knoppix to suit your needs [2].
Things to think about:
o No writable disk. This means there would be nowhere to put logs and
other stuff. Does Knoppix have a ramdisk?
o Speed. Not sure if this would be a factor.
o Distributing other software. I'm not sure what Sun has to say about
distributing their JRE. I think it would be fine. Acrobat Reader would
be another "must" to show off the FOP. SVG viewers are good as well.
It would be really cool to pop in a CD, and have the system boot to a
web browser with a running instance of Cocoon. I'm not totally sure how
useful it would be, but it might be worth at least checking out.
WDYT?
Tony
[1] http://www.knoppix.net/
[2] http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixRemasteringHowto
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Re: [RT] The Bootable Cocoon Demo CD
Posted by Harald Wehr <hw...@hs-harz.de>.
Tony,
this works quite good. One year ago we remastered Knoppix to put the
http://www.mobiharz.de site within knoppix.
>
> Things to think about:
>
> o No writable disk. This means there would be nowhere to put logs
and other stuff. Does Knoppix have a ramdisk?
It has, as the other posts already mentioned. I wrote some startup
scripts which put all the writeable things into ramdisk. As the mobiharz
system needed a postgres database we even took the database into ram disk!
>
> o Speed. Not sure if this would be a factor.
Of course it is slower but satisfied our needs for demonstration issues.
>
> o Distributing other software. I'm not sure what Sun has to say
about distributing their JRE. I think it would be fine. Acrobat Reader
would be another "must" to show off the FOP. SVG viewers are good as well.
>
Thats a problem to my mind. You carefully have to study the licensing
agreements about that. Have you considered other software like JRE from
http://www.blackdown.org or xpdf?
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Re: [RT] The Bootable Cocoon Demo CD
Posted by "keith d. zimmerman" <li...@kdz13.net>.
New user here, but i've seen knoppix. comments inline...
-kz
Tony Collen wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck (or even tried) to create a bootable CD with a
> working Cocoon/Jetty installed?
>
> I've played a little with Knoppix [1], and I was impressed with what
> they can cram into a single CD. There's even docs about remastering
> Knoppix to suit your needs [2].
>
> Things to think about:
>
> o No writable disk. This means there would be nowhere to put logs and
> other stuff. Does Knoppix have a ramdisk?
very much so. the memory requirements are fairly large.
>
> o Speed. Not sure if this would be a factor.
shouldn't be. the initial load might be a bit more, but once loaded,
i'm thinking all *should* be well.
>
> o Distributing other software. I'm not sure what Sun has to say about
> distributing their JRE. I think it would be fine. Acrobat Reader would
> be another "must" to show off the FOP. SVG viewers are good as well.
this i don't know about
>
> It would be really cool to pop in a CD, and have the system boot to a
> web browser with a running instance of Cocoon. I'm not totally sure how
> useful it would be, but it might be worth at least checking out.
>
> WDYT?
quite cool indeed.
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Re: [RT] The Bootable Cocoon Demo CD
Posted by Christian Rosenberger <pi...@gmx.de>.
Hi Tony!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Collen" <co...@umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: [RT] The Bootable Cocoon Demo CD
> Has anyone had any luck (or even tried) to create a bootable CD with a
> working Cocoon/Jetty installed?
There is a Knoppix remastered CD for Java/Tomcat/JBoss:
http://moe.tnc.edu.tw/~kendrew/pollix/
>
> I've played a little with Knoppix [1], and I was impressed with what
> they can cram into a single CD. There's even docs about remastering
> Knoppix to suit your needs [2].
>
> Things to think about:
>
> o No writable disk. This means there would be nowhere to put logs and
> other stuff. Does Knoppix have a ramdisk?
Yes, it has. Works great.
>
> o Speed. Not sure if this would be a factor.
>
With enough RAM this should be no problem.
>
> o Distributing other software. I'm not sure what Sun has to say about
> distributing their JRE. I think it would be fine. Acrobat Reader would
> be another "must" to show off the FOP. SVG viewers are good as well.
>
> It would be really cool to pop in a CD, and have the system boot to a
> web browser with a running instance of Cocoon. I'm not totally sure how
> useful it would be, but it might be worth at least checking out.
> WDYT?
Think it would be very good for demonstration purpose. You could have your
applications on an usb stick and mount this directory to the live CD.
Regards,
Christian
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